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• The dictator, the rebels – and the father of three who stumbled barefoot into freedom

  13-12-2025 19:30 via smh.com.au
  
  As Bashar al-Assad fled for Moscow, the doors of his notorious prison flew open. And one man, after six long years behind bars, made his way home, broken but alive.
  
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• Woody Allen is not sorry about his friendship with Epstein

  14-12-2025 09:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The nonagenarian director is taking a slightly different tack than many of the other powerful people associated with the disgraced former financier.
  
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• At least two killed in US university shooting

  14-12-2025 08:54 via smh.com.au
  
  At least two people have been killed and eight more injured in a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, US.
  
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• ‘I’m just in here shaking’: Hunt continues for gunman in US university mass shooting

  14-12-2025 03:50 via smh.com.au
  
  Police are hunting for a gunman who opened fire at Brown University in Rhode Island as students sat their final exams.
  
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• ‘I’m just in here shaking’: At least two killed, nine injured in US university shooting

  14-12-2025 03:50 via smh.com.au
  
  Police are hunting for a gunman who opened fire at Brown University in Rhode Island as students sat their final exams.
  
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• Unspeakable violence against girls and women meets global silence

  14-12-2025 03:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Australia has just introduced a world-leading sanctions regime against the Taliban, an important but insufficient step as the world turns away.
  
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• Nobel Peace Prize winner, key opposition figures freed in Belarusian deal with US

  14-12-2025 02:36 via smh.com.au
  
  The prisoner release was by far the biggest since Trump’s administration opened talks this year with veteran authoritarian leader and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko.
  
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• Israel says it killed senior Hamas commander in Gaza

  14-12-2025 02:27 via smh.com.au
  
  It is the highest-profile assassination of a senior Hamas figure since the Gaza ceasefire deal came into effect in October.
  
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• ‘I’m just in here shaking’: At least two killed, eight injured in US university shooting

  14-12-2025 00:44 via smh.com.au
  
  Police are hunting for a shooter who went on a rampage at Brown University in Rhode Island as students sat their final exams.
  
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• At least two killed, eight injured in US university shooting: mayor

  14-12-2025 00:44 via smh.com.au
  
  Brown University, an Ivy League school in Rhode Island, issued an active shooter alert and urged students and staff to take shelter.
  
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• UK police won’t probe claim former prince asked bodyguard to investigate Giuffre

  14-12-2025 00:12 via smh.com.au
  
  The family of Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre said they were “deeply disappointed” by the decision, adding that “justice has not been served”.
  
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• US police respond to reported shooting at Brown University

  13-12-2025 23:59 via smh.com.au
  
  US police have responded to a reported active shooting on campus at Brown University in Rhode Island, according to the school’s alert system.
  
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• Multiple gunshot victims reported in shooting at US’ Brown University

  13-12-2025 23:49 via smh.com.au
  
  Officials initially said a suspect was in custody, before saying that was not in fact the case.
  
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• Trump pledges retaliation after three Americans are killed in Syria ambush

  13-12-2025 22:37 via smh.com.au
  
  President Donald Trump said on Saturday “there will be very serious retaliation” after two US service members and one American civilian were killed by ISIS in Syria.
  
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• Trump vows to retaliate after three Americans killed in Syria attack

  13-12-2025 21:28 via smh.com.au
  
  US President Donald Trump has vowed to retaliate after two US servicemen and one American civilian were killed in Syria.
  
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• ‘Crossed the line’: The week Trump turned his back on Europe

  13-12-2025 19:30 via smh.com.au
  
  A US security plan takes aim at European governments for being weak, with a fixation on open borders, political correctness and censorship.
  
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• Philippines says three fishermen injured by Chinese water cannons in South China Sea

  13-12-2025 11:16 via smh.com.au
  
  Chinese coast guard ships used powerful water cannons and blocking manoeuvres against 20 Philippine fishing boats off a disputed South China Sea shoal, the Philippine coast guard said.
  
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• Classic Australian story gets a new life on New York stage

  13-12-2025 06:31 via smh.com.au
  
  It is a daunting task: reimagining one of Australia’s most loved and important books – not to mention the Peter Weir film adaptation – on the opposite side of the world.
  
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• Andrew attends palace christening of Princess Beatrice’s daughter

  13-12-2025 00:14 via smh.com.au
  
  It is the first time the former prince and his former wife, Sarah Ferguson, are known to have been invited into a palace since he lost his titles.
  
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• National Trust sues Trump to stop White House ballroom after East Wing razed

  12-12-2025 23:46 via smh.com.au
  
  The controversial ballroom project is among several sweeping changes the US president has made to the White House since he returned to office.
  
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• King Charles gives health update in push to boost cancer screening

  12-12-2025 21:48 via smh.com.au
  
  The 77-year-old said his treatment for cancer can be reduced in the new year as he discussed the disease in a televised address.
  
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• King Charles talks about his cancer journey

  12-12-2025 21:40 via smh.com.au
  
  The King says his cancer treatment will be scaled back thanks to early intervention.
  
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• Tiny island finds itself on front line as tensions mount between China and Japan

  12-12-2025 19:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Japan is racing to fortify some of its most vulnerable territory, but that is raising the stakes of the current spat between Tokyo and Beijing.
  
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• Japan builds up ‘missile archipelago’ near Taiwan to counter China

  12-12-2025 19:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Japan is installing missile batteries and radar towers on an island 110 kilometres east of Taiwan, as it nervously watches China’s ambitions in the Pacific.
  
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• Japan accelerates military build-up amid tensions with China

  12-12-2025 19:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Japan is racing to fortify some of its most vulnerable territory, but that is raising the stakes of the current spat between Tokyo and Beijing.
  
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• Bikie-linked security firm still guarding Nauru detainees

  12-12-2025 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Personnel at MA Services Group have repeatedly attempted to cover up its role in an ongoing operation involving a private security force sent to Nauru to guard exiled Australian immigration detainees.
  
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• The healthcare workers fighting a preventable cancer in Timor-Leste

  12-12-2025 18:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Healthcare workers led by a team of Australian doctors are working on the front lines to eliminate cervical cancer in the Indo-Pacific.
  
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• New photos from Epstein vault show Trump, Bannon, Gates and Woody Allen

  12-12-2025 18:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Some of the photos obtained from the Epstein estate depicted sex toys and aids, while one contained a “Trump condom” purportedly on sale for $4.50.
  
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• The true-crime mogul turned FBI’s most wanted who disappeared into thin air

  12-12-2025 09:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Mary Carole McDonnell spent years creating true-crime television series. Now she’s become entangled in a criminal drama of her own.
  
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• A deep dive into the time of Trumpian magical realism

  12-12-2025 09:30 via smh.com.au
  
  “What will fiction be like in the Trump era?” one writer wondered eight years ago. Now we have the answer: not as fanciful as reality.
  
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