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A No 10 Squadron (10SQN) MC-55A Peregrine aircraft taxis into position for the first time in front of the new 10SQN hangar at RAAF Base Edinburgh SA.

Australia’s new $2.5b spy plane has finally landed

EXCLUSIVE: The $2.5 billion project to create a world-leading asset for detecting and countering foreign threats finally bears fruit at RAAF’s South Australia base.

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Billions of dollars are trading hands on prediction market sites like Polymarket and Kalshi, where people bet on everything from Taylor Swift’s wedding date to election outcomes.

All bets are on: The rapid rise of prediction markets

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Billions of dollars are trading hands on sites like Polymarket and Kalshi, where people bet on everything from Taylor Swift’s wedding date to election outcomes.

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AI will affect the way election campaigns are conducted in future, an election review has found. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

The huge election campaign threat that has parties worried

Labor's review of its thumping 2025 federal election victory has found the biggest threat to its future success might lie beyond the floundering opposition.

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Concept art for ’New Gaza’ shown by Jared Kushner at a signing ceremony for the proposed Board of Peace, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, on Thursday, January 22, 2026.

‘Catastrophic success’: Skyscraper-studded Gaza bid revealed

The plan would require investment of at least $US25 billion in the devastated Palestinian enclave, according to the proposal.

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US President Donald Trump during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.

Trump sues America’s biggest bank and CEO over debanking

US President suing JPMorgan Chase and CEO Jamie Dimon for closing accounts belonging to Mr Trump and related entities in early 2021, in what the lawsuit calls political actions.

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The Albanese government revealed this week it would ask the Productivity Commission to probe allegations of dumping in the steel industry.

Labor tight-lipped amid China steel dumping threat

Tim Ayres has remained tight-lipped on the possibility of a new trade clash with China after steel manufacturers called for tariffs and quotas.

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Donald Trump says the United States ‍has an ‘armada’ heading toward Iran but hopes he will not have to use it

Trump warns US 'armada' heading toward Iran

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and several guided-missile destroyers will arrive in the Middle East in the coming days.

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A number of world leaders applaud as US President Donald Trump, centre, holds a signing founding charter at the "Board of Peace" meeting during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 22, 2026..

Why many US allies aren’t buying into Trump’s Board of Peace

The new peace board was initially envisioned as a small group of world leaders overseeing the Gaza ceasefire, but it has morphed into something far more ambitious.

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Despite his retreat on Greenland, Donald Trump’s erratic displays at Davos have rattled many European leaders already grappling with Russia’s new ambitions.
The United States says it has no plans to rejoin the World Health Organisation. (AP PHOTO)

US officially withdraws from World Health Organisation

The US says it plans to work directly with other countries - rather than the World Health Organisation - on disease surveillance and other health priorities.

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Donald Trump has a message for Vladimir Putin after meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky in Davos.

Trump’s five word message to Putin after Zelensky meeting

US President Donald Trump says he has had ‘good’ talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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David Littleproud and Sussan Ley could face leadership challenges after the Federal Coalition split.

Ley insists she’ll remain leader, claims backing by Liberals

After keeping silent on Thursday, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says she won't give into demands from the Nationals that she step down to save the Coalition.

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Liberal MP Melissa McIntosh has labelled ABC’s ‘Always Was Tonight program which aired on the taxpayer-funded broadcaster this week as ‘distasteful and divisive’.

ABC should apologise for ‘disgraceful’ comedy show: McIntosh

Melissa McIntosh has called for ABC executives to apologise over a ‘disgraceful’ comedy show she claims is ‘further fuelling division’ and featured children in spit hoods with references to the Ku Klux Klan.

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World leaders desperately need to stand up to Trump and push back on his tariffs.

Please world leaders, don’t appease Donald Trump

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump pounces on weakness, but retreats from strength. That’s why world leaders desperately need to stand up to Trump and push back on his tariffs.

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Anthony Albanese MP, Prime Minister of Australia during the Australian National Day of Mourning, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Thursday, January 22, 2026.

‘I am sorry’: Albanese apologises to Jews for Bondi attack

The Prime Minister has apologised to the Australian Jewish community as thousands gathered across the country to mark the National Day of Mourning for victims of the Bondi terror attack.

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