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Helicopter crashes on California freeway
7 Oct 2025It is a helicopter that provides air medical services.
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Woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann faces court
7 Oct 2025A 24-year-old woman is on trial charged with stalking the missing child's parents over the past three years.
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'A rift in the nation': Inside Israel after two years of war
7 Oct 2025After two years of war, a fractured but defiant Israel is struggling to assert itself at home and abroad.
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Nobel Prize for discovery that could revolutionise cancer treatment
7 Oct 2025The prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists - two of them American and one Japanese.
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Israel deports Greta Thunberg and 170 other flotilla activists
7 Oct 2025The activists are alleging mistreatment during their detention but Israel says the claims are "complete lies". Audio
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British author Jilly Cooper, famous for novels of sex and snobbery, dies at 88
7 Oct 2025The author of bonkbusters Rivals and Riders has died.
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Feminist icon Gisele Pelicot back in court for appeal
7 Oct 2025Fifty-one men were convicted after the Frenchwoman's ex-husband recruited dozens of strangers online to sexually assault and rape her while drugged.
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Indirect talks between Israel and Hamas underway
7 Oct 2025Egyptian sources say Hamas is seeking guarantees that Israel will abide by the deal once hostages are freed.
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French govt quits hours after being appointed
7 Oct 2025Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's swift resignation was unexpected and unprecedented and marked another major deepening of France's political crisis. Audio
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Prosecutors to appeal Erin Patterson's sentence over mushroom murders
6 Oct 2025Patterson was sentenced to life in prison with a 33-year non-parole period.
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Fewer smokers worldwide, but e-cigarettes fuel new addictions
7 Oct 2025New Zealand needed to intensify efforts to reduce smoking prevalence, say health experts. Audio
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Time to 'refocus' foreign policy on Pacific, says Peters
The government needs to refocus its foreign policy priorities closer to home in the Pacific, says the foreign affairs minister.
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