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• As China unleashed on Japan, the US stayed silent – until Beijing went too far

  12-12-2025 02:03 via smh.com.au
  
  Taiwan is the reddest of red lines for Beijing, and Japan’s new prime minister has discovered the cost of crossing it.
  
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• Japan builds up ‘missile archipelago’ near Taiwan to counter China

  12-12-2025 19:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Japan is installing missile batteries and radar towers on an island 110 kilometres east of Taiwan, as it nervously watches China’s ambitions in the Pacific.
  
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• Bikie-linked security firm still guarding Nauru detainees

  12-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Personnel at MA Services Group have repeatedly attempted to cover up its role in an ongoing operation involving a private security force sent to Nauru to guard exiled Australian immigration detainees.
  
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• The healthcare workers fighting a preventable cancer in Timor-Leste

  12-12-2025 18:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Healthcare workers led by a team of Australian doctors are working on the front lines to eliminate cervical cancer in the Indo-Pacific.
  
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• New photos from Epstein vault show Trump, Bannon, Gates and Woody Allen

  12-12-2025 18:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Some of the photos obtained from the Epstein estate depicted sex toys and aids, while one contained a “Trump condom” purportedly on sale for $4.50.
  
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• The true-crime mogul turned FBI’s most wanted who disappeared into thin air

  12-12-2025 09:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Mary Carole McDonnell spent years creating true-crime television series. Now she’s become entangled in a criminal drama of her own.
  
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• A deep dive into the time of Trumpian magical realism

  12-12-2025 09:30 via smh.com.au
  
  “What will fiction be like in the Trump era?” one writer wondered eight years ago. Now we have the answer: not as fanciful as reality.
  
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• More Epstein files are set to be released. Here’s what we know so far

  12-12-2025 08:33 via smh.com.au
  
  A tranche of documents about Jeffrey Epstein will be unsealed this week. What are they, and what might they reveal?
  
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• Trump won’t shield US teens on social media but wants to scroll through yours

  12-12-2025 07:42 via smh.com.au
  
  A plan to vet the social media and personal history of tourists entering the US is a new low in Trumpian chaos.
  
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• Trump won’t shield US teens on social media but wants to look at yours

  12-12-2025 07:42 via smh.com.au
  
  A plan to vet the social media and personal history of tourists entering the US is a new low in Trumpian chaos.
  
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• Junta airstrikes on Myanmar hospital kill at least 33

  12-12-2025 06:17 via smh.com.au
  
  The hit could be the deadliest on a hospital in almost five years of Myanmar civil war.
  
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• Why China is putting a tax on condoms

  12-12-2025 05:45 via smh.com.au
  
  China will soon start collecting a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and products for the first time in more than three decades.
  
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• China’s fury a reminder it’s more dragon than panda

  12-12-2025 02:03 via smh.com.au
  
  Taiwan is the reddest of red lines for Beijing, and Japan’s new prime minister has discovered the cost of crossing it.
  
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• A bunch of deep red Republicans just stood up to Trump. Here’s why it matters

  12-12-2025 01:57 via smh.com.au
  
  In Indiana, the state Senate roundly rejected a push to redraw the electoral map to benefit Donald Trump. In the end, despite the president’s threats, the vote wasn’t even close.
  
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• TODAY IN HISTORY: Teen carpet cleaner's billion-dollar scam

  12-12-2025 01:02 via smh.com.au
  
  A young man turned a carpet cleaning business into a massive fraud scheme, starring in his own commercials.
  
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• In rare rebuke for Trump, state Republicans reject redistricting push

  12-12-2025 00:59 via smh.com.au
  
  Indiana's Republican-led Senate decisively rejected a redrawn congressional map that would have favoured their party, defying months of pressure from President Donald Trump.
  
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• US sanctions more ships, intends to keep oil from seized Venezuelan tanker

  11-12-2025 22:12 via smh.com.au
  
  The US has added six more ships to its list of sanctioned vessels believed to be ferrying Venezuelan oil, amid expectations it will intercept and seize more tankers.
  
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• US intends to keep the oil from seized Venezuelan tanker

  11-12-2025 21:21 via smh.com.au
  
  The vessel will be taken to an American port, where the country will make a legal bid to seize up to 1.6 million barrels of oil on board, Donald Trump’s press secretary said.
  
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• ‘We are Russia’s next target’: NATO chief warns Europe to be prepared for war

  11-12-2025 20:13 via smh.com.au
  
  Mark Rutte urged allies to step up defence efforts to prevent a war that could be “on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured”.
  
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• Time Magazine names AI architects as Person of the Year

  11-12-2025 19:58 via smh.com.au
  
  The architects behind Artificial Intelligence have been named Time Magazine Person of the Year 2025.
  
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• Hundreds of artefacts stolen from UK museum

  11-12-2025 19:58 via smh.com.au
  
  More than 600 high value artefacts have been stolen in a raid at a British museum.
  
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• Charlie Kirk murder suspect due in court

  11-12-2025 19:58 via smh.com.au
  
  The man accused of killing US political activist Charlie Kirk is due in court today.
  
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• How a manosphere star accused of rape and trafficking was freed

  11-12-2025 09:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Facing serious charges, Andrew Tate was barred from leaving Romania. Then weeks after Donald Trump took office, an extraordinary order came down from the highest levels of the Romanian government.
  
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• Supercars towed from Mayfair after wealthy owners ‘ignore fines’

  11-12-2025 08:14 via smh.com.au
  
  A Saudi-registered blue Rolls-Royce worth nearly $501,000 was one of the cars removed in a council crackdown outside a London hotel that charges from $2800 a night.
  
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• Could Trump’s Caribbean boat strikes be what finally splinters the MAGA movement?

  11-12-2025 07:19 via smh.com.au
  
  The captain’s pick for the role of defence secretary is facing allegations he’s presided over a military mission that may have been marked by war crimes. That’s a step too far for some of the president’s fans.
  
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• With single act, Nobel Peace Prize winner drastically raises stakes in Trump stand-off

  11-12-2025 05:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Overnight, Maria Corina Machado has re-established herself as a major player in an escalating game of brinkmanship between the US president and Venezuela’s leader.
  
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• Prince Harry and Meghan celebrate – and criticise – Australia’s social media ban

  11-12-2025 04:38 via smh.com.au
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have issued a statement lauding the world-leading legislation. But they also have some ideas for how it could be improved.
  
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• ‘Borderline frightening’: Pentagon outlines major challenge to AUKUS

  11-12-2025 04:35 via smh.com.au
  
  Defence Minister Richard Marles has also confirmed the deal’s sprawling second pillar will be slimmed down in light of industry complaints.
  
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• US seize oil tanker off Venezuela

  11-12-2025 01:22 via smh.com.au
  
  The US attorney-general has released video of the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
  
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• US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela

  10-12-2025 22:03 via smh.com.au
  
  President Donald Trump says the US has taken over a “very large” oil tanker in the latest move to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
  
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