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The power vacuum at the top of South Korea’s government has overshadowed Seoul’s efforts to deal with the administration of United States President Donald Trump at a time of spiralling US tariffs and slowing growth in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Lee Jae-myung, the populist leader of the liberal Democratic Party who had lost to Yoon by a razor-thin margin in 2022, is a clear front-runner but faces legal challenges of his own under multiple trials for charges including violating the election law and bribery. The conservatives have a wide-open field of candidates. According to a Gallup poll published on April 4,…

President Donald Trump has announced that the United States has begun direct negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, after Tehran had earlier dismissed Washington’s calls for the talks. “We’re having direct talks with Iran, and they’ve started. It’ll go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting, and we’ll see what can happen,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “And I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable,” he added, without providing further details. Trump also warned that Iran would be in “great danger” if diplomatic efforts…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun redeploying staff to respond to the deadly outbreak of measles in Texas, a spokesperson said Monday, a week after steep layoffs at the agency impacted its response to the spread of the virus. “A team of three deployed yesterday to meet with county and state officials to assess the immediate needs to respond to this outbreak. The team is meeting with officials again today,” CDC spokesperson Jason McDonald said in an email. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. first said Sunday that the CDC would be redeploying to Texas at…

President Trump said on Monday that the United States would engage in “direct” negotiations with Iran next Saturday in a last-ditch effort to rein in the country’s nuclear program, saying Tehran would be “in great danger” if it failed to reach an accord.If direct talks take place, they would be the first official face-to-face negotiations between the two countries since Mr. Trump abandoned the Obama-era nuclear accord seven years ago. They would also come at a perilous moment, as Iran has lost the air defenses around its key nuclear sites because of precise Israeli strikes last October. And Iran can…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size During the worst wildfire season in Canada’s history, two former B.C. firefighters suited up – not to join the fight but to film it. Now, Simon Shave and Clayton Mitchell are ready to release their five-part docuseries, Wildfire, filmed in 2023. The series delves into the strategies used to fight the fires and tells the stories of the people who risked their lives.“We know the communications, we know what happens on fires and we have all the safety courses, so through that we were allowed to get really on the front lines…

The Australian share market has rebounded after rumours of a tariff delay spiked US stocks overnight and Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on China.

Trump doubled down on his crusade on Monday, saying he was “not looking” at any pause in tariff implementation. But meanwhile “Nvidia’s stabilisation and the 2.7 per cent rise in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) are expected to trigger buybacks in Japan’s high-priced, semiconductor-heavy stocks”, brokerage house Monex said in a note. “With the yen’s continued weakness providing additional tailwinds, domestic markets are projected to open higher today,” it said. One dollar bought 147.56 yen in morning trade, compared to 147.83 yen overnight. “Both the US administration and President Trump himself are denying reports about the suspension of reciprocal tariffs,…

The Palestine Red Crescent Society on Monday gave new details of the Israeli attack on its paramedics and other emergency responders in the Gaza Strip that killed at least 15 people last month, saying Israeli forces had targeted them in a “series of deliberate attacks.”Speaking at a news conference in the West Bank, Red Crescent officials said Israeli troops shot at the rescue workers in waves over a two-hour period before dawn on March 23. They termed the killings “a full-fledged war crime” and called on the United Nations Security Council and the international community to demand accountability and an…

Representative John James, Republican of Michigan, announced on Monday that he would run for governor, jumping into an increasingly crowded, high-profile contest.In a post on social media, Mr. James tied himself closely to President Trump while criticizing recent Democratic leadership of Michigan as “radical” and “out-of-touch.”“It’s time to get Michigan’s government out of fantasyland and back to common sense,” Mr. James wrote.Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat elected in 2018, is term-limited, which has set up a competitive 2026 race to determine her successor in the battleground state. On the Republican side, Mr. James joins Aric Nesbitt, the minority leader in…

A Texas-based airline has signed a long-term agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration Control and Enforcement agency to carry out deportation flights.Beginning in May, Avelo Airlines, which is headquartered in Houston, shared with Fox News Digital that they will have three planes flying out of Mesa Gateway Airport (AZA), in Arizona to “support the department’s deportation efforts.” A spokesperson for the airline said the planes will include three 737-800s and that the domestic and international flights will begin on May 12.  “We realize this is a sensitive and complicated topic. After significant deliberations, we determined this charter…