Clinton, Trump likely to win crucial primaries
Paul McGeough 11:06 PM Campaign comes down to the wire in the Big Apple, as NY tabloids turn on Ted Cruz.
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'This is politics. Stay out. Stay out Australia.'
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Lindsay Murdoch 1:10 AM Philippine candidate has lashed out at Australia amid uproar over him joking he should have been first in line to rape an Australian missionary before she was murdered.
Target of China's censors a pop personality
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Philip Wen 3:37 PM China has long policed its internet and media with rigour to weed out politically sensitive information and other elements it deems unsavoury or subversive.
Student yanked from flight for speaking Arabic
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Yanan Wang 1:28 PM Khairuldeen Makhzoomi had just settled into his seat on the plane when he pulled out his phone to call his uncle in Baghdad.
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Beirut father tipped off about 60 Minutes raid
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Latika Bourke 1:28 AM Beirut: In the two days leading up to the botched abduction involving 60 Minutes presenter Tara Brown, a suspicious car was spotted tracking the walking route to school the children of Ali Elamine and Sally Faulkner took through Beirut, Fairfax Media has learned.
Rousseff battles to survive impeachment ahead of Rio Olympics
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Maria Carolina Marcello and Alonso Soto 1:14 AM Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's government has vowed to fight impeachment after the lower house of Congress delivered a humiliating defeat that paved the way for her likely removal from office.
Syria talks verge on collapse as fighting rages
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Hugh Naylor 1:14 AM An unprecedented diplomatic effort to end Syria's civil war has suffered a blow as the main opposition body said it would halt its participation in recently restarted peace talks in Geneva.
Dozens killed in Taliban attack on Kabul
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Josh Smith and Hamid Shalizi 11:43 PM A second explosion was heard in central Kabul several hours after a suicide attack on a building of the national security agency killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds more.
Hillary Clinton is totally beatable in a general election, just not by Donald Trump or Ted Cruz
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Chris Cillizza 11:08 PM Washington Post
Clinton and Trump likely to win crucial New York primaries
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Paul McGeough 11:06 PM Candidates who touted themselves as real New Yorkers were 'analysed' by the New York Times to test the depth of their New Yorkerishness. Awarded slices of pizza on a range of attributes prized in the Big Apple, Sanders won with 29; while Clinton and Trump tied for second place with 22 slices apiece.
Ecuador's president predicts a 'considerable' rise in earthquake death toll
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Julia Symmes Cobb 10:26 PM The death toll from Ecuador's worst earthquake in decades has risen above 400 as traumatised survivors rested amid the rubble of their homes.
Magic mushrooms can help reduce the pain of social rejection
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Melissa Healy 9:41 PM Psilocybin, the mind-altering chemical that gives some mushrooms hallucinogenic properties, can do more than induce trippy states.
Bus bombing in Jerusalem leaves more than 20 people injured
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Isabel Kershner 3:26 PM Twenty-one people were wounded Monday when a bus was bombed in Jerusalem, with the explosion starting a fire that spread quickly to a second bus.
Israelis find new tunnel stretching from Gaza into Israel
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Isabel Kershner 3:26 PM The Israeli military said it had said it had discovered and "neutralised" a tunnel running from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory for the first time since 2014.
Bernie Sanders breaks a taboo
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Amin Saikal 11:45 PM The US Democrat presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, has done it. He has broken a worldwide political taboo.
Russian jet's close-range barrel-roll over US spy plane: Pentagon
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff 2:14 PM A Russian Su-27 fighter barrel-rolled over a US spy plane operating in international airspace over the Baltic Sea last week, at one point coming within15 metres of the US aircraft, the Pentagon said
Migrant crisis: Fears 'hundreds' dead in drowning tragedy
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1:16 PM Italy's foreign minister confirmed on Monday reports of many migrant deaths in Egyptian waters, but said he was waiting for more details.
Family of 60 Minutes crew want to go to Lebanon
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Rory Callinan 12:34 PM Relatives of the Channel Nine 60 minutes crew detained in Lebanon are considering travelling to the country to provide support against the wishes of Nine bosses.
60 Minutes: Father says if tables were turned he'd be called a terrorist and 'shot on the spot'
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Daniella Miletic 10:36 AM Lebanese father in '60 Minutes' botched child snatching saga says if he'd tried to kidnap his children in Australia the outcome might have been fatal.
Celebrity threesome story likely to be ungagged
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Nick Miller 9:37 AM Unless a certain celebrity and their husband can come up with a pretty smashing legal argument by Wednesday, their names will be revealed to the (according to a recent poll) half of the British population who don't yet know them.
UN motorcade hits boy in Cameroon
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7:23 AM UN ambassador Samantha Power's trip to Cameroon's frontlines in the war against Boko Haram has started horrifically as an armoured vehicle in her motorcade struck and killed a seven-year-old boy who darted into the road.
Judge declares 60 Minutes case a kidnapping not a 'custody case'
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Latika Bourke, Suzan Haidamous 6:41 AM 60 Minutes presenter Tara Brown and Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner are facing at least another two days in a Beirut jail after appearing briefly before a judge.
60 Minutes: Father admits children want to be with mum
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Latika Bourke, Ruth Pollard and Suzan Haidamous Beirut: The father at the centre of the 60 Minutes botched child abduction has admitted his two children want to be in Australia with their mum, Sally Faulkner.
Pistorius faces June sentencing for murder
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Zandi Shabalala Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced in June for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, after his original conviction was upgraded from manslaughter.
Syrian rebels announce 'new battle' as peace talks dissatisfaction mounts
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Syrian rebel groups have announced a new battle against government forces, threatening to derail United Nations-led peace talks.
No apology, but 1965 massacres to get state-sanctioned talks
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Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies Indonesia's chief security minister said the country must make peace with its past but ruled out a government apology to the victims of the 1965 mass killings.