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The Australian cook Nagi Maehashi’s beef wellington recipe was used by Erin Patterson to lace a meal with death cap mushrooms. Follow the latest news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastUS president Donald Trump has threatened a 200% tariff on foreign pharmaceuticals – which Australia exports about $2bn worth of to the US each year.Speaking yesterday, Trump laid out plans to step up his controversial trade strategy – imported copper will face a US tariff of 50% in a bid to bolster US production of the metal, the administration announced. US copper prices rose 12%

French president also spoke of empowered ‘wider Europe’ on first day of state visit to UKEuropean countries need to reduce their “dual dependencies” on the US and China, Emmanuel Macron has warned, as he sketched out his vision of an empowered “wider Europe” on the first day of a historic state visit.The French president addressed several hundred MPs and guests at the start of a three-day state trip – the first state visit of a European leader since Brexit. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/08/europe-should-reduce-us-and-china-dual-dependencies-macron-warns Author : Kiran Stacey Political correspondent Publish date : 2025-07-08 18:37:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Exclusive: Jamie Raskin and 15 others accuse justice department of withholding Epstein files to protect TrumpUS politics live – latest updatesHouse Democrats on Tuesday demanded that the justice department release documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case that mentions or references Donald Trump, citing a comment by Elon Musk after he fell out with the president this year.The House judiciary committee’s ranking member, Jamie Raskin, together with 15 other Democrats sent a six-page letter to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, accusing her of withholding some Epstein files to protect the president from any damaging disclosures. Continue

State visit will involve events with pageantry but is also scheduled to include an Anglo-French summit and other meetings with Keir StarmerDanish prime minister Mette Frederiksen is now giving a major speech in the European parliament, outlining Denmark’s priorities for the EU as it takes the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.Opening, she warns that “Europe is facing the greatest challenges since the 1940s,” as she lists a growing lists of urgent issues, with Russia’s aggression on Ukraine, migration, the Middle East, trade, and terrorism.“The threats may be many, and they are indeed serious, but I have