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An attack on a courthouse in Islamabad was the first major assault to hit Islamabad in more than a decade.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Two titans of the Australian community in London have declared Stephen Smith the most disappointing High Commissioner to ever represent the country in the UK.

Her sudden death is now under investigation by the FBI.

A critical splinter group of Democrats has joined with Republicans to back a spending package that omitted the concession their party had spent weeks demanding.

A lawyer for the US President said the BBC’s editing of a speech he gave on January 6 was ‘defamatory’. The broadcaster has apologised for an ‘error in judgment’.

A defiant Turkey has openly challenged Australia’s bid to jointly host next year’s climate summit with the Pacific, saying Ankara is poised to act as a bridge between richer and poorer countries. 

Two ISIS brides who returned to Australia in September have paved the way for others to follow in their footsteps, with one expert believing the pair did so with ‘a lot of help’ from the Government. 

Beijing’s military has criticised the proposed $12b upgrade of WA’s Henderson shipyard for US nuclear-powered submarines as placing ‘Australia in an increasingly precarious position’.

Authorities confirmed that first responders are shifting from a rescue to recovery operation and that authorities ‘do not expect to find anyone else alive in the area’.

During his campaign, New York City’s Mayor-elect promised free childcare and buses, 200,000 new units of affordable housing and city-owned grocery stores.

AARON PATRICK: The new leader of America’s largest city broke into Arabic in his victory speech, a moment that once would have been considered unimaginable.

China has been accused of widespread intellectual property theft and political meddling by Australia’s spy chief.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Zohran Mamdani, a once unheralded state lawmaker from Queens whose affordability platform and charisma fuelled a meteoric political rise, has become the 111th mayor of New York.

The US President made his comments in a television interview before posting to Truth Social that New Yorkers ‘really have no choice’ but to vote for former governor Andrew Cuomo.

Teachers are facing intense backlash after their group costume was ‘misunderstood’.