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Jacinda Ardern announces semi-automatic weapons ban in wake of Christchurch mosque attacks

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'If he has any dignity left, he should resign': Anning petition tops 1.3 million

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'I’m feeling vulnerable': Harmony Day brings opportunity to reflect

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Australia isn't doing enough to combat right-wing radicals, say extremism experts

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Cyclone Idai African crisis: How you can help the victims of the devastation

The Feed 27 mins ago

'I’m making myself strong' - This young Muslim is rejecting hate by wearing a hijab for the first time

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'Unmitigated crisis': Calls for PM to act on Indigenous youth suicide

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'Unmitigated crisis': Calls for PM to act on Indigenous youth suicide

1 hour ago Middle East

Yazidi teenagers in Australia demand freedom for women captured by ISIS

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NZ students' moving Maori hymn in 'solidarity' with mourning Muslim community

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A week after Christchurch attacks, NZ to broadcast Muslim call to prayer nationally

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1 hour ago Australia

Explained: Freedom of speech in Australia

Do Australians really have the right to freedom of speech?

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17 mins ago

'I’m feeling vulnerable': Harmony Day brings opportunity to reflect

On the 20th anniversary of Harmony Day, many around Australia say it is time to have a serious discussion about discrimination and divisiveness.

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2 hours ago

Dozens of snakes removed from under Texas home

A Texas homeowner who reported seeing "a few" snakes under his home actually had dozens of rattlesnakes living beneath his house.

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6 hours ago North America

Missing a button? This shop has you covered

Meet the woman behind the New York button shop. Millicent Safro manages New York's 'Tender Buttons' and has helped find buttons for the first lady and even Kermit the Frog.

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6 hours ago Asia-Pacific

Karachi's Hindu community celebrate the Holi festival

Karachi's Hindu community have celebrated the colourful, religious festival of Holi.

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1 day ago Australia

'It’s OK to grieve, OK to ask for help': Christchurch mourns as first funerals for victims begin

The burials of two people murdered during Friday prayers at two mosques in Christchurch last week have taken place.

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3 hours ago North America

State of emergency declared after flooding along Missouri river

Floodwaters have inundated large parts of Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa along the Missouri river. States of emergency have been declared in all or parts of the three states.

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11 hours ago Middle East

Israel’s justice minister sprays 'Fascism' perfume in fake ad

Israel's right-wing justice minister has released a political ad in which she mocks her critics on the left by modeling a faux perfume called 'Fascism'. In Jerusalem, reactions were mixed among residents. Political psychologist and consultant Haggai Elkayam Shalem said he was not sure how different audiences would receive or interpret the message.

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9 hours ago World

Brazil school holds religious service week after deadly shooting

A religious service was held in the Brazilian school where gunmen killed eight people a week ago. Grief-stricken members of the community held hands, hugged and cried as they walked past the school where the teenagers were killed.

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1 day ago Asia-Pacific

Pork for pollution? South Koreans fight smog in their own way

Whenever dust particles hang thick in the air in South Korea, sales of pork rise. This quirky correlation stems from an old belief attributed to coal miners, that the slippery pork oil helped cleanse dirt from their throats.

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Insight 1 day ago

'As a new mum, I felt like I was failing and desperately alone'

Karen had what she would describe as an ideal life, a gorgeous baby and a loving husband, but instead of feeling happy she felt desperately alone.

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1 day ago

Police wrangle cow on New York City highway

New York City police officers had to wrangle a cow that got loose on a busy highway in the Bronx. It was unclear how the cow got onto the highway.

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1 day ago Europe

Valencia's Fallas festival lights up Spain's sky

Fireworks and flames took over Valencia as locals and tourists celebrated the end of a four-day festival with the burning of over 380 colourful monuments known as ninots, in the "Crema de Fallas" (burning of the fallas).

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1 day ago

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano spews hot rock and ash

An explosion at the crater of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano has hurled incandescent rock about 2.5km down its slopes.

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2 days ago Asia-Pacific

'He is a terrorist': Jacinda Ardern refuses to speak gunman's name

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she won't use the name of an Australian man behind the Christchurch terror attack in a bid to deny him notoriety.

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1 day ago

No timeline on containing Houston blaze

Fire officials declined to say how long it would take to extinguish a raging fire at a petrochemical storage terminal near Houston. The blaze at Intercontinental Terminals Co in Deer Park, Texas, has been burning since Sunday.

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23 hours ago Australia

SBS World News bulletin: 20/3/19

SBS News wraps-up all the national and international news.

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1 day ago Asia-Pacific

White shoes line church in memory of Christchurch shooting victims

On the grass outside a church in New Zealand lie 50 pairs of white shoes, each representing one of the lives lost in a mass shooting at two mosques in the community just a few days ago.

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