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Friends of Kiwi who died in Australia trying to bring body home
3 Apr 2024A friend of Danielle Whittaker says she was "larger than life" and would want her body returned to New Zealand.
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Wanted man arrested in Britain after three decades on run
3 Apr 2024Richard Burrows, 80, faces charges related to alleged child abuse between 1969 and 1981.
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Trump calls illegal migrants 'animals' and 'not human'
3 Apr 2024The Republican presidential candidate intensified his focus on illegal immigration during visit to key swing states.
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Britain condemns 'appalling' killing of aid workers in Israeli airstrike
3 Apr 2024Benjamin Netanyahu say an airstrike that killed seven people from Australia, Britain Poland and the US was unintended and "tragic".
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Mayoral candidate murdered in Mexico
3 Apr 2024A ruling party mayoral candidate in Mexico was shot dead on the first day of her campaign, despite having requested security protection from authorities and receiving no response.
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British PM backs JK Rowling in hate speech row
3 Apr 2024People should not be criminalised "for stating simple facts on biology", Rishi Sunak says.
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Murder-accused Gold Coast council candidate loses election
3 Apr 2024Queensland man Ryan Bayldon-Lumsden ran in the election despite being charged with allegedly killing his stepfather.
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12-year-old suspect in Finland classroom shooting
3 Apr 2024A child has died and two others have been seriously wounded in the shooting, police say.
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Iran vows revenge on Israel after embassy attack
The strike marked one of the most significant attacks yet on Iranian interests in Syria, raising the risk of further escalation in conflict in the Middle East.
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Six children dead, 14 injured in Iraq road accident
3 Apr 2024Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani ordered an immediate investigation into the fatal accident.
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Fire kills 29 people at Istanbul nightclub during daytime renovations
3 Apr 2024Turkish authorities say fire engulfed the underground nightclub and dozens of residents living above it were evacuated.
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Three 12-year-olds wounded in Finland school shooting, child suspect held
2 Apr 2024A 12-year-old child has shot and wounded three other 12-year-olds at a school in Finland, with the suspect taken peacefully into custody, police said.
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What is going on with P Diddy?
Explainer: US hip hop star Sean Combs has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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Australian foreign aid worker among five killed in Israel airstrike on Gaza
2 Apr 2024An Australian is one of at least five aid workers killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza, says the Hamas-run Gaza government media office.
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Trump ordered to end attacks on judge's family in hush money case
2 Apr 2024The ruling comes after the former US president disparaged the judge's daughter.
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3 Body Problem: Lawyer sentenced to death for murder of 'billionaire millennial'
2 Apr 2024While Netflix's new series 3 Body Problem rakes in the views, one of the key players behind the adaptation was sentenced to death a day after the show's release.
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Trump's social media stock plummets after going public
2 Apr 2024The drop came as the company reported it had lost nearly $100 million last year and brought in about $6.7m.
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What a dirty kitchen says about your workplace
2 Apr 2024The state of an office kitchen sink can easily tell if people actually care about the workplace, a professor says.
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21 sailors still onboard ship after Baltimore bridge collapse
2 Apr 2024Nearly a week after Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, almost two dozen sailors remain stranded.
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Google to delete records from Incognito tracking
2 Apr 2024The search giant will block third-party tracking by default for people searching the web in private mode.
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Person in Texas diagnosed with rare bird flu
This is the second US human case of the virus that has infected herds of dairy cows in recent weeks.
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Father and grandfather drown in rescue of child in pool
1 Apr 2024Two men have drowned after jumping into a pool to save a child on Australia's Gold Coast.
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Top Florida court allows for near-total abortion ban
The court cleared the way for a Republican-backed law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect, but also approved an initiative to let voters decide whether to amend the state's…
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JK Rowling in 'arrest me' challenge over hate crime law
2 Apr 2024The Harry Potter author described several transgender women as men in a series of social media posts.
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