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• What to know about the US election

  04-11-2024 01:58 via smh.com.au
  
  A guide for Australian observers of the 2024 US presidential election.
  
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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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• ‘People are grumpy’: More than 100 Australians stuck aboard cruise ship in Japan

  08-11-2024 00:53 via smh.com.au
  
  Frustrated passengers have spent two days stuck aboard a cruise ship in Japan after “unplanned maintenance” abruptly halted their seven-night tour.
  
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• US election results 2024 LIVE updates: Trump announces Susie Wiles as chief of staff, set to claim Arizona, Nevada after defeating Harris

  07-11-2024 23:57 via smh.com.au
  
  US President Joe Biden is preparing to address the nation as president-elect Donald Trump looks set to win more states.
  
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• Three people charged over Liam Payne’s death in Buenos Aires

  07-11-2024 22:21 via smh.com.au
  
  Three people have been charged over Liam Payne’s death in Buenos Aires.
  
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• ‘Giving up is unforgivable’, Biden tells demoralised Democrats

  07-11-2024 22:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Democrats now see many causes for Kamala Harris’ loss: her campaign was too short, Biden was too old, the working class too anxious, and Trump too skillful at exploiting fears.
  
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• World of photos, November 9, 2024

  07-11-2024 20:24 via smh.com.au
  
  The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
  
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• The shock return of Ivanka – and which jobs Don Jr and granddaughter Kai might have under Trump

  07-11-2024 20:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Between five children from three marriages, their partners and their 10 children, the 78-year-old has a dynasty worthy of any Tudor court, with just as much infighting, intrigue and ambition.
  
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• Mexico’s migrant caravan shrinks to half its size after Trump victory

  07-11-2024 19:41 via smh.com.au
  
  After hearing that Donald Trump had won the presidency again, many of those in the caravan felt less hopeful about their chance at a new life in the US.
  
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• US election results 2024 LIVE updates: Joe Biden speaks; Trump set to claim Arizona, Nevada after defeating Harris

  07-11-2024 17:44 via smh.com.au
  
  US President Joe Biden is preparing to address the nation as president-elect Donald Trump looks set to win more states.
  
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• US election results 2024 LIVE updates: Trump set to claim Arizona, Nevada after defeating Harris; Joe Biden to speak

  07-11-2024 14:26 via smh.com.au
  
  US President Joe Biden is preparing to address the nation as president-elect Donald Trump looks set to win more states.
  
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• US election results 2024 as it happened: PM speaks to Trump in first phone call; Harris offers hope to supporters in concession speech

  07-11-2024 13:47 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump has pulled off an extraordinary victory in the 2024 US presidential election, claiming more than the required 270 Electoral College votes to win back the White House.
  
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• Prosecutors say accused killer of Australians in the Philippines had gambling addiction

  07-11-2024 09:57 via smh.com.au
  
  They claim Ronel Estipona Perido was also motivated by revenge.
  
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• The group of men who helped Trump take back the White House

  07-11-2024 09:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Democrats have previously relied on big margins among voters of colour to offset the party’s falling popularity with white working-class Americans. But this election revealed a problem.
  
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• Joe Biden’s legacy: Made Trump Great Again

  07-11-2024 08:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The president’s hubris in staying on too long made it hard for Kamala Harris and easy for Donald Trump.
  
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• Trump to test limits of presidential power as Harris concedes but vows to ‘fight’

  07-11-2024 07:42 via smh.com.au
  
  The resounding victory by the ex-president allows for a reboot of his America First agenda as he consolidates power within the White House and pursues his enemies.
  
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• Trump to test limits of his presidential power as Harris concedes but vows to ‘fight’

  07-11-2024 07:42 via smh.com.au
  
  The resounding victory by the ex-president allows for a reboot of his America First agenda as he consolidates power within the White House and pursues his enemies.
  
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• What does Donald Trump’s election mean for the rest of the world?

  07-11-2024 06:54 via smh.com.au
  
  World leaders and institutions are bracing for a shake-up of the global order unlike any in modern history.
  
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• ‘Trump’s America’: Comeback victory signals a different kind of country

  07-11-2024 06:42 via smh.com.au
  
  Kamala Harris said Donald Trump was an outlier who did not represent America. He may, in fact, be exactly who they are.
  
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• Here’s why Trumpism is the new Reaganism, without the virtues

  07-11-2024 05:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Ronald Reagan sought to preserve democracy, freedom and liberty. Trumpism resembles none of that – and could well dominate American politics for a generation.
  
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• NZ government introduces bill to reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi

  07-11-2024 05:19 via smh.com.au
  
  The 1840 agreement between indigenous Māori and the British Crown is considered the nation’s founding document.
  
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• Someone got this horribly wrong, and his name is not Kamala Harris

  07-11-2024 05:05 via smh.com.au
  
  Many Democrats are casting President Joe Biden as a one-term president who set his party on a path to failure in 2024 against Donald Trump.
  
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