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• Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband speaks out

  21-09-2026 22:02 via smh.com.au
  
  The former husband of Lindsay Clancy has spoken for the first time since a US judge declared a mistrial in her murder trial.
  
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• ‘Partners, not rivals’: Xi Jinping lands in Washington with Trump waiting on the tarmac

  24-09-2026 02:21 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president’s decision to meet his Chinese counterpart at Joint Base Andrews, rather than at the White House, shows how far he is going to honour Xi.
  
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• 'Send in the Clowns' plays as Marco Rubio enters ceremony

  24-09-2026 02:11 via smh.com.au
  
  Danish officials said they had no input onto the music after 'Send in the Clowns' played at a ceremony as Secretary of State Marco Rubio entered.
  
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• Close call for pilots and homes as RAF jet loses control and crashes

  24-09-2026 01:21 via smh.com.au
  
  Trainee pilots ejected from their Hawk T2 aircraft in the nick of time before the trainer jet crashed into a field in Wales and exploded.
  
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• Xi Jinping lands in Washington with Trump waiting on the tarmac

  24-09-2026 00:56 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president’s decision to meet his Chinese counterpart at Joint Base Andrews, rather than receiving him at the White House, shows how far he is going to honour Xi.
  
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• Earl Spencer accuses palace of 'gaslighting' response to his book

  23-09-2026 23:24 via smh.com.au
  
  In his first live TV interview about his new book, the brother of Princess Diana said Buckingham Palace had tried to cast doubt on his memory of a conversation with King Charles after her death.
  
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• FBI hacked: Cyber gang claims it has sensitive data of agents and operations

  23-09-2026 22:24 via smh.com.au
  
  Notorious hacker collective ShinyHunters is claiming that it has stolen details of assignments to specific field offices and, in some cases, to units engaged in high-stakes intelligence and counterespionage work.
  
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• Trump hosts Chinese leader

  23-09-2026 22:05 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump is hosting Xi Jinping in Washington for the Chinese leader's state visit.
  
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• RAF jet crashes in Wales

  23-09-2026 22:05 via smh.com.au
  
  Two pilots have incredibly managed to escape after an RAF jet dramatically crashed and burst into flames in Wales.
  
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• Mass shooting in South Africa leaves 11 dead

  23-09-2026 22:04 via smh.com.au
  
  At least 11 people have been killed in a mass shooting near the South African city of Durban.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years

  23-09-2026 21:59 via smh.com.au
  
  Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison over a sexual offence.
  
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• Iranian president vows not to surrender in defiant, historic UN speech

  23-09-2026 19:30 via smh.com.au
  
  It marked the first time in the United Nations’ 81-year history that a foreign leader at war with the United States addressed the body at its New York headquarters.
  
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• ‘Gaslighting’: Diana’s brother hits back at palace over his claim about the King

  23-09-2026 18:51 via smh.com.au
  
  In his first live TV interview about his new book, Earl Spencer insisted he did not set out to write a “hit piece” on Charles and said the palace had tried to cast doubt on his memory.
  
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• Xi to get the rock star treatment as Trump prepares a spectacle

  23-09-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  US President Donald Trump is about to roll out the red carpet for China’s president, with the latest meeting between them likely to focus more on pageantry than striking major deals.
  
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• Xi Jinping to get the rock star treatment as Trump prepares a spectacle

  23-09-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  US President Donald Trump is about to roll out the red carpet for China’s president, with the latest meeting between them likely to focus more on pageantry than striking major deals.
  
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• ‘Fake news’ v faker-in-chief: Why Trump’s media war is backfiring

  23-09-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president speaks relentlessly with a forked tongue – and that has provoked the media’s increasingly probing coverage.
  
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• Earl Spencer’s apology isn’t enough, says Piers Morgan

  23-09-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The British broadcaster says he will pursue legal action against the earl and his publisher over a factual error in a new book about Princess Diana.
  
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• Albanese defends Australia’s social media crackdown from Trump admin’s ‘censorship’ blast

  23-09-2026 00:59 via smh.com.au
  
  In a formal response issued by the US embassy in Canberra, the Trump administration said Australia’s proposed policy would likely lead to censorship of legitimate speech.
  
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• Six-year-old sets new Rubik’s Cube world record

  23-09-2026 00:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Lian Yunzhi, from China, learnt more than 1300 cube algorithms, spending between two and three hours practising on the cube per day in the past year.
  
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• Trump says he has ‘big decision’ to make about Iran

  23-09-2026 00:06 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president told world leaders he was weighing up whether to “annihilate” Iran to end the war.
  
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• Trump reissues threat to 'annihilate' Iran in UN address

  22-09-2026 22:12 via smh.com.au
  
  US President Donald Trump has addressed the United Nations General Assembly, threatening again to "annihilate" Iran.
  
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• Israel may soon learn occupation and devastation are no guarantee of security

  22-09-2026 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Militaries are rarely good occupiers. Time and demographics usually wear down the occupying power, and the reasons why occupation initially made sense rarely apply at the end.
  
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• At UN, Trump threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran but predicts deal after midterms

  22-09-2026 18:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president also rejected what he called a “globalist scheme” to regulate AI – which Australia has joined – and said the US will officially change the name to “super intelligence”.
  
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• US raises ‘serious concerns’ about Australia’s digital duty of care regime

  22-09-2026 15:22 via smh.com.au
  
  In a formal response issued by the US embassy in Canberra, the Trump administration said Australia’s proposed policy would likely lead to censorship of legitimate speech.
  
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• ‘Facilitating censorship’: US slams Albanese’s algorithm reforms

  22-09-2026 15:22 via smh.com.au
  
  In a formal response issued by the US embassy in Canberra, the Trump administration said Australia’s proposed policy would likely lead to censorship of legitimate speech.
  
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• The unlikeliest relationship in US politics just got sweeter

  22-09-2026 06:59 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump and NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani represent opposite ends of the political spectrum, but they have found ways to identify common ground.
  
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• The pretence of Trump running the most transparent White House ever is over

  22-09-2026 03:51 via smh.com.au
  
  TV-loving Trump returned to office pledging to give the media access like never before. In reality, that meant fewer serious journalists and coverage veering towards something from Pyongyang.
  
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• Mamdani willing to put aside differences with Trump

  22-09-2026 03:46 via smh.com.au
  
  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has told CNN he is willing to put aside his political differences with President Donald Trump if it gives him a chance to advocate for New York residents.
  
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• Prince Harry in talks to make Diana documentary

  22-09-2026 03:35 via smh.com.au
  
  The Duke of Sussex is understood to want to mark the 30th anniversary of his mother’s death next year “in the most meaningful way”.
  
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• Trump launches ‘Trump TV’ propaganda channel after networks boycott him

  22-09-2026 02:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Fox News, NBC, ABC and CBS withdrew from pool duty in protest of the ban, putting a cloud over coverage of the US president’s trip to the United Nations and meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
  
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