Move is milestone in undoing ‘Remain in Mexico’ program, which forced those seeking US entry to wait outside border

The US government on Friday released 25 asylum seekers into the country with notices to appear in court, marking a milestone in unraveling a key immigration policy of Donald Trump.

The asylum seekers were enrolled in Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program , which forced people seeking protection in the US to wait south of the border until their court hearings. They tested negative for Covid-19 in Mexico and were taken to San Diego hotels to quarantine before taking a plane or bus to their final destinations in the US, said Michael Hopkins, chief executive officer of Jewish Family Service of San Diego, which is playing a critical support role.

• Real Madrid come from behind to win 2-1 at Huesca
• Ronaldo lifts Juventus; Dortmund lose at Freiburg

The Real Madrid defender Raphaël Varane struck twice as his side came from behind to snatch a 2-1 victory at bottom of the table Huesca in La Liga and offer some respite to the Madrid manager, Zinedine Zidane.

Huesca took a shock lead against the Spanish champions early in the second half with a vicious strike in off the post from Javi Galán and nearly doubled their advantage moments later when Rafa Mir struck the bar.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s injury-time equaliser denied United, who were twice pegged back, having led 2-0 at half-time

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Here’s Jamie Jackson’s report from Old Trafford.

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Dominic Calvert-Lewin speaks.

It was frustrating when we got them back level on going two goals down and then we just hung in there. They had the ball for large periods but you have to smell the goal and be ready to drop it in. I was waiting for a little nick and for the ball to drop. I just had to beat the keeper. We had a little change of system a few minutes into the second half and get a few bodies forward. We at at our best when we play high tempo and get after people. It’s frustrating when we went two goals down, we are capable of much more. The spirit we showed, that’s what we are about and we need to show more of.

Australia will once again be the envy of the sporting world when the first ball is hit at Melbourne Park on Monday

Apricot sunlight dances on the surface of the Yarra alongside the meandering approach to Melbourne Park. The river is an abiding companion, unspooling past Federation Square and along Birrarung Marr, away from the city skyline and towards Rod Laver Arena. This is summer in Australia on the eve of the year’s first grand slam, the event Roger Federer dubbed “the happy slam”.

But this year the pilgrimage ends abruptly at an arrestingly blue checkpoint where masks are affixed and a health declaration is scrutinised – a reminder that this is no ordinary event. Further into the precinct a labyrinth of temporary walls funnel visitors into one of three zones, a solution designed to minimise the fallout should Covid-19 creep its way onsite.

He’s been poisoned and jailed... but not silenced. Now Navalny poses the greatest threat to the president’s 21-year rule

Alexei Navalny was in defiant mood last Tuesday, as he waited for his inevitable sentence. He made a heart gesture for his wife, Yulia, who was sitting at the back of Moscow’s city courtroom. Navalny smiled and shrugged his shoulders. “Don’t be sad! Everything is going to be all right,” he yelled at her. She waved back. Meanwhile, a state prosecutor droned on.

Last week’s sham trial was the latest episode in an epic stand-off between two men for a nation’s future. One is the man in the dock, Russia’s foremost opposition leader, and now a global figure, likened by some to Nelson Mandela. The other is the country’s president of two decades, a former KGB colonel who appears determined to stay in power and to smash a popular revolt against him.

The case for raising jobseeker is obvious and already made – the government made it when it added the Covid bonus last year

This week fairness and economics were mentioned together by the head of the Reserve Bank, and not surprisingly it annoyed the government. Given the current base rate of jobseeker, they should be embarrassed, not annoyed.

The case for raising the base rate of jobseeker is both obvious and already made – the government made it last year when it added the Covid bonus to the jobseeker payment.

When I tried to return from Jersey to Australia, I had no idea the journey would lead me through 16 cities in nine countries, and take nearly five months

On the morning of 1 July last year, while sitting in my apartment in the Sydney suburb of Balmain, I got the phone call I had dreaded since I moved to Australia.

My dad was dying.

Property agents can’t list homes fast enough to keep up with demand as Tasmania finds itself in the middle of a boom

For Annetta Mallon, the choice was simple: the increasingly busy, crowded streets of the Central Coast or the clean air, beaches and relaxed lifestyle of the Apple Isle. “We looked in Queensland, we looked in parts of NSW, but we fell in love with Tasmania,” she says of her decision to relocate with her husband, Peter, and their dog, Cully.

They are not alone. Tasmania, which for many years suffered from very low population growth, has seen that trend reverse in recent years with more people now coming in than leaving for the past five years. Touting its outstanding natural beauty, fine produce and expanding employment prospects amid the work-from-home revolution, Tasmania hopes to grow its current population of around 530,000 to 650,000 by the middle of the century, an increase of 22%.

The Australian crime statistics expert and co-author of the Vanishing Criminal says better regulation trumps harsher punishment

At the tail end of the 20th century, Western Australia had the highest rates of car theft in the country. Sixteen people were killed in one 18-month period as a result of crashes linked to high-speed police chases with stolen cars. The state government was under pressure to act.

In 1992, it introduced mandatory minimum sentences of 18 months for car thieves. Four years later, it introduced three strikes laws for home burglary.