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World headlines with summaries.

• ICE arrests migrants at courthouses, opens door to fast-track deportations

• Judge blocks Trump admin from revoking Harvard enrolment of foreign students

• Billy Joel cancels concerts after brain disorder diagnosis

• ‘Grandpa robbers’ who terrorised Kim Kardashian sentenced to prison, but will walk free

• Family rescued from floods near Kempsey in NSW horrified at what was in the water

• Trump’s latest tariff threat

  

  The US president has threatened a 50 percent tariff on goods from the European Union, citing a lack of progress in current trade negotiations.

  Trump threatens a 50 percent tariff on the EU

• Sales of viral plush toy Labubu halted in UK stores after reports of brawls

• Children dying from malnutrition as food blockaded, Gaza aid worker says

• Cook Islands declares dengue fever outbreak in Rarotonga

• Prince William’s new docuseries spotlights ‘one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet’

• German tourist carrying ancient Roman artefact on e-scooter chased by Italian police

• 55 men arrested in France in major operation to bust online paedophile ring

• Trump’s image of dead ‘white farmers’ came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa

• WADA condemns ‘dangerous and irresponsible’ Enhanced Games

• Four dead as major flooding continues in New South Wales, Australia

• Two killed as business jet crashes in San Diego neighbourhood, US officials say

• Trump administration blocks Harvard’s international enrolments, threatens broader crackdown

• Suspect charged with murder in shooting of two Israel embassy workers in Washington

• US House passes Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut bill

• Massive floods strand more than 50,000 in eastern Australia

• Rapper Kid Cudi testifies Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs broke into his house

• South Africans praise calm President Cyril Ramaphosa after White House ambush

• TikTokers are filming their beauty routines on planes. Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea

• Two Israeli Embassy staff members killed outside Jewish museum in Washington, suspect held