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Footage filmed by a US immigration agent captures the moments before he fatally shot Minneapolis woman Renee Nicole Good.

Five key moments of ICE agent’s phone video

Phone video recorded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as he fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis has surfaced online, revealing new details about the hotly disputed incident.

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Heavily armed police have become commonplace at events in the wake of the Bondi terror attack. NewsWire / Christian Gilles

‘Sad’ call on beefed-up Aus Open security

Police officers armed with semiautomatic rifles will be deployed for the Australian Open in a move one senior political figure has branded a ‘sad sign of the times’.

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The United States military said Saturday that it hit multiple Islamic State targets across Syria in another retaliatory strike in response to an attack that killed American servicemembers.

‘We will find you’: US strikes ISIS targets across Syria

The United States military said Saturday that it hit multiple Islamic State targets across Syria in another retaliatory strike in response to an attack that killed American service members.

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Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey says anyone causing damage to property ?during demos will be arrested. (AP PHOTO)

‘Don’t take Trump’s bait’: Mayor warns keep ICE protests peaceful

Minneapolis police say 29 protesters have been detained amid protests against the killing of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

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Ahmed Al-Ahmed: Bondi hero’s health declines after busy US trip, including meeting Kevin Rudd.

Bondi hero Ahmed Al-Ahmed’s health declines on busy US trip

Bondi attack survivor Ahmed Al-Ahmed has suffered another health setback while in New York for medical treatment, after meeting Kevin Rudd and being honoured at a gala dinner.

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Protests have spread across Iran over two weeks with demonstrators demanding an end to clerical rule (AP PHOTO)

Death toll from Iran protest violence 'reaches 116'

Activists say the death toll in nationwide protests challenging Iran's government has reached at least 116 people.

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Shadow Minister for Communications Melissa McIntosh.

Beating ban is child’s play, Opposition claims

Circumventing Australia’s much-vaunted social media ban for under 16’s is child’s play, according to the Opposition.

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US President Donald Trump during a news conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. President Nicolas Maduro has been charged in the US after he was captured and flown out of Venezuela, following a series of airstrikes that mark an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration's months-long campaign against the country. Photographer: Nicole Combeau/Bloomberg

Upending a world of mixed morality

Donald Trump is an unashamedly polarising figure. Which is just how he likes it.

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‘We are going to do something on Greenland ?whether they like it or not,’ Donald Trump says. (EPA PHOTO)

‘LIKE IT OR NOT’: Trump ramps up threats to seize Greenland

WATCH: The United States needs to ‍own Greenland to prevent Russia or China from occupying it in the future, US President Donald Trump says.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 10, 2026: Police cordon at the crime scene on Newman Street at Merrylands on January 10, 2026 in Sydney, Australia. A 44 year old man has died in a shooting in Merrylands at about 6:40am on January 10, 2026. NewsWire / George Chan

Man shot dead in unit block

A man has been shot dead at a western Sydney unit block in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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Footage filmed by a US immigration agent captures the moments before he fatally shot Minneapolis woman Renee Nicole Good.

ICE agent’s own phone video captures fatal shooting

Dramatic footage filmed by a US immigration agent captures the moments before he fatally shot Minneapolis woman Renee Nicole Good, sparking nationwide protests and a federal investigation.

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Renee Nicole Good was shot dead by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

By killing Renee Good, ICE sent Americans a message

THE NEW YORK TIMES: White Americans might have thought themselves immune from ICE abuses, but the killing of Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three and widow of a military veteran, tests that assumption.

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Trump’s priority in capturing Maduro was not to restore democracy but to restore American oil companies’ dominance over Venezuelan oil extraction. 

The real reason Trump captured the Venezuelan president

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Trump’s priority in capturing Maduro was not to restore democracy but to restore American oil companies’ dominance over Venezuelan oil extraction. 

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One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson and One Nation member for New England Barnaby Joyce at Bondi Beach in Sydney.

One Nation claims ‘monumental result’ in latest poll

One Nation has claimed a ‘monumental result’ after a poll showed that, for the first time, it had the same amount of voter support as the Coalition.

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Australia’s eSafety Commissioner says she’s ‘deeply concerned’ by a surge of non-consensual generated sexualised images flooding Elon Musk’s platform X.

eSafety Commissioner ‘deeply concerned’ by X sexual images

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner says she’s ‘deeply concerned’ by a surge of non-consensual generated sexualised images flooding Elon Musk’s platform X.

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