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Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:32:02 +1000
FBI seized 'top secret' documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home
The search warrant for Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home shows the FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:21:56 +1000
Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie on ventilator
Author Salman Rushdie is in a serious condition on a ventilator after being attacked on stage in New York.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:22:29 +1000
People exposed to COVID-19 may need three at-home tests: FDA
The new guidelines come as the highly transmissible BA.5 subvariant of Omicron continues to spread.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:20:02 +1000
Salman Rushdie stabbed onstage in New York
The Indian-born novelist, who spent years in hiding under death threats from Iran because of his writing, will likely lose an eye and suffered severed nerves in an arm.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 12:52:08 +1000
Donald Trump’s voters will lap up tale of unjust persecution by FBI
Republicans and independents have started to tire of his myopic focus on the “Big Lie” of a stolen election, and nothing riles up Trump followers like an existential fight against “The Establishment”.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 12:18:40 +1000
Europe should not be a ‘supermarket’ for rich Russians, says Zelensky
The Ukrainian president first urged a visa ban in an interview this week, saying Russians should live in their own world until they changed their philosophy. 

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 11:08:49 +1000
Joe Biden wins, US drug giants lose in major new bill
Despite the pharmaceutical industry’s spending at least $US142 millionon lobbying efforts, the $US430 billion Inflation Reduction Act to change climate, health and tax policies will become law. 

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:45:56 +1000
‘Exceptional’ drought reshapes food and energy supplies across Europe
In Western Europe, hydropower output dropped 20 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to the average, with low river and lake levels starving plants.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 07:25:47 +1000
FBI removed top secret documents from Trump’s home: officials
FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago this week removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, the US Justice Department says.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 05:00:00 +1000
America’s last stand against Trumpification: uphold the rule of law
The FBI raid on the residence of former president Donald Trump raises the stakes in a country torn apart by years of poisonous politics.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:27:05 +1000
US Justice Department addresses the FBI raids on Donald Trump home
US Attorney-General confirms FBI investigating Donald Trump after raid on the former president's home

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:34:26 +1000
Man sentenced to life in Fiji prison for murdering Australian UN aid worker wife
Henri Lusaka was sentenced to life in prison for strangling Jennifer Downes to death before placing coins on her eyes and sending a photograph of her body to her father.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:32:33 +1000
‘Urgent’: Strikes at Ukraine nuclear plant prompt UN chief to call for demilitarised zone
Ukraine’s Energoatom agency said the Zaporizhzhia complex has been struck five times, including near where radioactive materials are stored.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:16:06 +1000
Attorney-General breaks silence on raid, Trump agrees search warrant be made public
Hours after Merrick Garland said he approved the decision to execute a search warrant, a US outlet reported agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:00:09 +1000
Gunman who took hostages at Beirut bank to withdraw his money called ‘hero’
Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein took up to 10 people hostage in a bank in a desperate bid to withdraw his trapped savings to pay for his father’s medical bills.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:51:29 +1000
Estonia to ban Russians, Latvia deems Russia ‘terrorist’ state
Estonia wants Russia “to be unable to continue its ordinary international life also at the level of its citizens,” Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:49:21 +1000
Australian-born Kiribati judge fights ‘extraordinary’ deportation move
An Australian citizen and senior judge in Kiribati who is married to the opposition leader of the Pacific Island nation was detained by the government on Thursday.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:30:00 +1000
‘Poisoned’: Trump’s troubled relationship with the keepers of US secrets
Trump’s behaviour led to such mistrust that officials who gave him classified briefings occasionally erred on the side of withholding some sensitive details from him.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:31:45 +1000
Deputy shared graphic photos of dead Kobe Bryant at a bar: witness
A court in LA is hearing depositions in the privacy and public trust lawsuit brought by the NBA basketball star’s widow and other families.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:58:30 +1000
‘A storm is gathering’: Balance of power shifts between China and Taiwan
China has gone from being an impoverished nation unable to repel Taiwan’s propaganda missions to posing the greatest threat to peace in Asia in generations.



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