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China has denied any suggestion that it was in active negotiations with the administration of US President Donald Trump over tariffs, saying that any notion of progress in the matter was as groundless as “trying to catch the wind”. China’s comments come after Trump said on Tuesday that things were going “fine with China” and that the final tariff rate on Chinese exports would come down “substantially” from the current 145 per cent. Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, said during a daily briefing that, “For all I know, China and the US are not having any consultation ... Read more

China appears to have quietly rolled back retaliatory tariffs of 125 per cent on some semiconductors made in the US, according to details provided to CNN on Friday by three import agencies in the southern technology hub of Shenzhen. The exemptions apply to integrated circuits, also known as microchips or semiconductors, according to the agencies. They found out about the exemptions, which have not been officially announced, late on Thursday. President Donald Trump waves on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday. (AP) On April 12, China raised its reciprocal tariffs to 125 per cent for all goods ... Read more

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is expected to appear in federal court on Friday to enter a plea on charges of stalking and murder. The court appearance comes about a week after a federal grand jury indicted Mangione on four federal charges in the December 4 killing of the insurance executive. The targeted shooting of Thompson, who was on his way to a UnitedHealthcare investors’ conference in New York, has led to an outpouring of support for Mangione from people with deep frustration and anger at the American for-profit health care system. Luigi Mangione ... Read more

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has denounced the cowardly behaviour of hecklers who interrupted Welcome to Country acknowledgements at Anzac Day dawn services in Melbourne and Perth today. Victorian dignitaries, spectators and veterans were listening to Indigenous elder Uncle Mark Brown at the Shrine of Remembrance when a small number of people started booing. In WA, a heckler disrupted the acknowledgement of the traditional owners of the land at the Kings Park dawn service, in an act the state’s premier Roger Cook labelled as “disgusting”. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Anzac Day. (9News) “What occurred at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance and ... Read more

A man has been arrested after the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man in the NSW city of Newcastle. Ekam Sahni died after he was allegedly shot in the chest at the Bar Beach carpark about 11.40pm on Wednesday. About 11.20am today, a 22-year-old man was arrested at Newcastle Police Station. Ekam Sahni was shot dead at the Bar Beach carpark. (Nine) Police said their inquiries are continuing. No charges have yet been laid. Sahni, a Newcastle local, was allegedly shot after a fight between two groups of people at the beach car park. After the fight, a white Volvo ... Read more

Emergency services were called to a beach off Boneo Road at 9.45am and carried out a search of the ocean. The Victoria Police Air Wing found a man unresponsive in the water. The man, who has not been publicly identified, was brought back to shore but could not be revived. A report will be prepared for the information of the coroner. The stretch of Victorian coastline is notoriously dangerous and has been the site of several tragic deaths in the last decade. It is understood the 53-year-old woman was among a group of three people washed off shore by a ... Read more

Paramedics were called to the BlueScope facility at 10.20am and called an air ambulance to the scene. A Country Fire Authority spokesperson confirmed an industrial accident had occurred but did not have further details. BlueScope operates a painted, coated and uncoated steel processing facility at Hastings on Western Port Bay. Hastings is a town on the Mornington Peninsula about, 58km south-east of Melbourne’s CBD. WorkSafe is investigating. Source link

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles has described the moment he walked in the footsteps of his grandfather, Percy Pearce, who fought in the Battle of Pozières in 1916. Marles told Today about a trip he took to Pozières in 2022, when a local historian took him to the site where his grandfather won his Military Cross for exemplary gallantry. “At first I thought it was a joke… but as he started talking through the battle I thought, ‘Oh my god, this is really it’,” Marles said. Deputy Prime Minister of Australia Richard Marles (centre) during the ... Read more

The mother of a NSW woman who died of cervical cancer has told how her daughter spent more than a year trying to get doctors to listen to her concerns. Amanda Ne’Roi is speaking out about her daughter Jaime’s devastating case as three peak research organisations – the Australian New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group, Ovarian Cancer Australia and the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation – join forces to call on the government to commit $100 million in funding towards gynaecological cancer. Around 19 Australian women a day are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer, according to December 2024 statistics from the Australian ... Read more

A man and a woman are in hospital in critical conditions after their car crashed during a police pursuit in Sydney’s south-west last night. Police attempted to stop an unregistered Ford Falcon about 7.20pm yesterday on McBurney Road in Cabramatta. Police attempted to stop the car, but the driver allegedly kept driving. Police pursued the car onto Railway Parade at Canley Vale, where the Ford crashed into a power pole. The driver, a 33-year-old woman, and a 35-year-old male passenger were treated by paramedics at the scene then both rushed to Liverpool Hospital in a critical condition. A crime scene ... Read more