Australian news and politics live updates: AFP Commissioner won’t reveal when he briefed PM on terror plot

Australia soccer star Sam Kerr has denied she was “drunk and kicking off” in the back of a London taxi before the ill-fated exchange with police that led to her being tried on a racially aggravated public order offence in a British court.

On a draining day in the witness box, the Matildas captain relived the racism her family suffered in Australia, spoke of her similar experiences in England and reiterated she and her partner Kristie Mewis were “terrified” and feared they were being “kidnapped” by the cab’s driver.

Kerr said she normally shuns taxis on safety reasons, noting she had grown up amid speculation about Perth’s “Claremont killer”.

On a lighter note the trial doubled as an unusual gender reveal as Kerr said her American fiancée Mewis was carrying a baby boy, due in May.

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President Donald Trump basked as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel praised his “willingness to think outside the box”.

But when it came to the Gaza Strip, Trump’s thinking on Tuesday was so far outside the box that it was not clear he even knew there was a box.

Trump’s announcement that he intends to seize control of Gaza, displace the Palestinian population and turn the coastal enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East” was the kind of thing he might have said to get a rise on “The Howard Stern Show” a decade or two ago. Provocative, intriguing, outlandish, outrageous — and not at all presidential.

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Donald Trump’s call to ‘own the Gaza strip has shocked the world and Sam Kerr has told a London Court a policeman triggered racism memories.

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