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'Knew she was dead': Tourists distressed after cruise passenger's body found
29 Oct 2025Authorities are investigating how a cruise ship allegedly left behind an 80-year-old Australian woman who was later found dead on a Queensland tropical island.
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Is Halloween too scary for kids?
30 Oct 2025The gothic and macabre have always held a special fascination for children.
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'Shot them in front of us': Fears mount as al-Fashir falls
29 Oct 2025Aid groups and activists have warned of possible ethnically motivated revenge attacks.
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Trump ready to send 'more than the National Guard' into cities
29 Oct 2025Since June, Trump has deployed National Guard troops to various Democratic-led jurisdictions in an extraordinary expansion of the use of the military for domestic purposes.
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Live: Air NZ, ferries, FENZ hit by global internet outage
30 Oct 2025Air New Zealand is warning travellers to prepare for delays, and the police and Parliament are among hundreds hit by a Microsoft bug.
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New Zealand woman found dead in Thailand hotel room
29 Oct 2025Her death is being investigated by police in Phuket.
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Trump lands in South Korea to face talks of missiles, trade
29 Oct 2025The Xi-Trump meeting is overshadowing the rest of the week's busy diplomatic schedule.
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'It played out like a B-grade movie': The obsession with the Louvre heist
Ever since the audacious Parisian break-in, art historian Penelope Jackson's phone has been ringing off the hook.
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Iran, Russia and the NZ insurer that kept their sanctioned oil flowing
29 Oct 2025Tankers carrying oil and evading Western sanctions were connected by one thing: a small insurance company in New Zealand.
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Hurricane Melissa takes aim at Cuba after roaring across Jamaica
30 Oct 2025Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared the island a "disaster area" and authorities warned residents to remain sheltered.
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Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change
29 Oct 2025His essay comes ahead of next month's COP30, a global summit focused on battling climate change.
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Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica's strongest-ever storm, weakens to Category 4
29 Oct 2025People have been bracing for the impact as the worst storm to hit the Caribbean island this century threatens catastrophic storm surges and flash floods. Audio
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Thousands evacuated in Vietnam after record rain triggers floods
29 Oct 2025Heavy rain has inundated the central coastal region since the weekend, closing schools and flooding the former imperial city of Hue.
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Israel launches strikes into Gaza
29 Oct 2025Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to carry out intense strikes on the Gaza Strip.
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How letting your mind wander can reset your brain
29 Oct 2025What our brains really need is some much needed time off from concentrating.
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Actress Prunella Scales, TV's Sybil Fawlty, dies at 93
29 Oct 2025Scales, best known for her role as the long-suffering Sybil in the British TV comedy classic 'Fawlty Towers', was re-watching the show the day before she died.
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Ukraine needs support for 2-3 more years of fighting - Zelensky
28 Oct 2025The Ukrainian president said the money would be spent on recovery if the war with Russia ended earlier, but if not, there'd be 'no other choice' but to spend it on weapons.
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Jamaica warns of mass destruction as Hurricane Melissa looms
28 Oct 2025The Category 5 storm is charting a painstakingly slow path through the Caribbean.
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US military strikes four boats in Pacific Ocean
29 Oct 2025The United States military has conducted further strikes in its campaign against alleged drug trafficking, killing 14 more people.
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Gunman pleads guilty to Japan ex-PM's murder
28 Oct 2025The slaying forced a reckoning in a country with little experience of gun violence, and ignited scrutiny of alleged ties between prominent conservative lawmakers and a secretive sect, the Unification…
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Russia's interest in Antarctic oil exposed after Ukrainian scientist's arrest
28 Oct 2025The Antarctic Treaty's environmental protocol is clear - mining is prohibited indefinitely.
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Prince Andrew an 'accident waiting to happen', friends tell biographer
28 Oct 2025The royal and his ex wife Sarah Ferguson have been labelled 'hypocrites' over their connection to Jeffrey Epstein
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Trump praises Japan's 'great' female leader in talks on trade, critical minerals
28 Oct 2025Sanae Takaichi said she would nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, The White House says.
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Two killed in underground explosion at Australian silver mine
28 Oct 2025Emergency services were called to the remote mining town of Cobar in the state of New South Wales, some 700 km northwest of Sydney, after a critical workplace incident, Australian authorities said.
