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As for what China wants, that's where the last T comes in, and this is the one that's got a few people worried.
Beijing wants Washington to stop selling arms to Taiwan.
That's the self-governing island that China claims it owns.
The US hasn't historically budged on that, but Trump has confirmed discussions about Taiwan already.
will be taking place this week.
He hasn't said that he's going to stop any shipments or stop any orders, but he has said that he knows this is something that Xi Jinping wants to discuss and it is something that they will be discussing.
The Australian government has now secured a plane to repatriate the group of Aussies that have been stuck on a ship hit by a deadly hunter virus outbreak.
The four citizens, one permanent resident and a Kiwi have been in hotel quarantine in the Netherlands after disembarking the MV Hondias earlier this week.
It's been difficult for the government to find a charter service and crew willing to take on the task, and that's because of the strict quarantine requirements they'll have to adhere to, which includes three weeks in a facility in Perth when they land back in Australia.
To the US now, where we've got a major development in one of the country's most followed true crime cases because the state Supreme Court has this morning overturned the murder convictions of disgraced lawyer Alex Murdoch.
Murdoch was convicted in 2023 of killing his wife Maggie and son Paul at their family property in 2021 and has been serving two life sentences ever since.
He's also doing time for a string of financial crimes.
Well, the book got pulled because there were some parts that she had completely plagiarized as well.
So you can't really get it on the official market.
But as to Murdoch, we know that he will remain behind bars regardless of the outcome of the murder trial.
And that's due to his financial crimes.
Although the Supreme Court did say that too much evidence of his financial crimes seeped into the murder trials and that
could give rise to a possible appeal should he wish to pursue that avenue.
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