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ABBA hits including 'Money, Money, Money' and 'The Winner Takes It All' have been played at a Trump rally. Photo: AFP The members of Swedish pop group ABBA have asked U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using their music and videos at his campaign rallies, the band's record label said. ABBA hits including 'The Winner Takes It All', 'Money, Money, Money' and 'Dancing Queen' were played at a rally held by Trump and his running mate JD Vance on 27 July in Minnesota, accompanied by videos, said Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet, which had a reporter at the event. "Together with the members of ABBA, we have discovered that videos have been released where ABBA's music has been used at Trump events, and we have therefore requested that such use be immediately removed and ...

By Andrew Goudsward and Andy Sullivan, Reuters BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA - JULY 13: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on 13 July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP The gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump mounted a "sustained, detailed effort" to attack a major gathering of some sort before deciding to target the Republican presidential candidate at a Pennsylvania rally in July, FBI officials said on Wednesday. FBI officials said Thomas Crooks, 20, searched more than 60 times for information about the Republican presidential candidate and his then-rival, Democratic president Joe Biden, before registering for the Trump rally in early July. "We saw ... a sustained, detailed effort to plan...

Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell following Australia’s Pacific Policing Initiative announcement. Photo: RNZ Pacific / Lydia Lewis Details have emerged at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga that the US may be staying out of policing support and development in the Pacific for Australia to take the lead. An RNZ Pacific journalist was filming cutaways of the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and United States Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell after a press conference where Australia announced it would commit approximately AU$400 million over five years to ensure the Pacific Policing Initiative (PPI) delivers on the aspirations of Pacific countries. “Well we had a cracker today getting the Pacific Po...

By Michelle Nichols, Reuters A World Food program (WFP) facility stands amid tents housing internally displaced Palestinians, along the coastline in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on 10 May 10, 2024. Photo: - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) temporarily suspended movement of its employees across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, saying at least 10 bullets struck one of its clearly marked vehicles as it approached an Israeli military checkpoint. WFP said in a statement that a convoy of two armoured vehicles received "multiple clearances by Israeli authorities to approach" the Wadi Gaza bridge checkpoint on Tuesday evening. Bullets hit one of the vehicles, but no one in it was hurt. "Though this is not the first security incident to occur during the war, it is the firs...

Members of Japan Self-Defense Force head for a landslide site amid pouring rain in Gamagori City, Aichi Prefecture. Photo: AFP / Koji Ito Southwestern Japan was hit on Thursday by heavy rain and very strong winds as Typhoon Shanshan made landfall in Kagoshima prefecture, knocking out power supply for over a quarter million households and injuring dozens of people. The typhoon, categorised as 'strong' with gusts of up to 60 metres per second (216km per hour) made landfall near Satsumasendai city located in the country's southwestern island of Kyushu on Thursday morning, the weather agency said. Authorities warned the storm could be one of the strongest ever to hit the region, and local governments have issued evacuation orders for millions of residents in several prefectures. One person ...

Anthony Albanese and Kurt Campbell following Australia's Pacific Policing Initiative announcement. Photo: RNZ Pacific / Lydia Lewis Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has bridled at questions from RNZ about a private conversation where he joked with US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell about splitting the cost of the Pacific Policing Initiative. The initiative was announced in Tonga on Wednesday and last night RNZ Pacific journalist Lydia Lewis filmed Albanese and the top US official discussing the ambitious plan, which could reshape the way policing is conducted across the region. “Well we had a cracker today getting the Pacific Policing Initiative through,” @AlboMP tells @kurtcampbel on sidelines of @piflm53 @RNZPacific @kelvinfiji pic.twitter.com/sP9YNqhlSR— Lydia Lewis...

Donald Trump lays a wreath alongside Marine Corporal Kelsee Lainhart (Ret.) and and US Marine Corps' Sergeant Tyler Vargas-Andrews (Ret.) at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on August 26, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. Photo: AFP Two members of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign staff had a "verbal and physical altercation" with an Arlington National Cemetery official during a visit by Trump this week, NPR reported on Tuesday. Trump on Monday participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery honouring the 13 service members killed during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Later in Detroit, Trump blamed Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival for the White House, and President Joe Biden for what ...

By Arsheeya Jajwa for Reuters Nvidia headquarters on May 21, 2024 in Santa Clara, California. Photo: AFP Nvidia's quarterly forecast on Wednesday failed to meet the lofty expectations of investors who have driven a dizzying rally in its stock as they bet billions on the future of generative artificial intelligence. Shares of the chipmaker fell 6 percent in after-hours trading, weighing on shares of chipmakers including Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom, as well as other tech behemoths. The report has been seen as a day of reckoning for the tech sector and the results were treated as mixed, despite heady growth and profit. "Here's the issue," said Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at the Carson Group. "The size of the beat this time was much smaller than we've been seeing." He a...

A Paris prosecutor said Pavel Durov had been placed under formal investigation after four days of custody. Photo: Public Domain By Gabriel Stargardter and Tassilo Hummel, Reuters A French judge put Telegram boss Pavel Durov under formal investigation in a probe into organized crime on the messaging app, but granted the entrepreneur bail on condition he pays 5 million euros, reports twice a week to police and does not leave French territory. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement the judge found there were grounds to formally investigate Durov on all the charges for which he was initially arrested four days ago. They include suspected complicity in running an online platform that allows illicit transactions, images of child sex abuse, drug trafficking and fraud, as well as th...

Liam Newman, 25, died in a skydiving event in Queensland. Photo: Supplied / iFLY / Facebook A New Zealand sky diver has died in Australia after taking part in a sky diving event in Western Queensland. Australian media are reporting 25-year-old Liam Newman died after he over corrected his landing and hit the ground at speed. His workplace iFly Brisbane Indoor Skydiving took to social media confirming his death. The post said he was a much loved staff member of their team and their thoughts were with his family at this difficult time. Tributes have been pouring in on social media remembering Newman. Emergency crews were called to a rural area at Tarawera near Goondiwindi about 8am on Tuesday, the ABC has reported. The Australian Parachute Federation (APF), which is investigating the death...