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Emails appear to show Peter Mandelson sent Jeffrey Epstein confidential documents in 2009. (AP PHOTO)

Why UK police want these unredacted Epstein file pages

UK police are seeking access to unredacted correspondence from the Jeffrey Epstein files. Here's why.

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The International Board of Peace body has been tasked with overseeing the Gaza Strip's future.

Hamas holds talks with peace board over Gaza Strip plan

Reports say Hamas members have met delegates from US President Donald Trump's ‘Board of Peace’ in Egypt to discuss the future of the Gaza Strip.

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The BBC says a Florida court where a case is set to be heard does not have jurisdiction over it.

‘Fight like hell’: Trump’s BBC lawsuit takes unexpected turn

Donald Trump’s legal battle with the BBC over a January 6 documentary has taken a new turn, with fresh arguments now before a US court.

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Officials say US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will still meet.

Trump threatens to delay Xi summit over Iran war

Donald Trump has warned that his planned summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping could be delayed as the US concentrates on the growing conflict with Iran.

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A drone struck a fuel tank at Dubai's airport, forcing a temporary closure of the site.

Dubai airport rattled by drone strike amid escalating war

Israel says it has drawn up plans for at least three more weeks of war as it hit sites across Iran while Iranian drone attacks temporarily shut Dubai airport.

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Garment workers inside a factory in Bangladesh on April 15, 2025.

How the Iran war is turning off lights 3000km away

Bangladesh’s government has gone as far as shutting down university campuses to save electricity — a drastic response to the global energy crunch caused by the war in the Persian Gulf.

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Flight EK407 left Melbourne at 10.52pm local time and was due to land in Dubai at 5.40am on Monday.

Aussies on Emirates flight face last-minute diversion

An Emirates flight that departed Australia on Sunday night bound for Dubai had to be diverted after the international airport was hit by a drone attack.

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Denmark's King Federik X and Queen Mary at Uluru.

Etiquette expert dissects Queen Mary’s behaviour Down Under

The Australian-born Queen’s behaviour during her trip back to her homeland may have taken some people by surprise.

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Aussies visiting or passing through the US have been warned they could be in for some serious delays. 

New advice issued for Aussies heading to travel hotspot

Smartraveller has issued updated advice for Australians visiting or passing through this popular destination.

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Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, was preparing to drive his kids to school in the Dallas area on Friday when agents in unmarked vehicles allegedly surrounded him and arrested him in front of his children.

Afghan special forces soldier’s shock death in ICE custody

An asylum seeker who worked alongside US Special Forces in Afghanistan has died after being arrested by ICE agents in Texas while taking his children to school.

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Synagogue attacker Ayman Mohamad Ghazali died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound during an exchange of gunfire with security guards.

US synagogue attacker wanted to avenge brother’s war death

The Israeli military says the brother of the man who drove a truck into a synagogue in Michigan last week was a Hezbollah commander who was killed in an Israeli air strike earlier this month.

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Donald Trump, Allies, Strait of Hormuz The Nightly

Trump leaves allies to carry burden as oil passage shut

Macho and cocky, the Trump Administration has been cock-a-hoop since its snatch-and-grab raid of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in January.

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In a symbolic gesture of hatred, nails are hammered into a mock American flag-draped coffin during a rally on Iran’s Quds Day (Jerusalem Day), an annual pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionism event, in Tehran, Iran, March 13, 2026. Ever since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, which toppled a brutally repressive, staunch American ally, the two country’s governments have repeatedly cast the other as evil. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)

‘Iran has been picking a fight’ since 1979 hostage crisis

The 1979 Tehran hostage crisis set the tone for the US-Iran relationship, with each decade marked by a cycle of confrontation.

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Mojtaba Khamenei has been conspicuously absent.

Dead or alive? Stunning new claim about Iran leader’s fate

The fate of Iran’s wounded supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is the subject of intense speculation as he remains conspicuously absent.

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