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Paramount files lawsuit in pursuit of Warner Bros Discovery, threatens proxy fight
13 Jan 2026Paramount is taking its pursuit of CNN's parent company Warner Bros. Discovery to court.
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Australian bushfires: NZ asked for help to battle blazes
12 Jan 2026FENZ says a team of fire-fighters trained for arduous conditions is being put together.
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Hundreds of structures destroyed in Victorian bushfires
12 Jan 2026Across the Australian state, residents return home to take stock of the devastation.
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Truck ploughs into crowd at US rally for Iran
12 Jan 2026It is not yet known how many have been injured.
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Venezuela has a ton of oil. It also has something else America needs
12 Jan 2026The country's other commodities have also caught his administration's attention.
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AI tool Grok blocked by Indonesia, Malaysia over sexualized images in world first
12 Jan 2026International pressure is mounting on Elon Musk to rein in Grok amid a viral trend where users ask the AI tool to generate explicit deepfakes.
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Cuban leader Diaz-Canel tells Trump: 'No-one dictates what we do'
12 Jan 2026The US president warns that Havana will be cut off from Venezuelan oil and money that it's relied on for decades.
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Australia recalls parliament early to pass hate speech, gun laws
Parliament was due to return from its summer break on 3 February, but will gather two weeks sooner, after the Bondi mass shooting.
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'Hero of Bondi Junction' stabbings diagnosed with rare cancer
12 Jan 2026NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott was praised for bringing the 2024 stabbing attack at a Sydney shopping mall to an end.
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Golden Globes 2026: All the winners
12 Jan 2026The Pitt and Adolescence had a good night at the first major awards show of the year.
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Trump says Iran 'want to negotiate', after reports of hundreds killed in protests
12 Jan 2026But Iran's parliament speaker said his government would resist any intervention, calling US military and shipping "legitimate targets".
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US Fed chair threatened with criminal charges
12 Jan 2026Jerome Powell says the threat is a "pretext" by the Trump administration aimed at putting further pressure on the central bank to lower interest rates.
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Meta kicks half a million Aussie kids off its platforms
12 Jan 2026The social media giant says it removed 330,000 users from Instagram, 173,000 from Facebook and 39,000 from Threads in December.
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Who are ICE agents and what exactly can they do?
12 Jan 2026Explainer - America has been in an uproar the past week over the actions of ICE agents after the shooting of a Minneapolis woman. But who exactly are they?
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Trump weighs potential military strike in Iran
12 Jan 2026The US Pesident is seriously considering action as the death toll in Iran continues to rise.
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Bondi man charged after wearing vest covered in duct-taped objects
12 Jan 2026Officers attached to Operation Shelter were called to Oxford Street about 10pm on Sunday following reports of suspicious behaviour.
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Ignore emails asking for password reset, Instagram warns
12 Jan 2026The social media company has told users there was no breach of its systems and all accounts were secure.
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Human heads hung on Ecuador beach in warning to gangs
12 Jan 2026Ecuadoran police on Sunday found five human heads hung on display on a tourist beach.
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A thousand Kyiv apartment blocks still without heating after Russian strike
12 Jan 2026The war's fourth winter could be its coldest and darkest days yet.
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Person killed as bushfires devastate Australian communities
12 Jan 2026The death of a person has marked a fatal turn for a bushfire emergency that has devastated communities across Victoria.
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Deaths from Iran protests reaches more than 500, rights group says
12 Jan 2026US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to intervene if force is used on protesters. Audio
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Ten movies we can't wait to see in 2026
12 Jan 2026Timothée Chalamet's ascension to major leading-man status, a "Māori gothic" and a Spielberg mystery are on the agenda.
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Your dog's dinner could be worse for the planet than your own
Cutting down on meat helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture. But what about the meat that our pet dogs eat?
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Anti‑ICE protests held across US after agent's fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis
12 Jan 2026Protesters are demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good.
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