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An Australian woman felt ostracised from her husband’s family in the months before she allegedly murdered three of his relatives with toxic mushrooms, a court heard on Monday.

US President Donald Trump’s first batch of judicial nominees since returning to the White House is set to go before a US Senate panel as the Republican looks to further reshape a judiciary whose members have stymied parts of his agenda.

Britain announced it will build 12 new attack submarines as it launched a major defence review to move the country to “war-fighting readiness” in the face of “Russian aggression” and the changing nature of conflict.

South Koreans began voting for a new president, six months to the day after ex-leader Yoon Suk Yeol plunged the country into political chaos with his disastrous declaration of martial law.

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Marmaris area of southwestern Turkey, killing one teenager and injuring dozens of people, the interior minister said.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said he would rather be branded a “dictator” than allow criminals to run loose, defying critics in a barnstorming speech marking one year since his re-election.

Hamas said it was seeking amendments to a US-backed proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Israel in Gaza, but President Donald Trump’s envoy rejected the group’s response as “totally unacceptable”.

At least seven people were killed and 69 injured when a highway bridge collapsed onto railway tracks, derailing an approaching train in Russia’s Bryansk region that borders Ukraine, Russian authorities said.

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will speak soon to iron out trade issues including a dispute over critical minerals, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday.

Russia rejected an unconditional ceasefire with Ukraine at peace negotiations between the two sides held in Istanbul on Monday, a Kyiv negotiator, Sergiy Kyslytsya, said.

Greenpeace activists on Monday stole a wax figure of French President Emmanuel Macron from a Paris museum and placed it in front of the Russian embassy as part of a pro-Ukraine protest.