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Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:31:09 +1100Malaysia plans to follow Australia’s under-16s social media ban
The South-East Asian nation will be closely watching how the Australian government’s social media reforms work when they kick in next month.
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:55:34 +1100Child-stabber who tried to kill friend to appease ‘Slender Man’ back in custody
She was aged 12 when her crime, inspired by an internet bogeyman, shocked the world. Now Morgan Geyser is back in custody after cutting off her ankle bracelet and disappearing.
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:30:00 +1100A weaker Trump should mean a bolder resistance – including on Ukraine
It’s no surprise that the initial 28-point peace plan is undergoing major surgery. The real surprise – and mystery – is how it was ever put forward.
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:33:07 +1100Rewrite begins on US peace plan for Ukraine amid Republican revolt
The White House said Ukraine’s concerns were satisfied during a high-stakes meeting in Geneva, with work to continue over coming days on the “emerging settlement framework”.
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:59:01 +1100They lived off-grid in Italy’s woods. Now their kids have been taken into care
Italy’s PM reportedly called the removal of the children from their Australian mother and British father “alarming”, while her deputy condemned the court decision.
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:29:25 +1100Trump fails the history test on Ukraine. Time for a second draft
Trump’s proposals deliver so many gains to Putin that they become a reward for war. Issuing the draft plan with a short deadline was a shameful act.
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:18:43 +1100Former British PM David Cameron reveals cancer diagnosis
Cameron disclosed his diagnosis in an interview to lend support to a British screening program for men most at-risk.
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:10:50 +1100Darwin waking to huge clean up after Tropical Cyclone Fina
Residents and businesses in Darwin are facing a huge clean up today after Tropical Cyclone Fina tore through the Top End.
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 04:31:56 +1100Israel targets senior Hezbollah official in first strike on Beirut in months
The Iran-backed militant group said the strike, launched almost exactly a year after a ceasefire ended that Israel-Hezbollah war, threatened an escalation of attacks.
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +1100The children were still sleeping when gun-toting men on motorcycles arrived at their school
Dozens of students, some as young as six, were forced into a large truck and taken away in the latest school kidnapping in Nigeria.
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:30:00 +1100I’ve seen first-hand what Trump showed the world with his piggy, horseface and slob insults
Donald Trump’s about-face on Mamdani and his fawning for the Saudis makes clear he admires charismatic winners more than he cares about ideology – or consistency.
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:09:19 +1100Trump boycotted the G20. Albanese and other world leaders stared him down
A senior Trump official branded it “shameful” that the meeting had forged ahead with a leaders’ declaration despite US opposition.
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +1100Largest exhibit of Indigenous art ever shown overseas opens in the US
Many of the artworks on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington had never left Australia before.
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:46:49 +1100Takeaways from heated UN climate talks in Brazil
Few countries got everything they wanted. And the venue even caught fire. Here’s what you need to know.
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:48:31 +1100Andrew should give evidence to Epstein committee, Starmer suggests
The former duke has been summoned by members of the US Congress to give evidence about his relationship with the disgraced financier.
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:19:10 +1100JFK’s granddaughter reveals terminal cancer diagnosis
Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, has revealed she has less than a year to live.
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:16:37 +1100Ukraine's allies push back on a US peace plan seen as favoring Moscow
Donald Trump's proposed peace plan for the Ukraine war with Russia has not been backed by some of the country's biggest allies.
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:43:29 +1100Western leaders say Trump’s plan ‘leaves Ukraine vulnerable’ and needs work
Meeting on the sidelines of a G20 summit, European and other Western leaders scrambled to come up with a coordinated response to US President Donald Trump’s demand for Ukraine to accept his 28-point peace plan with Russia by Thursday.
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +1100These people don’t believe in censoring art … unless it’s Israeli
Some of those who cried “censorship” over the cancellation of Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s representative at the next Venice Biennale are the same people who called for the banning of Israel’s Biennale artist last year.
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:37:25 +1100Trump praises Zohran Mamdani after meeting
President Donald Trump praised New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani following their meeting in the Oval Office.