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Oct 24, 2025 - World

Two grandsons of detained religious leader Hak Ja Han Moon say the 82-year-old grandmother is being "framed" on "insufficient evidence" and worry her already ailing physical health could worsen the longer she's confined to a 70-square-foot jail cell in South Korea.

Oct 24, 2025 - World

Exclusive: Experts criticise federal government’s contract with Elbit Systems as ‘troubling acceptance’ of Israel’s conduct in GazaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s $20m purchase of missiles from an Israeli arms company for its “iron fist” weapons system on infantry vehicles has been condemned as “morally questionable” and reflective of a “troubling acceptance” of Israel’s conduct in Gaza.The Australian defence department signed a contract with Israel’s largest weapons company, Elbit Systems, on 1 September, two weeks before a UN commission of inquiry found Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. Details of the contract were not published on the Australian government’s contract database until last week. Continue reading...

Oct 24, 2025 - World

The Department of Defense is sending the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier and a strike group to the Caribbean, an escalation in the Trump administration's efforts to target suspected drug-smuggling vessels.

Oct 24, 2025 - World

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday said his country would try to help Kyiv receive long-range missiles following his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Oct 24, 2025 - World

Rubio also said the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) cannot play a future role in Gaza, claiming it is a ‘subsidiary of Hamas’At least 14 migrants died when their inflatable dinghy capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish resort of Bodrum, the governor’s office said on Friday, raising an earlier toll of seven dead.“The lifeless bodies of 14 irregular migrants were recovered,” the office of the Mugla governorate said on X, quoting one of the two survivors as saying that 18 people had been on board when the dinghy went down. The fate of the other two remained unclear, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Continue reading...