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Donald Trump addressed reporters at the White House last week.

After igniting trade war, Trump admits tariff ‘pain’ for consumers is possible

The US president also singled out the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal after it called Trump’s tariffs the “the dumbest trade war in history”.

  • by Michael Koziol

Opinion & Perspectives

‘I burst into tears’: Emotions high as World Vision worker freed in Gaza ceasefire exchange

Hamas freed three male hostages as Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth exchange.

Roy Ward, Mohammad Jahjouh and Imad Isseid

Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of deadly strike on boarding school

The bomb killed at least four people in a dormitory in a part of Russia’s Kursk region held by Kyiv forces.

Oleksandr Kozhukhar

US carries out airstrikes against Islamic State in Somalia

The US military says “multiple operatives” in the remote Golis Mountains in the country’s north were killed in the strikes.

Eric Schmitt
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North America

Family members of those killed in the Washington crash were taken in buses with a police escort to the Potomac River bank near where the two aircraft came to rest after colliding.

Officials confident all victims of Washington midair collision will be found

US authorities said they had recovered and identified 55 of the 67 people killed when an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided over the Potomac River.

  • by David R. Martin, Michael R. Sisak and Claudia Lauer
Newly elected Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin says he is not interested in discussing whether former president Joe Biden should have sought re-election.

Where to now for divided US Democrats as they struggle to oppose Trump

Elected Democrats have no shared understanding of why they lost the election, never mind how they can win in the future.

  • by Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein

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Asia

Year of the Snake - sculpture pic by Sanghee Liu, art by Marija Ercecgovac 

For Xi Jinping, Year of the Snake is destined to be turbulent

Those born in 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 and 2025 are said to be wise and charming, but also mysterious and cunning.

  • by Lisa Visentin
Australian couple David Fisk and Lucita Barquin Cortez were found dead in a Philippines hotel room.
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‘I would not forgive’: Accused killer speaks about deaths of holidaying Australian couple

Ronel Estipona Perido allegedly killed Sydney man David Fisk and his Australian-Filipina partner Lucita Cortez to feed an online gambling addiction.

  • by Zach Hope

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Israeli-Palestinian conflict

‘I burst into tears’: Emotions high as World Vision worker freed in Gaza ceasefire exchange

Hamas freed three male hostages as Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth exchange.

  • by Roy Ward, Mohammad Jahjouh and Imad Isseid

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