The EU and US on Monday took another step towards a post-Trump trade truce, agreeing to hold talks to end a tit-for-tat feud over steel and aluminium tariffs.
The US fed is expected to flag a “tapering” of its bond buying in the second half of 2021, a move that could have implications for markets around the world.
The doctor in charge of Western Australia’s child health service has said he cannot explain the string of mistakes that contributed to the death of a seven-year-old girl at Perth Children’s Hospital.
The Israel Defense Forces on May 17 said its fighter jets attacked a tunnel belonging to Hamas in southern Gaza overnight, as the escalating violence in the region continued. The IDF said this video shows a tunnel near a kindergarten and a mosque in southern Gaza. Health officials in Gaza said at least 198 people had been killed by May 17. Credit: Israel Defense Forces via Storyful
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says "you cannot trust" the mainstream media to report fairly on "this war against Israel".
"Not when you have the ABC, the national broadcaster, claiming that the Islamic terrorists who have fired more than 3000 missiles now at Israel from Gaza, were just retaliating against Israel's bombing of Gaza, when the truth is exactly the other way around," Mr Bolt said.
"Israel starting bombing Gaza to stop the rocket attacks which had already started," he said.
"It was retaliating".
Mr Bolt spoke to the Co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry Alex Ryvchin about various aspects of the conflict and its reporting in the media.
A Queensland pharmacist has been accused of trying to kill his surgeon wife by torching their home just hours after being released from police custody over an earlier alleged domestic violence incident.