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Ukraine is ready to sign an agreement that would give the US access to its valuable rare minerals in the hopes of ensuring continued American support for Kyiv in its grinding war with Russia, senior Ukrainian officials say. Ukraine’s economy minister and deputy prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, flew to Washington on Wednesday to help finalise the deal, according to two senior Ukrainian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorised to discuss the matter publicly. For Ukraine, the agreement is seen as key to ensuring its access to future US military aid. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal ... Read more

Coles is on high alert for impacts from US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs as prices on major products in Australian supermarkets start to fall. Coles chief executive Leah Weckert predicts impacts from Trump’s tariffs to be “very minimal”, as the company on Wednesday announced a 3.7 per cent increase in sales over the three months to March. “Are there secondary effects or indirect impacts that could come through? I think it’s probably too early to really tell on that,” Ms Weckert said. She added that Coles is monitoring processing fees around meat, particularly beef, closely. The nation’s second-largest supermarket ... Read more

Two former My Kitchen Rules stars who were facing a raft of charges can be identified for the first time, after the woman pleaded guilty to kicking, spitting on and hitting children. Claudean Bernadette Uamaki-Mu and Anthony Michael Mu could only be named as two Channel 7 personalities during their initial appearances at Richlands Magistrates Court, due to a sweeping non-publication order handed down in 2023. But the pair – who appeared on the Channel 7 reality cooking show in 2023 – can now be named due to Uamaki-Mu, 54, pleading guilty to six charges of common assault on Wednesday. ... Read more

A Pokémon card thought to be worth more than $8000 has been found but the circumstances behind its violent theft and recovery remain cloaked in mystery.  A 38-year-old man told police he was assaulted by a purported buyer when he tried to sell rare collectable cards in a Wollongong car park on Friday night. He said a card worth more than $8000 was stolen at the meeting point at Lake Entrance Road and Shellharbour Road in Warilla about 10.45pm. Detectives are appealing for information after a valuable collectable ‘Pokemon’-brand card was stolen, and a man assaulted, at Warilla last month. ... Read more

A model and aspiring social media influencer threw a lamp at her ex-lover when she spotted him on a date at one of Sydney’s fanciest new restaurants. Natalie Marangos, 34, assaulted her ex-boyfriend Dean Contos, 37, at Tanuki restaurant in Double Bay just before midnight on 22 February. Mr Contos was dining with another woman when Marangos grabbed a lamp from a restaurant table and hurled it at his face. He sustained facial injuries. Marangos had left the scene by the time police arrived. She was arrested the following night in Hurstville Grove and was charged with assault occasioning actual ... Read more

Firefighters rushed to Barnacles Backpackers in Bowen, about 50 kilometres north-west of Airlie Beach, about 3.30am on Wednesday. Video showed flames roaring high into the air as officers tried to control the blaze from the ground. They managed to extinguish the blaze within about an hour and a crime scene was declared. It was initially thought all eight people inside at the time made it out without injury but last night police said a further search of the property found a body. Forensic examination has begun to try to identify the dead person. Police called for witnesses and anyone with ... Read more

A tobacco store in Tullamarine has been firebombed for the second time in eight days, as police investigate the fifth suspicious blaze to occur at a Williamstown ice cream store. Emergency services were called to a fire at a tobacco store on Melrose Dr in Tullamarine about 1.20am on Wednesday. Police believe the offenders used a vehicle to smash through a roller door, then poured an accelerant into the shop and set it alight causing extensive damage to the store. It is the second time the Tullamarine tobacco store has been targeted following another incident which occurred just over a ... Read more

In a sharp rebuke of US President Donald Trump’s trade war, China’s Foreign Ministry posted to social media a striking video that calls on the international community to stand up to America’s “bully” leader. “Bowing to a bully is like drinking poison to quench thirst – it only deepens the crisis,” China said in its video, narrated in English and subtitled in Chinese. “History has proven compromise won’t earn you mercy – kneeling only invites more bullying. China won’t kneel down.” US President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping are in the midst of a bitter trade war. ... Read more

Adam Bandt has launched at the two major parties in an impassioned speech to kick off the Greens’ campaign tonight. Standing in front of a backdrop that read “Keep Dutton out” and “Get Labor to act”, Mr Bandt accused the Liberals of “picking up the calls of neo-Nazis” and giving a platform to racism. The national conversation shifted back to the Voice this week after Senator Penny Wong hinted that it’s not all over for the movement, despite the Prime Minister insisting it was “gone”. That and the furore over Welcome to Country ceremonies at Dawn Services for Anzac Day ... Read more

The US economy shrank at a 0.3 per cent annual pace from January through March, its first drop in three years. It was slowed by a surge in imports as companies in the US tried to bring in foreign goods before President Donald Trump imposed massive tariffs. The January-March expansion in gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — was down from 2.4 per cent in the last three months of 2024. Imports shaved 5 percentage points off first-quarter growth. President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order during an event to announce new tariffs in ... Read more