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SPRINGFIELD, MO - AUGUST 30: U.S. President Donald Trump gives remarks during an appearance at the Loren Cook Company on August 30, 2017 in Springfield Missouri. President Trump gave remarks on his plan on tax reforms. Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

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DONALD Trump has turned his populist rhetoric to tax reform, calling for “pro-American” business tax cuts as a way to create jobs.

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**FILE** A Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 image reissued Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016 of a screen shot of the Uber taxi app in Brisbane. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has taken to Facebook to confirm her government would legalise ride-sharing services from September 5, with "sweeping reforms" that would create a level playing field. Queensland taxis will be allowed to charge surge pricing and will receive a $100 million industry assistance. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

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CABCHARGE has posted a $91 million full-year loss as it resets its operation in the face of growing competition from ride sharing giant Uber.

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This July 8, 2017 photo shows members of the KKK escorted by police past a large group of protesters during a KKK rally in Charlottesville, Va. Some white Southerners are again advocating for what the Confederacy tried and failed to do in the 1860s: secession from the Union. So-called Southern nationalists are within the group of demonstrators who are fighting the removal of Confederate monuments around the South. They say itâ€™s time for Southern states to secede again and become independent of the United States..(AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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THE oldest white supremacist site on the internet has been shut down after a complaints that it promoted hatred, racism and violence.

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FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, file photo, then-General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt speaks at the annual IHS CERAWeek global energy conference in Houston. Former GE CEO Immelt is among the finalists being considered to run ride-hailing company Uber, but there's no clear consensus among its board about a front-runner, two people briefed on the search said Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

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FORMER GE boss Jeffrey Immelt has taken himself out of the running to lead Uber as the company seeks to overcome its ethical scandals.

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SALES growth at David Jones has slowed amid a decline in consumer spending and due to a poorly received private label clothing range.

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FILE - In this June 5, 2017, file photo, a shopper looks at merchandise at a Walmart in Salem, N.H. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. reports earnings, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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WALMART is diving into voice-activated shopping with Google to offer hundreds of thousands of items through Google Assistant

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A car parking stop sign for the Murray Goulburn manufacturing facilities behind houses in Rochester, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. (AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy) NO ARCHIVING

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AUSTRALIA’S biggest dairy processor, Murray Goulburn, has posted full-year loss of $371 million amid plummeting milk supplies.

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Workers inside a Foxconn factory in the township of Longhua in the southern Guangdong province in this file photo. PHOTO: REUTERS

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CHINA has expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with the US launch of an investigation into China’s alleged theft of US intellectual property.

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BEVERAGE giant Coca-Cola Amatil says it will recover costs of NSW’s new container deposit scheme from customers by raising prices.

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Pedestrians walk past a Telstra Corp. Discovery store in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. Telstra, Australia's biggest phone company, is scheduled to report half-year results on Feb. 18. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg

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TELSTRA shares have plunged to a five-year low after the telco cut future dividends to build up a war chest to protect its massive market.

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21/7/17: UQ ChangeMakers lunch with Andrew Liveris AO, appointed by US President Donald Trump to head the American Manufacturing Council, speaking at a UQ ChangeMakers lunch in Brisbane. Liveris is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company, and a materials, polymers, chemicals and biological sciences enterprise, with 2015 annual sales of nearly $49 billion. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

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AFTER an embarrassing exodus of business leaders, US President Donald Trump has been forced to disband two of his key advisory groups

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New residential properties seen in Blacktown, Sydney, Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

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THE central bank is losing confidence that Australia’s hot property market is cooling enough, particularly in Melbourne and Sydney.

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DONALD Trump has lashed out at the CEO of the nation’s third-largest drug maker after he resigned from a federal advisory council.

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30/09/2002. U.S. Army Pvt. Kemoathe Green of Saginaw, Mich., holds up a "spicy beef" pocket sandwich, which is more than two years old, while conducting a tour of the long lasting food technology at the U.S. Army Soldier System Center in Natick, Mass. The MRE, acronym for meal ready to eat, has been designed to last three years in the field. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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AMAZON is exploring a technology first developed for the US military to produce tasty prepared meals that do not need refrigeration.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 10: A general view of a Caltex Woolworths petrol station in Geelong on August 10, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) today released a Statement of Issues in connection with BP's proposed acquisition of the Woolworths fuel and convenience sites. BP is confident it can successfully address those issues to allow the buyout to proceed. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

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MOTORISTS could end up paying more for fuel if BP’s proposed $1.8 billion takeover of Woolworths petrol stations goes ahead.

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Christmas week shoppers walk past signs offering sales at a Montebello shopping mall in Montebello, California on December 22, 2016. Shopping the week before Christmas can pay off as The National Retail Federation says they expect retailers will again be competitive on value and price in the final days. / AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN

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CONSUMER sentiment has fallen for the seventh consecutive month, marking the weakest succession of reads since 2008.

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NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance and Roads Minister Melinda Pavey were at the Newington Armoury at Sydney Olympic Park for the launch of the first trial of a driverless bus in NSW.

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AUSTRALIA’S first trial of driverless vehicles on a toll road in real traffic conditions is set to start this month in Melbourne.

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Former Sydney cleric Mostafa Mahamed Farag, AKA Abu Sulayman, during an interview broadcast on Al Jazeera this week in which the senior official for the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organisation warns of a "perpetual war" with the West. Source: Al Jazeera/YouTube

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AL JAZEERA has vowed to take legal action after the Israeli government’s decision to close the TV network’s bureau in Jerusalem.

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Photos of the 2017 Subaru Xv, Mazda CX-3 and Toyota C-HR. Photos taken by Thomas Wielecki.

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JAPANESE carmakers Toyota and Mazda plan to spend $2 billion to build a joint-venture manufacturing plant in the US.

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HOME and car insurance premiums are expected to rise by up to five per cent next year because the cost of repairs are higher.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on August 24, 2009, shows the sign of an Aldi store in Alexandria, Virginia. The German discount grocery store giant unveiled a major US expansion plan on June 12, 2017, aiming to make it the third-largest US grocery chain in five years. The planned $3.4 billion expansion will add nearly 900 additional stores and 25,000 new jobs, the company said in a statement. / AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / ALEX WONG

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DISCOUNT supermarket chain Aldi is opening up its pantry to Channel Seven for the first season of Hell’s Kitchen.

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AUSTRALIAN banks have agreed to stop selling on-the-spot add-on insurance — “junk insurance” — to customers applying for credit cards.

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THE tiny European nation of Slovenia is undergoing a tourism boom partly because it’s the native country of US first lady Melania Trump.

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TESLA has set the stage for the biggest test of the company’s strategy to become a profitable, mass market electric car maker.

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EMBATTLED retailer Surfstitch is looking at selling assets as costs mount from several legal proceedings and an investigation by ASIC.

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Iranian students stage a protest outside Tehran University on July 25, 2017 against Israeli security measures implemented at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. Israel removed metal detectors from a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site after their installation triggered deadly violence, but Muslim officials said worshippers should continue a boycott for now. Israel installed metal detectors at entrances to the compound after an attack nearby that killed two policemen on July 14. / AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE

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IRAN will reciprocate if the US imposes new sanctions on it, President Hassan Rouhani says, casting doubt over the outlook for the 2015 nuclear accord.

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RETAIL Food Group will expand its Donut King franchise to Sweden as part of its plan to break into Europe.

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FILE- In this file photo dated May 13, 2013, BBC TV journalist and presenter Victoria Derbyshire poses for photographers in London. Several prominent women at the BBC, including Derbyshire have written an open letter Sunday July 23, 2017, to BBC Director-General Tony Hall saying documents released last week confirmed that "women at the BBC are being paid less than men for the same work." and said they want the broadcaster's gender pay gap to be resolved now rather than in several years. (Yui Mok/PA File via AP)

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SOME of the BBC’s top female journalists and TV presenters are demanding the broadcaster fix its wide gender pay gap immediately.

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COMMERCIAL free-to-air networks are calling for the scrapping of children’s and preschool content quotas due to dwindling young audiences.

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Susie O'Brien Column - July 15 - Amazon products - Unicorn Slippers

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AMAZON is launching a new social network aimed at getting its hardcore users to spend even more money with the e-commerce giant.

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MELBOURNE has overtaken Sydney as the country’s hottest housing market, with prices rising five per cent over the past month.

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MORE than half of Australia’s Topshop and Topman stores have closed as administrators continue to restructure the clothing retailer.

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SOME people are going hungry and suffering immense psychological stress as they try to pay their power bills.

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Crown Resorts employee Jiang Ling, left, is escorted by a security guard as she leaves the Baoshan District People's Court after attending her trial in Shanghai, China, Monday, June 26, 2017. Australian and Chinese employees of a casino company on Monday pleaded guilty to charges relating to gambling and the three Australians were sentenced to nine or 10 months' imprisonment, an Australian official said. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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SOME of the Crown Resorts employees imprisoned in China on gambling charges, including two Australians, have been released.

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In this June 22, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump's Twitter page with his tweets about not recording his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey is photographed in Washington. The Trump administrationâ€™s mastery of the online world notably doesnâ€™t extend to Spanish-language content. It never replaced the Spanish portion of the White House website; its Spanish Twitter account is peppered with English and features abundant typos; and there appears to be little outreach to a demographic that rejected Trump by an overwhelming margin. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

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A FREE-SPEECH group has sued US President Donald Trump for blocking Twitter users from his @realDonaldTrump account.

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Auctioneer Vic Lorusso auctions 7 Ferguson St, Forestville for First National Realestate Frenches Forrest. The property sold for just over $1.8 million on 8th July 2017. (AAP image/Ryan Osland)

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HOUSE prices have risen in most of Australia’s major capital cities while auction clearance rates have increased in all but two.

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In this Dec. 24, 2016, photo provided by Christian Johnson, Johnson's father Spencer Johnson sits at their home in Hawaii. Spencer Johnson, whose book "Who Moved My Cheese" sold 25 million copies and became a business and self-help phenomenon, has died. Johnsonâ€™s executive assistant Nancy Casey said Saturday, July 8, 2017, that he died Monday, July 3 of complications from pancreatic cancer in the San Diego-area city of Encinitas. He was 78. (Christian Johnson via AP)

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SPENCER Johnson, whose book Who Moved My Cheese sold 25 million copies and became a business and self-help phenomenon, has died.

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Bowen residents survey the damage after Cyclone Debbie affected the area. Picture: Wesley Monts/News Limited

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SUNCORP says it has finalised over half the claims lodged by its customers after Cyclone Debbie, and more than 1500 home repairs have been completed.

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TOKYO, JAPAN - APRIL 26: (CHINA OUT, SOUTH KOREA OUT) Parts of the Panama Paper documents, containing documents of Mossack Fonseca, are seen at the Asahi Shimbun headquarters on April 26, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. The Panama Papers, which revealed that government leaders or their relatives used tax havens to hide their assets from public scrutiny, were obtained by the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The ICIJ is scrutinizing the documents along with partner media organizations around the world, including The Asahi Shimbun. The Asahi Shimbun, which has been scrutinizing Japan-related portions of the Panama Papers, contacted Japanese companies and citizens whose names crop up in the documents to ascertain their reasons for registering in tax havens. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)

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GERMANY has stepped up its campaign against organised crime by spending $7.5 million to buy the so-called Panama Papers.

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Supermarket shopper with basket at Woolworths Rundle Mall, health professional Lea Narciso (0413377983) - pic Mike Burton

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WOOLWORTHS’ sales turnaround is likely to happen at a faster pace than the market expects, analysts at investment bank UBS say.

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Workers in Shenzhen, China, move materials at a construction site in August. The city had the world’s largest increase in apartment prices last year, a sign of China’s housing bubble. PHOTO: QILAI SHEN/BLOOMBERG NEWS

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THE cooling of the housing market in China will weigh on the economy during the second half of the year, credit rating agency Fitch warns.

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Brexit fishing boats, part of a flotilla sail up the river Thames in central London on June 15, 2016. A Brexit flotilla of fishing boats sailed up the River Thames into London today with foghorns sounding, in a protest against EU fishing quotas by the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union. / AFP PHOTO / NIKLAS HALLE'N

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BRITAIN will withdraw from an agreement that allows some other European countries to fish off its coast as it “takes back control” of fishing policy.

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A woman throws a garbage bag onto a pile of garbage in Athens, on Thursday, June 29, 2017. A strike by garbage collectors, which has lasted nearly two weeks, has left towering mounds of garbage on city streets at a time when the summer's first heatwave sent temperatures soaring. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

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HUNDREDS of striking Greek sanitation workers have ended a 10-day strike as steaming mountains of garbage piled up across the country.

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FACEBOOK is deleting about 66,000 posts a week as the social media giant cracks down on what it considers to be hate speech.

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Two Dolphins in full flight behind the trawler. Picture by Peter Lorimer.

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FISHING fleets dump about 10 per cent of the fish they catch back into the ocean in an “enormous waste” of low-value fish, scientists say.

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(FILES) This file photo taken on February 20, 2017 shows protesters wearing German and French flag face masks pose for a photograph during a "Flag Mob" demonstration in Parliament Square in central London on February 20, 2017, part of a national day of action in support of migrants in the UK. EU migrants said on June 23 that far from being "generous", Prime Minister Theresa May's offer for their post-Brexit residency was niggardly and left them prey to the whims of British lawmakers. One year ago today on June 23, 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union. / AFP PHOTO / Justin TALLIS

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BARNABY Joyce is telling European officials that Australia is not out to exploit Brexit or flood their markets with agricultural products.

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21/6/17. Premier of SA Jay Weatherill with Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis and the State Budget 2017-18Pic: Keryn Stevens

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THE banking lobby has slammed a surprise bank levy announced by the South Australian government, labelling it an “outrageous cash grab”.

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YOWIE Group has again slashed its full-year revenue growth forecast despite exceeding expectations in its return to Australian supermarkets.

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The auction at 27 Greycliffe St, Queenscliff, an original 1930s house with big ocean view on the market for the first time in decades, Sydney, Australia, 17 June 2017.

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HOME prices across Australia’s capital cities have risen an average of 10.2 per cent in the year to March 2017, driven by Sydney’s strong property market.

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This basic St Albans house could attract a huge price after recent rezoning for higher density living in the area. No. 80 across the street sold for $1.81 million in February after competition from nine bidders. This one has a price guide of $1.5-$1.65m and last sold for just $90,000 back in 1988.Property was passed in.Auctioneer Manny Zenalli.Picture: Richard Serong

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PROPERTY prices have ticked slightly higher across most of Australia’s capital cities, although the auction clearance rate has stayed below 70 per cent.

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THE grocery industry has been rocked by Amazon’s announcement that it will buy Whole Foods in a deal valued at about $18 billion.

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14/06/2017 Outside of Network Ten's offices after it was announced the broadcaster has been placed into voluntary administration. Renee Nowytarger/The Australian

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CREDITORS of the embattled Ten Network will meet for the first time with administrators in Sydney within a fortnight as takeover rumblings continue.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 14: A Telstra Air symbol is seen outside the Telstra Melbourne headquarters on June 14, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. Telecommunications company Telstra is expected to cut up to 1400 jobs in an effort to reduce costs, as the company prepares to deal with a $3 billion earning gap expected because of the national broadband network. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)

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THE communications union says Telstra workers were “ambushed” by the telco’s shock announcement that it will sack 1400 employees.

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SPRINT has been fined $10,800 for allegedly tricking a consumer into believing it was an agent for Telstra and transferring them to its own service.

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FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2016, file photo, Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York. On June 12, 2017, Forbes named Combs the top earner its list of the 100 highest paid celebrities. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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RAPPER and music producer Sean “Diddy” Combs has been named the world’s highest-paid entertainer, ousting pop singer Taylor Swift.

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A loaded coal tanker pulls away from the completed $4.1 Billion expansion of BMA Hay Point coal terminal, south of Mackay. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

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CYCLONE Debbie caused a sharper than expected fall in coal exports in April, which is likely to weigh on Australia’s economic growth.

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UNITS in Murray Goulburn’s listed trust are at a fresh all-time low as investors continue to digest the dairy processor’s vaguely worded announcement.

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TOPSHOT - Mayor of London Sadiq Khan leaves after observing a minutes' silence with London ambulance staff in London on June 6, 2017, in memory of the victims of the June 3 terror attacks. Police on Monday identified two of the three London attackers as Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane, after Britain's third terror assault in less than three months, as Prime Minister Theresa May came under mounting pressure over security just days ahead of elections. / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN

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BRITISH Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson sees no reason to cancel Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain for criticising London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

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ESCAPE: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS TORONTO, ONTARIO - City skyline view of CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from the marina along Lake Ontario. Picture: Istock

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PRICE gains of Toronto homes slowed slightly in May in the wake of new housing rules aimed at cooling the market in Canada’s largest city.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 04: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May addresses the media as she makes a statement, following a COBRA meeting in response to last night's London terror attack, at 10 Downing Street on June 4, 2017 in London, England. Prime Minister Theresa May has left the election campaign trail to hold a meeting of the emergency response committee, Cobra, this morning following a terror attack in central London on Saturday night. 7 people were killed and at least 48 injured in terror attacks on London Bridge and Borough Market. Three attackers were shot dead by armed police. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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THERESA May’s government says income tax would not rise for high earners in an apparent new promise to voters less than a week before the UK election.

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US President Donald Trump announces his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Accords in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2017. "As of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country," Trump said. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has challenged Australia and other nations to come up with a better climate deal than the Paris accord.

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FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2015, file photo, mixed martial arts fighter Angela Lee, of Singapore, poses wearing a Santa hat, following a weigh-in ceremony for her One Championship bout, at the Mall of Asia Arena at suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines. Lee didn't need the UFC to become one of the world's top up-and-coming mixed martial artists. Instead, the 20-year-old Canadian-born Hawaiian fights for One Championship, Asia's dominant MMA promotion. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

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SINGAPORE is now the world’s most digitally competitive country, according to an inaugural World Digital Competitiveness ranking.

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ESCAPE: Escape.com.au pointers. Scenic view of traditional cycladic houses with flowers in foreground, Oia village, Santorini, Greece. Picture: istock

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GREECE denies a German newspaper report claiming it is considering opting out of receiving more bailout money if lenders can’t not agree on debt relief.

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at Sky studios to take part in a general election broadcast, in London, Monday May 29, 2017. Britain will hold a general election on June 8. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

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THERESA May says she’s ready to walk away from Brexit negotiations without a deal with the European Union if the agreement isn’t good enough.

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MUNICH, GERMANY - MAY 28: German Chancellor and Chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel drinks from a beer mug at the Trudering fest on May 28, 2017 in Munich, Germany. The CDU and CSU, along with the German Social Democrats (SPD), form the current German coalition government, though relations between Merkel and Seehofer have been complicated as the two have clashed over certain issues, especially immigration. (Photo by Sebastian Widmann/Getty Images)

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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged European Union nations to stick together in the face of emerging policy divisions with the US.

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(FILES) US President Donald Trump signs an executive order to start the Mexico border wall project at the Department of Homeland Security facility in Washington, DC, on January 25, 2017. While the new US president has shown a capacity to change, both his tone and his positions, he has been unable to show the world a "new" Trump, with a steady presidential style and a clearly articulated worldview. As the symbolic milestone of his 100th day in power, which falls on April 29, 2017, draws near, a cold, hard reality is setting in for the billionaire businessman who promised Americans he would "win, win, win" for them. At this stage of his presidency, he is the least popular US leader in modern history (even if his core supporters are still totally behind him.) / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM / TO GO WITH AFP STORY, US-politics-Trump-100days

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PRESIDENT Donald Trump is asking Congress for $2.1 billion to begin building a wall along the border with Mexico.

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CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 22: Al Gore attends the "An Inconvenient Truth" premiere during the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 22, 2017 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

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DONALD Trump may “surprise” people when it comes to acting on climate change, says former vice president and environmental crusader Al Gore.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Israeli-Arab War, in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 21, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / EPA POOL / ABIR SULTAN

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ISRAEL has expressed muted concern over a major arms deal between the United States and Saudi Arabia.

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In this Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016, photo, a Honda technician works on an airbag during a free airbag replacement event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A Malaysian man whose wife's death is one of at least 16 blamed on air bag defects has sued Japanese automaker Honda and the Takata Corp. in a U.S. court, saying he wants the companies to disclose more about the dangers. (AP Photo/Lim Huey Teng)

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FOUR automakers have agreed to a $553 million settlement relating to nearly 16 million recalled vehicles with potentially defective Takata airbags.

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A board above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the closing number for the Dow Jones industrial average, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Stocks fell sharply as investors worried that the latest turmoil in Washington could hinder President Donald Trump's pro-business agenda. The steep drop Wednesday was the market's worst since September and ended an unusually long period of calm. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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THE Dow has notched its biggest fall since September 9 amid fears over Donald Trump’s alleged interference in an investigation.

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FORD plans to cut 10 per cent of its salaried jobs in North America and Asia Pacific this year in an effort to boost profits.

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DOVER, ENGLAND - MAY 09: A recently painted mural by British graffiti artist Banksy, depicting a workman chipping away at one of the stars on a European Union (EU) themed flag is pictured on May 9, 2017 in Dover, England. The work is the latest by Banksy, the anonymous England-based graffiti artist and political activist. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

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BRITAIN may have to wait for every single one of its EU neighbours to give full legislative consent before it can benefit from any free trade deal.

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BERLIN, GERMANY - MAY 15: Newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel chat upon Macron's arrival at the Chancellery on May 15, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Macron is visiting Berlin only a day after being sworn in as president in Paris. While Macron and Merkel have both demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the European Union and Merkel strongly applauded Macron's election, they are likely to differ over Macron's desire for E.U.-issued bonds, a measure Merkel has strongly opposed in the past. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to draw up a road map to deeper European Union integration.

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President Donald Trump, right, gives a thumbs up as Liberty University president, Jerry Falwell Jr., left, watches during of commencement ceremonies at the school in Lynchburg, Va., Saturday, May 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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A REVIEW of Donald Trump’s tax returns from the past 10 years show no income from Russian sources outside of a few exceptions, his lawyers say.

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In this Tuesday, May 2, 2017, photo, shoppers holding bags from Macy's wait to cross an intersection in New York. Macy's Inc. reports earnings, Thursday, May 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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LOWER sales have dragged down Macy’s profit during the first quarter as customers’ habits shift to more online shopping.

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FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2016 file photo, Jay Z performs during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Cleveland. The Meadows Music and Arts Festival announced May 8, 2017, that Jay Z would headline the second edition of the New York concert in September. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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JAY Z’s fortunes jumped 30 per cent last year to give him an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion, but it was not enough to dethrone Sean “Diddy” Combs.

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US STOCKS have surged to a record high, while Apple became the first US company to close with a market capitalisation above $US800 billion.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a statement to journalists after taking part in the Summit of the Business20 (B20) in Berlin on May 3, 2017. The B20 forum is a debate platform to discuss the G20 economies. / AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL

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FRANCE’S future in the European Union seems a little more certain, with the pro-European Emmanuel Macron being elected president.

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Various plain packaging cigarette packets with varying number of cigarette sticks over the normal number ie 21 instead of 20 , 26 instead of 25 , 23 instead of 20 , including using the term Loosie for an extra stick .

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AUSTRALIA’S plain packaging tobacco law has been upheld at the World Trade Organization after a five-year legal battle.

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FILE: MAY 3, 2017 - According to reports, Facebook has declared first-quarter earnings of $8 billion, surpassing revenue expectations. The social media company attributed their Q1 earnings to an increase in users and ad revenue. LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 25: In this photo illustration the Social networking site Facebook is displayed on a laptop screen on March 25, 2009 in London, England. The British government has made proposals which would force Social networking websites such as Facebook to pass on details of users, friends and contacts to help fight terrorism. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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FACEBOOK will add 3000 people over the next year to monitor reports of inappropriate material and remove videos such as murders and suicides.

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