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• Narendra Modi is the world’s most popular leader. Beware.

  19-03-2023 20:04 via smh.com.au
  
  While Modi polls extremely well, many worldly Indians are aghast that he has made India less secular and tolerant, creating a Hindu nationalism that marginalises religious minorities.
  
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• ‘Death and destruction’: Trump intensifies his attack on criminal investigators

  25-03-2023 00:02 via smh.com.au
  
  As tensions in the US intensify, the attorney overseeing the investigation into the former president has also received a death threat.
  
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• North Koreans speak of awful prison conditions

  24-03-2023 23:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Survivors of North Korean prisoners have spoken of the awful conditions they endured.
  
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• UN decries killing of Ukrainian, Russian POWs, as strikes kill 10 civilians

  24-03-2023 20:31 via smh.com.au
  
  The UN agency laid out abuses allegedly committed by both sides but noted Russia’s invasion was at the root of the violence against civilians and POWs.
  
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• Real-life hero who inspired Hotel Rwanda released from prison

  24-03-2023 19:26 via smh.com.au
  
  Rwanda says it will release Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a film about the 1994 genocide.
  
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• Murders in the Philippines

  24-03-2023 19:05 via smh.com.au
  
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• ‘Do you know the guillotine?‘: King Charles’ visit to France cancelled amid threats, protests

  24-03-2023 19:02 via smh.com.au
  
  The King’s first state visit has been postponed as protests against pensions reform continue to rage across France.
  
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• King Charles’ historic visit to France cancelled amid violent protests

  24-03-2023 12:14 via smh.com.au
  
  The King’s first state visit has been postponed as protests against pensions reform continue across France.
  
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• TikTok CEO fronts US hearing

  24-03-2023 08:43 via smh.com.au
  
  TikTok's CEO has fronted a hearing in the US and was grilled over the app’s links with the Chinese government.
  
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• World Athletics bans transgender women

  24-03-2023 08:33 via smh.com.au
  
  World Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in elite female track and field events.
  
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• Beware of dangerous disinformation. Taiwan is not part of China

  24-03-2023 06:05 via smh.com.au
  
  China wants to make its control of Taiwan a fait accompli by convincing the world to accept its view that the island is rightfully a province of the PRC.
  
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• ‘No orbit’: 3D-printed reusable rocket debut ends in failure

  24-03-2023 05:29 via smh.com.au
  
  The start-up wanted to put the Terran into a 200-kilometre-high orbit for several days before having it plunge through the atmosphere.
  
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• US strikes Iran-aligned base in Syria in retaliation for drone attack

  24-03-2023 04:43 via smh.com.au
  
  US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said he authorised the “precision airstrikes” at the direction of President Joe Biden.
  
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• Political assassination in the Philippines

  24-03-2023 04:14 via smh.com.au
  
  CCTV of the moments before a shooting of a governor in the Philippines.
  
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• Russia signals it will take more Ukrainian children

  24-03-2023 03:27 via smh.com.au
  
  Staff at Kherson Regional Hospital “put lung ventilation devices near all the children” when Russian soldiers arrived, said a doctor, saving 14 babies from being taken.
  
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• ‘Unlawful incursion’: Manhattan DA fires back as Trump probe goes quiet

  24-03-2023 02:29 via smh.com.au
  
  Americans continue to wait on a decision by the grand jury to examine whether Trump committed any crimes relating to a payment made to a porn star before the 2016 election.
  
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• ‘They are afraid’: A country accustomed to violence has been rocked by a brazen murder

  24-03-2023 02:17 via smh.com.au
  
  The killing of provincial governor Roel Degamo inside his own compound has shocked the Philippines, a country well accustomed to political violence
  
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• Zebra roams through Seoul streets after escaping zoo

  24-03-2023 00:22 via smh.com.au
  
  A Zebra was caught on camera wandering through Seoul, South Korea after it escaped from Seoul Children's Grand Park Zoo on Thursday.
  
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• Zebra runs through South Korean streets following zoo escape

  24-03-2023 00:08 via smh.com.au
  
  Shocked residents filmed the moment a zebra wandered onto the streets of Seoul.
  
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• How Darryn Lyons’ dog cost him $2 million in the UK courts

  23-03-2023 23:54 via smh.com.au
  
  The 57-year-old had claimed he was not a resident in the UK during a tax period. His dog’s whereabouts told a different story.
  
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• How Darren Lyons’ dog cost him $2 million in the UK courts

  23-03-2023 23:54 via smh.com.au
  
  The 57-year-old had claimed he was not a resident in the UK during a tax period. His dog’s whereabouts told a different story.
  
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• Darryn Lyons loses $2 million tax appeal after dog’s whereabouts proved UK residence

  23-03-2023 23:54 via smh.com.au
  
  The ex-paparazzo and reality TV star, who came to prominence as founder of the world’s largest celebrity photo agency Big Photos, was also one-time mayor of Geelong.
  
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• Not quite ‘spying’: TikTok CEO faces bipartisan fury in Washington

  23-03-2023 22:11 via smh.com.au
  
  CEO Shou Zi Chew faced questions from legislators who are convinced the app should be barred for being a “tool” of the Chinese Communist Party.
  
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• ‘We are shocked’: Russian suspect escapes from Italian house arrest, police say

  23-03-2023 21:48 via smh.com.au
  
  Artem Uss is due to face charges in America for breaking sanctions in Venezuela and bank fraud, but the US also accuses him of smuggling military technology to Russia.
  
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• Trump arrested? Putin jailed? Fake AI images flood the internet, increasing ‘cynicism level’

  23-03-2023 20:32 via smh.com.au
  
  Experts warn the images are harbingers of a new reality: waves of fake photos and videos flooding social media after major news events and further muddying fact and fiction.
  
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• US politicians grill TikTok chief executive about controversial app

  23-03-2023 20:08 via smh.com.au
  
  TIkTok CEO faces grilling by US legislators worried about security of app.
  
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• ‘Unlawful incursion’: Manhattan district attorney fires back as Trump hush money probe goes quiet

  23-03-2023 19:55 via smh.com.au
  
  Americans continue to wait on a decision by the grand jury to examine whether Trump committed any crimes relating to a payment made to porn star ahead of the 2016 election.
  
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• Hundreds of protests across France against pension changes

  23-03-2023 19:49 via smh.com.au
  
  More than 250 demonstrations across France against pension reforms.
  
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• UK central bank lifts interest rates to 4.25% despite banking turmoil

  23-03-2023 19:16 via smh.com.au
  
  Policymakers said they were expecting the pace of price rises to slow “significantly” in the coming months despite February’s surprise increase in inflation.
  
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• TikTok CEO grilled by US legislators who label app a ‘tool’ of CCP

  23-03-2023 18:37 via smh.com.au
  
  CEO Shou Zi Chew faced questions from legislators who are convinced the app should be barred for being a “tool” of the Chinese Communist Party.
  
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