UNRWA is portrayed as the “backbone” of Gaza aid efforts, but actually supplied only 13% of aid there over recent months (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong (Screenshot)
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An extension of the Abraham Accords that saw a string of Middle Eastern countries making peace with Israel is likely to be a priority (Image: Whitehouse.gov/ Flickr)
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French UNIFIL soldiers in southern Lebanon (Image: Shutterstock)
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Projections upon buildings in Doha, Qatar, after the death of Ismail Haniyeh (Image: X)
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BRICS and its "partner countries" (Image: BRICS website)
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“Don’t cry – smile a little. It’s best to smile, even to laugh, as long as you still can” – the final message of renowned Holocaust historian Prof Yehuda Bauer (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei: Now hinting his fatwa against building nuclear weapons could soon be reversed (Image: Creative Commons/ Free Malaysia Today)
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President-elect Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Michigan, October 2024 (Image: Anna Moneymaker/ Shutterstock)
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Labor titan and former Foreign Minister H.V. “Doc” Evatt (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
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Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Florida, July 26, 2024 (Image: PMO/ Flickr)
Trump 2.0
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