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Trump insider says Greenland will be part of the US 'soon'.

‘Soon’: Trump insider's Greenland claim after Venezuela

After the brazen US attack on Venezuela, which saw a president captured and taken to New York to face criminal charges, murmurs are growing that Greenland is next on Donald Trump’s hit list. 

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Former senator Mark Bishop has attacked Anthony Albanese for refusing to call a royal commission into the Bondi terror attack

Labor veteran fears second attack without royal commission

The former leading Labor senator also lashed the Prime Minister, claiming his reluctance call a Bondi terror attack royal commission was driven by his need to politically safeguard his Western Sydney MPs.

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Victorian deputy leader of the Liberal Party Sam Groth won't contest his seat at the state election. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

'Extremely challenging': Liberal star to quit politics

A former tennis ace turned Liberal MP has taken aim at members of his own party in his decision not to contest the next election after a ‘challenging period’.

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The Government is under increasing pressure to hold a federal inquiry into the Bondi massacre.

Pressure mounts on PM as Independents demand Bondi inquiry

The Federal Government is facing more demands to set up a royal commission in the wake of the nation's worst mass shooting in decades.

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Uncertainty remains after the US attack on Venezuela.

‘Big price’: Trump’s chilling warning as new leader selected

Venezuela officially has a new acting president after Donald Trump directed an attack on Caracas and the capture of Nicholas Maduro, issuing a chilling threat to the new leader.

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FILE: Ciudad Ojeda on Lake Maracaibo, an important shipping route with the lakes oil rigs located in the Zulia State in Venezuela, South America.

The obstacles to Trump’s plan for Venezuelan oil windfall

There’s a familiar ring to Donald Trump’s plan to send US energy giants to Venezuela to use the wealth generated from rekindling oil production to stabilise that country and cement American energy dominance.

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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is being held in New York after being captured in a US raid. (AP PHOTO)

‘Unity’: Venezuela’s interim government stands behind Maduro

Venezuela's toppled leader Nicolás Maduro is in a New York detention centre awaiting drug charges as a minister in Caracas says the Government still backs him.

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Australian Olympic legend Dawn Fraser laying flowers at the memorial at Bondi Pavilion.

Joint Bondi royal commission best path forward: expert

If the Albanese government is willing to cooperate with a NSW royal commission into the Bondi shooting, it should call a joint inquiry as the only way to guarantee no bureaucratic hold-ups, a top expert says.

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Anthony Albanese has called for a peaceful transition in Venezuela.

Australian-Venezuelans react to shock US strikes

Australia’s Venezuelan community processes the complex fallout of the strikes as Anthony Albanese urges Donald Trump and Venezuelan leaders to pursue a peaceful transition.

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New York Police officers gather outside the Metropolitan Detention Center shortly after the arrival of captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Maduro’s new home: Venezuelan President locked up

A complex operation to bring Venezuelan President Nichols Maduro to the United States on Federal drug charges has wrapped up, with the leader now seen walking in chains.

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago after the attack.

Drugs, oil and threats: Trump’s cocky move could bring chaos

LATIKA M BOURKE: Is this a coup, regime change, or a slide into chaos? The next few days may clarify the answers to these questions and what happens next. But if they don’t, danger looms.

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FILE — Venezuela’s autocratic ruler Nicolás Maduro waves the country’s flag during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 1, 2025.

How US Federal court would handle the trial of a president

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro is now in a New York prison. Some of what happens next is predictable, but the extraordinary nature of the case makes much unclear.

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'We shed no tears about the end of his regime,’ Keir Starmer says of Venezuela's Maduro. (AP PHOTO)

British PM will 'shed no tears' over Venezuela's Maduro

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is adopting a less publicly critical ​approach than most other European leaders to the US invasion of Venezuela.

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Donald Trump shares image of captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

‘Captured’: Trump shares first pic of Venezuelan President

US President Donald Trump has published the first photo of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, blindfolded on board a US warship, after capturing the leader and his wife in a military operation.

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