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Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:00:00 +1100
A prominent US TV host’s mother vanished. Police are now treating it as a crime
Investigators believe the 84-year-old, who disappeared from her home near Tucson, Arizona, was abducted.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:43:14 +1100
Trump threatens to sue Grammys' host
US President Donald Trump is threatening to sue Grammys host Trevor Noah over a joke referencing Jeffrey Epstein.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:55:03 +1100
Rafah border crossing reopens for Gaza evacuees
The Rafah border crossing has reopened for a limited number of Palestinians requiring medical treatment.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:30:00 +1100
In Italy, church and state investigate the appearance of an angel seemingly modelled on Meloni
Officials are trying to find out how a religious artwork came to take on striking likeness to the Italian prime minister.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:06:00 +1100
Painting on wall of chapel that resembles premier Giorgia Meloni creates uproar in Rome
Painting on wall of chapel that resembles premier Giorgia Meloni creates uproar in Rome

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:48:28 +1100
Clintons raise white flag after months-long battle to avoid testifying on Epstein
Bill and Hillary Clinton have claimed the push to make them testify is part of a plot to target them as US President Donald Trump’s political adversaries.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:13:30 +1100
British politician Peter Mandelson faces fresh scrutiny over Epstein ties
Peter Mandelson is being urged to quit the UK Parliament over new allegations about ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +1100
Trump’s TACO backdowns are no accident. It’s how he expands his power
With all Donald Trump’s backtracking he must be losing the political battle, right? Wrong: this is exactly how he wants to operate.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:27:12 +1100
‘Baby boy’: Fergie email claims Epstein had a secret child
In a separate document, a teenage girl claimed in a diary entry that the daughter she shared with Epstein was taken away from her minutes after birth.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:53:09 +1100
'Melania' trailer
The trailer for the upcoming documentary 'Melania', about First Lady Melania Trump.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:53:30 +1100
‘Under pressure’: UK politician sent Epstein details of Australian mining tax
Peter Mandelson, a former cabinet minister now facing calls for a police inquiry into his ties to the sex offender, forwarded private documents with his view that pressure needed “to be maintained” over Kevin Rudd’s doomed tax plan.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:00:14 +1100
Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopens for limited traffic in key step for ceasefire
The number of travellers is expected to increase over time if the system is successful. Israel has said it and Egypt will vet people for exit and entry.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +1100
Trump renamed my beloved Kennedy Centre. Now, shamefully, he’s shuttering it
After Donald Trump added his own name to Washington’s mecca for the performing arts, few wanted to perform there.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +1100
Why the ghost of Epstein is driving Trump’s war ‘pageant’
In the 1997 movie Wag the Dog, the US president creates a fictional foreign war to distract attention from a sex scandal. Is life imitating art?

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:00:00 +1100
Son of Norway’s crown princess detained on fresh allegations ahead of trial
Marius Borg Høiby, son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit and stepson to Crown Prince Haakon, was apprehended on suspicion of causing bodily harm, wielding a knife and violating a restraining order.

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:05:00 +1100
Epstein links to Putin stoke fears he was a Russian agent
Some suggest the disgraced financier may have been running a “kompromat” scheme, “the world’s largest honey-trap operation” to blackmail prominent Americans.

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:00:00 +1100
Nepal travel executives arrested for scamming millions with fake mountain rescues
Fake documents, including passenger and cargo manifests for helicopter flights, medical invoices and hospital reports, were allegedly sent to insurance companies.

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:57:59 +1100
How the Epstein files exposed the rich, the royal and the European elite
The latest disclosures reveal more about the full scale of Jeffrey Epstein’s network, well beyond the US and the UK, unmasking those who cosied up to the sex offender.

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:49:46 +1100
‘Lust for unbridled power’: Judge blasts Trump administration over boy, 5, seized by ICE
The judge said the use of “administrative warrants”, issued by immigration officials, “is called the fox guarding the henhouse”.

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:14:22 +1100
Rafah crossing partially reopens in Gaza
The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, a key entry point for humanitarian aid, has partially reopened.

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