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Turkish experts to help find bodies in Gaza, as Trump warns Hamas
17 Oct 2025Turkey has deployed dozens of disaster relief specialists to help search for bodies under the mountains of rubble in Gaza, as US President Donald Trump fired a warning at Hamas over a spate of recent…
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Australia set to sizzle in record-breaking temperatures
October records are under threat in multiple states and territories.
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Donald Trump critic John Bolton indicted in US
17 Oct 2025Bolton's indictment follows the recent pressing of criminal charges by the Trump Justice Department against two other prominent critics of the US president.
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Worried about turning 60? Science says that’s when many of us actually peak
17 Oct 2025People in their 60s peak at problem solving and leadership, it's been found, which could make them some of the most valuable people in the workplace.
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Oscar Wilde's library card reissued 130 years after conviction for being gay
17 Oct 2025Same-sex relationships were a criminal offence at the time.
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Last link to Hillary's Everest expedition dies aged 92
17 Oct 2025Kanchha Sherpa was the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that saw Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa become the first to summit the world's highest mountain.
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Scientists move closer to confirming existence of dark matter
17 Oct 2025Dark matter, which does not absorb or reflect or emit any light, seems to comprise about 27 percent of the universe.
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True political fights of One Battle After Another happen on the edges of the frame
17 Oct 2025Review: One Battle After Another is among the most exciting Hollywood films to hit cinemas this year.
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Review: What is Scarlett Johansson like as a director?
17 Oct 2025Eleanor the Great features that 96-year-old force of nature, June Squibb, but all the heavy lifting is being done by Scarlett Johansson in her directorial debut.
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Trump to meet Putin again over 'inglorious' Ukraine war
17 Oct 2025However, the US President hasn't specified when the meeting in Budapest,, Hungary will take place.
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Sunken WWII shipwrecks a 'ticking time bomb' for Pacific island nation
17 Oct 2025The Federated States of Micronesia's biggest tourism asset has become one of its largest threats.
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Fatal bear attacks in Japan hit record number
17 Oct 2025The new total of seven deaths in the current fiscal year "is the largest toll since 2006, when statistics started".
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Gold smuggling surges in India as price spikes before festivals
17 Oct 2025Bringing gold into India and liquidating it used to be risky, but with strong demand and limited supply, smugglers can now convert it in just a few hours
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Pets on planes trial launches in Australia
17 Oct 2025The first pets to travel inside the passenger cabin on a domestic flight in Australia have touched down in Queensland.
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UK facing rising threats from state actors as well as terrorists
17 Oct 2025The United Kingdom has seen a 35 percent rise in the last year in the number of suspects investigated annually for possibly working for a hostile foreign government.
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Catholic Church is failing abuse victims, Vatican panel says
17 Oct 2025The Vatican's child protection commission has published an unusually critical internal report on the issue.
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Diane Keaton's family releases cause of death
16 Oct 2025Her family has also expressed gratitude for the "extraordinary messages of love and support" they have received.
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Families, medics anxiously await opening of medical corridor from Gaza
16 Oct 2025Among those desperate for the opening of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt are the families of 15,000 patients needing medical evacuation, but hundreds have already died waiting.
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Trump details decision to authorize CIA to operate in Venezuela
16 Oct 2025The remarks are Trump's most expansive comments on his decision to expand the CIA's authority to conduct lethal targeting and carry out covert action in the region.
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It's been 50 years since the Balibo 5 were killed in Timor-Leste. No one's been held accountable
16 Oct 2025On October 16, 1975, five journalists were killed in the remote Timorese town of Balibo. To this day, no one has been charged with their deaths. Known as the "Balibo...
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Trump says Israel forces could resume fighting in Gaza ‘as soon as I say the word’
16 Oct 2025Asked what would happen if Hamas refused to disarm, Trump said "Israel will return to those streets as soon as I say the word".
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Actor Michael J Fox says he is hoping for an 'undramatic death'
16 Oct 2025At 64, and more than 30 years after his diagnosis, the actor is acutely aware of his mortality.
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Climate change worsening child malnutrition in Pacific
A new study by a global charity indicates a link between climate change and malnutrition in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
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Australian spy plane deployed 45 times during mission to help Ukraine
16 Oct 2025Its most sophisticated military surveillance plane was used repeatedly in the last three months as part of NATO efforst to monitor Russian activity.
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