Australia looks to review its migration laws and crack down on hate speech following Sunday’s mass shooting attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
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Trump’s new security strategy exposes the limits of NZ’s ‘softly-softly’ diplomacy
President Donald Trump’s recently-issued National Security Strategy marks a decisive break in United States foreign policy. It also poses an uncomfortable challenge for New Zealand and other countries that have long depended on a…
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China’s ByteDance signs deal to form joint venture to operate TikTok US app
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) – TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance signed binding agreements to form a joint venture that will hand control of operations of TikTok’s U.S. app to American and global investors, in a big step…
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Bondi paddle-out sends waves of ‘love and peace’ to honour shooting victims | Bondi beach terror attack
As the sun rose over Bondi beach on Friday, splashes and cheers echoed as thousands formed a circle in the ocean to honour the victims of Sunday’s terrorist attack and support the Jewish community.
Surfers, runners, pregnant women and children…
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Venezuelans brace for hardship as Trump threatens oil blockade – NPR
- Venezuelans brace for hardship as Trump threatens oil blockade NPR
- Trump orders blockade of ‘sanctioned oil tankers’ into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro AP News
- Does the US have any real claim on Venezuelan oil as Stephen Miller says?
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Did Trump’s speech comfort Americans struggling with high prices? : The NPR Politics Podcast : NPR
President Donald Trump speaks during an address to the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House,…
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Redefine Small Drones to Get Them to Warfighters | Proceedings – December 2025 Vol. 151/12/1,474 – U.S. Naval Institute
- Redefine Small Drones to Get Them to Warfighters | Proceedings – December 2025 Vol. 151/12/1,474 U.S. Naval Institute
- Training Like It’s 1993: We’re Still Not Doing Enough to Integrate Drones Modern War Institute –
- Special operators seek…
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Queensland police investigating Nazi symbol and offensive words graffitied on Brisbane mosque
Queensland police are investigating offensive graffiti, including a Nazi symbol, which was spray-painted onto a wall of a Brisbane mosque.
WARNING: The following story contains an image of a Nazi symbol.
Offensive words including “F**k Allah” and…
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Syrian home town of Ahmed al-Ahmed rallies around the Bondi hero, amid the rubble of civil war | Bondi beach terror attack
It has been almost 20 years since Ahmed al-Ahmed left Nayrab in the countryside near the north-western Syrian city of Idlib. But on Sunday, he was the talk of the town.
Nayrab’s residents awoke to a video of Ahmed wrestling a gun from a shooter…
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Democrats release latest batch of photos as Epstein deadline looms
House Oversight CommitteeThe House Oversight Committee has released a batch of around 70 photos from the estate of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
It’s the third such release from a tranche of over 95,000 photos the committee has…
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