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Trump pushes executive power to postwar extremes with 221 Executive Orders in 2025

Donald Trump has surpassed his entire first-term output of executive orders within months of returning to the White House, using sweeping presidential directive...

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Sydney Bondi shooting: Terror charges laid as Australia moves towards gun law overhaul

Australian authorities have charged an assailant of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooting with 15 counts of murder and 40 counts of wounding with intent to murder

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Trump administration expands U.S. travel ban to seven additional countries

The White House has announced that, effective January 1, citizens from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria, Laos, Sierra Leone, and holders of Palesti...

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Thailand demands conditions from Cambodia as border clashes escalate

Thailand has outlined three strict conditions for a ceasefire with Cambodia amid ongoing cross-border clashes, as military tensions spike and Thai airstrikes hi...

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Australia mourns Bondi Beach victims as terror investigation deepens

Australia prepares to bury some of the 15 people killed in an antisemitic mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach

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Border clash death toll rises to 40, including 24 civilians, displacing hundreds of thousands

More schools close as Cambodia and Thailand heavy fighting persists along border regions with some 700,000 people leaving their homes

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Trump sues BBC for defamation over edited January 6 speech

Trump is seeking US$5 billion in damages for each of the lawsuit’s two counts for causing him overwhelming reputational and financial harm

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Trump labels illicit fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction in executive order

The U.S. President signs an executive order classifying illicit fentanyl and its precursor chemicals as weapons of mass destruction

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Bondi Beach attack driven by Islamic State ideology, says Albanese

Australia mourns one of its worst mass shootings in nearly 30 years after a targeted attack killed 15 people, with Albanese confirming the assailants were motiv...

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Brown Uni shooting: Authorities release new images, footage believed to show suspect

A widening manhunt is under way in Providence after a mass shooting at Brown University killed two students and wounded nine others, with attack being framed as...

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Thailand sets Feb 8 for general election after early dissolution of Parliament

Thailand’s Election Commission has announced that a general election will be held as endorsed by King Maha Vajiralongkorn amid renewed tensions along the Thai-C...

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Zelenskiy returns to Berlin for renewed U.S. talks as Europe weighs Ukraine’s security future

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is resuming negotiations with envoys of U.S. President Donald Trump in Berlin amid claims of progress towards ending the...

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Israeli raid on Syrian village claims lives of five in single family, escalating tensions

At least 13 villagers were killed in Beit Jin, southwestern Syria, during an Israeli military operation, including five members of one family