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Yashar party Gadi Eisenkot has argued Hamas will remain in power as long as Benjamin Netanyahu does.

Netanyahu’s rival makes election promise to crush Hamas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main election rival Gadi Eisenkot has vowed to end Hamas’ rule in the Gaza Strip if he is elected in this month's election.

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A firefighter at a compound hit by a strike in Kharkiv, northern Ukraine, on October 12, 2026.

Zelensky defies Trump in return to Russian refinery strikes

President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed overt frustration with the United States in an interview with The Financial Times. He had paused the strikes to comply with a demand from the US President

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US President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. Trump spoke at a campaign event in Tennessee after a three-judge panel dismissed another challenge to Tennessee’s new congressional district map that carves up what was the Republican-controlled state’s sole left-leaning minority district. Photographer: Ron Sachs/CNP/Bloomberg

Pentagon no longer livestreaming shooter’s execution: Trump

President Donald Trump announced the move regarding the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan following a wave of bipartisan criticism.

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Putin, Trump and the EU

Trump’s priorities questioned in rare rebuke as war rages

LATIKA M BOURKE: Norway’s Defence Minister gave a rare public rebuke of the US President amid the ongoing Russian war.

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Houthi forces say they have attacked the Aramco HQ in Saudi Arabia using drones and missiles. (EPA PHOTO)

‘Fires and destruction’: Houthis claim oil attack

Houthi rebels say they have hit the headquarters of the state-owned oil company Aramco in eastern Saudi Arabia.

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ‘we are with you’.

Zelensky gets UK welcome after ‘painful’ Trump snub

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been welcomed in ​Downing Street, with UK Prime Minister Andy ‌Burnham vowing to back Ukraine's ‘courageous fight’.

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 Starlink terminal camouflaged with a net near the eastern frontline in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in the summer of 2023.

Ukraine on brink as Starlink restricted amid Russia strikes

THE NEW YORK TIMES: A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.

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New details have surfaced revealing the life Perth man Simon Carman lived in Thailand in the months leading up to the alleged horrific murder of a Thai teenager.

Shock details emerge of Perth man’s life before Thai arrest

New details have surfaced revealing the life Perth man Simon Carman lived in Thailand in the months leading up to the alleged horrific murder of a Thai teenager. 

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New Greens Leader David Shoebridge is set to meet Ukraine’s Ambassador.

Ukraine stance ‘less sustainable than single-use plastic’

LATIKA M BOURKE: Head of intelligence committee says Greens leader David Shoebridge’s policy of banning weapons support for Ukraine is ‘less sustainable than single-use plastic’

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The Saudi-led coalition has bombed the al-Sabahah oil storage facility in Houthi-controlled Sana'a. (EPA PHOTO)

‘No justification’: Oil facilities hit in new escalation

New strikes overnight by the Saudi-led coalition on oil facilities in Yemen have marked a fresh escalation in the widening Middle East crisis.

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Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the highest honour in economics.

A Nobel prize for how to keep economies on an even keel

Two economists have won the profession’s highest honour for ideas that reshaped monetary policy. But a changing world is putting their models to the test.

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Police have arrested seven men over an alleged plot but all suspects have been released on bail. (AP PHOTO)

‘Highly likely’ Iran involved in UK terror plot: Burnham

Australia and the US have condemned ‘Iran's use of violent ​attacks’ as the UK blamed Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps for an air base security incident.

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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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