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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the crowd at a Liberal fundraiser in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Thursday, May 31, 2018. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Allies pledge swift tariff revenge

A global trade war has erupted as America’s allies pledge sweeping retaliatory tariffs against the US.

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 31: North Korean envoy Kim Yong-chol enters a lobby to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for talks on nuclear disarmament on May 31, 2018 in New York City. Both Pompeo and Kim are trying to salvage a recently canceled historic summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on nuclear disarmament. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Kim’s special delivery for Trump

US President Donald Trump will today welcome former North Korean spymaster Kim Yong-chol to Washington.

TOPSHOT - North Korea Vice-Chairman Kim Yong-chol meets with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on May 31, 2018 in New York. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo resumed talks in New York on Thursday with a top North Korean official as the pair work to salvage next month's nuclear summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, an AFP journalist on the scene said.Kim Yong Chol, considered the North Korean leader's right-hand man, is the most senior official from Pyongyang to visit the United States in 18 years. / AFP PHOTO / Bryan R. Smith

Summit hangs on Kim letter

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says negotiations are ‘moving in the right direction’ with North Korea.

This handout photograph obtained courtesy of the US Department of State shows Kim Yong Chol (R), Vice Chairman of North Korea, during his dinner meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) on May 30, 2018 in New York. The North Korean senior official arrived in New York earlier on May 30, 2018 for talks on salvaging a summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. / AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO AND US Department of State / HO / == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

Frantic bid to salvage summit

A senior North Korean official and America’s top diplomat had dinner in New York yesterday.

FILE - In this March 2, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, where he said he will recuse himself from a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 White House election. President Donald Trump, still nursing resentment against Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, says he wishes he'd picked a different leader of the Justice Department. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Trump ramps up Mueller attack

The President’s attack on Attorney-General Jeff Sessions is part of a campaign to escalate pressure on the Mueller investigation.

FILE - In this May 24, 2018, file photo, People watch a TV screen showing file footage of U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. Kim Yong Chol, a top lieutenant of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in the United States to conduct one of three sets of parallel talks aimed at salvaging a summit between Kim and President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Kim burgers up Trump summit

North Korea is reportedly stalling over plans to give up its nuclear weapons but has a novel suggestion instead.

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ABC ‘never said sorry to me’

After staying silent about cancellation of Roseanne Barr’s sitcom over her racist tweet, Donald Trump makes it all about him.

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(FILES) In a file picture taken on December 13, 2007, North Korea's chief delegate Kim Yong Chol (C) and North Korean soldiers cross the border which divides the two Koreas to attend the inter-Korean general talks at the south side of the truce village of Panmunjom, in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). US President Donald Trump confirmed on May 29, 2018, that a senior North Korean official is headed to New York for talks as preparations for his historic summit with Kim Jong Un gather pace.

Stalinist spy or statesman?

The US and North Korea are both striving hard to put the cancelled summit back on the agenda.

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President Donald Trump applauds during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Monday, May 28, 2018, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump reignites China tensions

US President Donald Trump is moving ahead with his threat to apply tariffs on China ahead of a key trade meeting.

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PUNGGYE-RI, NORTH KOREA - MAY 24: (SOUTH KOREA OUT) In this handout image provided by the News1-Dong-A Ilbo, a North Korean soldier stands at the entrance to a tunnel at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site on May 24, 2018 in Punggye-ri, North Korea. North Korea dismantled their nuclear testing facility at Punggye-ri in front of the international media. (Photo by News1-Dong-A Ilbo via Getty Images)

N Korea works to revive summit

Kim Jong-un is willing to meet Donald Trump at any time as he tries to revive a leader’s summit after the President cancelled it.

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PUNGGYE-RI, NORTH KOREA - MAY 24: (SOUTH KOREA OUT) In this handout image provided by the News1-Dong-A Ilbo, the Punggye-ri nuclear test site is demolished on May 24, 2018 in Punggye-ri, North Korea. North Korea dismantled their nuclear testing facility at Punggye-ri in front of the international media. (Photo by News1-Dong-A Ilbo via Getty Images)

Blown bridges can be rebuilt

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have left the door open to a summit, perhaps even in the near future.

FILE- In this combination of file photos, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 16, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a meeting with South Korean leader Moon Jae-in in Panmunjom, South Korea, on April 27, 2018. Foreign journalists will get the chance to journey deep into the mountains of North Korea this week to observe the closing of the countryâ€™s Punggye-ri nuclear test site, a much-touted display of goodwill ahead of leader Kim Jong Unâ€™s planned summit with President Donald Trump in June, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)

Kim ‘still willing to meet’

North Korea has responded to Donald Trump’s decision to cancel his summit with Kim Jong-un.

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US President Donald Trump shows the posthumous pardon for former world champion boxer Jack Johnson after signing it in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 24, 2018. (Shown L-R)world champion heavyweight boxer Deontay Wilder, Trump, Keith Frankel, CEO of VitaQuest International, Stallone and former boxer Lennox Lewis. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM

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Trump leaves door open for Kim

Careful wording of Donald Trump’s summit cancellation tells Kim Jong-un to grow up and go away until he’s ready to deal.

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, May 22, 2018. Donald Trump welcomed South Korea's president to the White House Tuesday, a high stakes and potentially testy meeting that could decide whether the US leader's much-vaunted summit with Kim Jong Un goes ahead. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

Kim summit ‘may not happen’

Donald Trump admits the planned June 12 summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ‘may not work out’.

Michael Bender

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Trump: ‘N Korea talks may not work out’

AS US President Donald Trump welcomed South Korea’s president to the White House, he cast doubt over a planned June summit with Kim Jong-un.

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 17, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM

Trump tries to keep Kim on track

Donald Trump has promised North Korea will become rich under Kim Jong-un if it agrees to a nuclear deal with the US.

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 16, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump sticks to nuclear demand

Donald Trump says he will still insist on the denuclearisation of North Korea.

Downer talks set off FBI probe

DFAT declined to comment on whether the interview was a break with protocol and which Australian official authorised the move.

Cameron Stewart and Primrose Riordan

US President Donald Trump departs the White House in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2018. Trump is traveling to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, to visit US First Lady Melania Trump, who had surgery on May 14 for what aides called a

‘We haven’t heard anything’

Donald Trump stays firm on denuclearisation despite North Korea’s threat to cancel his summit next month with Kim Jong-un.

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Trump gets real with Middle East

He’s made it clear Palestinians hold no veto over Israel plans for peace.

FILE - A combination of two file photos shows U.S. President Donald Trump, left, in Cleveland, Ohio, May 5, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, in Panmunjom, South Korea, April 27, 2018. The June 12 meeting between tough-talking President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a brash young ruler with a nuclear arsenal, brings a bombastic set of personalities to the small island nation, which has hosted plenty of important meetings, but nothing as big as this. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)

Kim threat: no nukes, no talks

North Korea threatens to cancel summit with Donald Trump if Washington insists on Pyongyang’s unilateral denuclearisation.

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How do ABC staff earn bonus?

Imagine the ABC KPIs for their bonuses. Sourcing stories by environmental lobbyists? Meeting anti-Trump guidelines?

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Hamas to blame for violence

It is absurd to blame Donald Trump’s move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for the deadly violence in Israel.

U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump attends the opening ceremony of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, Monday, May 14, 2018. Amid deadly clashes along the Israeli-Palestinian border, President Donald Trump's top aides and supporters on Monday celebrated the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem as a campaign promised fulfilled. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

US now ‘part of the problem’

Donald Trump’s prospects for brokering the Middle East peace ‘deal of the century’ plunged further yesterday.

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A new road sign indicating the way to the new US embassy in Jerusalem is set up on May 7, 2018. The embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is expected to occur on May 14. / AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX

US embassy crosses the line

By ignoring the armistice line, the US is showing it attaches no legal significance to this outdated demarcation.

Eugene Kontorovich

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd L), his wife Sara Netanyahu (L), Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner (3rd L), US President's daughter Ivanka Trump (C), US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (R) and US ambassador to Israel David Friedman (2nd R) attend the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. The United States moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem after months of global outcry, Palestinian anger and exuberant praise from Israelis over President Donald Trump's decision tossing aside decades of precedent. / AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA

Embassy move perfectly legitimate

It is perfectly legitimate for Doanld Trump to move the US embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.