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Australia election rivals pledge spending surge even as budget chasm beckons
SYDNEY — Outside a polling station in Parramatta, a bellwether community in western Sydney, Iraj summed up the sentiment ahead of Australia’s federal election on Saturday. “The price of everything has gone up,” the 60-year-old said. “You feel it when you’re shopping.”
Asia grows resistant to loyalty tests by US, China: ADB chief
WASHINGTON — Asian countries are increasingly pursuing “strategic independence,” avoiding taking a side in the U.S.-China rivalry as tariffs threaten to upend the region’s postwar economic order, Asian Development Bank President Masato Kanda told Nikkei. Kanda, formerly Japan’s top currency diplomat, took over as head of the multilateral lender in Febru. Edited excerpts from the…
Growing GOP fight over ‘SALT’ tax deduction complicates Trump agenda bill
WASHINGTON — Republicans are at loggerheads over the fate of a controversial tax deduction that is critical to winning enough votes in the House to pass President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. After a week of meetings and discussions, Republicans still haven’t settled on how to handle the state and local tax deduction, also known as…
Asia must hedge its bets on US energy
Vandana Hari is founder of Vanda Insights, a Singapore-based global energy market intelligence provider. Major Asian economies making a beeline to boost purchases of energy commodities from the U.S. to secure relief from Donald Trump’s punitive reciprocal import tariffs are in danger of trading short-term gain for long-term pain.
Deported to Cuba, mom says she never had an ‘option’ to take her 17-month-old daughter with her
Heidy Sánchez was so distraught that she got on the rooftop of a house in Havana to get Wi-Fi connection and send her daughter a bedtime lullaby via WhatsApp. The Tampa-area mother was deported to Cuba last week without her 17-month-old U.S.-citizen daughter, who has a history of seizures and was still being breastfed, she…
Japan auto parts makers look at passing on tariff costs: Nikkei survey
TOKYO — More than half of major Japanese auto parts makers that expect higher costs due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are considering raising prices, a Nikkei survey has found. The U.S. will levy a 25% tariff on key auto components starting Saturday. If parts manufacturers pass on that cost, it could lead to…
Driver in Illinois after-school program crash that killed 4 was negative for alcohol, substances
The driver who crashed into an Illinois after-school program, killing four students, was not under the influence of alcohol and controlled substances. A toxicology report for Marianne Akers, 44, came back negative and no charges have been filed as of yet, Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly said Thursday. Akers was taken to a hospital and…
Bilawal Bhutto challenges Modi govt to proof allegations against Pakistan
Bilawal Bhutto challenges Modi govt to proof allegations against Pakistan Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), strongly rejected India’s accusations that Pakistan was involved in the deadly Pahalgam attack. Speaking at a public rally in Mirpur Khas, Sindh, he challenged the Indian government to show proof if it had any. He…