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• Judge to decide if Menendez brothers get early release

  17-04-2025 22:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Erik and Lyle Menendez could learn this week whether they will get reduced sentences nearly 30 years after they were convicted of murdering their parents.
  
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• New pope’s reposts suggest he’s no fan of Trump administration

  09-05-2025 00:46 via smh.com.au
  
  The first American pope in the Catholic Church’s 2000-year history has shared some sharp commentary on the Trump administration’s attitude toward migrants and Vice President J.D. Vance.
  
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• Who is Pope Leo XIV?

  09-05-2025 00:11 via smh.com.au
  
  Catholic cardinals broke with tradition when they and elected the first US pope, Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost.
  
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• Pope Leo XIV delivers his first speech

  08-05-2025 23:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff emerged onto the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica to the roar of tens of thousands gathered below
  
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• This spiritual son of Francis could be the bridge a broken world needs

  08-05-2025 23:19 via smh.com.au
  
  It began not with thunder, but with a curl of white smoke against a bright blue Roman sky. For a brief moment, all sound in St Peter’s Square seemed to vanish.
  
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• Why Leo XIV? The history and meaning behind the new pope’s name

  08-05-2025 23:12 via smh.com.au
  
  The previous Leos were reformers, including Pope Leo XIII, elected in 1878. Will the 267th pope follow in his footsteps?
  
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• ‘Evil will not prevail’: Pope Leo XIV’s first speech in full

  08-05-2025 22:51 via smh.com.au
  
  The American pontiff spoke Italian and Spanish in his address from the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica.
  
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• First-ever American pope elected

  08-05-2025 21:38 via smh.com.au
  
  The Catholic Church has elected its first American pope, the Peru-based Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, who has taken the name Pope Leo XIV.
  
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• Catholic Church chooses first-ever American leader

  08-05-2025 21:23 via smh.com.au
  
  The Catholic Church has elected its first American pope, the Peru-based Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, who has taken the name Pope Leo XIV.
  
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• Trump inks ‘trade deal’ with the UK, but 10 per cent tariffs to stay

  08-05-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Both sides acknowledged the details were yet to be finalised, but lauded the arrangement as a historic moment between the two great allies.
  
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• Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, becomes first American leader of the Catholic Church

  08-05-2025 19:53 via smh.com.au
  
  It is the quickest papal election in a century, beating the conclave of 2005, when Joseph Ratzinger claimed the title in less than 36 hours.
  
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• New Pope conclave LIVE updates: Robert Francis Prevost elected as first ever American pontiff

  08-05-2025 19:31 via smh.com.au
  
  White smoke has emerged from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, signalling a new pope has been chosen to replace the late Francis. Follow our live updates.
  
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• New Pope conclave LIVE updates: White smoke out of Vatican chimney signals new pontiff is elected

  08-05-2025 18:31 via smh.com.au
  
  White smoke has emerged from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, signalling a new pope has been chosen to replace the late Francis. Follow our live updates.
  
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• White smoke streams from Vatican chimney signalling a new pope

  08-05-2025 18:16 via smh.com.au
  
  It is the quickest papal election in a century, beating the conclave of 2005, when Joseph Ratzinger claimed the title in less than 36 hours.
  
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• Black smoke billows from Vatican on second round of voting, no pope elected

  08-05-2025 13:24 via smh.com.au
  
  Thousands of people have been gathering in St Peter’s Square to witness the time-honoured tradition which signified that no candidate had garnered the two-thirds majority needed to become the new pope.
  
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• No child, anywhere, should grow up like the children I saw in Gaza

  08-05-2025 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  As an Australian aid worker I’m haunted by what I’ve seen in Gaza. Why is the Western world turning a blind eye to this humanitarian crisis?
  
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• A most sensitive subject in the White House: Where is Melania?

  08-05-2025 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The US first lady vanishes from view for weeks at a time and her actual whereabouts only adds to the intrigue.
  
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• Showdown between nuclear powers looms over Kashmir

  08-05-2025 09:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Kashmir used to be where colonial British officers holidayed. Now the locals kill tourists and threaten nuclear war.
  
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• Judge steps in over Trump’s touted plan to send migrants to Libya

  08-05-2025 07:57 via smh.com.au
  
  The relatives of a Mexican man said he had been instructed to sign a document allowing for his deportation to the African nation.
  
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• Oops! US loses another $93m fighter jet into Red Sea

  08-05-2025 07:47 via smh.com.au
  
  The costly incident is the second in two weeks involving the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.
  
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• Blackburn High School jazz band performs in New York

  08-05-2025 06:16 via smh.com.au
  
  A group of 20 students from Melbourne's east have been selected to be part of an elite jazz program in New York.
  
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• A Soviet space probe will crash back to Earth. It could land in Australia

  08-05-2025 03:45 via smh.com.au
  
  It’s the final countdown for a spacecraft that was en route to Venus in 1972 – until a rocket malfunction left it stranded in orbit and slowly spiralling back towards Earth.
  
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• ‘The place you want to be’: How a Melbourne teenager went from watching YouTube to a New York stage

  08-05-2025 03:44 via smh.com.au
  
  For budding jazz musicians around the world, this program is the north star. Now a group of Australian classmates are joining in, showing the world what their school band can do.
  
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• Melbourne students make history at top New York jazz event

  08-05-2025 03:44 via smh.com.au
  
  For budding jazz musicians around the world, this program is the north star. Now a group of Australian classmates are joining in, showing the world what their school band can do.
  
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• After four decades, Italians hope for a home-grown pope

  08-05-2025 03:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Though the church has gone global, many Italians haven’t stopped believing the pope belongs in – and to – Rome.
  
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• After four decades abroad, Italians hope the papacy is coming home

  08-05-2025 03:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Though the church has gone global, many Italians haven’t stopped believing the pope belongs in – and to – Rome.
  
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• Rapid deportation of migrants to Libya would violate court order, US judge rules

  08-05-2025 02:19 via smh.com.au
  
  The court issued a new order restricting their removal following reports the Trump administration could deport people as soon as this week – despite previous US condemnation of Libya’s harsh treatment of detainees.
  
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• ‘A tax on Bluey’: Rudd mocks Trump’s movie tariffs

  07-05-2025 22:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Australia’s ambassador to the US lampooned the proposed movie tariffs and ridiculed the Trump administration’s bid to impose 10 per cent tariffs on uninhabited islands.
  
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• Pakistan has vowed to strike back in response to Indian air strikes

  07-05-2025 21:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Pakistan has pledged to strike back after India launched deadly attacks on targets in the country.
  
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• New Disney theme park in Middle East

  07-05-2025 21:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Disney has announced plans for a new theme park in Abu Dhabi, expected to open in about eight years.
  
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