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✓Canada announces 'dollar-for-dollar' retaliatory tariffs on US as high as 50%
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✓China hits out at 'illegal' new US sanctions on Iran and trading partners
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✓TikTok to pay $400m to US in one of largest child privacy settlements
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Canadian politician threatens to cut off electricity to the US - as Trump issues 'fall in line' warning
A Canadian politician has threatened to cut off electricity and mineral supplies to the US after President Trump raised tariffs on some goods to 50%
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✓US strikes a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing 2 people in first attack in months
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✓Household energy bills to hit three-year high as Ofgem announces 4% rise from October
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✓Chinese company flexes dominance in robotics space with splashy stock market debut
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✓Prince Harry quits board of wildlife charity after rangers’ human rights abuses
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✓‘No more!!!’: Trump lashes out after US-Canada talks devolve into trade war
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✓At least 47 killed and dozens kidnapped in gang attack near Haiti capital
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✓Landslide at waste mound in Guinea capital kills 30, government says
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✓Two unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania
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✓CIA director John Ratcliffe reportedly on Moscow visit
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Australia news live: PM, premiers and chief ministers sign firearms agreement; Sarah Hanson-Young scathing on Malcolm Roberts’ gay rights comments
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NSW’s koala national park will protect threatened species and cap logging across the state. Could the Greens really block it? | Adam Morton
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‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river
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Suburban Rail Loop: Victorian government secretly increased public transport fares to help pay for controversial SRL
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Albanese seeks to quell datacentre disquiet as climate expert warns ‘we’ve got one shot to get the rules right’
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