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• Deadly fire engulfs Philippines ferry

  30-03-2023 21:18 via smh.com.au
  
  Fire on Philippines ferry kills at least 31 people.
  
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• West Wing actor accused of child sex abuse on set

  10-01-2026 05:30 via smh.com.au
  
  A criminal complaint says a child reported that Timothy Busfield touched him inappropriately on the set of a TV show directed and acted in.
  
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• Trump says he’d accept Nobel Prize from winner Machado. It doesn’t work like that

  10-01-2026 01:27 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president said he’d heard that the Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, wanted to give him the prize and that it would be “a great honour”.
  
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• Trump says he’d accept Nobel Prize from winner. It doesn’t work like that

  10-01-2026 01:27 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president said he’d heard that the Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, wanted to give him the prize and that it would be “a great honour”.
  
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• ICE agent’s video shows moments before fatal Minneapolis shooting

  09-01-2026 23:48 via smh.com.au
  
  Mobile-phone footage captured the moments leading up to the shooting of driver Renee Nicole Good and the immediate aftermath.
  
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• ICE agent who shot Minnesota woman's video released

  09-01-2026 23:23 via smh.com.au
  
  The mobile phone footage taken by the ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman Renee Good has been released.
  
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• From Traralgon to Covent Garden: How Victoria’s ‘Billy Elliot’ became a Royal Ballet star

  09-01-2026 19:31 via smh.com.au
  
  Now a principal with one of the world’s most prestigious ballet companies, Calvin Richardson has some advice for young dancers on how to stay true to themselves.
  
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• Iranian authorities struggle to contain growing demonstrations

  09-01-2026 19:18 via smh.com.au
  
  Iran’s supreme leader derided demonstrators as “vandals” and mocked President Donald Trump’s promise to intervene if protesters were killed.
  
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• ‘Tool of repression’: Iran is cut off from the internet as protests intensify

  09-01-2026 05:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The government has previously enforced internet blackouts during moments of crisis.
  
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• NASA to bring astronaut home in first-ever space medical evacuation

  09-01-2026 05:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The astronaut will return with the three other members of their mission, called Crew-11, which launched to the International Space Station in August.
  
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• National outcry after second shooting by US agents in two days

  09-01-2026 05:19 via smh.com.au
  
  Anger over the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis was compounded when border patrol agents shot a man and a woman in Portland, Oregon.
  
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• US border agents shoot two people in Portland

  09-01-2026 02:14 via smh.com.au
  
  The Department of Homeland Security said border patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop when the driver “weaponised his vehicle” – just a day after a driver was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
  
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• Arctic storm grips Britain and Europe

  09-01-2026 01:55 via smh.com.au
  
  Arctic weather and plunging temperatures trigger public safety alerts and disrupt transport in the UK.
  
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• The new world disorder where might is right

  09-01-2026 01:50 via smh.com.au
  
  The future is an unhappy picture of great power competition and serious risk for Australia.
  
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• When it comes to violence against protesters, this administration has a track record of lies

  09-01-2026 01:45 via smh.com.au
  
  It is difficult to take ICE’s claims about Minneapolis seriously when it has already been called out for gross misrepresentations about its encounters with demonstrators.
  
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• A Presley tale, O.J. and the apocalypse: ’90s harbingers of Trump’s America

  09-01-2026 01:31 via smh.com.au
  
  From being evicted at Graceland to a driverless ride into the future, a return to LA reveals the fault lines of a changing America.
  
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• US federal agents shoot two people in Portland

  09-01-2026 01:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The FBI said in a since-deleted statement that it was investigating a shooting involving US Customs and Border Patrol agents, just a day after a woman was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
  
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• How the day unfolded after ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good

  09-01-2026 00:19 via smh.com.au
  
  The shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis sparked outrage from local politicians and protests in major US cities, while US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the woman “weaponised her vehicle”.
  
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• Vance says ICE shooter may have been ‘sensitive’, lashes media over coverage

  08-01-2026 22:18 via smh.com.au
  
  Minnesota state police say they have been cut out of the investigation into Renee Nicole Good’s death, which will now be carried out solely by the FBI – a federal agency under the Trump administration’s direction.
  
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• Vance says ICE shooter may have been ‘sensitive’, blasts media over coverage

  08-01-2026 22:18 via smh.com.au
  
  Minnesota state police say they have been cut out of the investigation into Renee Nicole Good’s death, which will now be carried out solely by the FBI – a federal agency under the Trump administration’s direction.
  
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• Vance says ICE shooter may have been ‘sensitive’, shames media over coverage

  08-01-2026 21:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Minnesota state police, meanwhile, say they have been cut out of the investigation into Renee Nicole Good’s death, which will now be carried out solely by the FBI – a federal agency under the Trump administration’s direction.
  
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• Trump says US oversight of Venezuela could last years

  08-01-2026 21:22 via smh.com.au
  
  But the US president appears to have backed down on a threat of military action against Colombia. Meanwhile, the Senate has delivered a rare pushback against him.
  
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• ICE agent shoots driver in Minneapolis

  08-01-2026 09:44 via smh.com.au
  
  A bystander has filmed an ICE agent shooting a driver in the US city of Minneapolis.
  
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• ‘That’s on you’: This US mayor has a blunt message for Trump and his ICE agents

  08-01-2026 05:45 via smh.com.au
  
  It is not the first time 44-year-old Jacob Frey has clashed with the Trump administration over its immigration crackdown.
  
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• Two wildly varied reports of the same incident reflect the two Americas of our time

  08-01-2026 04:33 via smh.com.au
  
  A woman was shot dead, but in the US, it’s imperative to play the politics as hard as possible.
  
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• The record cocaine haul and a panicked ‘insider’: US outlines case against Maduro

  08-01-2026 02:03 via smh.com.au
  
  For customs agents at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, what they found inside 30 suitcases was like nothing they had ever seen.
  
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• Mayor tells ICE to get out of Minneapolis after fatal shooting

  07-01-2026 22:22 via smh.com.au
  
  Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has addressed the fatal shooting of a woman by federal agents.
  
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• Mayor tells ICE ‘Get the f*** out of Minneapolis' after fatal shooting

  07-01-2026 22:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has addressed the fatal shooting of a woman by federal agents, telling ICE to ‘Get the f*** out of Minneapolis'.
  
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• ICE agent shoots woman dead in Minneapolis

  07-01-2026 21:15 via smh.com.au
  
  Footage posted on social media shows masked ICE agents approaching a car, before firing at the driver as they attempt to drive away.
  
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• ICE officer shoots woman dead in dramatic escalation of Trump crackdown

  07-01-2026 20:57 via smh.com.au
  
  Federal officials claim the shooting in Minneapolis was an act of self-defence. The mayor says he’s seen the footage and disagrees with that account.
  
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