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'He needs to be behind bars': Giuffre's brother on Andrew
31 Oct 2025"Today, she declares victory,": Virginia Giuffre's family say as the King's brother is stripped of his titles and home. "But we need to take it one step further."
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Trump's big concession to Xi is loaded with red flags
31 Oct 2025Analysis: Trump risks further eroding America's relationship with its key allies while gaining a friendlier relationship with its chief economic adversary. Audio
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Pacific islands at risk of becoming 'narco-states', advisor warns
The chair of NZ's ministerial advisory group on transnational and serious organised crime says "business as usual" would mean "we will continue to go backwards".
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Families cluster at Rio morgue after dozens killed in deadly police raids
31 Oct 2025At least 121 people, including police officers, died in raids targeting the Comando Vermelho gang, which controls much of Rio de Janeiro's drug trade.
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Hamas hands over bodies of two Israeli hostages
31 Oct 2025It comes a day after the tenuous Gaza ceasefire was shaken by a series of deadly Israeli strikes across the enclave.
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Renewed effort to find Gus to focus on dam
31 Oct 2025During the initial phase of the search, divers were called to Guys' family's outback property to search water tanks and dams - one of which will now be drained.
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Is the Victoria's Secret catwalk a 'lone gesture'?
31 Oct 2025Curve model Annika Nielsen says representation is sometimes "something that you don't realise that you miss or that you need until you see it".
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The 'Word of the Year' isn't a word and everyone's confused
31 Oct 2025And if you're not a member of Gen Alpha, you're probably saying it wrong.
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Caribbean islands reel from Hurricane Melissa's devastating impact as storm heads north
31 Oct 2025Torrential downpours and forceful winds have already unleashed widespread destruction along the storm's path in Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas.
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'Orwellian': Mentions of January 6, Trump erased from court record
31 Oct 2025Current and former prosecutors says the decision to remove mentions of Trump and the Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned rioter is an alarming whitewashing of history.
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Russia strikes Ukraine energy grid, killing six, including child
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko accused Moscow of targeting Ukrainian people and power supplies as the cold winter months approach.
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The Australian school with a principal but no students facing closure
31 Oct 2025Parents of former students coordinated a mass unenrolment after complaints concerning its ability to meet the needs of the community went unresolved.
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What we know about Donald Trump's order to restart nuclear tests
31 Oct 2025It is unclear whether United States President Donald Trump was referring to testing weapons systems -- which the country already does -- or actually conducting nuclear explosions.
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Trump sets refugee admissions ceiling at 7500, lowest cap on record
31 Oct 2025The cap for the fiscal year 2026 marks the lowest on record and would be focused largely on South Africans from the country's white Afrikaner ethnic minority.
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Prince William wins photos case against French magazine
31 Oct 2025William and Kate have won a privacy case against Paris Match for publishing paparazzi photographs of them and their children on a private holiday.
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Watch: Trump trades banter with Luxon about hair, gets invite to NZ
30 Oct 2025The prime minister has met the US president for the first time. Audio
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France arrests five new suspects in Louvre heist probe: prosecutor
30 Oct 2025French police have arrested five more people, including a prime suspect, over this month's daring Louvre museum jewellery robbery, the Paris prosecutor says.
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Trump asks Pentagon to immediately resume testing US nuclear weapons
30 Oct 2025The United States last tested a nuclear weapon in 1992.
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Trump and Xi meet for first time in six years
30 Oct 2025Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump held a landmark meeting in South Korea that could reset the volatile relationship between the world's two largest economies and rival…
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Phar Lap: The musicals bringing the famous racehorse back to life
30 Oct 2025The two musicals open on the eve of the racehorse's 100th birthday.
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Young Australian cricketer dies after being struck by ball
30 Oct 2025Seventeen-year-old Ben Austin died despite wearing a helmet during batting practice in the nets.
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South Australian police to drain dam in renewed search for missing 4yo Gus
30 Oct 2025The dam has been previously search by divers, but draining it will allow a "comprehensive visual search" to be completed, police say.
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Sunscreen maker in Aussie recalls blocked by US regulator for years
30 Oct 2025Wild Child Laboratories was flagged by the FDA multiple times in recent years for breaching manufacturing standards.
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The world's most valuable company just hit an unprecedented milestone
30 Oct 2025Nvidia just became the world's first US$5 trillion company.
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