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The United States has approved its largest ever weapons package for Taiwan which is under increasing military pressure from China. Source link

Alleged terrorists Naveed and Sajid Akram spent almost a month holed up in a small hotel room in a city in the southern Philippines in the lead-up to the attack, local staff have said. Source link

Nick Reiner briefly faces court three days after he was arrested over the stabbing murders of his Hollywood director father, Rob Reiner, and mother, Michele Singer Reiner. Source link

When Trump was elected president in 2016, he joined the world’s most exclusive and revered club. But three years later, the president added his name to a smaller list of US leaders who’d been impeached. Source link

Philippines National Police say they are investigating whether the father-son Bondi gunmen travelled to a region known as a hotbed for violent Islamic extremism. Source link

A teenage boy and a 51-year-old woman from Papua New Guinea have been identified as victims of a fatal crash in Northern Victoria.  Source link

The village of Al Nayrab, in north-west Syria, is the hometown of Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed — and its residents are filled with pride. Source link

A judge at the Old Bailey rules Ioan Alexandru-Pintaru, who stabbed a young Australian girl in Leicester Square last year, will be detained at a mental hospital indefinitely.  Source link

The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was such a closely guarded secret that few outside the North Korean elite would even have guessed anything was amiss. Source link

Marathon talks between the US and Ukraine led to “not perfect” but “very workable” framework that could bring to an end Russia’s near four-year-old invasion, the Ukrainian president says. Source link