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• Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal

  25-08-2026 22:14 via smh.com.au
  
  Ghislaine Maxwell's latest bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction has been rejected.
  
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• Rare tornado hits French village

  25-08-2026 22:03 via smh.com.au
  
  Hundreds of people have been damaged when a tornado struck a French village.
  
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• Measles kills two unvaccinated people as US outbreak approaches 3000

  25-08-2026 21:36 via smh.com.au
  
  The deaths in Pennsylvania are the state’s first from the disease in 35 years. Two weeks ago, Donald Trump claimed the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine could be “quite lethal”.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell loses bid to overturn conviction for aiding Epstein

  25-08-2026 15:41 via smh.com.au
  
  A US judge said Maxwell’s bid to set aside her conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence on the grounds that there was “substantial new evidence” was “demonstrably meritless”.
  
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• Beijing warns it will not sever ties with Iran after US vows ‘economic D-Day’

  25-08-2026 14:25 via smh.com.au
  
  China threatened to retaliate against the US, after the Trump administration announced a fresh economic campaign to strangle the Iranian regime, which counts Beijing as a major trading partner.
  
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• The White House says this is the Iran endgame. We’ve heard that before

  25-08-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The Trump administration’s latest vow to inflict an “economic D-Day” on Iran seems fated, yet again, to come up short against the cold, hard reality of global finance.
  
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• Records tumble and so do robots at China’s humanoid Olympics

  25-08-2026 03:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Is there a more apt depiction of existential futility than a humanoid sprinting at top speed only to slam into a safety barrier?
  
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