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• US confirms it deployed space weapons

  15-09-2026 22:50 via smh.com.au
  
  The American government has publicly confirmed it has space weapons in the Earth's orbit.
  
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• Plane's ceiling caves in during Iranian flight

  15-09-2026 22:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The ceiling of an Iranian civilian plane carrying 175 passengers collapsed mid flight shortly after take-off.
  
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• FBI chief under fire over Epstein files

  15-09-2026 22:44 via smh.com.au
  
  The head of the FBI has been accused by Democrats of weakening the crime-fighting agency and covering up the Epstein files.
  
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• I’ll get death threats for saying it – but this prince is no messiah

  15-09-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The Liberal Party has invited to Australia a figure one described as like Desmond Tutu and Winnie Mandela. He’s far from the answer they believe he is.
  
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• As Trump’s popularity slides, his merchandise stores are closing down

  15-09-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The lack of customers snapping up “Trump 2028” caps, anti-Biden T-shirts and Donald and Melania bobble-head dolls could be a sign the president’s star is waning.
  
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• ‘Not the people I interviewed’: Trump lashes Supreme Court after election ruling

  15-09-2026 18:55 via smh.com.au
  
  The court’s decision to block changes to mail-in voting ahead of the midterms leaves the president’s plans in tatters, as he fumes over what he sees as disloyalty by his appointees to the bench.
  
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• Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland meet to discuss independence

  15-09-2026 13:14 via smh.com.au
  
  The first ministers of three of the four nations making up the UK have met in Wales to discuss plans to move for independence from the Kingdom.
  
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• I moved to Berlin. Turns out Germany is not all it’s cracked up to be

  15-09-2026 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  There’s the world-class nightclubs, the beer gardens, and the huge expanse of forests. What’s not to love about the world’s hippest city? Quite a bit, it turns out.
  
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• ‘I am the Hoax Buster’: Trump takes on America with seven-post rant promoting AI, data centres

  15-09-2026 07:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president has previously tried to sniff the breeze on what mainstream Americans think. In doubling down on claims of a “SICK conspiracy” against AI and data centres, he is doing the opposite.
  
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• Detainees at Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ were held in small metal cages, federal report says

  15-09-2026 03:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Dozens of detainees were confined in “calming areas”, according to a report confirming that conditions at the notorious immigration detention camp fell well below acceptable standards.
  
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• ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ put detainees in metal cages labeled ‘calming areas’

  15-09-2026 03:14 via smh.com.au
  
  Detainees at the notorious Alligator Alcatraz were put in cages the size of phone booths.
  
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