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Fresh claims reveal that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may have charged taxpayers for massages and excessive travel costs while working as the UK’s trade envoy.

Fresh claims allege Andrew charged taxpayers for massages

Fresh claims reveal that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may have charged taxpayers for massages and excessive travel costs while working as the UK’s trade envoy.

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US President Donald Trump is not giving up on his trade tariffs despite a US Supreme Court ruling. (EPA PHOTO)

Trump’s ultimatum to Netflix with $US83bn deal on the line

Donald Trump has demanded Netflix sack one of its board members or ‘pay the consequences’ at the same time the streamer faces a government investigation into its proposed deal with Warner Bros.

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A high-level lobbying campaign is underway to convince the former Liberal leader to stay in parliament temporarily and avoid the likely loss of her seat in southern NSW.

Senior Liberals hope Sussan Ley will pause resignation

A high-level lobbying campaign is underway to convince the former Liberal leader to stay in parliament temporarily and avoid the likely loss of her seat in southern NSW.

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A Labor senator has been forced to defend the existing capital gains tax discount on investment properties in a sign Treasurer Jim Chalmers faces a caucus revolt ahead of the May Budget.

Labor MP forced to defend capital gains tax discount

A Labor senator has been forced to defend the existing capital gains tax discount on investment properties in a sign Treasurer Jim Chalmers faces a caucus revolt ahead of the May Budget.

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Mr Amon’s two-week trial in the NSW Supreme Court continues. NewsWire / Nikki Short

Ex-MP’s act before sex with boy: court

A jury has been told new details of how a former MP met up with a 13-year-old boy before allegedly sexually assaulting him.

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Anthony Albanese has dismissed the Coalition’s proposal to criminalise assistance to so-called ISIS brides and continued to point the finger at Scott Morrison for previously letting fighters return. 

PM accused of cloaking return of ISIS brides in ‘secrecy’

The Albanese Government has been accused of cloaking the return of 11 so-called ISIS brides and their 23 children in ‘secrecy’, as key questions remain unanswered despite days of mounting political pressure.

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Pressure is growing on the UK Government to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of succession

‘Praying for health of heirs’: Labor MP’s brutal Andrew take

Pressure is growing on the UK Government to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of succession, with seven heirs ahead of the former prince.

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The government says the group will face the full force of the law.

‘Death cult’ ISIS brides getting no assistance: Butler

The Federal Opposition says the ‘softly, softly’ approach needs to change as the Government defends their stance on the return of the so-called ISIS brides group from Syria.

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Washington's tariff hike isn't conducive to mutually beneficial trade, the European Commission.

‘A deal is a deal’: EU won't accept US tariff increase

Washington cannot be allowed to simply hike tariffs on EU products, the European Commission says.

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Armed man shot dead trying to breach Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate

Armed intruder shot dead by Secret Service at Trump estate

A man armed with a shotgun and a fuel can has been shot dead after entering US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

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The upcoming summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping could be derailed by many topics.

Tariffs and Taiwan loom over Trump’s summit with Xi

The United States and China have many points of contention that could ruffle, or at worst derail, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s upcoming summit.

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Laws making it illegal to help people linked to terrorism from returning to Australia will be introduced to Parliament by the coalition as the Albanese government defends its handling of the so-called ISIS brides, insisting they have “rights” to come home.

Coalition targets ‘third parties’ assisting ISIS brides

Laws making it illegal to help people linked to terrorism from returning to Australia will be introduced to Parliament by the coalition as the Albanese government defends its handling of the ISIS brides.

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The US Department of Homeland Security has temporarily suspended two key travel entry programs.

US airlines sound alarm as key travel programs paused

An airline trade association fears the travelling public could be used as ‘a political football’ amid another US government shutdown.

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Donald Trump’s tariff scheme is spelling economic uncertainty across the world.

Trump’s response to tariff ruling opens new uncertain era

The supreme court’s ruling wasn’t a reset and redesigning the United State’s tariff schedule for the third time in little more than a year will produce commercial winners and losers.

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Tony Burke is defending the single exclusion order of one ISIS bride.

‘We know them’: Burke defends single ISIS bride exclusion

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says ASIO have detailed knowledge of the 11 so-called ISIS brides and their 23 children who were attempting to return to Australia.

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