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Markets across Asia fell sharply after Donald Trump slapped steep new tariffs on dozens of trading partners, fuelling investor anxiety ahead of key US jobs data.

Despite almost every commentator suggesting tariffs are an ‘act of economic self harm’, markets have effectively rewarded Trump’s behaviour. Are you tired of winning yet?

AARON PATRICK: While Jewish organisations condemn moves towards opening formal diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority, some leaders are quietly happy with Anthony Albanese.

An unsuspecting reporter had her phone taken right out of her hand as she was preparing to go live.

A sea of mourners gathered in Birmingham to say a poignant farewell to Ozzy Osbourne, the ‘Prince of Darkness’ and hometown hero.

US President Donald Trump says the US will impose a 25 per cent tariff on Indian goods, and a penalty for their link to Russia, saying this is ‘a time when everyone wants Russia to STOP KILLING IN UKRAINE’.

Moscow’s bloody assault on a Ukrainian prison and a medical facility came just hours after the US President imposed a new deadline for Russia to end the bloody three-year war.

A British comic faces up to three years in prison after she left a Zara store with clothes she had not paid for in her backpack.

Jaysen Carr spent his ‘best Fourth of July ever’ swimming and having fun like another 12-year-old on holiday. Two weeks later he was dead.

JACKSON HEWETT: Working together, economies around the world could have stood up to Trump’s tariffs. Instead the UK raced for the lifeboats, and the rest have folded like dominoes ever since. 

US President Donald Trump says America’s baseline tariff on trading partners, including Australia, could soon rise to as much as 20 per cent, raising fresh concerns for exporters and global trade relations.

Despite being America’s most powerful economic equivalent, the European Union has become the latest trade war target to capitulate to the President’s demands.

As Australia’s biggest war-games reach their tail end, Canberra has been hit with a grim warning about a ‘threat’ facing future generations.

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has spent two days meeting with Justice Department officials answering questions about nearly 100 people linked to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

Clashes that have already claimed 16 lives are continuing on the Thai-Cambodia border, as a regional leader urges a peaceful resolution.