Residents warned to prepare food and water and secure properties as BoM predicts Alfred will make landfall anywhere between Bundaberg and northern New South Wales

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Residents in two states have now been urged to prepare, with the Bureau of Meteorology warning Tropical Cyclone Alfred could make landfall anywhere between Bundaberg and northern New South Wales.

The Queensland premier, David Crisafulli, said residents of southeast Queensland should be preparing “canned food and bottled water” as forecasters expect Alfred to shift towards large population centres in the coming days.

Ukraine’s president says after Oval Office meltdown that when delicate talks are in public ‘foes can take advantage’

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A defiant but tactful President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused to apologise to Donald Trump after Friday’s spat in the White House, and declared that the row in the Oval Office “did not bring anything positive” to peace for Ukraine.

Speaking to journalists only in Ukrainian at the end of a two-day visit to the UK, the president said that when such delicate negotiations are held in public “foes can take advantage of them” though he said he hoped the row would eventually pass.

Israeli media reports Israeli American Trump donor will fly Eli Sharabi to Washington DC to meet president this week

Freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi has been invited to Washington to meet Donald Trump this week, his brother told Israeli media on Sunday.

Sharabi, who was released from Gaza after 16 months in captivity, expects to meet Trump with other freed hostages on Tuesday, after the US president watched him describe the severe hunger and violence he endured on Israeli television.

• Forward posted on social media after win over Leicester
• United hope to conclude transfer in the coming days

The NWSL club Gotham FC are in advanced talks with Manchester United over the proposed loan signing of the Brazil forward Geyse. The Women’s Super League club are hoping to conclude a deal in the coming days before the start of the new NWSL season on 14 March.

On Sunday Geyse described feeling “lonely” and being in agony after coming on as a late substitute in the 2-0 victory over Leicester in a post on social media.

• Manager restates ambition to win Premier League
• ‘I’m not naive, that’s why I’m here’

Ruben Amorim hit back at Wayne Rooney after Manchester United crashed out of the FA Cup, by ­claiming that being the club’s head coach aged 40 showed he was not naive.

Rooney, who is United’s record goalscorer, called Amorim naive for saying after the holders’ elimination from the Cup on penalties by Fulham that the club’s long-term goal is to win the Premier League.

Conan O’Brien is hosting the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin take the supporting actress and actor prizes. Join us for full coverage
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And now a special live update from the Guardian’s Xan Brooks at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood …

First trip to the Oscars. Impossibly glamorous arrival. Non-celebrity guests, I discover, access the Dolby theatre by walking around the police cordons, across a filling station forecourt and past a shuttered bowling alley to the theatre doors. This is perhaps what’s known unofficially as the Karla Sofía Gascón Entrance. But I’m now safely inside and have been handed a spring roll to eat.