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Sydney’s family court bomber Leonard Warwick has died behind bars.

Warwick, 78, was convicted of three murders after a spate six of bombings at NSW’s courts in the 1980s.

Driven by a bitter feud with his ex-wife, the former firefighter shot dead Justice David Opas, and killed a judge’s wife and a churchgoer in the bombings.

He was finally arrested in 2015 and in 2020 was ordered to serve three life sentences.

Warwick was pronounced dead at Long Bay Hospital about 10.45am, according to the Daily Mail.

TikTok has returned on the US app stores of Apple and Google, as President Donald Trump delayed its ban until April 5 and assured the companies they would not be fined for distributing or maintaining the Chinese app.

Reuters reports the popular short video app, used by 170 million American users, has started restoring its services, weeks after the app went dark.

Mr Trump issued an executive order in January delaying the ban of TikTok for 75 days, allowing China’s ByteDance-owned company to continue its operations in the US temporarily.

Category five Cyclone Zelia is expected to cross the coast somewhere near Port Hedland this afternoon, with the Bureau of Meteorology saying it could make landfall sooner than first thought.

Andrew Gissing, Natural Hazards Research Australia chief, told The West Australian that Zelia had reached “the strongest category we have seen in Australia” and “has the potential to be very destructive”.

“Winds that can blow roofs off houses, bring down powerlines and trees, as well as flooding and coastal erosion due to the storm surge, will all pose significant risk to people in the forecast impact areas in the Pilbara.

“The port infrastructure at Port Hedland will be right in the firing line for Zelia and there is likely to be significant infrastructure and supply chain disruptions,” he added.

Gusts of 290km/h are likely close to the centre of the cyclone as it crosses the coast around 3pm-4pm local time.

Live updates on Cyclone Zelia are available here

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her government won’t rule out filing a civil lawsuit against Google if it maintains its stance of calling the stretch of sea between northeastern Mexico and the southeastern United States the “Gulf of America”.

Sheinbaum told reporters the president’s decree was restricted to the “continental shelf of the United States” because Mexico still controls much of the Gulf.

“We have sovereignty over our continental shelf,” she said.

Sheinbaum said despite the fact her government sent a letter to Google saying the company was “wrong” and “the entire Gulf of Mexico cannot be called the Gulf of America,” the company has insisted on maintaining the nomenclature.

It was not immediately clear where such a suit would be filed, AAP reports.

The Labor Party has claimed victory in Werribee, narrowly retaining the seat by just a few hundred votes.

The byelection held last weekend was bought on by the departure of Tim Pallas who had served in the safe Labor seat for 18 years and had held it with a strong majority.

Labor’s John Lister drew 50.7 per cent of the vote, ahead of Liberal Steve Murphy on 49.3 per cent - representing a swing against Labor in the primary vote of around 16 per cent.

Donald Trump has offered a vague response when asked what Russia may have to give up in order to secure peace wth Ukraine, a day after he said Ukraine may have to cede territory.

“Russia has gotten themselves into something that I think they wish they didn’t,” Mr Trump told reporters.

“It is too early to say what’s going to happen. Maybe Russia will give up a lot, maybe they won’t, and it’s all dependent on what is going to happen.”

Mr Trump also echoed something Russian President Vladimir Putin has said previously: that the reason the war started was because of Ukraine’s ambitions to join NATO.

“They also have said from day one, long before President Putin, they’ve said they cannot have Ukraine be in NATO. They said that very strongly. I actually think that that was the thing that caused the start of the war. And Biden said it, and Zelensky said it, and I think that was one of the reasons, one of the starts of the war.”

Vaccine critic Robert F Kennedy Jr has clinched the top US health job, overcoming resistance from the medical establishment and members of Congress.

Mr Kennedy says his first priorities will be around “radical transparency” and removing those in the government who have conflicts of interest.

“For 20 years, I’ve gotten up every morning on my knees and prayed that God would put me in a position where I could end the childhood chronic disease epidemic in this country. On August 23 of last year, God sent me President Trump,” Kennedy said, referring to when he dropped his independent presidential bid and endorsed the Republican candidate.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has denied the former Coalition government broke its promise to the Donald Trump on steel and aluminium tariffs.

Instead, Mr Dutton accused Anthony Albanese of “dropping the ball”, saying any tariffs that remained in place would damage Australia’s relationship with the US.

“There is a deal, I’m sure, to be done with the United States and there is a lot Australia has to offer, but it’s wrong that these tariffs are in place,” he told the Today Show on Channel 9.

“The aluminium sector, the steel sector are incredibly important to our economy and it’s a big export market for us and it should continue”.

“Now, as the President’s demonstrated, he’s a deal maker and I think the Prime Minister, frankly, should have been preparing the ground long before this decision was made. Other world leaders went to see the President after his inauguration. Our Prime Minister hasn’t done that.”

In response to Donald Trump’s reciprocal trade announcement overnight, Anthony Albanese says Australia “supports jobs” and is “investing in the US”.

“We know that the US has a trade surplus with Australia. We have zero tariffs of any US goods into Australia, and Australian steel is making a positive difference to the US economy by putting roofs on houses, by making a difference there in the US as well,” he told a press conference this morning.

“BlueScope, aren’t just investing here in Australia. They’re also investing in the United States, $5 billion of investment at plants across the states, across many facilities as well

“It is in both Australia and the United States’ interest to have economic cooperation, and that’s what I am endeavouring to achieve.”

The sickening video which captured two NSW nurses spewing anti-Semitic death threats has been released in full, unedited.

NSW Police’s Strike Force Pearl is investigating Ahmad ‘Rashad’ Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh over the video which sparked furious backlash.

Today, Israeli influencer Max Veifer released what he said was the unedited two and a half minute video clip.

“The police are asking me for the unedited version. I have nothing to hide. Here it is and if they tell me where to send it I will send it to them,” Mr Veifer wrote in an Instagram post.

Watch the video here.