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Burning rubbish chokes besieged Yemeni city of Taiz
Taiz residents face health risks as waste accumulates amid sniper fire, forcing people to burn it in the streets.
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Joint List says it will back Eisenkot to form Israel’s next government
Arab-led parties won a record 19 seats in Israel's 120-seat parliament in last week's general election.
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Joint List says it will back Eisenkot to form Israel’s next government
Arab-led parties won a record 19 seats in Israel's 120-seat parliament in last week's general election.
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Entertainment
Is that an explosion, an implosion or an orgasm? Pixies bass-player Emma Richardson’s realm-leaping life in painting
Huge, ecstatic canvases are just one of the vocations of the musician who joined the art rockers in 2024. As her show Hotwire My Heart opens, she talks terror, awe and teabags Emma Richardson loves to eavesdrop when people look at her paintings and talk about what they see in them. “They turn into these Rorschach inkblot tests,” she grins. Looking at her works, you do stand back in awe wondering. Is that a nebula, a god or a fleshy, baroque orgy? An explosion, an implosion or an orgasm? Richardson implies all of these and more, her paintbrush chasing in vivid oils the hedonism, desire and brea
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Democrat leads by just over 1,000 votes in surprisingly tight Mississippi Senate race
If Democrat Scott Colom wins the race, he could become the first black US senator elected in Mississippi since 1875.
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‘It’s kind of a melting pot’: how one US city transformed a highway into a leafy oasis
The BLVD is home to 250 enterprises, from banks, tattoo shops and restaurants to museums and a performing arts centre
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Gangs, gaffes and two guys named Chris: why I’m glued to the 2026 New Zealand election contest
Every three years, New Zealanders’ carefully curated ‘nice guy’ persona is put to one side
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Tracking the blue wave: how our visual and data journalists helped you navigate the US midterm elections
Ahead of the Democrats’ ‘Blue-nami’, some of the team behind our epic results page explained the work that goes into preparing for every election night
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David Jones wrongly believed it could be exclusive and everywhere. Can the 188-year-old institution keep the lights on for Christmas?
The arbiter of Australian taste abandoned prestige to chase profits through expansion. Now 6,000 staff across 38 stores fear job cuts as ‘difficult decisions’ loom
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Victorian election: high costs and unkept promises could flip Melbourne’s Labor heartland to One Nation
Labor ignored its falling vote in the working-class western suburbs because they would never go Liberal – but now there’s another option
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My childhood was one of survival and resilience. How can I model a joyful life for my kids?
Start with the feeling, not the activities, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Making more room for enjoyment is also making more room for your actual self
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The AFLW player who juggles life as a doctor and charity founder: ‘Finals is my least busy time of year’
Swans midfielder Dr Lulu Pullar, who plays her seventh final this weekend, says one of the best ways to connect to her patients is through football
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