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Politicians, business titans and prominent figures with ties to Epstein
7 Feb 2026The US Justice Department's release of millions of internal documents related to Jeffrey Epstein has revealed the late financier and sex offender's ties to many prominent people in politics, finance…
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Suicide bomber kills 31 in Shi'ite mosque in Pakistan's capital
7 Feb 2026The bombing, which targeted the Shi'ite Muslim minority, is the deadliest suicide attack in Islamabad in over a decade.
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TikTok charged with breaching EU rules over app's addictive features
7 Feb 2026The EU watchdog's charges focus on TikTok's addictive design which includes features such as infinite scroll, autoplay and push notifications.
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Iran says talks with US in Oman were a 'good start'
7 Feb 2026The talks follow growing concerns that a failure in the high-stakes negotiations could set off another Middle East war.
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Gus Lamont's grandparents 'absolutely devastated' by major crime declaration
6 Feb 2026Police say they have a suspect who lived at Oak Park Station, but stressed that suspect was not one of the boy's parents.
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Trump offered to unfreeze NYC tunnel funding if Dulles airport, train station renamed after him
6 Feb 2026The US president offered to drop his funding freeze for a US$16 billion New York tunnel project if key Democrats would support naming Dulles Airport and Penn Station after him.
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Nancy Guthrie presumed 'out there' alive says sheriff
6 Feb 2026Investigators presume the kidnapped elderly mother of popular US news host Savannah Guthrie is "still out there", and alive four days after she was abducted.
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Sells like teen spirit? Cobain's 'Nevermind' guitar up for sale
6 Feb 2026The auction includes guitars played by Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, and drums played by Ringo Starr.
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Cocaine smugglers bound for Australia released over jurisdiction confusion
6 Feb 2026Crewed by Honduran and Ecuadorian nationals, the ship was intercepted by French armed forces in international waters two weeks ago.
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Uber ordered to pay US$8.5 million in trial over driver sex assault claims
6 Feb 2026The jury found that the driver was an agent of Uber, so the company was responsible for his actions.
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Blood of US news anchor's missing mother found at crime scene
6 Feb 2026Nancy Guthrie has been missing 4-5 days now and is in desperate need of medication.
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NATO expected to discuss Arctic security plans next week
6 Feb 2026Defence ministers intend bolstering Greenland's security to ward off Donald Trump's designs on the territory.
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Michelangelo foot sketch sells for record $45.7m at US auction
It's a new record for any work created by the Renaissance master.
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Prosecutors drop case against Australian underworld figure
6 Feb 2026The director of public prosecutions confirmed it was discontinuing a retrial of allegations Tony Mokbel tried to source a commercial quantity of MDMA from overseas in June 2005.
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UK PM apologises to Epstein's victims over Mandelson appointment
6 Feb 2026Keir Starmer says he did not know the "depth and darkness" of the relationship Peter Mandelson had with the convicted sex offender.
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Norway police open probe into ex-prime minister over Epstein
6 Feb 2026Thorbjoern Jagland, who also chaired the Norwegian Nobel committee, is being investigated for possible aggravated corruption.
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Trump rejects Putin offer over nuclear weapons
6 Feb 2026The treaty that put caps on strategic nuclear weapons deployments and held them in check for more than two decades has expired.
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Elon Musk not happy being super rich
6 Feb 2026Being the richest person on the planet is apparently not worth it for Elon Musk.
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Lower pollution during Covid boosted methane: study
6 Feb 2026Methane levels rose at a record pace in the wake of the pandemic as the super pollutant's main natural "cleaning agent" weakened during that period.
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Russian captain jailed for six years for fatal North Sea crash
6 Feb 2026Vladimir Motin, 59, had been on sole watch duty when his ship, the Solong, crashed into the Stena Immaculate anchored just off the coast of Yorkshire, northeastern England, last March.
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Email appears to confirm photo of Andrew, Giuffre is real
6 Feb 2026The disgraced former prince has long denied allegations he sexually assaulted Giuffre and had questioned whether the now-infamous photo had been doctored.
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Ukraine, Russia exchange POWs for first time in months
6 Feb 2026Each country has released at least 157 people, both countries said, amid United States-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi aimed at ending the war.
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Attempted bombing at Perth rally declared terrorist act
5 Feb 2026A 31-year-old man was last week charged with throwing what police described as a homemade "fragment bomb".
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Disappearance of Gus, 4, declared a major crime
5 Feb 2026Gus Lamont disappeared off a South Australian outback property in September. His parents are not under investigation.
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