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• Clumsy video causes trouble for UK PM on his second day

  22-07-2026 11:59 via smh.com.au
  
  Senior cabinet ministers have been embarrassed after being caught on video trading jokes about the early release of prisoners, casting a cloud over Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first days in office.
  
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• Men survive days at sea stranded on ice cooler

  20-08-2026 22:05 via smh.com.au
  
  The Mexican navy has rescued two fishermen who spent five days at sea on an ice cooler.
  
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• Iran responds over Trump's threat to crush its economy

  20-08-2026 22:05 via smh.com.au
  
  Iran says Trump's new economic threat is just a diversion from US politics.
  
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• Migrant boat reaches Spanish tourist beach

  20-08-2026 22:01 via smh.com.au
  
  A boat filled with 60 migrants has reached a packed Spanish tourist beach.
  
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• Pete Hegseth’s wife and her ‘bonkers’ hands-on role in the Pentagon

  20-08-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  After an 18-year career at Fox News, Jennifer Hegseth is now her husband’s most influential adviser and de facto producer, shaping the job like no defence spouse has before.
  
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• Harry and Meghan’s security arrangements a ‘private matter’, UK PM says

  20-08-2026 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Prince Harry is waiting on an official review before learning whether he and his family will gain government support to protect their personal safety on their return to the UK.
  
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• Harry and Meghan are returning to the UK. Who will keep them safe?

  20-08-2026 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Prince Harry is waiting on an official review before learning whether he and his family will gain government support to protect their personal safety on their return to the UK.
  
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• A photo op or nuclear talks? What Trump wants from a meeting with North Korea’s dictator

  20-08-2026 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump is pushing for a meeting with Kim Jong-un, but the stakes shift dramatically depending on what he’s hoping to achieve.
  
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• Prince Harry and Meghan moving back to UK

  20-08-2026 09:11 via smh.com.au
  
  Prince Harry and Meghan are moving back to the UK, with the couple's children, Archie and Lilibet expected to start at a British school.
  
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• ‘Zomi deserved more’: Family, PM blast Israel ‘no-fault’ finding on aid worker’s death

  20-08-2026 09:01 via smh.com.au
  
  Foreign Minister Penny Wong also declared she had no confidence in the Israeli investigation, but rejected calls to expel the nation’s top diplomat.
  
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• Myanmar: The frontline war no one is talking about

  20-08-2026 08:32 via smh.com.au
  
  In the jungles of Karen state, a bloody revolution against Myanmar's military dictatorship is being waged from the trenches.
  
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• Harry wants to go home. Can he return to the royal fold?

  20-08-2026 07:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The prince has long harboured desire to return to the UK, but security issues, commercial deals and lingering family battles have proven stumbling blocks.
  
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• Trump announces ‘economic D-Day’ of Iran sanctions, moving war to new phase

  20-08-2026 05:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The move reflects a reality that was already clear to many observers: that the “hot” conflict with Iran is being replaced by a “cold” economic war.
  
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• Israeli ambassador breaks silence as IDF review clears soldiers over Zomi Frankcom death

  20-08-2026 03:49 via smh.com.au
  
  Israel’s ambassador to Australia has defended the IDF’s finding that there was “no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct” in the deaths of Zomi Frankcom and six other aid workers.
  
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• ‘An outrage’: Albanese blasts Israel ‘no-fault’ finding on Zomi Frankcom killing

  20-08-2026 03:49 via smh.com.au
  
  Foreign Minister Penny Wong also declared she had no confidence in the Israeli investigation, but rejected calls to expel the nation’s top diplomat.
  
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• For Harry and Meghan, going home might just reopen old family wounds

  20-08-2026 03:42 via smh.com.au
  
  Prince Harry has been talking about mending fences with his royal relatives for a while, but he may find that absence has not made hearts grow fonder.
  
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• Prince Harry ‘would love reconciliation’ with family

  20-08-2026 00:20 via smh.com.au
  
  Harry and Meghan’s move back to the UK comes a year after he told the BBC there was ‘no point fighting anymore’.
  
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• Harry, Meghan and children to move back to UK

  20-08-2026 00:17 via smh.com.au
  
  After six years in the US, the prince is expected to move to a private residence outside London with Meghan and their two children, Archie and Lilibet, as soon as next month.
  
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• Harry and Meghan to move back to UK

  19-08-2026 23:29 via smh.com.au
  
  The prince is expected to move to a home outside London with his wife and their two children, Archie and Lilibet, as soon as next month.
  
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• Wong outraged as Israel clears soldiers over strike that killed Australian Zomi Frankcom

  19-08-2026 23:06 via smh.com.au
  
  Israel’s ambassador to Australia will be hauled in to explain why the IDF believes there was “no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct”.
  
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• ‘Landmark’: New mRNA vaccine could prevent skin cancer from returning, companies say

  19-08-2026 22:55 via smh.com.au
  
  Moderna and Merck said the personalised vaccine reduced the risk of recurrence and spread of melanoma in a late-stage trial, a major success in a new field of cancer treatment.
  
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• Yes, Woke 1.0 was crazy. Everyone involved should apologise

  19-08-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Wokeness was a system of enforced ideological conformity, policed by social bullying and institutional coercion (or cravenness), which damaged and sometimes even ended reputations. Thank god it’s over.
  
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• No criminal probe over Israeli strike that killed Australian Zomi Frankcom

  19-08-2026 16:43 via smh.com.au
  
  The IDF said there was “no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct that would justify the opening of a criminal investigation”.
  
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• World in pictures, August 19, 2026

  19-08-2026 11:23 via smh.com.au
  
  The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors.
  
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• Pivot from Asia? What Trump’s South Korea ‘shock’ says about US strategy

  19-08-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  There are many factors at play in the president’s decision to scale back military exercises with a key ally. But with Trump, it always pays to follow the money.
  
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• Ukraine’s drone mastermind upended the Russia war. Now he’s taking on Kyiv

  19-08-2026 03:42 via smh.com.au
  
  Mykhailo Fedorov, who oversaw Ukraine’s pioneering military strategy, has launched the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelensky since Russia’s invasion.
  
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• Ukraine’s ousted defence minister calls for wartime elections

  19-08-2026 02:49 via smh.com.au
  
  Mykhailo Fedorov, who oversaw Ukraine’s pioneering drone strategy, says democracy “cannot be held hostage by Russia” in the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelensky since the war broke out.
  
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• ‘Meta needed kids’: Tech giant on trial in trillion-dollar lawsuit over social media addiction

  19-08-2026 00:29 via smh.com.au
  
  Meta rejected accusations by US states that it intentionally sought to addict children platforms in pursuit of profit, at the start of a trial that could reshape some of the most popular apps on the planet.
  
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• Princess Diana’s brother writes new book about her, vowing to correct ‘untruths’

  18-08-2026 21:57 via smh.com.au
  
  Earl Spencer described the memoir – titled Swan Song: Diana, My Sister –as a continuation of the famous eulogy he delivered at her funeral nearly 30 years ago.
  
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• The PM’s transactional strategy trumps the president

  18-08-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  As Trump has exercised his America First agenda across the globe, he has alienated the leaders of America’s strongest allies. Most have hit back directly at Trump. Not Anthony Albanese.
  
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