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• Donald Trump points the finger over who caused Ukraine war

  14-04-2025 21:31 via smh.com.au
  
  US President Donald Trump has accused Vladimir Putin. Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelenskyy of starting the Ukraine war.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes’ partner has a new blood-testing start-up

  11-05-2025 08:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The partner of the disgraced Theranos founder, who is serving a prison sentence for fraud, is fundraising for a company that describes itself as “the future of diagnostics”.
  
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• Soviet spacecraft plunges to Earth after 50 years stuck in space

  11-05-2025 05:36 via smh.com.au
  
  A half-ton relic of the Soviet space program has made a fiery re-entry – but scientists aren’t exactly sure where it landed.
  
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• Trump hails China trade talks as a ‘total reset’

  11-05-2025 04:48 via smh.com.au
  
  Trump says the first day of US-China discussions aimed at defusing a trade war were “friendly, but constructive”.
  
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• Putin offers direct talks with Ukraine as Europe threatens tougher sanctions

  11-05-2025 03:15 via smh.com.au
  
  The Russian president offered to restart negotiations after European leaders met in Kyiv to discuss a ceasefire plan.
  
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• In attempting to deport a troublemaker, Australia helped create a martyr

  11-05-2025 02:35 via smh.com.au
  
  Prospector Paul Freeman lies in an unlikely grave – at the foot of the Kremlin wall beside Soviet leaders and revolutionaries.
  
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• Explosions reported hours after India and Pakistan reach ceasefire deal

  10-05-2025 23:24 via smh.com.au
  
  India and Pakistan have accused each other of violating a ceasefire deal after explosions were reported.
  
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• The unassuming parish where a future pope was once an altar boy

  10-05-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Sport is religion in Chicago. The biggest question locals had here once Cardinal Robert Prevost became the new pope was which baseball team he supported.
  
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• Explosions reported hours after India and Pakistan agree to a ceasefire

  10-05-2025 20:59 via smh.com.au
  
  Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri accused Pakistan of violating the agreement arrived at by the two countries earlier in the day.
  
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• India and Pakistan ceasefire agreement in jeopardy after reports of airstrikes

  10-05-2025 20:12 via smh.com.au
  
  The two countries agreed to a “full and immediate ceasefire” on Saturday, but within hours Pakistan accused India of breaching it.
  
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• India and Pakistan agree to a ‘full and immediate ceasefire’

  10-05-2025 14:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Pakistan’s foreign minister confirmed both countries had agreed to a ceasefire “with immediate effect”.
  
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• European leaders unite, call Trump to propose unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine war

  10-05-2025 13:49 via smh.com.au
  
  The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland have joined with Ukraine to propose an unconditional 30-day ceasefire.
  
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• Pakistan retaliates after Indian missile strikes

  10-05-2025 09:41 via smh.com.au
  
  Pakistan says India fired missiles at three air bases inside the country, with Pakistan responding with missiles of its own.
  
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• Pakistan to consider de-escalation in India clash after latest strikes

  10-05-2025 09:15 via smh.com.au
  
  Both countries traded strikes on Saturday, the latest escalation in a conflict triggered by a massacre last month.
  
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• ‘Get the saws warmed up’: Pair guilty of felling Sycamore Gap tree

  10-05-2025 08:57 via smh.com.au
  
  The court was shown evidence that either put the men near the tree at the time it was felled, or showed them excitedly discussing it the next day as the story of the tree’s demise went viral.
  
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• European leaders unite on train to Kyiv after Putin hosts Xi at elaborate parade

  10-05-2025 08:02 via smh.com.au
  
  The show of unity behind Volodymyr Zelensky comes after one EU leader defied his colleagues and airspace restrictions to attend the Russian celebration.
  
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• Inside the conclave: How a quiet coalition delivered the church Pope Leo XIV

  10-05-2025 05:44 via smh.com.au
  
  The selection of Robert Prevost surprised outside observers. But as other contenders fell away, one after another, the Chicago cardinal made quiet sense to those locked in the room.
  
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• ‘It looks like a war’: Pakistan claims retaliation against India

  10-05-2025 04:58 via smh.com.au
  
  The announcement that the military had used missiles to target Indian facilities prompted a show of public support across Pakistan.
  
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• Trump ‘actively looking’ at suspending the right to challenge detention in court

  10-05-2025 03:05 via smh.com.au
  
  The comments from a key White House official came as a US judge ordered the release of a PhD student who was detained while walking to dinner six weeks ago.
  
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• Loves Tim Tams, hates Vegemite: The day Pope Leo said Mass at Sydney beach

  10-05-2025 01:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The children at one Sydney Catholic school think it’s “pretty cool” that the new pope once graced their halls.
  
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• Loves Tim Tams, hates Vegemite: The day Pope Leo said Mass at iconic Sydney beach

  10-05-2025 01:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The children at one Sydney Catholic school think it’s “pretty cool” that the new pope once graced their halls.
  
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• Loves Tim Tams, hates Vegemite: The day Pope Leo said mass at a Sydney beach

  10-05-2025 01:45 via smh.com.au
  
  The children at one Sydney Catholic school think it’s “pretty cool” that the new pope once graced their halls.
  
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• Pope Leo XIV warns of ‘desperate’ global loss of faith in inaugural mass

  10-05-2025 00:06 via smh.com.au
  
  The newly elected leader of the Catholic Church urged the global institution to renew its missionary outreach and confront a cultural shift away from God and towards “technology, money, success, power, or pleasure”.
  
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• New details about Pope Leo emerge

  10-05-2025 00:04 via smh.com.au
  
  Before he was Pope, Robert Prevost was Bob from Chicago.
  
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• Catholic Church chooses first-ever American pope

  09-05-2025 10:16 via smh.com.au
  
  The Peru-based Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost makes history as he takes on the name Pope Leo XIV.
  
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• ‘This cannot be possible’: How John found out his brother was now the Pope

  09-05-2025 10:11 via smh.com.au
  
  While talking to journalists, John Prevost realised he had missed several calls from his brother, so he gave the new Pope a call back.
  
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• As I cover the world’s biggest stories, my mind always returns to that Australian classroom

  09-05-2025 10:05 via smh.com.au
  
  So often during my time in Europe, I have been struck by deja vu – only to realise that Ms Needham had brought me here once before, through the pages of a history book.
  
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• The speech, the clothes, the name: Three clues about new Pope’s leadership

  09-05-2025 08:01 via smh.com.au
  
  Although Leo follows in the tradition of Francis, he signalled he is a new, and different, pope.
  
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• ‘Dogfight’: How China helped Pakistan shoot down Indian jets in mass air battle

  09-05-2025 07:42 via smh.com.au
  
  Pakistan’s apparent success in destroying Indian warplanes this week is a graphic demonstration of Chinese air power. It has sparked interest – and alarm – in the West.
  
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• Starmer’s ‘nothing’ deal with Trump is a warning sign for Albanese

  09-05-2025 03:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Both leaders claimed a much-needed political win. Given the Trump administration’s desire to keep most tariffs in place, that might be all that’s up for grabs.
  
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