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Thalidomide: Australia gives national apology to survivors and families

PM Anthony Albanese calls the birth defects scandal one of Australia's "darkest" medical chapters.

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Former US first ladies honour Rosalynn Carter

Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton honour another former US first lady.

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Sandy Hook families offer to settle Alex Jones's $1.5bn debt

Relatives of the victims are willing to accept a fraction of the nearly $1.5bn they won in legal judgements.

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Watch: Volcano in Japan spews ash, rock 200m into sky

An explosive eruption sends volcanic rock hurtling into the sea around Niijima Island, south of Tokyo.

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New sentence for US lawyer who murdered family

The disgraced lawyer, already serving two life terms for murder, gets a 27-year sentence for financial fraud.

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Rosalynn Carter: Jimmy Carter attends tribute service for wife of 77 years

The ex-President emerged from home hospice care to attend a memorial service for his wife of 77 years.

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Burlington, Vermont, shootings leave one troubling question: Why?

Investigators are looking for clues on whether the attack on three Palestinian students was a hate crime.

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Why it took 17 days for rescuers in India to get to 41 workers trapped in a mountain tunnel

Indian rescuers faced repeated and unexpected setbacks during the 17 days they dug through a mountain in the country's north to reach 41 construction workers trapped after a tunnel collapsed there earlier this month

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Indian rescuers pull out all 41 workers who were trapped in a tunnel for 17 days

Forty-one construction workers have been rescued from a collapsed tunnel in northern India where they had spent the last 17 days

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High-fat flight is first jetliner to make fossil-fuel-free transatlantic crossing from London to NY

The first transatlantic flight by a commercial jet powered solely by so-called sustainable aviation fuel has flown from London to New York

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The family of an infant hostage pleads for his release before the Israel-Hamas truce winds down

Kfir Bibas has spent nearly a fifth of his life as a Hamas hostage

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Germany is having a budget crisis while the economy struggles

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed that his government will work “as fast as possible” to solve a budget crisis

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Dutch election winner Wilders taps former center-left minister to look at possible coalitions

Far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders has tapped a former minister from the center-left Labor Party to investigate possible coalitions

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127 Malaysians, suspected to be victims of job scams, rescued from Myanmar fighting

Malaysia's government says more than 120 suspected victims of job scams have been rescued after being stranded by fighting in northern Myanmar between the military and armed ethnic groups

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Freed Israeli hostage describes deteriorating conditions while being held by Hamas

An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas has said in an interview that she was initially fed well in captivity until conditions worsened and captives became hungry

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Four miners die in Poland when pipeline filled with water ruptures deep below ground

Polish media are reporting that four miners died after a pipeline filled with water burst in a coal mine deep below ground in southern Poland

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UN warns that gang violence is overwhelming Haiti's once peaceful central region

The U.N. says gangs are invading Haiti’s rural central region and suffocating a once peaceful area that served as the country’s food basket but that is now plagued by kidnappings, killings and rapes

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The Israeli military says the latest group of 12 hostages freed by Hamas has exited Gaza into Egypt

The Israeli military says the latest group of 12 hostages freed by Hamas has exited Gaza into Egypt

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A Pakistani court orders public trial for imprisoned ex-premier Khan on charge of revealing secrets

A Pakistani court has ordered a public trial in prison of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on charges of revealing official secrets

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Greek officials angry after UK's Sunak scraps leaders' meeting over Parthenon Marbles

Greek officials say they will continue talks with the British Museum on bringing the Parthenon Marbles back to Athens

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