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• Trump, in a new interview, says he doesn't know if he backs due process rights (copy)

  05-05-2025 05:05 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights, saying in a new interview that he doesn't know whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens deserve that guarantee. ......
  
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• ‘The standard of hurling is unbelievable’ – The American rugby international cheering on St Martin’s from the

  18-12-2025 06:35 via article.wn.com
  When American international rugby player Dylan...
  
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• ‘People who give me stick about my hair are normally bald’ – James Lowe happy to be the ‘bad guy

  18-12-2025 06:35 via article.wn.com
  James Lowe doesn’t mind being called a pantomime villain. Just don’t call him from a UK number....
  
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• ‘Getting to pick his brain was unbelievable’ – Munster’s Ruadhán Quinn making most of back-row lessons from Se

  18-12-2025 06:35 via article.wn.com
  When he was growing up watching rugby on TV, Ruadhán Quinn modelled his game on Seán O’Brien....
  
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• Trump Defends Handling of Economy, Announces Military Dividend

  18-12-2025 06:33 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON—President Trump on Wednesday defended his handling of the economy during a rare prime time speech and announced a $1,776 “warrior dividend” check for active duty servicemembers that he said would be paid for with tariff revenue. PREMIUM President Trump speaking from the White House on Wednesday evening. “Military servicemembers will receive a...
  
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• The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It.

  18-12-2025 06:33 via article.wn.com
  When President Trump ran for re-election in 2024, he and his family already had vast business interests stretching from Manhattan office towers to a golf course in Ireland to hotel deals as far away as Vietnam. PREMIUM Graphics. The president’s second term has brought a major expansion of that empire, with forays into cryptocurrency, communications and financial products. Ventures launched since Trump’s re-election generated at least $4 billion in...
  
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• Melania Trump’s film trailer out, movie on US first lady set for January 2026 global release

  18-12-2025 06:33 via article.wn.com
  A new film centered on Melania Trump, offering what its producers describe as a tightly focused look at the days leading up to a US presidential inauguration, is heading to theatres early next year. Melania Trump's film is out on January 30, 2026.(YouTube/Amazon MGM Studios) Titled “MELANIA,” the 104-minute film is scheduled for a global theatrical release on January 30, 2026, and will open across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Israel. A related docum
  
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• Islamic State’s Caliphate Is Gone. Its Influence Lives On.

  18-12-2025 06:33 via article.wn.com
  More than six years after Islamic State’s caliphate collapsed in the Middle East, the group’s brand of extreme violence lives on, inspiring lone-wolf attacks such as the one on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. PREMIUM A memorial for those killed in a shooting on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The group, which once imposed harsh Islamist rule in parts of the Levant and relied on fighters it trained there, now recruits and radicalizes operatives it finds online, many of whom have seized on the
  
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• Elon Musk says ‘no need to save money’, claims there will be no poverty in future

  18-12-2025 06:33 via article.wn.com
  Elon Musk has reacted to billionaire investor Ray Dalio backing Trump Accounts, a new proposal involving investment accounts for children. Although the world’s richest man appreciated the gesture, he claimed there was no need for such a step, suggesting that poverty would be eradicated and everyone would have a “universal high income.” Elon Musk claimed that in future there will be no poverty. (AP) What did Ray...
  
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• U.S. government admits liability in fatal helicopter-plane collision in January

  18-12-2025 06:31 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Justice Department admitted on Wednesday that the U.S. federal government was liable in the fatal collision between an army helicopter and...
  
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• Urgent: S. Korea's constitutional court upholds impeachment of police chief for martial law involvement

  18-12-2025 06:31 via article.wn.com
  SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's constitutional...
  
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• Trump touts economic achievements in national address despite weak data, polls

  18-12-2025 06:31 via article.wn.com
  WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- In a prime-time national address Wednesday night, U.S. President Donald Trump highlighted the economic achievements of the first year of his second term even as economic data and polls painted a less rosy picture. In the roughly 20-minute speech, Trump lashed out at the previous administration's policies and claimed that his leadership has restored U.S. strength and revitalized the economy. "We are bringing our economy back from the brink of ruin," Trump said, cla
  
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• Philippines Australia Shooting

  18-12-2025 06:31 via article.wn.com
  A police vehicle passes by a budget hotel in downtown Davao City, southern Philippines on Wednesday Dec. 17, 2025, as they assist investigations on where Bondi beach suspects reportedly stayed while in the country in November. ......
  
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• Mourners grieve 10-year-old slain in Bondi mass shooting as Australia's leader pledges new hate laws

  18-12-2025 06:31 via article.wn.com
  Hundreds of mourners have gathered in Sydney for the funeral of a 10-year-old girl killed in an...
  
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• M23 rebels withdraw from strategic city in eastern DR Congo

  18-12-2025 06:31 via article.wn.com
  UVIRA, DR Congo, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Fighters from the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group on Wednesday began withdrawing from their positions in Uvira, a strategic city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a Xinhua reporter observed on the ground. The M23...
  
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• Japan faces lawsuit over

  18-12-2025 06:31 via article.wn.com
  Hundreds of people across Japan will sue the central government Thursday seeking damages for \\...
  
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• Flash: S. Korea's constitutional court upholds national police agency chief's impeachment

  18-12-2025 06:31 via article.wn.com
  Flash: S. Korea's constitutional...
  
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• EU leaders gather to discuss a massive loan to Ukraine

  18-12-2025 06:31 via article.wn.com
  European Union leaders are gathering for a summit aimed at agreeing on a massive loan to...
  
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• Australians Spent Most of Their Free Time in Front of the TV in 2024

  18-12-2025 06:31 via article.wn.com
  While the popular image of the average Australian is of someone surfing, camping in the bush, or maybe even...
  
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• 6 men charged after Australian police intercept 46 kg cocaine shipment

  18-12-2025 06:31 via article.wn.com
  SYDNEY, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) said on Thursday that six men have been charged after authorities intercepted a 46 kg shipment of cocaine. The NSW Police Force said in a statement that the cocaine was...
  
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• Uninhabited Caribbean islet blossoms into love nest for critically endangered iguana

  18-12-2025 06:30 via article.wn.com
  Silence used to prevail in the forest...
  
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• Refugee firefighters in Mauritania battle bushfires to give back to the community that took them in

  18-12-2025 06:30 via article.wn.com
  Bushfires are deadly, they can break out in the blink of an eye and last for days in the vast desert of Mauritania. The impoverished region is home to Mauritanians and more than 250,000 refugees from neighboring Mali who rely ......
  
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• Arab female directors drive change at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah

  18-12-2025 06:30 via article.wn.com
  Arab female film directors are reshaping...
  
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• U.S. approves largest ever arms sale to Taiwan as tensions simmer around the island

  18-12-2025 06:28 via article.wn.com
  The package consists of items like artillery systems, antitank missiles, as well as spare parts for helicopters and anti-ship missiles. ......
  
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• Australian PM announces crackdown on hate speech after Bondi shooting

  18-12-2025 06:27 via article.wn.com
  Measures include fresh penalties for 'those who spread hate' as well as new powers to cancel or refuse visas. ......
  
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• U.S., Russia to hold talks on Ukraine in Miami: White House

  18-12-2025 06:24 via article.wn.com
  The talks come after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed progress during two days of meetings in Berlin between Kyiv and Trump’s envoys, while warning that Moscow was preparing for a “new year of war” ......
  
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• Urgent: Accident suspected in S. Korea's subway construction site with falling objects

  18-12-2025 06:22 via article.wn.com
  SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Xinhua)...
  
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• Trump in White House speech announces USD 1,776 bonus for US troops

  18-12-2025 06:21 via article.wn.com
  Washington: President Donald Trump said in a White House speech Wednesday night that he was sending a USD 1,776 bonus check to US troops for Christmas, indicating that tariffs were funding the payments as he tried to reassure a worried public about the health of the economy. Trump said 1.45 million military service members would get the “warrior dividend before Christmas.” “The checks are already on the way,” he said. Yet his bonus payments for the troops come as millions
  
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• Tesla faces sales ban in California over self-driving claims

  18-12-2025 06:21 via article.wn.com
  San Francisco: California regulators are threatening to suspend Tesla’s license to sell its electric cars in the state early next year unless the automaker tones down its marketing tactics for its self-driving features after a judge concluded the Elon Musk-led company has been misleading consumers about the technology’s capabilities. The potential 30-day blackout of Tesla’s California sales is the primary punishment being recommended to the state’s Department of Motor Veh
  
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• US, Russia to hold new talks on Trump's plan for ending Ukraine war: White House

  18-12-2025 06:18 via article.wn.com
  US and Russian officials are set to convene in Miami this...
  
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