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• Nine dead after mass shooting in Pennsylvania

  10-10-2026 20:15 via smh.com.au
  
  Two children were among the eight people killed at a residential home in the city of Erie. The shooter was also killed.
  
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• Ukrainian energy sites hit after Trump ceasefire

  12-10-2026 21:29 via smh.com.au
  
  Russia has struck energy sites in Ukraine hours after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire.
  
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• Burnham triggers talk of a Brexit reversal after accusing Russia of meddling in vote

  12-10-2026 21:19 via smh.com.au
  
  The new claim about the fraught 2016 referendum has set off an almighty row in Britain, where merely talking about whether leaving the EU was a good idea or not can send some into conniptions.
  
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• Federal agents raid home of Democratic congresswoman targeted by Trump

  12-10-2026 20:32 via smh.com.au
  
  The search warrant, executed just three weeks before the midterm elections, is part of an ongoing criminal investigation into Ilhan Omar over allegations of immigration fraud.
  
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• When Trump gets a thrashing at the midterms, four words will come back to haunt him

  12-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president thinks he is impressing the world with his immense power. In truth, he is demonstrating the impotence of power.
  
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• Australian man accused of Thai teen’s murder pleads guilty to one charge

  12-10-2026 12:18 via smh.com.au
  
  Simon Peter Carman, who is accused of a Thai teenager’s murder, has pleaded guilty to one charge in court.
  
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• ‘I want to punch him’: Family of Thai teen face to face with Australian murder accused

  12-10-2026 10:54 via smh.com.au
  
  The father of Thanchanok Donhomla sat just metres away from Simon Peter Carman, who pleaded guilty on Monday to concealing the teenager’s body.
  
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• They’ve been flipped, kicked and even hit by trains, all in the name of delivering food

  12-10-2026 10:30 via smh.com.au
  
  In American cities, legions of robots carting takeaway food orders are testing whether humans and robots can co-exist. Early signs are not promising.
  
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• Australian father freed from Iraq five years after ‘arbitrary detention’

  12-10-2026 09:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Australian engineer Robert Pether has left Iraq after more than five years in detention following a protracted campaign to secure his release.
  
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• ‘I am not saying I am a good spy’: How a wartime spook got sprung by a simple mistake

  12-10-2026 07:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Spies still play an important role even as the war becomes defined by robotic eyes in the sky. Both sides have more weapons than ever. Old-fashioned human spying helps them find targets.
  
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• First a cage fight, now a livestreamed execution. America’s depravity knows no bounds

  12-10-2026 02:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Implicit in Trump saying he doesn’t care how Hasan goes is that execution voyeurism is OK.
  
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• First a cage fight, now a live-streamed execution. America’s depravity knows no bounds

  12-10-2026 02:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Implicit in Trump saying he doesn’t care how Hasan goes is that execution voyeurism is OK.
  
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• The president of pretence: Why Trump’s latest ceasefire ‘trick’ failed its first test

  12-10-2026 02:06 via smh.com.au
  
  With petrol prices biting ahead of the midterm elections, the US president made a shock claim that both Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt strikes on energy targets. As usual, it’s another trick that’s unlikely to work.
  
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• Death toll rises from Saudi airport attack

  11-10-2026 21:49 via smh.com.au
  
  The death toll from the Houthi strike on Riyadh airport has risen to 13, says Saudi officials.
  
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• McLarens, Mar-a-Lago and machine guns: Introducing Gina Rinehart’s controversial new frontier point man

  11-10-2026 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Carlos de Miguel III is a well-connected former US navy seal with a penchant for fast cars and big guns.
  
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• Ukraine backs energy ceasefire after Trump declares surprise deal is done

  11-10-2026 18:36 via smh.com.au
  
  Trump’s brief social media post said only that the ceasefire took effect immediately and that both sides had agreed to it. “Do not break it!” he wrote.
  
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• Ukraine backs ceasefire after Trump declares surprise deal is done

  11-10-2026 18:36 via smh.com.au
  
  Trump’s brief social media post said only that the ceasefire took effect immediately and that both sides had agreed to it. “Do not break it!” he wrote.
  
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• ‘Do not break it’: Ukraine backs ‘energy ceasefire’ after Trump declares surprise deal is done

  11-10-2026 18:36 via smh.com.au
  
  Trump’s brief social media post said only that the ceasefire took effect immediately and claimed that both Ukraine and Russia had agreed to it.
  
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• ‘Do not break it’: Ukraine backs energy ceasefire after Trump declares surprise deal is done

  11-10-2026 18:36 via smh.com.au
  
  Trump’s brief social media post said only that the ceasefire took effect immediately and claimed that both Ukraine and Russia had agreed to it.
  
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• Pope Leo to undergo surgery for small growth on lung

  11-10-2026 14:01 via smh.com.au
  
  The 71-year-old pontiff will undergo surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung.
  
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• Pope Leo to undergo surgery for small growth in lung

  11-10-2026 14:01 via smh.com.au
  
  The 71-year-old pontiff will undergo surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung.
  
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• A dozen killed in Saudi Arabian airport attack

  11-10-2026 10:46 via smh.com.au
  
  An attack on the international airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital has left at least 12 people dead and more than 300 people injured.
  
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• Blocked by police, India’s youth voice their fury

  11-10-2026 10:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Protesters against disenfranchisement are outraged after being intercepted at airports and stopped by barricades. “Aren’t we children of this nation?”
  
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• Amelia Earhart expedition heads to Pacific atoll hoping to find her plane

  11-10-2026 10:30 via smh.com.au
  
  “Finding Amelia Earhart’s Electra aircraft would be the discovery of a lifetime,” says the expedition leader who is hoping to solve one of the century’s great mysteries.
  
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• How a rebel force held the world to ransom in a single night of chaos and panic

  11-10-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  In a matter of hours, an Iran-allied militia trounced Saudi-backed forces to take control of Yemen’s Red Sea coast. No one was able – or willing – to stop them.
  
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• ‘I should have won 8’: Trump fumes over latest Nobel snub

  11-10-2026 05:14 via smh.com.au
  
  In a nearly 600-word late-night tirade, Donald Trump disparaged this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and warned the award had been “forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues”.
  
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• UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch hits back hard at Reform: Angus Taylor take note

  11-10-2026 04:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The new Conservative leader is very popular and knows how to fight.
  
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• The socialite, her ‘jobless’ ex and his accused ‘mastermind’ father: Inside the murder that shocked Hong Kong

  11-10-2026 04:30 via smh.com.au
  
  It’s a major global financial hub where violent crime is rare. But the nature of this one is so gruesome, a juror asked to be excused.
  
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• Once again, Trump is angry he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize

  11-10-2026 04:30 via smh.com.au
  
  President Donald Trump has fumed at the Norwegian committee that awards the prize, disparaging the winner and saying he “should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes”.
  
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• India detains thousands, locks down Delhi to foil election chief protest

  11-10-2026 00:48 via smh.com.au
  
  Thousands of police and paramilitary personnel were deployed across the city, mobile internet services were suspended in the central business district and dozens of metro stations and markets were shut.
  
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