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• Five Australians onboard trains in deadly crash near Machu Picchu

  31-12-2025 23:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Images taken near Peru’s top tourist site show the badly damaged locomotives – which collided head-on –facing each other and people being treated on the sides of the tracks.
  
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• Britain's Queen Camilla recalls being attacked on train as a teenager

  31-12-2025 22:48 via smh.com.au
  
  Britain's Queen Camilla recalls being attacked on a train as a teenager
  
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• ‘Furious’: Queen speaks about being groped on train as a teenager

  31-12-2025 21:27 via smh.com.au
  
  Speaking publicly for the first time about the indecent assault, Camilla recalled fending off the man who attacked her.
  
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• Drums, bells and fireworks: How the world is ushering in 2026

  31-12-2025 19:48 via smh.com.au
  
  South Pacific countries were the first to bid farewell to 2025. New Zealand’s capital, Auckland, held a fireworks display 18 hours before the ball drop in New York’s Times Square.
  
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• Last post: Denmark calls time on ‘vintage’ letter service

  31-12-2025 05:03 via smh.com.au
  
  In a sign of the times, Denmark appears to be the first country where the official postal carrier will stop delivering letters.
  
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• Lone protester stares down security forces as growing unrest rattles Iran

  31-12-2025 03:43 via smh.com.au
  
  Footage of the man in Tehran has gone viral as protests spread rapidly across the country, fuelled by a rare alliance between two groups.
  
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• ‘Death to the dictator’: Biggest protests in years erupt across Iran

  31-12-2025 03:43 via smh.com.au
  
  Footage of a lone protester staring down security forces in Tehran has gone viral as protests spread rapidly across the country, fuelled by a rare alliance between two groups.
  
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• Sussexit? Harry and Meghan desperate to downplay staff exodus

  31-12-2025 03:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Of all the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s staff departures of recent year, the loss of a deeply loyal executive director will hit the hardest.
  
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• One killed, tourists injured in Machu Picchu train crash

  31-12-2025 01:52 via smh.com.au
  
  One train driver died and at least 40 are injured after the head-on crash on a railway track servicing Machu Picchu in Peru.
  
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• The Epstein files: What we know so far

  31-12-2025 01:33 via smh.com.au
  
  The first tranche of Epstein files have been released, and while Donald Trump does not appear in a significant way, many files are heavily redacted.
  
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• One dead, tourists among injured in head-on train crash near Machu Picchu

  31-12-2025 01:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Images taken near Peru’s top tourist site show the badly damaged locomotives facing each other and injured people being treated on the sides of the tracks.
  
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