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Ben Roberts-Smith attends Canberra event honouring Australian troops who served in Afghanistan
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Delhi braces for more protests as 'cockroach' group's leaders released
Police say they will keep restricting access to the city centre after 7,000 people were detained and released on Saturday.
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‘It was a terrible thing’: Panama declares state of emergency as quake aftershocks rattle communities
More than 100 aftershocks as high as magnitude-5.8 recorded after two quakes toppled buildings and prompted evacuations Panama’s government has declared a state of emergency on Saturday as the aftershocks of two powerful earthquakes that roiled the country shook communities for hours. Officials did not attribute any deaths to Friday’s 7.7- and 6.6-magnitude earthquakes, but reported damages in all 10 of Panama’s provinces and two Indigenous territories. Continue reading...
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A Trump impersonator and opera singers: CPAC was a spectacle, but the right still can’t agree how to take down Labor
Preferences proved the sticking point at the conference as conservatives face the prospect of a third successive election defeat Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast Many mainstream Australians would feel as if they’d been dropped in a foreign country at the Conservative Political Action Conference, lost amid oblique references to transgender swimmers, blue hair, women’s bathrooms, jokes about falling off stages and Matt Canavan in hi-vis and speed dealer sunnies . It’s an interesting spectacle. At this year’s conference in Brisbane, rightwing campaigner Monica Smit was deep in conversation with a Donald Trump impersonator, opera singers belted out the national anthem (the first verse, twice, for unknown reasons), senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and her folk singer husband sang the anthem again , and Karl Stefanovic jokingly thanking CPAC for “rudely interrupting
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Flash flood sweeps away buildings in Nepal
Flash flooding in Nepal has swept away buildings along the Budhi Gandaki river on Sunday.
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Vinicius apologises for hair-pull red card but could miss El Clasico
Real Madrid forward has a goal disallowed, is sent off for the hair-pull offence and could miss the next three games.
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How genocidal war on Gaza is shaping Israel’s election
Israel’s election signals not a demand for change, but deeper entrenchment of the jingoism unleashed after October 7.