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Former US President and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump arrives for a "Commit to Caucus" rally in Clinton, Iowa, on 6 January 6, 2024. Photo: TANNEN MAURY / AFP By Chris Isidore, CNN President-elect Donald Trump is vowing to protect American-made cars through steep tariffs on imports. The problem is, there is no such thing as an all-American car. Trump has promised that tariffs, which are a tax on goods that are imported from another country, will be a key part of his economic plan in his second term. On Monday he announced plans to impose a 25% tariff on all goods coming from Mexico or Canada on his first day in office. The US government tracks what percentage of each car's parts is made "domestically." But under current trade law, both Canadian-made parts and US-made part...

By Lauren Day, ABC The Nana backpackers hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos. Photo: ABC / Mitchell Woolnough In the days after backpackers in Laos began falling violently ill due to suspected methanol poisoning, travellers tried desperately to warn each other about the hostel at the centre of the scandal. In a series of now deleted Google Reviews obtained by the ABC, backpackers warned about the unfolding disaster at the Nana Backpacker Hostel in Vang Vieng - where at least five of the six people to have died from suspected methanol poisoning were staying. Eight members of hostel staff had now been detained. The reviews were sometimes met with claims of 'slander' and subsequently deleted. In an interview with the ABC last week, owner Duong van Huan denied the poisoned drinks came from his bar...

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN A woman has been jailed for seven and a half years in England for keeping her infant daughter in this drawer under her bed. Photo: Cheshire Constabulary A mother who kept her baby daughter in a drawer under her bed for almost three years has been jailed for seven and a half years in Britain. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was jailed at Chester Crown Court in northwest England after the judge said the child - who was discovered weeks before her third birthday - had endured a "living death" as a result of her mother's "terrible secret". The unnamed toddler was found with matted hair, rashes and some deformities at the family home in Cheshire, according to the PA Media news agency, which reported on the case. The court was told that the woman, w...