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Rudd urges Beijing to press North Korea to ‘cease and desist’ over Ukraine
North Korean forces entering Russia’s war with Ukraine could have implications for areas outside Europe, warns former PM Kevin Rudd.
- by Rob Harris
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Turkish jets strike in retaliation to ‘terrorist’ attack at defence company that killed five
The strike comes after suspected Kurdish militants set off explosives and opened fire at Turkey’s state-run aerospace and defence company TUSAS.
- by Suzan Fraser
Australian gaming billionaire ‘beat up’ in failed Estonian kidnap plot
The men allegedly posed as painter-decorators, wore hi-vis vests and entered the stairwell of an Old Town apartment building where Tim Heath lives.
- by Rob Harris
Woman at centre of France’s mass rape trial says she’s been ‘totally destroyed’
Gisele Pelicot, the 72-year-old victim of mass rape, said she was determined that making her case public should help other women and change society.
- by Marc Leras
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Russia-Ukraine war
Australian councillor says he was forced to fly back to Russia to speak freely
Adrian McRae, a member of West Australia’s Port Hedland Council, has been told by the WA premier to “resign, stop it, you’re an embarrassment.”
- by Rob Harris
Unable to travel abroad, ‘pariah’ Putin has Xi, Modi come to him
The Russian president received the visitors at the historic Kazan Kremlin. He’s hosting a BRICS summit attended by 30 countries.
- by Valerie Hopkins and David Pierson
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Royal family
Starmer says Charles doing a ‘fantastic job’ as Thorpe’s heckle makes UK news
Keir Starmer has also ruled out formally apologising for transatlantic slavery and colonialism ahead of this week’s Commonwealth head’s meeting in Samoa.
- by Rob Harris
Moldova chooses EU over Russia in ‘unfair fight’ involving vote buying
President Maia Sandu says “unprecedented” meddling by criminal groups had tried to buy off 300,000 votes and keep the country in Russia’s orbit.
- by Tom Balmforth and Alexander Tanas
Julian Assange’s dad thanks Vladimir Putin for his ‘support’
John Shipton is in Moscow doing the rounds of Russian media to coincide with an international summit.
- by Rob Harris
Self-healing concrete? The Romans thought of that
Modern concrete is much less resilient than the concrete used in Roman times. Now researchers think they know why.
- by Amos Zeeberg
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