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• US pulls bomber jets from UK air base after terror plot

  04-10-2026 23:52 via smh.com.au
  
  The Pentagon said all B-1 bombers deployed to the base, which US forces have used to strike Iran, have returned to the US.
  
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• US pulls bomber jets from UK air base after suspected terror plot

  04-10-2026 23:52 via smh.com.au
  
  The Pentagon said all B-1 bombers deployed to the base, which US forces have used to strike Iran, have returned to the US.
  
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• Russian drones attack Kyiv as Merz meets Zelensky

  04-10-2026 23:26 via smh.com.au
  
  Two people were injured when a bridge over the Dnipro River was targeted during German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to Ukraine on Sunday.
  
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• Debris found from missing US plane

  04-10-2026 21:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Debris has been found in waters off the US east coast in the search for a missing medical plane carrying seven people.
  
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• Russian drones strike major bridges in Ukraine

  04-10-2026 21:08 via smh.com.au
  
  Russia has ramped up its attacks on Ukraine, targeting major bridges in Kyiv.
  
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• Cornell president calls for stronger rape laws in New York

  04-10-2026 20:47 via smh.com.au
  
  The case has renewed scrutiny of a controversial state law that makes it difficult to prosecute sexual assault cases if accusers voluntarily drank or took drugs, even if they became too intoxicated to consent.
  
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• Saudi-Backed Yemeni Government Declares War Against Houthis, Widening Crisis

  04-10-2026 20:37 via smh.com.au
  
  The government and the Houthis have been engaged in fierce battles in recent weeks, after the Iran-allied militia took control of the country’s Red Sea coast, increasing pressure on shipping routes and energy markets unsettled by the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
  
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• US-Russia talks on Ukraine now involve an oil deal tied to Trump allies

  04-10-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Vladimir Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with the US president’s envoys, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest.
  
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• Elon Musk is back in the White House as privatisation spreads to warfare

  04-10-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  A change in how America decides what future military power looks like transforms the assumptions around which Australian defence capability is built.
  
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• Why Iran could choose to escalate the war

  04-10-2026 04:54 via smh.com.au
  
  Trump’s Iran war should be taught for decades as a model of how not to conduct either war or foreign policy.
  
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• Cornell case revives anger about handling of campus sexual assault claims

  04-10-2026 04:30 via smh.com.au
  
  A lawsuit alleging rape at Cornell has led to an outpouring of women sharing stories about sexual violence on college campuses.
  
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• Cornell case revives anger about handling of campus sexual assault cases

  04-10-2026 04:30 via smh.com.au
  
  A lawsuit alleging rape at Cornell has led to an outpouring of women sharing stories about sexual violence on college campuses.
  
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• Two Iranians appear in UK court over alleged plot to target Jews

  04-10-2026 04:08 via smh.com.au
  
  The men are charged with plotting acts of terrorism involving use of a homemade bomb to attack the Jewish community in northern England at the behest of a figure believed to be based in Iran.
  
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• Two Iranians appear in UK court over alleged plot to target Jewish sites

  04-10-2026 04:08 via smh.com.au
  
  The men are charged with plotting acts of terrorism involving use of a homemade bomb to attack the Jewish community in northern England at the behest of a figure believed to be based in Iran.
  
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• Tennessee’s prisons chief to resign after failed execution of Christa Pike

  04-10-2026 00:22 via smh.com.au
  
  The state’s governor also announced that former US attorney Ed Stanton would lead a review of what happened in Pike’s death chamber.
  
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