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Australian opposition leader faces spill motion
12 Feb 2026A letter was provided to Sussan Ley to call for an urgent party room, where a spill would be called.
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Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek dies aged 48
12 Feb 2026Van Der Beek rose to fame for his role as Dawson in the teen drama series.
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Democrats accuse US attorney general of Epstein 'cover-up'
12 Feb 2026Pam Bondi is defending the US Justice Department's handling of the records about the convicted sex offender at a fiery hearing attended by several Epstein victims.
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Trump tells Netanyahu, he will continue talks with Iran
12 Feb 2026The two leaders have met for the seventh time in nearly 13 months.
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Australian boy's emergency call to save family swept to sea released
12 Feb 2026Austin explains to the operator his family are "kilometres out to sea" and his mother has asked him to fetch help.
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Cyclone Gezani tears through Madagascar, kills at least 31
12 Feb 2026More than 2,740 residents were evacuated as a precaution after the cyclone struck coastal communities before moving inland.
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Ukraine will only hold elections after ceasefire, Zelensky says
Elections in Ukraine have been effectively suspended since Russia invaded in 2022 due to martial law.
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Britney Spears sells rights to music catalogue in reported $330m deal
12 Feb 2026The deal includes her songs such as '(You Drive Me) Crazy', 'Circus', 'Gimme More' and 'I'm a Slave 4 U'.
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UK police hope to make speedy decision over investigation into king's brother Andrew
12 Feb 2026Police are considering a full investigation into allegations that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential trade documents with late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Canadians 'devastated' as 10 killed in school shooting
12 Feb 2026As many as 25 people were hurt during the shooting in British Columbia.
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Person detained over kidnap of Nancy Guthrie
12 Feb 2026The FBI earlier released photos of an apparent suspect in the abduction of US TV anchor's mother 10 days ago.
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Supersized fatberg blamed for mysterious balls on Sydney beaches
11 Feb 2026Sydney has a supersized problem: a giant fatberg lodged in a critical sewer, and it could be stuck there for some time.
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Canada built a bridge - now Trump wants half
11 Feb 2026Analysis: Is Trump's threat to block the opening of a bridge to Canada a next-level negotiation or a misunderstanding of the facts?
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More names revealed in Epstein files
11 Feb 2026The newly unredacted names include a billionaire business magnate and a former French modeling agent.
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Trump admin removes Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument
11 Feb 2026It is the United States' first national monument to LGBTQ rights.
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'Do you think you're going to hell?' US immigration bosses questioned
11 Feb 2026By Brad Ryan, ABC News The top officials carrying out Donald Trump's mass deportation plan have come under fiery questioning from Democrats, who have levelled a litany of complaints against...
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Trump told police 'everyone has known' about Epstein's misconduct in mid-2000s
11 Feb 2026The now US President called the Palm Beach Police Department to express gratitude, a newly released document says.
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FBI releases images of person in mask at Nancy Guthrie's house
11 Feb 2026Officials have released video of an armed, masked person tampering with the doorbell camera at Nancy Guthrie's home before her disappearance.
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Yes, new tea towels are worse at drying dishes than old ones
11 Feb 2026We all know that old faithful dries dishes better, even if we can't quite explain why.
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Citizen scientists work on 100-million-year-old fossil in outback Queensland
11 Feb 2026Participants from across Australia and the world travelled to outback Queensland to clean up the near-complete ichthyosaur fossil.
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Israeli strikes kill five in Gaza, health officials say
11 Feb 2026Israeli airstrikes and gunfire have killed five Palestinians in Gaza, health officials say, the latest violence to undermine a four-month-old, US-brokered truce in the enclave.
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Ukrainian banned from wearing 'helmet of remembrance' at Games
11 Feb 2026Vladyslav Heraskevych wanted to wear the helmet in the skeleton competition in honour of those killed in the war with Russia in the skeleton competition at the Winter Olympics.
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Chappell Roan leaves talent agency over Epstein files fallout
10 Feb 2026Casey Wasserman has faced criticism for flirtatious email exchanges with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell more than 20 years ago.
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New York seeks rights for beloved but illegal 'bodega cats'
10 Feb 2026Praised for warding off pests, so-called bodega cats are also a cultural fixture for New Yorkers, some of whom are now pushing to enshrine legal rights for the little store helpers.
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