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Fire kills 29 people at Istanbul nightclub during daytime renovations
3 Apr 2024Turkish authorities say fire engulfed the underground nightclub and dozens of residents living above it were evacuated.
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Three 12-year-olds wounded in Finland school shooting, child suspect held
2 Apr 2024A 12-year-old child has shot and wounded three other 12-year-olds at a school in Finland, with the suspect taken peacefully into custody, police said.
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What is going on with P Diddy?
Explainer: US hip hop star Sean Combs has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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Australian foreign aid worker among five killed in Israel airstrike on Gaza
2 Apr 2024An Australian is one of at least five aid workers killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza, says the Hamas-run Gaza government media office.
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Trump ordered to end attacks on judge's family in hush money case
2 Apr 2024The ruling comes after the former US president disparaged the judge's daughter.
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3 Body Problem: Lawyer sentenced to death for murder of 'billionaire millennial'
2 Apr 2024While Netflix's new series 3 Body Problem rakes in the views, one of the key players behind the adaptation was sentenced to death a day after the show's release.
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Trump's social media stock plummets after going public
2 Apr 2024The drop came as the company reported it had lost nearly $100 million last year and brought in about $6.7m.
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What a dirty kitchen says about your workplace
2 Apr 2024The state of an office kitchen sink can easily tell if people actually care about the workplace, a professor says.
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21 sailors still onboard ship after Baltimore bridge collapse
2 Apr 2024Nearly a week after Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, almost two dozen sailors remain stranded.
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Google to delete records from Incognito tracking
2 Apr 2024The search giant will block third-party tracking by default for people searching the web in private mode.
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Person in Texas diagnosed with rare bird flu
This is the second US human case of the virus that has infected herds of dairy cows in recent weeks.
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Father and grandfather drown in rescue of child in pool
1 Apr 2024Two men have drowned after jumping into a pool to save a child on Australia's Gold Coast.
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Top Florida court allows for near-total abortion ban
The court cleared the way for a Republican-backed law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect, but also approved an initiative to let voters decide whether to amend the state's…
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JK Rowling in 'arrest me' challenge over hate crime law
2 Apr 2024The Harry Potter author described several transgender women as men in a series of social media posts.
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Gaza's al-Shifa hospital in ruins after two-week Israeli raid
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said dozens of bodies had been found and locals said nearby areas were razed.
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Legal advice that Alice Springs youth curfew is unlawful
2 Apr 2024The Northern Territory's police union has advised its members the curfew imposed on Alice Springs may be unlawful.
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Baltimore bridge: Alternative route to open for shipping
2 Apr 2024A temporary alternate shipping route has opened in Baltimore as work continues to remove the collapsed bridge.
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Netanyahu revives moves to shut Al Jazeera in Israel
2 Apr 2024Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revived moves to shutter Al Jazeera TV in Israel, pledging to take "immediate action" to close the station's local office.
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Israeli air strike destroys Iranian consulate in Syria - state media
2 Apr 2024Among the dead are a high-ranking leader of the Quds Force, Iranian advisers and members of the Revolutionary Guards, a human rights group says.
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NZer dies while celebrating 40th birthday in Gold Coast
1 Apr 2024A New Zealand woman has died on Australia's Gold Coast following a suspected overdose during celebrations for her 40th birthday.
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Cannabis decriminalised in Germany from 1 April
1 Apr 2024Germany has, as of 1 April, partly decriminalised marijuana use. But police unions are warning of real-world harm.
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Thousands stage anti-government protests in Israel
1 Apr 2024Analysis: Large anti-government protests have brought Israel's deep political splits back to the surface.
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Rowers fell ill before boat race on polluted river
Three rowers had to miss training sessions due to stomach bugs, "the origin of which we cannot definitively say".
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The forgotten political history of Australia's convicts
1 Apr 2024Of 162,000 convicts sent to Australia, roughly 3600 were political prisoners - and they banded together to bring resistance to the colonies.
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