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Harvard settles Jewish student's lawsuit over alleged antisemitism
16 May 2025It comes four months after Harvard promised additional protections for Jewish students.
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'Alarming' plunge in vaccination rates among Australian children
16 May 2025Experts are are warning deaths are inevitable if Australia does not do more to turn around a steady decline in immunisation rates.
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Ukraine peace process going exactly how Moscow wants it
16 May 2025Analysis: In the end, it's the Kremlin's plan playing out, and there appears to be little the White House will do.
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Israel concedes error in video claiming to show Hamas tunnels under Gaza hospital
16 May 2025The video the military released was actually of a different building.
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Eurovision semi starts with milkshake and space odyssey
16 May 2025Sixteen countries have ramped up the drama and kitsch in a bid for the last 10 places in the final.
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Strikes in Gaza kill 120 as Trump talks of turning territory into 'freedom zone'
It also warned that Gaza was not "for sale" hours after US President Donald Trump again floated taking over the territory and turning it into "a freedom zone".
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Trump says Iran has 'sort of' agreed to a nuclear deal
16 May 2025Speaking at a business roundtable in the Qatari capital Doha, the US President reiterated that Iran "can't have a nuclear weapon",
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Trump announces billions in deals during UAE visit, AI agreement signed
16 May 2025The deals equate to over NZ$340 billion.
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UK PM in talks over third country 'return hubs' for migrants
16 May 2025Keir Starmer is under pressure to reduce immigration and cut the number of irregular migrants arriving on British shores.
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Tariffs devastated America's ports. Soon, they could face a surge from stockpiling
16 May 2025US ports are facing a dramatic slowdown in cargo - but they could see the exact opposite in a matter of weeks.
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Australia ramps up travel warnings for USA
16 May 2025The Department of Foreign Affairs has toughened its travel advice for the USA three times in just over a month in response to the Trump administration's increasingly harsh border controls.
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Singer Chris Brown arrested in UK - reports
16 May 2025Police arrested the Grammy winner for allegedly attacking a music producer with a bottle at a nightclub in 2023.
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Peace breakthrough unlikely as Putin declines to meet Zelensky in Turkey
16 May 2025Neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian president will attend the peace talks, and it's still unclear when they'll get underway.
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NASA's Perseverance rover films first auroras from the surface of Mars
15 May 2025Auroras on Mars don't look quite like they do on Earth.
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Israeli military strikes kill scores in Gaza, medics say
15 May 2025It comes as Palestinians commemorate the 1948 'Nakba', or catastrophe.
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Warren Buffett reveals why he's stepping down
15 May 2025The Berkshire Hathaway guru says he won't be spending his retirement watching soap operas.
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US YouTuber MrBeast sparks controversy by filming at sacred sites
15 May 2025Mexico's Federal Culture Secretary has spoken out against the activities carried out by the YouTuber and his team.
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US Justice Department to meet crash victims' families over Boeing criminal case
Two separate plane crashes killed 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia in 2018 and 2019.
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Zelensky weighs next step as Putin's no-show throws Ukraine talks into confusion
15 May 2025The Kremlin has sent a lower-level team to the peace talks but the Ukrainian president has said he'll only talk to the Russian president.
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Strong Chinese demand pushes global EV sales
15 May 2025The International Energy Agency expects EV sales will reach 40 percent by 2030.
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'Jawdropping': Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible wow Cannes
15 May 2025First reviews are saying the movie more than lives up to its steamroller hype with one critic calling its action sequences "astonishing" and "just insane".
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US-backed aid group to start work in Gaza under heavily criticised plan
15 May 2025No humanitarian assistance has been delivered to Gaza since 2 March, and a global hunger monitor has warned that half a million people face starvation.
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'Excellent backhand':Tennis champ invites Pope for quick rally
15 May 2025The new head of the Catholic Church "has an excellent backhand and is a formidable competitor", according to one report.
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Israel intensifies Gaza bombardment, kills 80 people, as Trump visits Gulf
15 May 2025The bombardment had intensified as US President Donald Trump visited the Middle East.
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