Mark Carney has agreed an energy deal with Alberta centred on plans for a new heavy oil pipeline reaching from the province’s oil sands to the Pacific coast, a politically volatile project that is expected to face stiff opposition. The move proved politically damaging within hours, with the minister of Canadian culture, Steven Guilbeault, who is the former environment minister, announcing he would leave cabinet. He said the agreement “sets the state for an industrial transformation” and involved not just a pipeline, but nuclear power and datacentres. Carney’s government will exempt a possible pipeline project from the existing coastal oil tanker moratorium and emissions cap. Even before Carney and Smith made their announcement, however, First Nations said any new pipeline was effectively dead on arrival.

For the first time since 1988, the US government will no longer commemorate World Aids Day, according to reports. But they should “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches or other public-facing messaging”. “An awareness day is not a strategy,” a state department spokesperson, Tommy Pigott, told the New York Times. World Aids Day is usually when the state department shares Pepfar data about cumulative and annual progress with Congress. The state department has not yet replied to a request for comment.

Police are reviewing GoPro footage from the scene, which may shed more light on how the attack unfolded. Surf Life Saving NSW said Kylies and nearby North Haven and Crowdy Bay beaches reopened at 12.30pm on Friday. “Until then, it’s a really horrific freak incident, but there’s no indication that this shark will keep biting humans. The Department of Primary Industries deployed five “smart” drumlines at Kylies beach after the attack. Meanwhile, other NSW beaches were closed on Friday after numerous bull shark sightings along with bait ball sightings, where schools of fish group together to form a defensive, tight mass to deter predators.

Housed in a remodelled former Citroën garage on the north-western edge of the city centre, the centre is 95% complete. But in recent weeks, the conversation around Kanal’s opening has moved from “when” to “if”. Neither Brussels’ modern art gallery Wiels nor the more classical Bozar Centre for Fine Arts have their own collections. View image in fullscreen The formalised partnership with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, limited to five years, will cost Brussels €2m a year. “Who thinks this is doable?”The formalised partnership with the Centre Pompidou, limited to five years after Kanal’s opening, will cost Brussels €2m (£1.75m) a year.

Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AP Welcoming him to the Kremlin, Putin praised Orbán’s “balanced” position on Ukraine, after Hungary repeatedly tried to block further sanctions on Russia. The rest of Russia’s frozen assets would be invested in a US-Russian investment vehicle focused on joint projects. Germany, Sweden, as well as central and eastern European states and von der Leyen, argue the frozen assets plan is the best option. “These risks are unfortunately not academic but real,” he wrote to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. Belgium hosts €183bn of Russian assets, around two thirds of Russian assets immobilised in the west, at the Brussels-based central securities depository Euroclear.

Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month. Israel’s genocide is not over.”Contacted by Agence France-Presse, the Israeli foreign ministry did not immediately respond to the allegations. In December 2024, Amnesty concluded that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza by three of those acts – including deliberately inflicting on Palestinians conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. The international court of justice last year ordered Israel “to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide” in Gaza. The Gaza war was sparked by Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will not agree to give up land to Russia in exchange for peace, his chief of staff Andriy Yermak told US magazine the Atlantic in an interview published on Thursday. “As long as Zelenskyy is president, no one should count on us giving up territory. The comments were published after Vladimir Putin said Russia will fight on unless Kyiv withdraws from territory Moscow claims as its own. Ukrainian and US delegations will meet this week, Zelenskyy has said, to work on points raised at the Geneva talks to bring peace with Russia and provide security guarantees for Ukraine. “We need a peace, but not a pause that provides Russia a chance to retreat and regroup,” the Kyiv-based human rights lawyer said.

A 16-year-old American citizen was freed on Thursday after spending nine months in an Israeli prison. Mohammed Ibrahim, a Palestinian-American teenager from Florida whose case was first exposed by the Guardian in July, was released following a guilty plea and suspended sentence, according to his family. View image in fullscreen Mohammed Ibrahim with his father Zaher, following his release from Israeli prison. While reporting on his story, the Guardian learned that his younger cousin Mohammed Ibrahim had been held since February. “There are hundreds of children like Mohammed, unjustly trapped in an Israeli military prison, being subjected to Israel’s abuse and torture,” Kadur said.

Flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have killed 69 people, with 59 missing as emergency workers search in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies and possible survivors. Monsoon rains over the past week caused rivers to burst their banks in North Sumatra province on Tuesday. In North Sumatra province the death toll rose to 37 as rescue personnel recovered more bodies on Thursday, said provincial police spokesperson Ferry Walintukan in a statement. Rescuers were searching for 52 residents reported missing, but mudslides, blackouts and a lack of telecommunications were hampering search efforts, he said. View image in fullscreen Flooding in the Lubuk Minturun area of Koto Tangah, Padang City, West Sumatra, caused damage as tree debris and mud affected residential areas.

France is to introduce voluntary military service of 10 months aimed mainly at young people aged 18 and 19, as concern grows in Europe about the threat from Russia. Under the new military service, men and women, mostly aged 18 and 19, could volunteer to sign up for 10 months. Photograph: Blondet Eliot/ABACA/ShutterstockThere is so far no suggestion that military service in France could again be compulsory, as it was before the then president, Jacques Chirac, abolished conscription in 1997. After the programme, participants could integrate into civilian life, become a reservist, or stay in the armed forces, he said. Macron’s office said polling data suggested high support for the armed forces among 18- to 25-year-olds.

Santos has published plans to drill 12 fracking wells at Tanumbirini Station, a 5,000 sq km cattle station about 340km south-east of Katherine. Dr Kirsty Howey, executive director of the Environment Centre NT, described the plan as “the biggest ever gas play in the Beetaloo for Santos”. “Fracking undoubtedly poses a major risk to this huge, quite incredible aquifer that many Aboriginal communities and pastoralists rely on,” Howey said. Methane bubbles have been observed at hot springs at Tanumbirini Station, suggesting connections between surface water and the shale gas layer to be targeted for fracking. “We’ve already seen incidents of uncontrolled releases of wastewater from shale gas fracking sites in the Beetaloo from other operators,” he said.

Palestinian Australian film-maker Shamikh Badra, who alleged to police that he was assaulted and racially abused on a Sydney train after an anti-immigration march, is “shocked” that police charged his assailant with common assault but not hate speech. The facts state that “due to the escalation of the interaction”, Majed took out his mobile phone and began to film. The facts state that “a short physical confrontation” ensued before the parties separated after the train stopped at Macdonaldtown. 1:12 Palestinian Australian brothers allege racist abuse on Sydney train – videoThe facts reference that the incident was captured on mobile phones and CCTV. Critics of the offence, which came into effect just before the train assault, have accused the Minns government of ignoring its own 2024 review into hate speech.

Housing costs in major EU cities increased by about 50% between 2015 and 2023 alone. View image in fullscreen Renters’ protest banners in Berlin in 2024 proclaim ‘Don’t displace us’ and ‘Affordable housing for all’. “Our research shows that, after the mid-1990s, Social Democratic control of local councils simply no longer translated into more social housing,” Vinæs Larsen said. “The political effort to expand social housing effectively disappeared.”This, he said, reflected changes in “who mostly lives in social housing, and who votes Social Democrat”. But he also cited possible solutions, such as higher social housing rents – as long as they are still cheaper than private ones.

Swiss ski star Marco Odermatt started the World Cup super-G season with a Thanksgiving win at Copper Mountain on Thursday, while Aleksander Aamodt Kilde reduced fiancée Mikaela Shiffrin to tears by making his comeback after nearly two years out. It denied Austria a clean sweep, with Raphael Haaser a further 0.05 back in third and Stefan Babinsky in finishing fourth. Odermatt, the defending overall champion, has won the crystal globe for the season-long title in super-G for the past three years. She later took a photo of Kilde with Odermatt, who was congratulating the Norwegian on his return to competition. It was a 47th World Cup victory for Odermatt, and his 16th in super-G.

A new world war is being fought “piecemeal” and is endangering the future of humanity, Pope Leo has warned, as he arrived in Turkey for his first foreign trip since becoming head of the Catholic church. Recalling a description of the world’s conflicts by his predecessor, the late Pope Francis, Leo said “a third world war is being fought piecemeal”. View image in fullscreen The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pope Leo attend a welcoming ceremony in Ankara on Thursday. View image in fullscreen Pope Leo attending a wreath-laying ceremony at Ataturk’s mausoleum in Ankara. View image in fullscreen Pope Leo XIV is welcomed by Turkey’s culture and tourism minister, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, after disembarking from his plane in Ankara.