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A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt fetched $236.4 million ($AU364m), becoming the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.

Two years after applying for safe haven from the Taliban in Australia, Jumaghul was given a lifeline, only for it to be revoked almost immediately.

A year after Biden lifted restrictions, Ukraine has openly acknowledged launching ATACMS strikes inside Russia.

The US is pushing the UN Security Council to support and enshrine Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan. But Israel, Hamas, Russia and others have objections.

Donald Trump has flagged he's willing to dramatically escalate his administration's confrontation with Venezuela, amid a US military escalation in the Caribbean.

Although Poland did not directly implicate Russia in the railway blast, Moscow has been accused of various acts of sabotage and destabilisation since the start of the Ukraine war.

The ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh has been sentenced to death for a crackdown on a student-led uprising said to have killed up to 1400 people.

Lawmakers pushing for the release of more files are planning a news conference at the Capitol on Tuesday alongside victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

German authorities have cancelled a planned auction after survivors’ groups and political leaders labelled the sale of nazi-era items unethical and unacceptable.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Democrats, with an eye to hammering Donald Trump, have released redacted Epstein emails in which the President’s name featured prominently.

Coalition MPs have backed a climate and energy policy that closely mirrors the one agreed by the Liberals last week, with leader Sussan Ley promising an “immediate” reduction in power prices.

There are hopes that more than 1000 Ukraine soldiers could be released from Russian captivity, with stalled prisoner exchange talks set to resume.

Sweeping changes have been announced to Britain's controversial asylum system as polls show immigration has overtaken the economy as voters' top concern.

Demonstrators are marching in Belem, Brazil, at the halfway point of United Nations climate talks.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Ukrainian investigators say a criminal organization led by a business partner of Zelensky siphoned off and then laundered $150 million.