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Noe ousted White House national security adviser Mike Waltz, left, and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.

‘They fired the wrong guy’: Blowtorch turns to Hegseth as Waltz pays for Signalgate

US President Donald Trump has removed national security adviser Mike Waltz from his post and sent him off to be an ambassador to the United Nations, a body the president holds in contempt.

  • Michael Koziol

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Dinh Nguyen escaped from Vietnam after more than six years in a “re-education camp” after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.

When Saigon fell, Dinh Nguyen was condemned to torment beyond imagining

Dinh Nguyen has lived through pain and loss inconceivable to most of us. But on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, he says he lives in heaven now.

  • Tony Wright
Flowers and toys left on a swing seat to commemorate victims killed in Russia’s missile attack on a children play area in Kryvyi Rih.

Russia says it hit a group of military personnel. The UN says they were beauticians

The strike on Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town was the deadliest for children so far. Some victims were found in a playground.

  • Andrew E. Kramer
Munther Abed, 27, a volunteer paramedic, said he had been detained after surviving an earlier attack on the missing ambulance that killed two other crew members.

‘I saw everything’: Doctor recounts Israeli attack on paramedics, filmed on dead worker’s phone

The Israeli military now says its initial version of events was “mistaken” after footage surfaced of the 15 killings, which have drawn international condemnation.

  • Vivian Yee and Bilal Shbair
In a still image taken from video provided to The New York Times, the moment Israeli troops opened fire on a group of medics in Gaza in late March 2025.

Israel admits initial account of medic killings was partly ‘mistaken’ after phone footage emerges

The video appeared to contradict Israel’s earlier version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.

  • Isabel Kershner
Premier David Crisafulli has defended the Queensland LNP government’s ongoing law and order reforms.

Crisafulli redefines human rights, tells UN to stay out of Queensland

In Wednesday’s heated session of parliament, Premier David Crisafulli defended his government’s law and order reforms.

  • Sean Parnell
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UN described the finding as a mass grave containing the bodies of 15 rescuer workers. UN officials said the workers were killed by Israeli fire after the group went missing on March 23. The location has not been disclosed.

Emergency crews ‘struck one after another’ as they searched for missing colleagues

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.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Lee Keath and Fatma Khaled
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office.

Hillary Clinton on Trump’s ‘dumb power’: it’s feeble, friendless, stupid and lethal

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”.

  • Hillary Clinton
Hossam Shabat

‘If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed’: The final words of a young Palestinian reporter

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

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel on Thursday (AEDT).

‘Catastrophic’: Israeli strikes kill dozens at home in Gaza after ground troops return

Israel warned attacks would increase. Now Hamas says the advance of ground forces in Gaza is a clear sign that Israel has backed out of the truce.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Julia Frankel and Samy Magdy

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