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G7 diplomats have expressed alarm over China’s recent military exercises around Taiwan, saying they ‘put at risk global security and prosperity’.

Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, told cheering supporters in Paris on Sunday that she would fight the five-year ban on her running for office, which resulted from an embezzlement conviction, casting herself as an underdog representing those who are “disdained” by the political elite.Addressing a crowd of several thousand who chanted her name, Ms. Le Pen and her allies railed against what they called curtailed free speech, biased judges and a “system” built to keep their party out of power. This is happening, she said, as the country disintegrates into “ruin and chaos.”“I won’t give up,” Ms. Le…

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he is not willing to make a deal with China unless the trade deficit of over $1 trillion is resolved first.While speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump said with some countries there is a trade deficit of over a billion dollars, but with China, it is over $1 trillion.”We have a $1 trillion trade deficit with China. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year we lose to China, and unless we solve that problem, I’m not going to make a deal,” he said. “I’m willing to make a deal with China, but…

An Illinois family walked away unharmed after deputies say lightning struck their car while they were driving on a highway on Saturday.The incident happened on Route 13 in southern Illinois just before 6 p.m. Deputies from the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office responded and found the family of three standing outside the Ford, which had sustained substantial damage, according to the sheriff’s office.The family told deputies that they heard a loud, gunshot-like noise before the vehicle filled with smoke. STRIKING VIDEO SHOWS MOMENT BRITISH AIRWAYS PLANE IS HIT BY LIGHTNING A family survived a lightning strike while they were traveling down a…

SAN ANTONIO — From their seats seven rows behind Duke’s bench, Ralph and Kelly Flagg had the perfect vantage point of the moment everything turned to dust.With eight seconds left in Saturday’s national semifinal against No. 1 Houston, their son Cooper rose up for the turnaround jumper that legacies are made of. Sink it, and Duke’s in the national championship game for the first time in a decade. But miss it?Everything, over. Immediately.Which is why, as one of the best freshmen to play college basketball lifted off from just inside the left elbow, 68,252 sets of eyes inside the Alamodome…

Families of the six victims of the Bondi Junction attack have put forward a list of issues they want addressed in a five-week probe.

SINGAPORE: Asian markets opened in the red on Monday (Apr 7), picking up where they left off after a choppy week dominated by tariff-induced turmoil. Singapore’s stock index, the Nikkei and the Kospi plunged at the start of trading as investors remained spooked by the crushing tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on Apr 2.  Follow our live coverage:

The tariffs have been widely criticised around the world for threatening to push the global economy into a recession.More than 50 countries have directly contacted the White House to initiate trade talks following US President Donald Trump’s imposition of wide-ranging punitive tariffs, administration officials have said. The tariffs, which caused a nearly $6 trillion drop in US stock values last week and battered global markets, have drawn worldwide attention and sparked fears of a potential economic downturn. But the Trump administration has downplayed that and potential further catastrophic economic fallout. In the meantime, investors nervously awaited the open of US…

The U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador appears to be “wholly lawless,” a federal judge wrote Sunday in a legal opinion explaining why she had ordered the Trump administration to bring him back to the United States.There is little to no evidence to support a “vague, uncorroborated” allegation that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was once in the MS-13 street gang, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis wrote. And in any case, she said, an immigration judge had expressly barred the U.S. in 2019 from deporting Abrego Garcia to El Salvador,…

A minivan driver plowed into a busy Los Angeles crowd on Sunday afternoon, injuring at least nine people, including several children.The incident took place in the City of Angels’ Fashion District, near Santee Alley, according to FOX 11 Los Angeles. Authorities responded to the scene shortly after 3:15 p.m.Aerials show multiple first responders surrounding the van, which appeared to have crashed into a barrier.Nine victims were reported. Three minors – one 8-year-old boy, one 11-year-old boy and one 17-year-old boy – were transported to the hospital in “fair condition,” according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.PALISADES FIRE IN LA IGNITES…