World News: Australia

Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 hours ago)

Donald Trump's top diplomat is trying to ease security security fears in Europe, in the same week the US President hit the continent hard in trade war.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 hours ago)

The French President has called on EU nations to stop all investment in the United States after Donald Trump announced a 20 per cent tariff on European imports.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 hours ago)

Cracks are appearing in Donald Trump's armour. Let's consider his self-inflicted wounds.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 hours ago)

His trade secretary says a recession would be "worth it” to restructure the US economy, while Trump plays it down but admits there could be bumps.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 hours ago)

Even Timor-Leste, whose biggest export to the US is coffee to Starbucks, made the list.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 hours ago)

Despite the death of another American in 2018, the "danger tourist” tried to contact the Sentinelese tribe that is off limits to visitors.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 hours ago)

During the 30-minute meeting, the far-right activist excoriated National Security Council officials in front of the president and their boss, Michael Waltz.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (8 hours ago)

Close to $2 trillion wiped off the US stock market following US President Donald Trump's tariff announcement.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (8 hours ago)

Millions of Americans are facing once-in-a-generation flooding after tornadoes and severe storms in multiple states.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (8 hours ago)

US President Donald Trump has spoken directly to Ukraine's president for the first time since the pair's White House blow up.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (9 hours ago)

As global markets roiled from the US president's tariff overhaul, his commerce secretary said the time for negotiation was over and other countries had to "change their ways”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (9 hours ago)

Trump is famously unpredictable, but his unifying theme is utterly consistent: the retrieval of national power. It is to make America great again.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (15 hours ago)

Donald Trump, ignoring the hopes of the world, perfectly fits Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (18 hours ago)

Though some US agencies already had strict rules on such relationships, a blanket "non-fraternisation” policy, as it is known, has been unheard of publicly since the Cold War.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (18 hours ago)

I've been looking at this mound of death for days. Those poor people trapped inside. What they endured, where they might be.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (21 hours ago)

The world is in uncharted territory thanks to the new US tariff regime.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (21 hours ago)

The US president unveiled his global tariff policy during a long and sometimes meandering press conference on what he dubbed "Liberation Day”. We analysed what he said.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (22 hours ago)

For weeks, the US president has insisted it would be a matter of "whatever they charge us, we charge them”. But it has become clear that isn't what's going on.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (24 hours ago)

China may be facing a 34 per cent economic penalty on exports, but Peter Hartcher says the US president has handed Xi Jinping a big favour on a silver platter.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A day ago)

Two men have been pulled alive from earthquake rubble after being trapped under the ruins of a Myanmar hotel for five days.

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The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by SMH picture editors

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A day ago)

Faced with the US president's push to more than double the alliance's spending targets, European diplomats are exploring a new method to count military investment.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A day ago)

The US president has been suggesting changes are coming, now his lieutenant's big unsuccessful gamble in Wisconsin on Wednesday has set tongues wagging.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A day ago)

US President Donald Trump has singled out Australian beef exporters, pledging to reciprocate biosecurity bans.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A day ago)

The US president singled out Australia's largest export to the US, beef, and said it was unfair that the country did not accept imports of American beef.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A day ago)

US President Donald Trump unveils 'Liberation Day' trade plan.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A day ago)

US President Donald Trump to announce sweeping tariffs plan, with Australia among the countries to be affected.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A day ago)

Israel says it will begin a major expansion of its military operation in Gaza, and seize large parts of the territory.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 days ago)

Donald Trump's billionaire sidekick said the poll would "determine the fate of Western civilisation”. It might also alter his image as a rainmaker for American conservatives.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 days ago)

Residents of a mostly abandoned village in Iceland refused to leave their homes even as molten rock broke through barriers set up to protect them.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 days ago)

Cory Booker made sure to say he would not give up the floor. With just a couple of glasses of water to sustain him, he's stayed standing to comply with Senate rules.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 days ago)

By disqualifying Marine Le Pen from the presidential race, the court has handed her an immense gift. Much like Donald Trump, she can position herself as a victim of an elite-driven conspiracy.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 days ago)

Some survivors filmed their ordeal as they waited to be rescued, trapped in tiny pockets of air between slabs of broken concrete.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 days ago)

US Attorney-General Pam Bondi said it was part of Donald Trump's agenda "to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 days ago)

Her spokesperson told British media Virginia Giuffre thought she was posting on her private Facebook page, rather than her public Instagram profile at the time. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 days ago)

US prosecutors to seek death sentence for Luigi Mangione, accused killer of healthcare boss.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 days ago)

Thousands of people have been evacuated after a volcano erupted in south-western Iceland, near the country's capital.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 days ago)

Multiple people are injured after a truck crashed into a crowd in Boston in the US, in an apparent accident.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

Athitaya and her colleagues were about to begin work on the seventh floor of a Bangkok tower when their leader snapped this picture. Then an earthquake struck.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

The United Nations has demanded "justice and answers” after the bodies of 15 emergency and aid workers were recovered from a mass grave in Gaza.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

As the event and its mixed messages about tariffs nears, the Donald Trump's White House appears to have liberated itself from reality.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

From Panama to Greenland, we examine the impacts of the US president in his second term.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

The US trade office has added to its list of grievances with Australia just before the Trump administration unveils a new tranche of tariffs.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

In a post on Instagram on Monday, the 41-year-old shared a picture from a hospital bed, showing bruises on her face.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

The cars have become targets for vandalism across several countries in response to Elon Musk's right-wing activism and his influence on Donald Trump.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

The five women claim they suffered "serious sexual abuse, harassment and mistreatment” while working for the billionaire ex-owner of Harrods.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

King Charles is returning to work after the side effects from cancer treatment forced him to skip official engagements.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

The death toll from Myanmar's 7.9 magnitude earthquake has now risen to more than 2270 people.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams who were stranded in space for nine months speak to media for first time.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (3 days ago)

In a ruling that potentially reshapes the European political landscape, a court has convicted the National Rally leader of embezzling European Union funds.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

A judge, a former politician and the head of the Young Republicans walk into a bar. No, it's not a joke – it's a Thursday night in Wisconsin and there's an election to be won.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

It is three days almost to the moment since the under-construction office tower collapsed in Bangkok. But miracles can happen, and the staging area is buzzing.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

The US has not been perfect in its application of soft power over the years, but diplomacy and aid are preferable to war and weapons.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

Friday's earthquake emptied Bangkok into the streets and now darkens routines that involve living and working dozens of storeys above ground.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

For Chae Ryan, the search for his identity has been a harrowing experience. He's not the only one.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

Videos uploaded to social media sites show the devastation caused by a magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck Mandalay on Friday, killing more than 1700. (Warning: footage may disturb some viewers)

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

Video from the launch shows the rocket taking off from the pad, flying into the air and then coming back down to crash into the sea in a fiery explosion.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has so far sent nothing to the earthquake disaster zone.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

A door camera captured the moment a small plane crashed into a home in the US.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

A private European aerospace company has hailed its first rocket launch as a success, even though the rocket crashed into the sea off Norway 30 seconds after liftoff.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

Prince Harry's been accused of harassment and bullying at scale after quitting a charity that he set up.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

The US president's comments suggest he is growing frustrated with his inability to strike a quick peace deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, which he promised in the election campaign.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

Experts warn the death toll from a devastating earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand could exceed 10,000.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (4 days ago)

US President Donald Trump says he's angry at Russia's President Vladimir Putin, as he works towards a Ukraine peace deal.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

A lack of heavy equipment means many across Myanmar are digging with their bare hands after the devastating earthquake.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

It's being called the Tesla Takedown, with hundreds of anti-Elon Musk protests held at Tesla dealerships around the world.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

Aye and her brother are holding vigil beside a four-storey mound of rubble in Thailand, hoping to get news for worried families in their home town 1000 kilometres away.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by SMH picture editors

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

The former girlfriend of the self-described misogynist says he beat and choked her in a Beverly Hills hotel earlier this month.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were reportedly detained by six officers in front of their three-year-old daughter after posting in a parent group chat.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

The blundering Signal chat may be the least of the Trump administration's dangerous moves. As a former senior spy put it, "we're shooting ourselves in the head, not the foot”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

Nurses at a maternity center in China's Yunnan Province rushed to protect newborn babies as tremors from Myanmar's deadly earthquake shook the region.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

For much of this past week, the US president was consumed by a single question. What should he do about national security adviser Michael Waltz?

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

The Myanmar military kept dropping bombs on its own country even after Friday's earthquake left at least 1600 people dead. The fate of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is unknown.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

More than 1600 people are dead and thousands more injured after a deadly earthquake rocked Myanmar.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

Prince Harry tried to use Sentebale, his African charity, as "an extension of the Sussex PR machine” to protect his wife's reputation, its chairman has claimed.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

Haven't we all written something nasty about someone, and accidentally texted it to them, or shared top level national secrets with an investigative journalist?

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

Some are predictable picks for their roles, most are not. Meet the people you'll be seeing a lot in the next three years.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (5 days ago)

The powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand on Friday, destroying buildings, a bridge and a dam. 

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (6 days ago)

The deal combines two of Musk's multiple portfolio companies, which also include automaker Tesla and SpaceX.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (6 days ago)

Although the violence of the Bangkok building collapse in the massive earthquake is sapping hope that the rest of the missing will be found alive, not all is lost.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (6 days ago)

The number of black cab drivers is rapidly declining with a number of factors being blamed including unbearable traffic congestion in the UK capital.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (6 days ago)

King Charles III smiled and waved to members of the public on Friday as he left his home in London, the day after a brief hospitalisation for the side effects from his cancer treatment.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (6 days ago)

Donald Trump is forging ahead with his plans to take over Greenland, with the US President insisting his country "has to have" it.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (6 days ago)

It is feared as many as 10,000 people have been killed after a massive earthquake rocked Myanmar.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (6 days ago)

Now the brilliant white streets and eight-lane roads of the capital Naypyitaw are veined with gaping splits and cracks, its prized airport in ruins.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (6 days ago)

The Queen's Reading Room started life as a lockdown book list but has evolved to become a registered charity, a popular podcast, an annual festival and more.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (6 days ago)

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US should take over Greenland and has not ruled out the possibility of using military force to do so.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (6 days ago)

A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand on Friday, destroying buildings, bridges and a monastery

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (6 days ago)

Holly and Josie were excited to have scored the final two seats on a snorkelling boat as they left their Bali hostel and headed to the port that morning. But what happened once onboard would leave them traumatised.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The huge tomb, buried seven metres underground, dates from 3600 years ago.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The climate activists made headlines by activities that included throwing soup on famous artworks, interrupting live theatre and spraying paint on Stonehenge.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The group of protesters, which included women in their 80s, grabbed the headlines with disruptive stunts that saw them arrested 3300 times in three years.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Europe and Britain will have to foot the bill for rebuilding what remains of the besieged nation, while the US scoops up its chief means of economic recovery.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by SMH picture editors

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

For US allies, including Australia, the Signal chat scandal is another reminder that this administration cares little for established norms and protocols.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The US is holding a gun to the head of Volodymyr Zelensky, demanding huge reparations payments and laying claim to half of Ukraine's oil, gas and hydrocarbon resources, almost all its metals and much of its infrastructure.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Dozens of foreign tourists were also rescued when the vessel sank off the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The 76-year-old monarch was "greatly disappointed” to cancel public appearances scheduled for Friday.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Speaking in Paris at the so-called Coalition of the Willing summit, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer accused Vladimir Putin of "playing games and playing for time”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Six people are dead and dozens of others have been rescued after a tourist submarine sank in the Egyptian Red Sea.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

I went to a Tastien fast food outlet to try the burger that's designed to knock McDonald's and KFC off their Beijing perch. Some come here just for the buns.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Drenched parts of western Queensland are bracing for another anxious night with more heavy falls expected.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Israel's prime minister has threatened to seize territory inside Gaza if Hamas doesn't hand over the remaining hostages from the October 7 attack.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The release of damning new text messages has cast doubt on the Trump administration's claim that no classified information was accidentally shared with a magazine editor.'

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The 30-year-old doctoral student was walking to meet friends for dinner when a man grabbed her on the footpath.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

President Donald Trump's attempt to sanitise the Signal chat scandal that has rocked the White House won't wash.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Details of a planned US airstrike in Yemen mistakenly shared with a journalist on the messaging app Signal were almost certainly classified information, military experts say.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The government may not be able to reverse the trend, which one Kiwi describes as abandoning "a sinking boat”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The high-level message exchange leak shows US leaders' view of all future collaboration with European allies as a trade.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Forget Free Willy, this is Silence of the Lambs. Shark experts are trying to figure out how and why these orcas are dispatching one of the ocean's fiercest predators.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

A secret directive issued by Xi Jinping in 2013 holds the key to the most successful one-party dictatorship in the world. Peter Hartcher in The Morning Edition says it appears the new US president has been reading it.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

An investigation triggered by the shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe found the group had manipulated its followers – known as "Moonies” – into donating money.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by SMH picture editors

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, had just left her home to meet with friends when she was detained by US Department of Homeland Security agents, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The Atlantic released the operational details sent by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to the breached Signal group after the Trump administration insisted the information wasn't classified.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

A trailer has been released for the Alec Baldwin western film that was hit by tragedy when a film crew member was fatally shot.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The British Charity Commission said it was looking into "concerns about the governance of Sentebale”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

America's National Security Advisor has taken responsibility for mistakenly adding a journalist to a group chat, where secretive plans for a military attack were discussed.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Palestinians tend to blame Israel for the death, destruction and hunger that the war in Gaza has inflicted. But some blame Hamas, too, for starting it in the first place.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Tens of thousands of people have been told to evacuate and a helicopter pilot has been killed trying to extinguish some of the worst fires the nation has ever experienced.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The US vice president said he didn't want to let his wife "have all that fun by herself” as he planned to visit a US military base in the territory.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

FBI officials have described attacks on Tesla cars and dealerships as domestic terrorism and have set up a new task force to combat them.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

A group of disgruntled Americans are pushing for millions of dollars in compensation from Australia, as part of US trade negotiations. Now they have a former ambassador on their side.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The Trump administration's attempt to manage the Signal group chat scandal has run the full gamut of downplay, disparage and deny – but not convincingly.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Top Trump officials grilled by senators over how a journalist was added to confidential group chat

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Two top national security leaders who were members of the highly sensitive Signal group chat discussing airstrikes in Yemen fronted a Senate hearing, denying that classified information had been shared.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Families of those who lost their lives over Ukraine 10 years ago want US President Donald Trump to ensure responsibility for the atrocity is included in any peace deal with Russia.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Ukraine and Russia agree on Black Sea ceasefire during talks in Saudi Arabia.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

For any other government, accidentally adding a journalist to a chat about military airstrikes would be a crisis. For Trump's, it's barely a blip on the radar.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Some say the death penalty is an ineffective deterrent to drug trafficking. Singapore's experience suggests otherwise.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The UN will start pulling its workers out of Gaza as the conflict claims a growing number of aid workers, medical personnel and journalists.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Washington is in shock after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic revealed he had been accidentally included in highly sensitive Signal messages about planned strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Blake McGrath was waiting for a flight in Dallas last year when he felt the need to bust a move. Now travellers at airports all over the world are doing the same thing.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

Israeli settlers allegedly beat up Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning film "No Other Land” (Footage: AP)

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

When it comes to diplomacy, Donald Trump wants an implicit or explicit display of personal gratitude from US allies.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

A portrait of the US president hanging in Colorado will be taken down after he demanded it be removed and claimed it was "purposefully distorted”.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

More than 1000 people have been arrested in Turkey over the past week, as major protests across the country continue.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

US President Donald Trump has chastised on social media actor George Clooney and artist who painted his portrait.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (A week ago)

The West thought China would be entranced by its freedoms. But now an American president is aping Beijing's repressive controls.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

Canadians will go to the polls at the end of April in an election that will be as much about their neighbour as their own country.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

Ismail Barhoum was reportedly being treated for wounds when the precision strike hit the hospital, killing him and four others, including a teenage patient, according to reports.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

New photos show Woods and Vanessa Trump – previously married to Donald Trump Jr – sprawling in a hammock, her arm draped across his chest as he gazes skyward.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

Greenland's PM is furious that Donald Trump is sending Mike Waltz and J.D. Vance's wife to the island, which he has vowed to take over "one way or the other”.

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The tally of casualties in the war between Israel and Hamas hit a new milestone on Sunday, as fresh Israeli strikes killed dozens, including a Hamas political leader.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

A passenger on the snorkelling boat that flipped in rough seas has recounted horrifying details of the tragedy, including how her badly injured daughter has been left traumatised by the death of Australian tourist Anna Blight.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

Despite attempts by the captain to control the boat, it was hit by multiple waves before capsizing.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls snap general election as he seeks mandate to oppose Donald Trump.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

Pope Francis finally released from hospital after his battle with double pneumonia.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

US special envoy says he trusts Russian President Vladimir Putin as new round of Ukraine ceasefire talks begin.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

The 88-year-old pontiff will require at least two months of rest, rehabilitation and convalescence at the Vatican, his doctors say.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

Israel has launched airstrikes on several locations in Lebanon in retaliation for a rocket attack, killing six people

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

The hits on Lebanon came as Palestinian militant group Hamas said an Israeli strike in Gaza killed a senior Hamas political leader and his wife.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

Anna Blight, who is believed to have become trapped under a capsized tour vessel, has been remembered for her "generosity and integrity” and as a true friend.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

Israel has launched its biggest attack on Lebanon since a ceasefire came into effect four months ago.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

Australia's shipping industry says a US proposal to impose "extreme” fees on China-linked ships that visit its ports will hurt trade and could lead to business failures and job losses.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

As Heathrow's operations began to return to normal, its chief executive blamed the external power failure and said similar disruptions could happen at other airports.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

President Donald Trump wants a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect US from long-range missile strikes, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

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Sydney Morning Herald - World (2 weeks ago)

A fire has broken out at the Epcot theme park in Florida.

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