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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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• Volcanic eruption grounds Bali flights, leaving travellers stranded

  12-11-2024 22:32 via smh.com.au
  
  Holiday-makers have been left stranded at airports in Australia and Indonesia after a severe volcanic eruption near Bali forced more than a dozen flights to be cancelled.
  
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• Donald Trump moves quickly to appoint loyalists to his cabinet

  12-11-2024 20:48 via smh.com.au
  
  Former political rivals and candidates with past controversies are poised to make the grade as Donald Trump’s agenda for change takes shape.
  
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• Bali flights cancelled as Indonesian volcano unleashes ash clouds

  12-11-2024 20:07 via smh.com.au
  
  Thousands of Australian travellers in limbo today after Bali volcano forces flights to be cancelled.
  
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• Car ploughs through crowd in China, killing 35 people and injuring dozens

  12-11-2024 19:57 via smh.com.au
  
  At least 35 people killed in China by car running into crowd at sports stadium.
  
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• Archbishop of Canterbury resigns ‘in sorrow’ over handling of abuse scandal

  12-11-2024 19:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Justin Welby had faced calls to resign after a report found he had taken insufficient action to stop a person it described as arguably the Church of England’s most prolific serial abuser.
  
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• Driver kills at least 35 people in ramming attack on crowd in China

  12-11-2024 18:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Authorities took almost 24 hours to officially disclose the incident, which is one of the deadliest attacks in contemporary Chinese history.
  
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• Justin Welby resigns ‘in sorrow’ as Archbishop of Canterbury

  12-11-2024 15:14 via smh.com.au
  
  Welby had faced calls to resign after a report last week found he had taken insufficient action to stop a person it described as arguably the Church of England’s most prolific serial abuser.
  
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• Archbishop of Canterbury resigns ‘in sorrow’ after handling of abuse scandal

  12-11-2024 15:14 via smh.com.au
  
  Justin Welby had faced calls to resign after a report found he had taken insufficient action to stop a person it described as arguably the Church of England’s most prolific serial abuser.
  
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• UK ex-soldier accused of spying admits to prison escape

  12-11-2024 08:42 via smh.com.au
  
  A former British soldier who is facing spying charges has admitted escaping from a London prison by clinging to the underside of a delivery truck.
  
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• Trump's presidential team revealed following election win

  12-11-2024 08:32 via smh.com.au
  
  President-elect Donald Trump has started building his team and inner circle following his election win.
  
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• Ricky Olarenshaw’s wife to remain locked up over Bali spa scandal

  12-11-2024 08:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Nitha claimed she should never have been arrested because Olarenshaw and his three Australian business partners were the true owners of Flame Spa Bali.
  
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• Chinese-owned vineyards in France for sale at knockdown prices

  12-11-2024 04:59 via smh.com.au
  
  Between 2008 and 2014 Chinese investors bought up dozens of Bordeaux estates and gave them new names like Imperial Rabbit or Gold Rabbit. Then everything changed.
  
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• World of photos, November 13, 2024

  12-11-2024 04:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
  
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• ‘Will of the people’: Musk adds his voice to Senate GOP leadership contest

  12-11-2024 03:19 via smh.com.au
  
  There are three contenders for Mitch McConnell’s job. The SpaceX CEO knows who he is backing.
  
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• Netanyahu approved pager attacks against Hezbollah, spokesman says

  12-11-2024 02:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has spoken three times with Donald Trump since the US election.
  
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• Disney cruise ship rescues 4 people from sinking catamaran

  11-11-2024 23:12 via smh.com.au
  
  A Disney Cruise Line ship which is yet to make its maiden voyage has rescued four people off the coast of Bermuda.
  
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• Trump poised to tap far-right figure for immigration crackdown

  11-11-2024 20:07 via smh.com.au
  
  The president-elect has already named one key figure in what will promises to be a signature feature of Trump’s second term: deporting undocumented migrants.
  
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• Demands for Archbishop of Canterbury to resign over abuse scandal

  11-11-2024 19:35 via smh.com.au
  
  Justin Welby - the spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide - has been criticised for failing to stop John Smyth, a barrister who ran Christian youth camps.
  
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• How the deluded Democrats were trumped. It’s the democracy, stupid

  11-11-2024 19:00 via smh.com.au
  
  It turns out that Democrat voters’ definition of the threat to democracy was completely different to Republicans’ definition. But voters preferred Trump’s version.
  
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• Chaos, provocations and violence: How attacks on Israeli soccer fans unfolded

  11-11-2024 09:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Antisemitic assaults on visiting Israeli soccer fans and incendiary chants and attacks by some Israelis: here’s what we know about the violence in Amsterdam last week.
  
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• Israeli strikes kill dozens in Lebanon and Gaza while Netanyahu and Trump speak

  11-11-2024 09:22 via smh.com.au
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has spoken three times with Donald Trump since the US election.
  
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• Japan PM survives parliament vote as Trump looms large

  11-11-2024 09:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Shigeru Ishiba will lead fragile minority government as tension rises with neighbours China and North Korea.
  
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• Japan PM Ishiba survives parliament vote as Trump looms large

  11-11-2024 09:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will lead fragile minority government as tension rises with neighbours China and North Korea.
  
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• President elect Trump speaks to Putin

  11-11-2024 08:42 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump has held his first talks with Russian Preisdent Vladimir Putin, telling him not to push it over the war in Ukraine.
  
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• This elephant uses a hose to give herself a shower every day

  11-11-2024 05:31 via smh.com.au
  
  At Berlin Zoo, while Mary provided an elephantine example of tool use, another animal got up to such mischief it resembled a watery prank.
  
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• ‘Trump proofing’ begins as Democrats face power vacuum

  11-11-2024 05:29 via smh.com.au
  
  Some Democratic governors are moving to inoculate their states from Trump’s policies, raising their profiles as the party searches for a new leader.
  
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• Elephant learns to use hose for daily shower

  11-11-2024 05:14 via smh.com.au
  
  In the Berlin Zoo, Mary, an Asian elephant, demonstrated another example of clever elephantine tool use.
  
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• How Trump exposed the Democrats’ mistaken identity politics

  11-11-2024 01:50 via smh.com.au
  
  More Americans ended up voting for Trump, even though many didn’t like him. Why? Because they liked the Democratic Party less.
  
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• Trump Day One: Drills, pardons and a certain ‘schedule F’

  11-11-2024 01:30 via smh.com.au
  
  According to his own statements, the new US president has a lot to do on his first day back in the White House.
  
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