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Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:38:03 +1000
Brazil monitors patients for Ebola as travellers return from Africa
The virus is also being detected across a widening swath of the DRC’s conflict-hit east as health authorities struggle to trace exposed contacts and determine the true scale of the epidemic.

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:30:00 +1000
There goes the sun! Beatles backlash over museum that will block daylight
There’s a row on Savile Row over a proposed seven-floor development that will allow visitors on to the rooftop where the band performed their legendary final live concert in London in 1969.

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:46:57 +1000
Inside Trump’s $US10b tax case: How loyalists cut a secret deal to drop audits
Discussions among a group of lawyers with allegiance to the president were closely held. Some senior White House officials were said to have felt blindsided as the agreement took shape.

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:01:51 +1000
Israeli flag flies from strategic castle in southern Lebanon after capture
Israeli troops have captured a strategic Crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon in the deepest incursion into the country in decades.

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:31:19 +1000
Israel seizes 12th-century Crusader fortress in deepest Lebanon incursion in decades
Israel raised its flag over the historic Beaufort Castle, presenting a fresh challenge to the emerging US-Iran deal to extend the ceasefire in the war.

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:55:00 +1000
Trumps sends peace deal changes to Iran
Negotiations to end the Iran deal have been delayed again.

Sun, 31 May 2026 21:19:19 +1000
Football fans clash with riot police in Paris
Football fans have clashed with riot police in Paris after the Champions League final.

Sun, 31 May 2026 18:26:50 +1000
Cave rescue mission becomes more dangerous
The difficult mission to rescue remaining villagers trapped in a cave in Laos has become even more dangerous with heavy rain flooding the chambers.

Sun, 31 May 2026 16:37:49 +1000
Laos cave rescue joy gives way to hunt for two missing villagers
The clock is ticking for the two men from the tiny village of Nampha, which is just a few kilometres from the cave they are trapped in, as volunteers and rescue crews race to save them.

Sun, 31 May 2026 14:09:50 +1000
Inside the town at the frontline of the Ebola epidemic
Medical workers, armed with the most rudimentary equipment and a dwindling supply of protective suits, masks and water, are waging a desperate fight against a deadly disease.

Sun, 31 May 2026 13:30:00 +1000
Trump appears indifferent to all the battles he’s losing. So what’s the deal?
Donald Trump’s presidency is in trouble, plagued by falling approval at home and disastrous decisions abroad. Yet he appears deliriously detached from his perilous plight.

Sun, 31 May 2026 10:35:26 +1000
Aussie Marilyn Monroe lookalike record set to be beaten in US
Hundreds of Marilyn Monroe lookalikes have gathered in California to beat a world record set in Australia to celebrate the icon's 100th birthday.

Sun, 31 May 2026 09:53:52 +1000
‘Number One Attraction’: Trump ready to headline concert as artists pull out
With a number of artists backing out of “The Great American State Fair”, an upcoming celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, Donald Trump says he is a better alternative.

Sun, 31 May 2026 09:45:00 +1000
Working from sun up to sun down, China’s delivery drivers caught in a price war
China’s army of food delivery drivers are paying the price as tech giants wage war for control over the lucrative market.

Sun, 31 May 2026 07:39:29 +1000
Villagers saved from Laos cave
Five men have been saved from a flooded cave in Laos after being trapped for 10 days.

Sat, 30 May 2026 19:39:37 +1000
Flotilla activists take evidence of alleged abuse to The Hague
Australians detained by Israel while attempting to deliver aid to Gaza have lodged serious abuse and mistreatment allegations with the International Criminal Court.

Sat, 30 May 2026 19:20:21 +1000
Four more Laos cave survivors rescued in delicate operation
The first of the group of five known survivors walked unsteadily from the cave with assistance, while four others were rescued on Saturday afternoon.

Sat, 30 May 2026 16:22:52 +1000
Hegseth praises Australia for ‘stepping up’ as he shifts tone on China
While the US defence secretary struck a more conciliatory tone on China, Defence Minister Richard Marles said the seabed was “becoming a battlefield”.

Sat, 30 May 2026 13:55:08 +1000
Trump in ‘excellent health’ and ‘fully fit’ to serve, his physician says
The exam, which the US president described as a six-month physical, was his fourth publicly disclosed medical exam since he returned to office for a second term.

Sat, 30 May 2026 13:30:00 +1000
New space-themed White House website casts immigrants as aliens, ‘subhuman’
The site uses language and imagery commonly associated with extraterrestrial aliens or UFOs, including green font and flying saucers, to describe a so-called “invasion” by undocumented migrants.

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