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• How a manosphere star accused of rape and trafficking was freed

  11-12-2025 09:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Facing serious charges, Andrew Tate was barred from leaving Romania. Then weeks after Donald Trump took office, an extraordinary order came down from the highest levels of the Romanian government.
  
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• Supercars towed from Mayfair after wealthy owners ‘ignore fines’

  11-12-2025 08:14 via smh.com.au
  
  A Saudi-registered blue Rolls-Royce worth nearly $501,000 was one of the cars removed in a council crackdown outside a London hotel that charges from $2800 a night.
  
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• Could Trump’s Caribbean boat strikes be what finally splinters the MAGA movement?

  11-12-2025 07:19 via smh.com.au
  
  The captain’s pick for the role of defence secretary is facing allegations he’s presided over a military mission that may have been marked by war crimes. That’s a step too far for some of the president’s fans.
  
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• With single act, Nobel Peace Prize winner drastically raises stakes in Trump stand-off

  11-12-2025 05:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Overnight, Maria Corina Machado has re-established herself as a major player in an escalating game of brinkmanship between the US president and Venezuela’s leader.
  
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• Prince Harry and Meghan celebrate – and criticise – Australia’s social media ban

  11-12-2025 04:38 via smh.com.au
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have issued a statement lauding the world-leading legislation. But they also have some ideas for how it could be improved.
  
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• ‘Borderline frightening’: Pentagon outlines major challenge to AUKUS

  11-12-2025 04:35 via smh.com.au
  
  Defence Minister Richard Marles has also confirmed the deal’s sprawling second pillar will be slimmed down in light of industry complaints.
  
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• US seize oil tanker off Venezuela

  11-12-2025 01:22 via smh.com.au
  
  The US attorney-general has released video of the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
  
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• US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela

  10-12-2025 22:03 via smh.com.au
  
  President Donald Trump says the US has taken over a “very large” oil tanker in the latest move to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
  
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• No mass migration: European right-wing populists seize on Trump’s ‘decay’ claims

  10-12-2025 20:40 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president’s warning has gained emphatic support from European political leaders who aim to take or hold power by tapping into discontent on migration and social change.
  
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• US plans to ask overseas visitors for social media history

  10-12-2025 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Australians entering the US will have to provide a five-year social media history under plans by the Trump administration.
  
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• Australians to be forced to provide their social media to enter the US

  10-12-2025 19:29 via smh.com.au
  
  Applying for a visa waiver is also set to get more complicated under the new plan, with authorities seeking to collect far more detailed information including biometrics, IP addresses and metadata and family histories.
  
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• At least 22 killed in building collapse in Moroccan city popular with tourists

  10-12-2025 11:47 via smh.com.au
  
  Search and rescue operations are ongoing after two adjacent buildings collapsed in the country’s second-largest city.
  
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• 22 killed in building collapse in Moroccan city popular with tourists

  10-12-2025 11:47 via smh.com.au
  
  Search and rescue operations are ongoing after two adjacent buildings collapsed in the country’s second-largest city.
  
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• 19 killed in building collapse in Moroccan city popular with tourists

  10-12-2025 11:47 via smh.com.au
  
  Search and rescue operations are ongoing after two adjacent buildings collapsed in the country’s second-largest city.
  
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• Miss Universe contestant suffered serious head injury in stage fall, update reveals

  10-12-2025 09:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Miss Jamaica Gabrielle Henry requires constant medical supervision weeks after falling off the stage in Bangkok.
  
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• ‘What’s your name?’ Moment police found Mangione eating McDonald’s after shooting

  10-12-2025 05:10 via smh.com.au
  
  The restaurant manager called 911, concerned the customer sitting alone in a back corner resembled the man wanted over a brazen killing days earlier.
  
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• Police encounter Luigi Mangione at McDonald's

  10-12-2025 04:09 via smh.com.au
  
  A court has been shown bodycam footage of the moment police approached Luigi Mangione as he ate a meal after allegedly shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan.
  
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• ‘Parents need help’: US Republicans back Australia’s social media ban as tech groups attack

  10-12-2025 02:04 via smh.com.au
  
  Australia’s move has galvanised advocates for reform in the United States, despite lobby groups claiming the Australian ban will “severely disadvantage” US companies.
  
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• ‘Backdoor way to control access’: World reacts to social media ban

  10-12-2025 02:04 via smh.com.au
  
  As Australia brings in the world’s first social media ban for teenagers, other countries are watching closely and many want to introduce similar measures.
  
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• Tariff rescue: Trump gives Band-Aids to the farmers he hurt

  10-12-2025 02:03 via smh.com.au
  
  Trump’s $18 billion Band-Aid for embattled US farmers won’t make China buy more soybeans or fix the rising costs of equipment.
  
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• Stakeknife: British agent inside IRA committed murders with MI5’s knowledge

  10-12-2025 01:58 via smh.com.au
  
  UK security services protected the spy – despite his links to more than a dozen killings, abductions and torture during the Troubles – and suppressed the truth about for him decades, a new report reveals.
  
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• ‘Figured it would stick’: NZ police officer makes arrest 20,000 kilometres from home

  10-12-2025 01:54 via smh.com.au
  
  Mark Strongman was at the Tower of London as a tourist with his family. But the moment he heard a commotion ahead of him, he kicked into work mode.
  
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• World watches as Australia’s teen social media ban kicks in

  10-12-2025 00:51 via smh.com.au
  
  As Australia brings in the world’s first social media ban for teenagers, other countries are watching closely and many want to introduce similar measures.
  
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• French first lady caught on video insulting feminist protesters

  10-12-2025 00:09 via smh.com.au
  
  Footage has emerged of Brigitte Macron using a French slur to describe the women while speaking to a comedian backstage.
  
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• Donald Trump says Europe is 'decaying'

  09-12-2025 19:56 via smh.com.au
  
  US President Donald Trump says European leaders are 'weak', and has renewed calls for elections in Ukraine.
  
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• ‘They’re weak’: Trump slams Europe on migration, tightens screws on Ukraine

  09-12-2025 19:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Describing Europe’s immigration policy as a “disaster”, the US president also suggested Russia would win its war in Ukraine as he blasted European leaders for talking too much without producing results.
  
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• ‘I think they’re weak’: Trump slams Europe over migration, Ukraine

  09-12-2025 19:23 via smh.com.au
  
  US President Donald Trump has called European leaders “weak” on migration, and suggested Russia will win its war against Ukraine.
  
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• Secrecy over Pentagon review suggests there’s stuff in there Australia doesn’t want to talk about

  09-12-2025 02:18 via smh.com.au
  
  The Pentagon’s AUKUS review might be an American document, but the Australian government has a duty to its own taxpayers to insist upon greater transparency.
  
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• Zelensky digs in against Trump pressure as peace talks at risk of collapse

  09-12-2025 01:46 via smh.com.au
  
  The Ukraine president is holding firm in a deepening dispute over whether to cede land to Russia to end the war, issuing a forceful statement of his nation’s sovereignty.
  
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• Marles refuses 12 times to say what the Americans want in AUKUS review

  08-12-2025 22:43 via smh.com.au
  
  Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong met their American counterparts Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in Washington for annual talks amid what Rubio called “real momentum” in the alliance.
  
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• Trump’s son-in-law part of Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros

  08-12-2025 20:12 via smh.com.au
  
  The White House’s preferred bidder for Warner Bros is back in the race with a hostile takeover offer that challenges Netflix’s plan to create an unassailable media empire.
  
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• Paramount bids to take over Warner Brothers

  08-12-2025 20:06 via smh.com.au
  
  Media giant Paramount launches a $150 billion hostile bid to grab control of Warner Brothers.
  
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• Japan issues tsunami alert after powerful earthquake

  08-12-2025 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The entire northern coast of Japan is today under a tsunami alert after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck.
  
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• Hegseth touts Australia’s next $1.5 billion AUKUS cheque as ministers meet

  08-12-2025 19:17 via smh.com.au
  
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised fresh “momentum” in the US-Australia alliance as he met with counterparts for the annual AUSMIN talks in Washington.
  
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• America first? Maybe not, if you ask Trump-voting Americans

  08-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  A poll suggests a clear majority of Americans – especially MAGA Republicans – want the US to defend Ukraine and Taiwan, even while Donald Trump is equivocal.
  
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• The married scientists torn apart by a COVID bioweapon theory

  08-12-2025 09:55 via smh.com.au
  
  In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the US, aided by allies of Donald Trump who sought to promote her unproven theories about the origins of COVID-19. Her husband still can’t find her.
  
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• It’s not just Sudan. The same destructive forces are coming for other countries too

  08-12-2025 09:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The death toll in Sudan is now more than Gaza and Ukraine combined. With the new world order, civilisation is a lot more fragile than we like to think.
  
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• Marles sounds alarm after Chinese fighter ‘locks on’ to Japanese jets

  08-12-2025 07:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Experts say the statement of support for Japan is cautious but welcome after a month-long campaign of retaliation from Beijing for a remark by Japan’s PM.
  
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• Trump said he solved the Thailand-Cambodia crisis. It has just escalated. Again.

  08-12-2025 05:57 via smh.com.au
  
  Thailand has sent fighter jets to hit Cambodian targets after fresh clashes on the weekend.
  
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• Fresh airstrikes shatter Asian ceasefire Trump claimed as a victory

  08-12-2025 05:57 via smh.com.au
  
  Six weeks ago, a smiling US president was celebrating the ceasefire he had brokered. Now Thailand has once more deployed fighter jets against its neighbour.
  
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• Katy Perry goes ‘Instagram official’ with Justin Trudeau amid romance rumours

  08-12-2025 05:31 via smh.com.au
  
  The pop star posted photos and videos on Instagram of herself and the former Canadian PM posing cheek to cheek and exploring Japan.
  
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• After El Fasher horror, UN warns of new wave of atrocities

  08-12-2025 01:52 via smh.com.au
  
  Only weeks after satellite images showed blood-stained earth, deaths are mounting in a nearby region and a kindergarten has also been reportedly struck.
  
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• ‘Dangerous and extremely regrettable’: Chinese fighter ‘locked on’ to Japanese jets

  07-12-2025 21:48 via smh.com.au
  
  Australia and Japan have sounded the alarm after a Chinese J-15 fighter directed fire-control radar – one of the most threatening acts a military aircraft can take – at Japanese jets near Okinawa islands.
  
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• ‘May the force be with you’: A relentless night in a Ukrainian bomb shelter

  07-12-2025 20:10 via smh.com.au
  
  The air raid alarm goes off and the iPhone starts talking in an American accent, urging listeners to seek shelter. It’s 1.23am and our correspondent is about to witness what is a routine night for millions of people across this war-ravaged country.
  
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• First, the alarm goes off. Then my iPhone starts talking in an American accent

  07-12-2025 20:10 via smh.com.au
  
  It’s 1.23am and our correspondent is about to witness what is a routine night for millions of people here.
  
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• A relentless night hunkered down in a Ukrainian missile shelter

  07-12-2025 20:10 via smh.com.au
  
  The air raid alarm goes off and the iPhone starts talking in an American accent, urging listeners to seek shelter. It’s 1.23am and our correspondent is about to witness what is a routine night for millions of people across this war-ravaged country.
  
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• A relentless night hunkered down in a missile shelter as Russia attacks

  07-12-2025 20:10 via smh.com.au
  
  The air raid alarms go off all through the night, urging people to seek shelter. Our correspondent experiences what is a routine night for millions of Ukrainians.
  
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• Trump to host Kennedy Centre awards

  07-12-2025 19:59 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump will host the revamped Kennedy Centre awards to honour famous figures in the film and music industry.
  
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• Suspected pepper spray attack at London's Heathrow airport

  07-12-2025 19:56 via smh.com.au
  
  More than 20 people have been injured in a suspected pepper spray attack at London's biggest airport.
  
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• Climber ‘left girlfriend to die’ on Austrian mountain

  07-12-2025 09:30 via smh.com.au
  
  An experienced mountaineer has been charged with manslaughter after a woman froze to death on the nation’s highest peak.
  
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