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Dec 5, 2025 - World

Exclusive: ALP national president urges party to urgently renew its ageing grassroots membership base in suburban and regional areasGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian Labor party must renew or risk collapse like other centre-left parties including the US Democrats, the national president Wayne Swan has said, cautioning his own side against complacency after its election win and the chaos engulfing the Coalition.In an interview with Guardian Australia, the former treasurer also said Labor “shouldn’t be afraid” of engaging in contentious policy debates as he suggested modern voters wouldn’t embrace a “tame” agenda. Continue reading...

Dec 5, 2025 - World

Hundreds driven into Rwanda as M23 militia battles Congolese army and Burundian soldiers for border town of KamanyolaFresh fighting in eastern DR Congo has forced hundreds to flee across the border into Rwanda, a day after a peace deal was signed in Washington DC.Thursday’s agreement was meant to stabilise the resource-rich east but it has had little visible effect on the ground so far, in an area plagued by conflict for 30 years. Continue reading...

Dec 5, 2025 - World

A 3-year-old Indian boy is officially the 1,572nd-ranked player of rapid chess in the world, making him the youngest player ever ranked by the International Chess Federation.

Dec 5, 2025 - World

The USS Gettysburg shot down an F-18 Super Hornet fighter in December 2024 after mistaking it for an incoming missile.

Dec 5, 2025 - World

Mexico’s anti-money laundering office has frozen the bank accounts of Raúl Rocha Cantú, a Mexican co-owner of Miss Universe, amid an investigation into drugs, fuel and arms trafficking