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Australia expels Iranian ambassador over antisemitic attacks
Watch: Iran orchestrated ‘dangerous acts of aggression’ in Australia, says Albanese Australia says it will expel Iran’s ambassador after alleging the country’s government directed antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the attacks were “extraordinary and dangerous acts of aggression orchestrated by a foreign nation”. Nobody was injured in the attacks,…
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Trump orders removal of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
President Donald Trump has said he will immediately remove Federal Reserve official Lisa Cook from her position, a major escalation in his battle against the US central bank. In an announcement made on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump posted a letter addressed to Cook in which he informed her of his decision to…
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South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung turns charm on during Trump meeting
Jean Mackenzie Seoul correspondent Watch: Trump says he wants to meet Kim Jong Un Hours before South Korean president Lee Jae Myung was due to meet US president Donald Trump, a Truth Social post dropped. “WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA?” Trump wrote, pointing to a “Purge or Revolution” – which many saw as…
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Ukraine’s naval band joins Scots Guards for joint performance
The Ukrainian Naval Band has joined the Band of the Scots Guards for a performance at Buckingham Palace to mark Ukraine’s independence day. The two bands played in formation at the changing of the guard on Monday, with the Scots Guards wearing their distinctive red tunics and bearskin hats, and the Ukrainian navy dressed in…
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Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images
Angus Crawford and Tony Smith BBC News Investigations BBC A victim of child sexual abuse has begged Elon Musk to stop links offering images of her abuse being posted on his social media platform X. “Hearing that my abuse – and the abuse of so many others – is still being circulated and commodified here…
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Mexican drug lord ‘El Mayo’ enters guilty plea
Mexican drug lord, Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, has entered a guilty plea to two drug smuggling and conspiracy charges in a court in New York, bringing an end to one of the longest and most notorious criminal careers in the history of organised crime. Zambada was not just any drug lord. He was the founder…
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How Taiwan is preparing for a China attack with acting, fake blood and fake missile attacks
BBC It was just another Friday morning on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, a few kilometres from the coast of China, when an air raid siren pierced the calm. At a local government office, people switched off their lights and dove under tables. Others fled to an underground car park. At a nearby hospital, staff…
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First human case of New World screwworm parasite confirmed in US
The first human case of a flesh-eating parasite infestation has been confirmed in the US, authorities say. New World screwworm (NWS) myiasis was found in a patient who returned to the US from El Salvador, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday. The case was confirmed on 4 August. NWS myiasis is…
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Lil Nas X pleads not guilty to felony charges after LA arrest
Christal Hayes BBC News, Los Angeles “This is an aberrant episode”: Lil Nas X appears in court Rapper Lil Nas X has pleaded not guilty to injuring a police officer and resisting arrest after he was detained last week while wandering the streets of Los Angeles in his underwear. The rapper, whose legal name is…
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Israeli double strike on Gaza hospital
Megan Fisher and Emir Nader BBC News, London and Jerusalem Reuters A man holds the equipment of journalist Hussam al-Masri who was filming a live TV feed from Nasser hospital A double Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza killed 20 people including journalists and health workers, according to the outlets they worked for, the…
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