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South African jurist who accused Israel of genocide in Gaza and led the Rwanda tribunal wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, taking a veiled swipe at Donald Trump in the process.

Thirty-three killed and 18 wounded as Russian strike turns two passenger buses into infernos in frontline Ukrainian city, as civilian deaths surge past all of last year.

A 28-year-old researcher is dead, nearly 200 are quarantined and the Kremlin is deleting warnings. The Black Death may be back.

Counter-terror investigators are racing to uncover whether the Omani national who hacked his captain with a crash axe on a packed flight to Tel Aviv was radicalised while studying in Australia.

Riot police clashed with thousands of protesting students across France as education demonstrations over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and budget cuts exploded into the worst youth unrest in years, with a cop beaten and schools torched.

The homegrown FP-7 tactical ballistic missile, built under fire by Ukrainian firm Fire Point, puts Kyiv in an elite club of nations that can manufacture the hard-to-stop weapons, and sends a message Moscow can't ignore.

President warns Tehran of devastating retaliation if regime linked to cockpit stabbing aboard Flight FZ1073, as he boasts Iran's Navy is 'at the bottom of the sea' and says the U.S. is 'trying to be nice' to whoever is left in charge.

Captain Smit Machchhar, bleeding on the cockpit floor of a doomed Flydubai jet plunging 17,000 feet toward the desert, made a decision that saved more than 170 lives. Now, in an extraordinary call with India's prime minister, the pilot is telling the world how he fought back.

Beyond Simandou, Guinea is attempting something far bigger: turning extraordinary natural wealth into roads, power, universities, industries, jobs and opportunity for an entire generation.

The execution of Christa Pike — the youngest woman sentenced to death in the US in the modern era — appeared to fail Wednesday night, with witnesses escorted out after a lethal injection proved shockingly ineffective and the convicted killer was still breathing 40 minutes later.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hails passenger Yaniv Chayon as a hero who broke into a blood-soaked cockpit and subdued a rogue co-pilot, preventing a catastrophe of "unbelievable proportions."

A FlyDubai jet bound for Tel Aviv plummeted more than 17,000 feet in just over two minutes after the two pilots allegedly came to blows in the cockpit, sparking hijacking fears and an emergency military response from Israel.

Five men busted with three vans near RAF Fairford — the sleepy English air base launching American strikes on Iran — in a plot experts warn bears Tehran's fingerprints and signals a wider threat to every US military installation on Earth.

A Boeing 767 Prime Air freighter barreled off a Miami International Airport runway Sunday afternoon, smashing through vehicles on a nearby road and erupting into flames as horrified onlookers watched.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the government holds 'grave concerns' for 38 Australians still unaccounted for as 15 specialist drone operators deploy to the disaster zone.

Tensions boiled over in a Massachusetts courtroom as the forewoman fired off a note to the judge saying one juror won't follow instructions on reasonable doubt — and the judge refused to boot the holdout.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he's 'confident' the Pacific has picked Australia over Beijing, unveiling a massive $600m pledge to hunt drug-running boats and train regional police against transnational crime.

Gang boss Duane 'Keffe D' Davis found guilty of first-degree murder in the 1996 Las Vegas drive-by that cut down hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur — closing the book on a three-decade cold case.

A collapsed glacier unleashed a wall of water through the Nepal-Tibet border region, wiping out villages, a key border crossing, and leaving citizens from more than 30 countries among the missing as a new lake threatens to burst.

A massive flash flood and mudslide on the Nepal-Tibet border has killed more than 150 people and left hundreds of tourists missing — including 54 Americans, 33 Britons and over 100 Indians — in one of the deadliest disasters to strike the Himalayan pilgrimage route in living memory.

The 'Jolene' singer passed away peacefully at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, surrounded by loved ones, after a 'brief battle' with the disease she kept hidden from the world.

After 47 years on America's state sponsors of terrorism list, Syria is officially off — and Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the last major barrier to investment in the war-ravaged nation is gone.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared the start of 'Operation Economic Outcast' Monday, vowing to 'tighten the noose' around Tehran and warning nations doing business with Iran that 'the clock just started ticking.'

Meta deliberately hooked a generation of kids on Facebook and Instagram — then hid the harm, 29 states allege in the biggest legal fight in the tech giant's history.

The president's order to curtail joint exercises with Seoul arrives as North Korea accelerates its missile programme — and as a transactional new logic reshapes a decades-old alliance.

Australia's biggest state will pay owners up to $1,000 to surrender their firearms — and up to $10,000 for high-value weapons — in the country's first post-Bondi gun buyback.

The president's rally pledge to declare the vital oil chokepoint American soil after Iran's defeat has left allies, adversaries and maritime lawyers scrambling for answers — and Tehran warning of confrontation.

Three decades after Tupac Shakur was gunned down on the Vegas Strip, the alleged mastermind finally faces a jury — and the ghosts of hip-hop's bloodiest feud are back in the spotlight.

The Pentagon's $560 million loan to a NSW scandium mine cements Australia as the cornerstone of a new US-aligned critical minerals chain — and marks a triumph for the Trump-Albanese partnership on rare earths.

Brent crude cratered nearly 5 percent to under $80 a barrel after Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled a deal to reopen the vital waterway could land within days — even as Iran insists it isn't negotiating with Washington at all.

A good Samaritan with a handgun exchanged fire with a rifle-wielding attacker outside a crowded burger restaurant in Twin Falls, witnesses say, buying time for diners and workers to flee before the gunman turned the weapon on himself.

President Trump announced a “historic” agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and the transfer of Gaza to a new Palestinian technocratic government — but a senior Hamas official immediately cast doubt on the sequencing, insisting the group won't give up its guns until Israel withdraws.

Second major AI laboratory in nine days discloses cyber-evaluation breach as US lawmakers advance kill-switch legislation

Substitute Ferran Torres struck in the 106th minute to crown Spain World Cup winners for a second time, ending 10-man Argentina and Lionel Messi's dream of back-to-back titles in a final of relentless drama at the New York New Jersey Stadium.

U.S. forces hammer Iranian coastal targets for an eighth consecutive night, Jordan publicly contradicts an American embassy evacuation alert, and a Kuwait power plant burns for the second time in two days as the regional war spirals.

American warships and bombers hammered Iranian missile and fast-boat bases around the vital chokepoint, escalating a confrontation that risks choking off a third of the world's seaborne oil.

A blaze at the Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao live music venue in Bangkok's Chatuchak district leaves at least 27 dead and 63 injured — the latest in a haunting pattern of Thai nightclub fires.

Tehran declares the vital oil chokepoint shut — until ‘the end of interference’ — as the Pentagon warns of ‘overwhelming force.’

The two-day NATO summit closed in Ankara with a $50 billion defence splurge, a Trump-Erdoğan détente on the F-35, and a parting shot of unity from a famously unpredictable alliance. I News Australia was inside the room.

I News Australia Editor-in-Chief Nelly Yoa reports live from the Bestepe Presidential Compound as the alliance kicks off its most consequential gathering in a generation — with Ukraine, Syria, and a $570 billion defence bill on the table.

From the airport tarmac to a 21-gun salute at the Presidential Complex, Türkiye's leader delivered a reception fit for a president — and signalled a new chapter in a partnership that may reshape the Atlantic alliance.

Leaders from all 32 NATO member states are converging on the Turkish capital for the July 7-8 summit, with President Trump set for pivotal sideline meetings with Ukraine's Zelenskyy and Syria's al-Sharaa. I News Australia Editor Nelly Yoa reports live from Ankara.

Trump dispatches Witkoff and Kushner to Qatar for Tuesday talks on the Iran MOU — as Israel's Defence Minister publicly warns the ceasefire is hours from collapse and the Pentagon stays on standby.

A drone strike on the Singapore-registered cargo vessel Ever Lovely in the Strait of Hormuz has shattered a fragile June 17 accord, triggering retaliatory American strikes on Iranian missile and drone facilities and an IRGC counterattack on U.S. Gulf positions — pushing the two nations to the edge of all-out war.

Two massive earthquakes — a 7.2 and a 7.5 — struck northwestern Venezuela just 39 seconds apart on June 24, reducing entire neighbourhoods to rubble, killing more than 1,430 people and leaving tens of thousands missing as a nation struggles to survive.

From the parchment pages of 1776 to a fireworks sky over the capital, the United States marks its most consequential milestone — a quarter millennium of liberty, resilience, and the restless pursuit of something better.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte made his fifth visit to the Trump White House on Wednesday, navigating a relationship that is at once indispensable and fractious — as the alliance prepares for its pivotal July summit in Turkey.

In a triumph of patient statecraft at the Bürgenstock Resort, Vice President JD Vance extracted a landmark concession from Tehran — Iran's agreement to readmit IAEA nuclear inspectors — marking the most significant step toward permanent denuclearisation since talks began.

In the gilded halls of the Palace of Versailles, President Donald J. Trump has formally signed the Iran peace deal into effect — a diplomatic masterstroke that world leaders are hailing as the most consequential breakthrough in Middle Eastern statecraft in half a century.