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• CFS ‘sign of body hibernating’

  30-08-2016 00:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scientists have found signatures in the blood of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers, which echo those of hibernating worms.
  
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• Lolita quotes, women’s IDs: Democrats release dozens of new Epstein images

  18-12-2025 21:14 via smh.com.au
  
  Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, professor and political activist Noam Chomsky and former Trump aide Steve Bannon are also pictured in the latest images.
  
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• ‘Junk science’: RFK Jr moves to eradicate gender-affirming care for trans youth

  18-12-2025 19:57 via smh.com.au
  
  The sweeping new restrictions would cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgical interventions.
  
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• Sajid Akram’s family in India had no knowledge of his ‘radical mindset’

  18-12-2025 08:54 via smh.com.au
  
  Family members in India have gone to ground, neighbours are lying low and a misinformation campaign is raging online.
  
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• Nick Reiner faces court charged with murder of parents

  18-12-2025 08:54 via smh.com.au
  
  The son of Hollywood power couple Rob and Michele Reiner has faced court in Los Angeles for the first time after being charged with their murder.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell seeks release from jail, citing ‘new evidence’

  18-12-2025 07:25 via smh.com.au
  
  Maxwell maintained in a habeas petition that information that would have resulted in her exoneration at her 2021 trial was withheld and false testimony was presented to the jury.
  
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• Trump’s shouty prime-time address suggests he may not have another gear

  18-12-2025 05:59 via smh.com.au
  
  One of Trump’s great assets last year was that he appeared more in touch with people’s real problems and worries. Now, he risks being the one seen as divorced from reality.
  
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• Injection marks and wrinkles: The unfiltered Vanity Fair shoot of Trump’s team

  18-12-2025 04:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, as the saying goes. Vanity Fair photographer Christopher Anderson has caused a stir with extreme close-up images of the Trump team, injection marks and all.
  
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• Australia is right to support a two-state solution: former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert

  18-12-2025 01:47 via smh.com.au
  
  Benjamin Netanyahu had no right to claim Australia “poured fuel on the antisemitic fire” that caused the Bondi massacre, writes Israel’s former prime minister.
  
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• Penguins become prey for the pumas of Patagonia

  18-12-2025 01:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The return of top predators to one of South America’s most remote regions has led to unexpected interactions between species.
  
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• Bondi massacre a reminder of Islamic State’s power to inspire bloodshed

  18-12-2025 01:25 via smh.com.au
  
  While the terrorist group is weakened compared with a decade ago, it now wields propaganda as its most potent tool to inspire deadly attacks.
  
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• Inside the dusty Philippines hotel room where Bondi gunmen holed up for a month

  18-12-2025 00:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Bondi Beach gunmen Sajid and Naveed Akram stayed at a hotel in the southern city of Davao for the entire time they were in the Philippines, according to staff.
  
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• Inside the dusty Philippine hotel room where Bondi gunmen holed up for a month

  18-12-2025 00:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Bondi Beach terrorists Sajid and Naveed Akram stayed at a hotel in the southern city of Davao for the entire time they were in the Philippines, staff say.
  
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• Singapore hanged more people this year than it has in decades

  17-12-2025 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The tally is now 17. Three people were marched up the Changi prison gallows in one week in November alone.
  
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• As media moguls show Warner Bros the money, keep an eye on CNN – and US democracy

  17-12-2025 09:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Paramount and Netflix are (almost) knocking each other out to buy Warner Bros Discovery – but there are bigger things than cable TV and movie studios at stake.
  
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• When the Epstein files will be released – and what will be withheld

  17-12-2025 06:52 via smh.com.au
  
  The clock is ticking for the US government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein – and it has to be done before Christmas.
  
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• Australia urged to take ‘Al Capone approach’ to hate preachers, extremists

  17-12-2025 05:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Hate preachers and potential terrorists could be targeted and deported by officials pursuing their tax and immigration records under a new approach to tackling extremism.
  
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• ‘Beyond tragic’: Rob Reiner’s son charged with murder of his parents

  17-12-2025 03:27 via smh.com.au
  
  Nick Reiner, 32, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty.
  
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• Trump orders blockade of ‘sanctioned oil tankers’ into Venezuela

  17-12-2025 02:21 via smh.com.au
  
  The move follows the US seizure of a tanker last week and appears designed to apply more pressure to President Nicolás Maduro.
  
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• The Epstein files will soon be made public. Here’s what to know

  17-12-2025 01:56 via smh.com.au
  
  The clock is ticking for the US government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein – and it has to be done before Christmas.
  
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• How Putin’s favourite pop star became ‘most hated woman in Russia’

  17-12-2025 01:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Vladimir Putin’s favourite singer has been stung by a public backlash after a court case left a young mother homeless and $3.3 million out of pocket.
  
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• Man who stabbed Australian girl in London sentenced

  17-12-2025 00:22 via smh.com.au
  
  The man who stabbed an 11-year-old Australian girl in London has been sentenced.
  
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• Rob Reiner’s son to be charged with murder of his parents

  16-12-2025 22:36 via smh.com.au
  
  Nick Reiner will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
  
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• ‘Move, move, move’: Enraged driver who ploughed van into soccer parade jailed for decades

  16-12-2025 20:27 via smh.com.au
  
  “You struck people head-on, knocked others onto the bonnet, drove over limbs, crushed prams and forced those nearby to scatter in terror,” a Liverpool judge told Paul Doyle.
  
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• ‘Conspiracy theorist’, ‘right-wing zealot’: Trump’s chief of staff lets fly in secret interviews

  16-12-2025 19:43 via smh.com.au
  
  Susie Wiles, the president’s trusted and respected chief of staff, revealed her true feelings in a series of candid chats with Vanity Fair magazine, describing her boss as having “an alcoholic’s personality”.
  
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• What we know about the Bondi terrorists’ trip to ‘Islamic State hotspot’ in the Philippines

  16-12-2025 09:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The country’s southern regions have long been a breeding group for Islamic militancy, attracting foreign fighters to a network of shadowy training camps.
  
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• Did the Bondi attackers find favour and fervour in the Philippines’ radical heartland?

  16-12-2025 09:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The country’s southern regions have long been a breeding group for Islamic militancy, attracting foreign fighters to a network of shadowy training camps.
  
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• Trump doubles down on criticism of Rob Reiner

  16-12-2025 07:22 via smh.com.au
  
  President Donald Trump doubled down on his criticism of Rob Reiner, asserting Monday that the slain Hollywood director was “a deranged person".
  
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• Trump sues BBC in $15 billion lawsuit over edited footage

  16-12-2025 05:41 via smh.com.au
  
  The president has followed through on his threat to sue Britain’s public broadcaster in a row over edited speech footage that has already cost the jobs of two senior executives.
  
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• Trump sues BBC in $15 billion defamation suit over edited footage

  16-12-2025 05:41 via smh.com.au
  
  The president has followed through on his threat to sue Britain’s public broadcaster in a row over edited speech footage that has already cost the jobs of two senior executives.
  
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