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Donald Trump is being investigated over his role in hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Jury selection expected to resume on Tuesday.

Saturday’s drone and missile launches, including some that overflew Iraqi airspace, have underscored the delicate relationship between Washington and Baghdad, not least because of Iranian proxy groups that operate in Iraq.

The award is the latest from the Biden administration, as the United States looks to cement its global lead in creating advanced semiconductors.

Scholz’s trip comes as the European Union is undertaking an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), and as criticism grows in the United States about Chinese overcapacity.

Turkish, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said that Iran gave wide notice days before its drone and missile attack on Israel, but US officials said Tehran did not warn Washington and that it was aiming to cause significant damage.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the Middle East was ‘on the brink’ and warned members not to further escalate tensions with reprisals against Iran.

The US is “staying vigilant” to any Iranian threats to American troops, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says.

The US and Israel had been bracing for an attack for days after Iran vowed to retaliate for a suspected Israeli strike this month on an Iranian consular building in Syria that killed 12 people

Iran’s attack came in retaliation for an April 1 strike that levelled the five-storey consular annexe of the Iranian embassy in Damascus and killed seven Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals.

The US fixation on a China threat distracts it from its serious domestic challenges and holds the world back from addressing critical challenges, from climate change and wars to AI risks.

The US president headed back to the White House to meet his national security team and monitor the situation in the Middle East.

Joint statement by the three leaders makes it clear the Washington summit was aimed at opposing China’s recent maritime activities.

As long as the US misreads the strategic landscape and assumes ideological superiority, policy recommendations made on this basis will miss the mark. Reductionist thinking that is a relic of the post-World War II era will only create a dangerous environment for American interests and the world.

Moscow is receiving drone and missile tech, satellite imagery and machine tools, aiding its biggest military build-up since the Soviet era, US officials say.

‘These meetings were not about any one other nation. This was about deepening and revitalising existing alliances and partnerships and strengthening some new ones.’

The US president says he expects a retaliatory attack could come ‘sooner, rather than later’.

Chinese foreign ministry says Beijing consistently committed to dialogue and consultation with Manila over the shoal.

High-profile meetings are meant to convey something ‘impressive to the world community and extremely useful for the bilateral relationship’, says US analyst.

Iran’s clerical leadership has vowed to retaliate after an Israeli strike on April 1 levelled an Iranian diplomatic building in Damascus.

‘China’s current external stance and military actions present … the greatest strategic challenge,’ Prime Minister Fumio Kishida tells joint session of Congress.

Trump called his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen and porn star Stormy Daniels ‘two sleaze bags who have, with their lies and misrepresentations, cost our Country dearly!’ on his Truth Social platform.

Each of the 113,000 Jewish survivors in Israel will receive US$235 to help them cope with the effects of the war in Gaza.

Comments follow US President’s meeting with Japanese leader, where they unveiled a series of deals to strengthen military and economic ties to counter China.

Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, which at this stage is unacceptable to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has vowed to “eliminate” all Hamas battalions.

Trilateral represents ‘new era’ of partnership, says US leader, producing security, economic and diplomatic initiatives in show of unity with Manila.

The two men will speak as Mike Johnson struggles to maintain his speakership and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, increasingly flexes his influence over the party.

Kishida, who became Japan’s first political leader to visit the US as a state guest in nine years, quickly corrected his remark at a press conference.

Agreements spanning defence, space, culture, diplomacy and research come amid rising Indo-Pacific tensions and Tokyo’s more robust role in the region.