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US President Donald Trump greets CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk after a meeting with technology executives about artificial intelligence at the White House.

Inside Musk’s $400m midterm Republican rescue mission

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

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Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen say they carried out drone and ballistic missile attacks on the Saudi capital Riyadh, as well as energy sites on the country's Red Sea coast. Saudi authorities said they intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired at Riyadh on Saturday, without confirming any further strikes or causalities. Earlier, a column of black smoke was seen rising from fuel tanks near the Saudi capital's international airport, where flights were disrupted temporarily on Saturday.

Iran offers to mediate between its Houthi allies and Saudis

Iran has long backed the Houthis, a Yemeni militia, and it made the offer as Saudi Arabia contends with increasingly deadly attacks from them.

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Efforts to resolve the war have hit a road block as Iran is no longer responding to the US. (EPA PHOTO)

Iran snubs US as latest proposal deemed ‘insufficient’

A senior Iranian official says Tehran finds the latest US response to a proposal to end the war ‘insufficient’ and warns of attacks on regional data centres.

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For someone who prides himself as such a dealmaker, Donald Trump’s concessions to Russia are stunningly bad. 

Trump’s thirst for Russian diesel exposes betrayal, weakness

For someone who prides himself as such a dealmaker, Donald Trump’s concessions to Russia are stunningly bad. 

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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says Russia meddled in the 2016 Brexit vote. (EPA PHOTO)

UK PM’s bombshell claim about Russian interference in Brexit

Andy Burnham has become the first British prime ‌minister to say openly there was evidence of Russian interference in the Brexit referendum.

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said US President Donald Trump’s social media post about a ceasefire was the first he had heard of it.

Trump declares major breakthrough in Russia-Ukraine war

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said US President Donald Trump's social media post about a ceasefire was the first he had heard of it.

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Massive political protests are being held in India's capital of Delhi. (AP PHOTO)

Delhi locked down as thousands ‘Cockroach’ protesters detained

India's capital of Delhi is in lockdown as thousands of protesters, including the leader of the ‘Cockroach’ youth movement, are detained.

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Harrowing details have emerged of the moments before a man leapt into a tiger enclosure at a UK zoo and was mauled to death.

Slain man’s bizarre act before jumping into tiger enclosure

Confronting details have emerged of the moments before a man jumped into a tiger enclosure.

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Donald Trump has blamed Volodymyr Zelenskiy for global diesel shortages.

‘Time for new president’: Trump’s diesel-fuelled Zelenskiy jab

Donald Trump has called for Ukraine to replace President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, accusing him of rejecting multiple opportunities to end the war with Russia.

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A lectern bearing the logo of Anthropic during a company event in San Francisco, May 7, 2026.

Anthropic IPO investors grapple with cost of rogue AI risk

Investors considering Anthropic PBC’s planned mega-IPO are grappling with an unusual conundrum: How to value a company that some fear could help wipe out the human race.

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Indian students have become a major force in Australia’s migration story.

The migration mistake Australia could regret

The students Australia turns away today may be the skilled migrants we need tomorrow.

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US President Donald Trump.

Trump’s show of strength to intimidate Iran backfires

THE NEW YORK TIMES: A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.

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Yemeni government forces say they have made advances against Houthi rebels.

Three dead, eight injured as Houthis claim airport attack

Yemen's government says a suspected Houthi missile landed near the runway at Aden International Airport minutes before a flight from Cairo ​was ​due to land.

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A woman walks past the wreckage of destroyed buildings in Sloviansk, in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

Ukraine claws back land in the region Russia most covets

Moscow says its capture of the region is inevitable. But Kyiv has so far stymied Russian efforts to encircle Ukrainian ‘fortress belt’ cities.

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An armed Israeli soldier sits on the ground beside memorial markers at the Nova music festival site as Israel marks the third anniversary of the Oct. 7th 2023 attacks.

Israelis mourn Oct 7 attacks as Middle East’s divide deepens

Israelis mourned at the site of the Nova Music Festival, as well as at bomb shelters, intersections and in communities targeted in the deadliest day in the nation’s history three years ago.

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Joshua Kerry's DNA was allegedly found outside the door of Farage's home in April 2025. (EPA PHOTO)

Alleged killer of UK ex-MP in court for Farage plot

A man accused of murdering former British MP Ann Widdecombe has appeared in court charged with trying to break into the home ‌of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

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The US bombers that were the alleged target of a suspected terror plot in the UK have been moved. (EPA PHOTO)

New arrest in alleged terror plot targeting US air base

A seventh man has been charged over a suspected terror plot at a UK airbase that was housing US bombers which had been used to strike Iran.

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US President Donald Trump.

‘Concerned’: Trump’s allies come after AI safety advocates

After AI safety advocates captured Washington’s attention with dire warnings, the Trump administration and its allies embraced some of their suggestions, while moving to sideline the advocates themselves.

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