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• Amnesty picked a fight with JK Rowling over trans rights. It backfired

  16-07-2026 03:40 via smh.com.au
  
  The human rights body drilled into a volcano guaranteed to erupt when it called out the author’s women-only centre for survivors of sexual abuse.
  
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• Australia should send military assets to the Gulf: Morrison

  16-07-2026 07:44 via smh.com.au
  
  As US bombing of Iran intensifies and a crisis redevelops in the Strait of Hormuz, the former prime minister said Australia should proactively make a contribution to protecting its national interests.
  
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• Trump sets sights on Iran’s hidden nuclear fortress

  16-07-2026 07:34 via smh.com.au
  
  With the conflict with Iran reigniting, the US may target one of the country’s most mysterious nuclear sites.
  
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• The day of the condor, the Hollywood stars and escaping the shadow of Trump’s America

  16-07-2026 03:30 via smh.com.au
  
  With an unrelenting news cycle, a retreat from modern America beckons. It is one of memory – of a road trip along a glorious coast and visiting the haunt of legends.
  
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• ‘You could see it coming’: Along the Thames, triumph turns to torment

  16-07-2026 01:58 via smh.com.au
  
  For England’s long-suffering fans, a semi-final exit at the hands of Lionel Messi’s Argentina comes with a familiar sense of expectations crushed.
  
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• Epstein linked to CIA, Mossad, claims JD Vance

  16-07-2026 01:57 via smh.com.au
  
  JD Vance has claimed Jeffrey Epstein had connections to the highest levels of US and Israeli intelligence.
  
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• Trump gets his own money as US mints $1 coins bearing president’s face

  16-07-2026 00:49 via smh.com.au
  
  The special edition gold coins are the latest controversial effort to fuse the president’s legacy with the US currency.
  
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• Hegseth’s plan for ‘High-T Department of War’

  16-07-2026 00:42 via smh.com.au
  
  US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new screening program for ‘testosterone deficiency’ among troops.
  
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• Huge plume of smoke rises over Iran's Chabahar port after strike.

  15-07-2026 23:44 via smh.com.au
  
  A large cloud of black smoke was seen rising from the scene of a strike on Iran's Chabahar port.
  
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• US military turns away two ships in Strait of Hormuz

  15-07-2026 22:52 via smh.com.au
  
  The US has launched more strikes since it reimposed its naval blockade on Iran.
  
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• UK Prime Minister gives final speech in Parliament

  15-07-2026 22:52 via smh.com.au
  
  British PM Keir Starmer has made his final speech in Parliament.
  
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• US strikes Iran again as Tehran warns of ‘existential war’

  15-07-2026 22:01 via smh.com.au
  
  The US has launched fresh waves of strikes on Iranian coastal targets in the Gulf as Tehran warns it could threaten other regional energy routes.
  
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• Ryanair passenger partially sucked out of plane was stuck for two minutes

  15-07-2026 14:11 via smh.com.au
  
  The wife of a Ryanair passenger who was partially sucked out of a plane last week when a window blew out, has given an extraordinary account of what happened on board.
  
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• ‘Another nuclear option’: Iran may be ready to play its most dangerous card yet

  15-07-2026 09:47 via smh.com.au
  
  The Iranian regime has skilfully leveraged the Strait of Hormuz to its advantage, but it isn’t the only strategic waterway at its disposal to blunt the US.
  
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• T. Rex sets record at Sotheby’s auction

  15-07-2026 07:17 via smh.com.au
  
  One of the largest and most complete dinosaur skeletons ever discovered was snapped up within 10 minutes of being put on the block.
  
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• Inside the UK town Pauline Hanson cannot stand

  15-07-2026 06:02 via smh.com.au
  
  The One Nation leader says this town highlights everything that’s wrong with Britain and the fate that awaits Australia. We ask the locals what they think.
  
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• ‘Grasping at straws’: Trump’s Hormuz toll thought bubble didn’t last long – but the ramifications will

  15-07-2026 04:08 via smh.com.au
  
  If the US president’s war enabled Iran to weaponise the strait in the first place, the preposterous 20 per cent toll proposal only gives them more ammunition.
  
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• New strikes on Iran as US restarts blockade

  15-07-2026 03:41 via smh.com.au
  
  The US has reimposed its naval blockade on Iran as both sides exchange fire.
  
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• Iran launches drone, missile strikes

  15-07-2026 00:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Iranian state media has released footage of its armed forces launching drone and missile strikes at US bases.
  
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• US resumes Iran blockade

  15-07-2026 00:26 via smh.com.au
  
  American forces have launched further strikes on Iran and resumed the blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz.
  
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• Trump scraps Strait of Hormuz shipping toll

  14-07-2026 22:22 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump backflips on plans to charge ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
  
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• Murder investigation into UK politician's death

  14-07-2026 22:21 via smh.com.au
  
  UK police say the killing of a prominent politician was a targeted attack.
  
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• Trump abandons plan to toll the Strait of Hormuz after ‘calls from emirs’

  14-07-2026 21:49 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president had proposed a 20 per cent fee on cargo passing through the waterway, but said he would instead seek additional investment deals with Gulf states.
  
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• US-Iran war live updates: Trump reinstates blockade on Strait of Hormuz, backs away from 20 per cent fee as US launches wave of new attacks on Iran

  14-07-2026 21:12 via smh.com.au
  
  US forces have carried out additional strikes on military targets in Iran to eliminate “emerging threats” ahead of a naval blockade on Iranian ports resuming. Follow live.
  
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• US-Iran war as it happened: Trump reinstates blockade on Strait of Hormuz, backs away from 20 per cent fee as US launches wave of new attacks on Iran

  14-07-2026 21:12 via smh.com.au
  
  US forces have carried out another round of strikes on military targets in Iran as the US naval blockade on Iranian ports resumes.
  
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• Trump backs away from fee plan on Strait of Hormuz

  14-07-2026 17:54 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump had proposed a 20 per cent fee on cargo passing through the waterway, but said he would instead seek investment deals with Gulf states.
  
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• UK police investigating terrorism-ties to murder of former politician

  14-07-2026 13:32 via smh.com.au
  
  UK police are investigating whether the murder of an outspoken former Conservative politician was an act of terrorism.
  
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• ‘If we die, we die together’: Wife details ordeal after man partially sucked out of plane window

  14-07-2026 13:32 via smh.com.au
  
  A terrified woman has revealed how she saved her husband as he was nearly sucked through a shattered window on a Ryanair flight.
  
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• ‘Most Roman thing ever’: City repaints parking bays around cars … then fines drivers

  14-07-2026 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Council crews descended on streets in the Italian capital and, with a few daubs of paint, transformed free, legal parking spaces into paid spots overnight.
  
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• How flammable decor and lax rules turned Bangkok pub into a death trap

  14-07-2026 11:28 via smh.com.au
  
  Highly combustible materials used to decorate the stage and likely for better acoustics instantly ignited to produce extreme heat, smoke and deadly toxins, experts say.
  
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