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• Trump shift on China tariffs only adds to the confusion he creates

  23-04-2025 08:57 via smh.com.au
  
  US President Donald Trump’s ill-thought tariff polices look even sillier now he has floated lowering his 145 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods.
  
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• She’s the reason my parents fell in love – and Trump’s idol. That’s the part which breaks my heart

  14-05-2025 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Ayn Rand may be an inspiration for Elon Musk’s assault on the US public service. But without her, I wouldn’t exist.
  
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• Kim Kardashian testifies about being bound and held at gunpoint during Paris robbery

  14-05-2025 11:29 via smh.com.au
  
  Kim Kardashian has testified that she feared she would be raped and killed during a 2016 armed robbery in Paris, describing the ordeal in stark, emotional terms.
  
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• Sean 'Diddy' Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie testifies in his sex trafficking trial

  14-05-2025 11:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Sean "Diddy" Combs' former girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, has taken the witness stand in his sex trafficking trial.
  
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• Judge reduces Menendez brothers' murder sentences

  14-05-2025 11:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Erik and Lyle Menendez will have a new shot at freedom after 35 years behind bars for murdering their parents, a judge in the US has ruled.
  
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• Trump vows to lift US sanctions on Syria for first time in decades

  14-05-2025 11:18 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump has vowed to lift all American sanctions on Syria for the first time in almost 50 years, before meeting with the country's new leader.
  
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• World in pictures this week, May 15, 2025

  14-05-2025 10:40 via smh.com.au
  
  The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors
  
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• Trump’s Middle East trip has shown he is not Netanyahu’s patsy

  14-05-2025 08:09 via smh.com.au
  
  Israel and the United States remain close allies. But the President’s visit to the Middle East has exposed previously subterranean tensions with the Israeli leader.
  
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• Revealed: Russia’s new ‘mini-Frankenstein’ missile that is terrorising Ukraine

  14-05-2025 08:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Experts stripped down one of the lightweight, low-cost weapons and discovered a swag of foreign-manufactured components, including one possibly from Australia.
  
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• Israeli military officials admit Gaza faces starvation as experts warn of ‘catastrophic hunger’

  14-05-2025 07:38 via smh.com.au
  
  Despite the stark warnings, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to resume the war with “full force” in the coming days.
  
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• Menendez brothers have murder sentences reduced, putting them a step closer to freedom

  14-05-2025 05:43 via smh.com.au
  
  A judge’s decision means the brothers, who have spent 35 years in prison for the 1989 murders of their parents, are now eligible for parole.
  
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• Trump holds marathon Saudi handshake session

  14-05-2025 04:32 via smh.com.au
  
  Watch sped-up footage of US President Donald Trump meeting dozens of officials during his visit to Saudi Arabia. Vision: BBC
  
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• Mountain climber survives fall that killed companions, treks 12 hours for help

  14-05-2025 03:57 via smh.com.au
  
  Despite suffering internal bleeding and head trauma, Anton Tselykh hiked to his car in the dark and drove to a payphone.
  
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• Digital breadcrumbs and old-school crime: How masked men allegedly got to Kim Kardashian

  14-05-2025 03:50 via smh.com.au
  
  Before her trip to Paris Fashion Week, the reality star had mastered a new kind of celebrity – one broadcast in real time, post by post, to millions of followers – where her jewels were on full display.
  
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• Move over, Wrexham: How a group of Aussies are putting heart back into English soccer

  14-05-2025 03:15 via smh.com.au
  
  Wrexham got Ryan Reynolds. Chelsea got Roman Abramovich. But London’s Sutton United Football Club got a few mates from Melbourne, determined to start a revolution.
  
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• Caught on camera: Daughter of crypto boss fights off Paris kidnappers

  14-05-2025 01:26 via smh.com.au
  
  In a dramatic daylight struggle, the mother and her young son escaped abduction after three hooded kidnappers attempted to force them into a van.
  
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• Daughter of crypto boss fights off Paris kidnappers

  14-05-2025 00:31 via smh.com.au
  
  It's the latest in a string of European kidnap attempts by gangs to extort Bitcoin and other tokens.
  
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• ‘Oh what I do for the crown prince’: Trump to lift sanctions on Syria after rebel takeover

  13-05-2025 22:11 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president also secured a $926 billion US investment commitment from Saudi Arabia and expressed a willingness to negotiate with Iran.
  
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• US President Donald Trump announces huge arms deal during Saudi Arabia visit

  13-05-2025 21:36 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump has announced the largest defence sales agreement in history during his visit to Saudi Arabia.
  
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• Sean 'Diddy' Combs' ex-girlfriend testifies in his sex trafficking trial

  13-05-2025 21:23 via smh.com.au
  
  Music mogul Sean Diddy Combs former girlfriend has taken the stand on the second day of his trial.
  
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• Kim Kardashian tells court she thought she would die during 2016 robbery

  13-05-2025 21:18 via smh.com.au
  
  Kim Kardashian has told a French court how she thought she would die during an armed robbery in 2016.
  
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• ‘Freak-offs became a job’: Ex-girlfriend Cassandra Ventura testifies in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial

  13-05-2025 20:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The singer, known as Cassie, told the jury her life became dominated by the drug-fuelled sexual encounters organised at the behest of her then-boyfriend and record label boss.
  
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• French actor Gerard Depardieu convicted of sexual assault on film set

  13-05-2025 12:33 via smh.com.au
  
  In one of the highest-profile #MeToo cases to come before judges in France, Depardieu had repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
  
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• Trump’s new war was costing $1b and going nowhere. Then two jets fell into the sea

  13-05-2025 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president had wanted to see fast results when he launched strikes against the Houthis. But by day 31, he wasn’t happy - and looking for a way out. He found one.
  
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• Trump draws on golfing wisdom to defend Qatar’s gift of $625m plane

  13-05-2025 11:00 via smh.com.au
  
  ‘They’re giving us a free jet,’ the US president said, batting away criticism. Then he paused. Something had occurred to him. All this preciousness over the plane reminded him of something he had heard once and never forgotten.
  
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• Millions of litres of sewage spills into this creek every year. RFK Jr just went swimming in it

  13-05-2025 11:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The US health secretary joined his grandchildren for a Mother’s Day dip in the waterway, which is so contaminated that even wading is banned.
  
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• Half a million Gazans are living in ‘catastrophic’ hunger. Experts warn it’s likely to get worse

  13-05-2025 09:05 via smh.com.au
  
  The Gaza Strip is at high risk of falling into “outright famine” if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade, food security experts warn.
  
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• Man arrested over fires at Keir Starmer properties

  13-05-2025 08:44 via smh.com.au
  
  A 21-year-old man is in custody after recent fires at two homes owned by the British prime minister.
  
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• Both sides blinked, but this is Trump’s capitulation to own

  13-05-2025 07:55 via smh.com.au
  
  As the clock starts on the 90-day period for the US and China to strike a deal, was all the pain of the last six weeks worth it?
  
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• The activist, Elon Musk and Trump’s free speech gripe with Australia

  13-05-2025 04:34 via smh.com.au
  
  Lawyers spent days going back and forth about a post on X earlier this year. Now the case has caught the attention of the Trump administration.
  
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