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• Russians faked video accusing Kamala Harris of hit-and-run: experts

  18-09-2024 05:53 via smh.com.au
  
  In an emotional clip from a wheelchair, a victim says she “cannot remain silent any more”. But everything about the video is made up by a troll army called Storm-1516.
  
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• Iran 'plotted to kill' Donald Trump

  09-11-2024 08:37 via smh.com.au
  
  It has been revealed Iran had been plotting to kill US President-elect Donald Trump during the election campaign.
  
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• Monkeys remain on the run from South Carolina lab

  09-11-2024 05:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Forty-three monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina have been spotted in the woods near the site and workers are using food to try to recapture them.
  
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• RFK Jr reviewing résumés for top Trump health jobs, sources say

  09-11-2024 05:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Kennedy has spread misinformation about vaccines for years. He ended his own presidential campaign and endorsed Trump in exchange for a role in the administration.
  
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• Notre Dame’s bells ring together for first time since fire

  09-11-2024 04:28 via smh.com.au
  
  The sound of the eight bells rang throughout the city for the first time in five years, a sign of the cathedral’s rebirth as it prepares to reopen to the public next month.
  
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• The alarm over Elon Musk and national security has yet to sink in

  09-11-2024 03:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The prospect of Musk doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin —or any authoritarian leader —would be malign influence at a whole other level.
  
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• Amsterdam bans protests after ‘antisemitic squads’ attack Israeli soccer fans

  09-11-2024 00:07 via smh.com.au
  
  Five people were hospitalised and 62 arrested after authorities said antisemitic rioters attacked Israeli supporters following a Europa League soccer match in Amsterdam.
  
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• Wave of racist texts targets black Americans

  08-11-2024 22:49 via smh.com.au
  
  One civil rights leader says the messages are a reflection of Donald Trump’s election victory on Tuesday, which sent shockwaves through black American communities.
  
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• Wave of racist texts target black Americans across the US

  08-11-2024 22:49 via smh.com.au
  
  One civil rights leader says the messages are a reflection of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory on Tuesday, which sent shockwaves through black American communities.
  
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• More than 60 arrested after Israeli soccer fans attacked in Amsterdam

  08-11-2024 21:47 via smh.com.au
  
  More than 60 people have been arrested, after Israeli soccer fans were attacked in violent clashes in Amsterdam.
  
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• Men charged in foiled Iranian plot to assassinate Trump

  08-11-2024 21:12 via smh.com.au
  
  The US government has charged three men in a foiled plot by the Iran regime to kill president-elect Donald Trump, highlighting yet another attempt on the Republican’s life.
  
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• Americans have spoken. Australians will next year

  08-11-2024 19:30 via smh.com.au
  
  As the world waits to see what US president-elect Donald Trump will do, Australian politicians will be searching for lessons to apply in next year’s federal election.
  
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• Millions of Obama voters turned to Trump. Why? The men actually have a lot in common

  08-11-2024 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The two leaders are very different as men, but both emerged victorious by offering a potion of solutions to disillusioned voters.
  
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• Can Trump 2.0 defuse the nuclear threat? These Washington heavyweights fear not

  08-11-2024 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  A president given to simplistic plans and impulses must now deal with a whole new level of nuclear complexity for which neither he nor the US system is yet equipped.
  
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• Prince William says 'brutal' year has been hardest of his life

  08-11-2024 11:47 via smh.com.au
  
  Prince William has revealed this year has been the hardest of his life, following the cancer diagnoses of both his father and wife.
  
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• New search for MH370 wreckage could begin within weeks

  08-11-2024 11:29 via smh.com.au
  
  A new mission to locate the wreckage of downed passenger plane Malaysia Airlines flight 370 could begin within weeks after an expert report into its potential location was endorsed by the Malaysian government.
  
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• ‘Violent and turbulent’: Israeli soccer fans attacked in Amsterdam

  08-11-2024 11:09 via smh.com.au
  
  Five people were hospitalised and 62 arrested after authorities said antisemitic rioters attacked Israeli supporters following a Europa League soccer match in Amsterdam.
  
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• Israeli soccer fans attacked in ‘very violent incident’ in Amsterdam

  08-11-2024 09:48 via smh.com.au
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered two rescue planes be sent to the Netherlands after the clashes.
  
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• Three charged over Liam Payne’s death

  08-11-2024 08:37 via smh.com.au
  
  Three people have been charged in connection with the death of One Direction star Liam Payne in Argentina.
  
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• Biden promises peaceful transition of power after Trump’s election win

  08-11-2024 08:27 via smh.com.au
  
  Joe Biden has urged his divided nation to 'accept the choice the country made', saying he will ensure a smooth transition of power.
  
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• Trump assembling his team after election win

  08-11-2024 08:22 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump is slowly assembling the team which will work alongside him when he returns to the White House.
  
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• Israeli tanks push deeper into Gaza forcing more families out

  08-11-2024 06:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Palestinian officials say Israel is carrying out a plan of “ethnic cleansing”. Israel denies claims that residents won’t ever be able to return to their homes.
  
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• ‘It’s been brutal’: Prince William says 2024 has been the hardest year of his life

  08-11-2024 05:36 via smh.com.au
  
  The 42-year-old has spoken with remarkable candour about the personal impact of 2024, during which his wife and his father were diagnosed with cancer.
  
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• Red America raised me. Now I fear it will raze America

  08-11-2024 05:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump the demagogue has opened the door to a new and unthinkable era of US politics.
  
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• Second trial in teacher Samuel Paty’s killing begins in France

  08-11-2024 04:57 via smh.com.au
  
  Paty was stabbed and decapitated in October 2020 near his school north-west of Paris by an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen descent.
  
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• Trump appoints the ‘Ice Baby’ in his first major move since winning back the White House

  08-11-2024 04:41 via smh.com.au
  
  Susie Wiles, a Florida grandmother and political operative has been appointed as Trump’s chief of staff, marking the first time a woman has ever held that position in the White House.
  
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• Trump appoints ‘Ice Baby’ in first major move since winning back the White House

  08-11-2024 04:41 via smh.com.au
  
  Susie Wiles, a Florida grandmother and a political operative, has been named chief of staff, the first time a woman has held that position in the White House.
  
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• Michelangelo ‘painted a woman’s breast cancer’ in the Sistine Chapel

  08-11-2024 04:05 via smh.com.au
  
  The naked woman was brought to life by the Renaissance figure in his iconic fresco, known as The Flood, painted between 1508 and 1512.
  
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• Trump’s touted tariffs threaten to sweep up Aussie lobsters

  08-11-2024 01:54 via smh.com.au
  
  Many economists are concerned a new trade war between the world’s two biggest economies will have flow-on consequences for Australia.
  
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• ‘Two tears in a bucket’: Why voters flocked to Trump, and why some might regret it

  08-11-2024 01:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Working-class Americans have voted with a mixture of fatalist resignation and up-yours defiance for an economic remedy likely to leave them worse off.
  
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