A hot seat for Musk, the trade war and third-term talk: Takeaways from the week – NPR

  1. A hot seat for Musk, the trade war and third-term talk: Takeaways from the week  NPR
  2. Column | Trump hails ‘liberation.’ The world sees America alone.  The Washington Post
  3. Fox News Politics Newsletter: 'Liberation Day' Backstory  Fox News
  4. Lessons from “Liberation Day”: A guide to tariffs  J.P. Morgan Private Bank
  5. Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ will live in infamy  The Independent
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Meet the record-breaking rat with a nose for sniffing out wartime explosives – Guinness World Records

  1. Meet the record-breaking rat with a nose for sniffing out wartime explosives  Guinness World Records
  2. Ronin the rat sets new landmine-sniffing record  BBC
  3. Rat named Ronin breaks world record for sniffing out wartime landmines in Cambodia  CBS News
  4. Landmine-hunting rat Ronin makes the Guinness World Book of Records  Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  5. Hero Rat Sets Record for Detecting More Than 100 Landmines  The New York Sun
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$500,000 stolen in Australian super fund data breach

Super industry’s peak body says majority of hacking attempts stopped but money lost by a small number of customers

Hackers have targeted Australian superannuation funds this week, with a small number of customers losing a combined half a million dollars, and compromising some members’ data, the industry’s peak body says.

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said in a statement on Friday that hackers attempted to breach the cyber defences of a number of superannuation funds last weekend. While the majority of attempts were stopped, several companies were affected, it said.

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Albanese declares Chinese-controlled Port of Darwin should ‘be in Australian hands’

PM says two options on table: for an Australian-owned company to take control, or for port to return to being a government asset

The Labor government is on the hunt for a buyer for the port of Darwin despite the Chinese-owned company who holds the lease insisting it is not for sale.

Anthony Albanese revealed the plan after calling in to local Darwin radio on Friday afternoon in a deliberate attempt to get ahead of a similar announcement the Coalition made on Saturday.

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IMF warns of ‘significant risk’ to global economy from Trump tariffs as markets plunge

Fund boss Kristalina Georgieva says it is important that US and trading partners avoid escalating trade war

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Donald Trump’s implementation of swingeing tariffs poses a “significant risk” to the global economy, as stock markets were hit by a punishing worldwide sell-off by investors.

Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the IMF, said it was important that the US and its trading partners avoided further escalating Trump’s trade war, while stock markets plunged on Friday as China retaliated against the tariffs.

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Man accused of Cassius Turvey murder ‘is lying through his teeth’, court told

Jack Brearley says his co-accused delivered fatal blows to 15-year-old but his version is challenged under cross-examination

A man accused of murder who blamed his co-accused for the death of Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey has had his version of events challenged while giving evidence in his defence.

During testimony on Thursday at the West Australian supreme court, Jack Brearley, 24, told a jury that prosecutors had it wrong and he did not strike the 15-year-old in the head with a metal pole in Perth’s eastern suburbs on 13 October 2022.

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US tourist arrested after allegedly attempting to contact ‘world’s most isolated’ tribe – CNN

  1. US tourist arrested after allegedly attempting to contact ‘world’s most isolated’ tribe  CNN
  2. American Youtuber Faces Jail Time After Attempting to Contact World’s Most Isolated Tribe  Gizmodo
  3. Pictured: The Tintin ‘danger tourist’ who left Coke can for world’s most isolated tribe  Yahoo
  4. Attempted contact with the Sentinelese tribe  Survival International
  5. YouTuber Is Arrested After Leaving Diet Coke on Isolated Tribe’s Island  The New York Times
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CEO accused of choking a fellow cruise passenger after the man allegedly danced barefoot at a bar aboard the ship – Fortune

  1. CEO accused of choking a fellow cruise passenger after the man allegedly danced barefoot at a bar aboard the ship  Fortune
  2. C.E.O. Choked Man Who Danced Barefoot on Cruise Ship, U.S. Says  The New York Times
  3. CEO accused of choking man and threatening to kill him on cruise ship over barefoot dancing incident  NBC News
  4. Cruise Passenger Charged with Assault After “Barefoot Dancing” Incident  The Maritime Executive
  5. CEO Accused of Attacking, Threatening to Kill Man on Cruise  VICE
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