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Herald Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Herald Sun
Who will inherit Cosby Show star's home?
He was everyone's favourite brother as Theo Huxtable in the 80s mega-hit 'The Cosby Show.' Before his tragic death, Malcolm-Jamal Warner had embarked on a life far removed from Hollywood, in Atlanta, Georgia, with wife Tenisha and their 8-year-old daughter. 'I think he decided to come to Atlanta just because it felt a bit more grounded. It felt more like a home to him,' Dashiell Smith, one of the actor's best friends and bandmates, told the New York Post. The 54-year-old actor moved to Atlanta for his multi-season run on 'The Resident,' playing fan favourite Dr. AJ 'The Raptor' Austin. He bought a five-bedroom house in Decatur for $US1.3 million ($A1.9 million). The star told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2023 that, 'Music and my wife and daughter keep me from losing my s**t.' MORE: Exposed: MJ's untouched Neverland pad now 'Cancelled looks good on me': TV star's wild axing 'Shunned' Depp's secret new life revealed Warner earlier this month after getting caught up in an ocean current while swimming in Costa Rica. Industry sources told The Post Warner had likely amassed a fortune of around $US6 million ($A9.2 million) before his death. He was just 13 when he joined the 'The Cosby Show,' playing Theo Huxtable for eight seasons. It was TV's No. 1 show between 1985 and 1990. Stations paid a record-breaking $US600 million ($A921 million) for the rights to air re-runs beginning in 1988 — a deal that generated more than $1.5 billion ($A2.3 billion) over two decades, according to Forbes in 2017. But in 2014, most platforms pulled the series as a backlash grew against star and creator Bill Cosby, who was facing renewed allegations of sexual misconduct. Cosby, once one of television's most celebrated figures, was convicted in 2018 on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. He served nearly three years in prison before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction in 2021, citing due process violations. Warner admitted in 2023 that he and his former co-stars could be 'making a killing' had the show not been yanked — even imagining a possible reboot. 'We could have made a lot of money. 'Fuller House,' they're doing their thing. 'The Conners,' man, we'd be making a killing right now.' Asked by interviewer Jemele Hill if he was 'resentful' because 'one person impacted you guys' lives and the way this show was seen,' Warner responded. 'No. Not resentment … I get how this business works, for one. And just that whole situation is so layered, man.' 'I can't defend him or his actions at all. But I also can't throw him under the bus completely … ' Warner added of Cosby. 'There is the piece of the financial hit that we all took but also it hasn't really affected my career.' Warner also revealed that he and his team had worked to set up his career 'so my life would not have to be dependent upon that show or dependent upon Theo.' Instead, the actor went on to appear in other projects, including the sitcom 'Malcolm & Eddie' from 1996 to 2000, and had recurring roles in 'Suits,' 'Community' and other shows. He also played Warner portrayed Al Cowlings in 2016's 'American Crime Story: The People v O.J. Simpson.' In Atlanta, Warner played bass in the Biological Misfits jazz band alongside Smith. 'He loved to learn. He never thought that he was too big to grow … he was always one to immerse himself into his passions,' said Smith. Warner was a 'warm, genuine, loving father and a great friend,' Smith added. 'He was very protective of his family. We formed a fantastic brotherhood, and that will just be a memory I will always cherish … As you can imagine, I'm not doing so good. It's devastating.' Music promoter J. Scott Fugate recalled how Warner's family would attend the Biological Misfits' gigs, and the band performed at a coffee bar in Grant Park last month. 'I can't tell you how much he loved his little girl — and she loved him so much,' Fugate said. 'She was so full of joy watching him play, and she would dance. I've been thinking about her a lot and hoping she wasn't on the beach where this all happened.' In one of his last videos posted to social media before his death, Warner was seen wearing a flower in his hair — placed there by his daughter to celebrate her birthday. 'Just wanted to remind you, as I remind myself, that no matter what's going on there's always a reason to smile, if you just take a minute to stop and take stock, I guarantee you can find at least one reason to smile, and if for some reason you can't find a reason to smile, then that's probably the best time to be the reason for somebody else to smile,' he posted. Warner had 'no ego and never acted like a star,' said Fugate. 'He was just another musician around town. 'He told me he was thankful he couldn't sing — because he knew that if he had sung as a kid and become a teen idol, now he'd be just another washed-up child star.' Warner said he met his wife through mutual friends when he was 45, and opened up about their relationship during a May 2025 appearance on the 'Hot & Bothered' podcast. 'You don't have to be in your 20s looking for your soulmate,' he said. Speaking of his marriage, Warner said he 'never second-guessed it.' 'We've been together almost 10 years and we have never had a fight, an argument, a raised voice or a harsh word said to one another … And it's not like we agree on everything,' he said. 'I think because we met later in life, we've just always been at a point where we have a way of communicating like adults.' Warner was also incredibly close to his mom, Pam Warner. His cousin Zsaneika Bass posted on Facebook that she was sure the actor is now with his late grandma Mary, adding: 'Losing our cousin Malcolm-Jamal Warner has not only shaken our family, it's touched a nation … 'Without my cousin Pam Warner, the Original Momager, there would be no Malcolm. PERIOD! She didn't just raise a son, she nurtured a LEGACY.' Parts of this story first appeared in the New York Post and was republished with permission. MORE: Inside Meghan, Harry's Netflix deal disaster Real reason Ellen fled the US revealed Surprise fortune Hulk Hogan left behind
The Advertiser
05-08-2025
- Health
- The Advertiser
Flesh-eating parasite rattles Mexican cattle producers
The United States' suspension of live cattle imports from Mexico hit at the worst possible time for rancher Martín Ibarra Vargas, who after two years of severe drought had hoped to put his family on better footing selling his calves across the northern border. Like his father and grandfather before him, Ibarra Vargas has raised cattle on the parched soil of Sonora, the state in northwestern Mexico that shares a long border with the US. His family has faced punishing droughts before,, but is now facing a new scourge: the New World Screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite. US agriculture officials halted live cattle crossing the border in July – the third suspension of the past eight months — due to concerns about the flesh-eating maggot which has been found in southern Mexico and is creeping north. The screwworm is a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly that can invade the tissues of any warm-blooded animal, including humans. The parasite enters animals' skin, causing severe damage and lesions that can be fatal. Infected animals are a serious threat to herds. The US Department of Agriculture calls it a "devastating pest" and said in June that it poses a threat to "our livestock industry, our economy, and our food supply chain". It has embarked on other steps to keep it out of the United States, which eradicated it decades ago. As part of its strategy, the US is preparing to breed billions of sterile flies and release them in Mexico and southern Texas. The aim is for the sterile males to mate with females in the wild who then produce no offspring. The US ban on live cattle also applies to horses and bison imports. It hit a ranching sector already weakened by drought and specifically a cattle export business that generated $US1.2 billion ($A1.9 billion) for Mexico last year. This year, Mexican ranchers have exported fewer than 200,000 head of cattle, which is less than half what they historically send in the same period. For Ibarra Vargas, considered a comparatively small rancher by Sonora's beef-centric standards, the inability to send his calves across the border has made him rethink everything. The repeated bans on Mexican cows by US authorities have pushed his family to branch into beekeeping, raising sheep and selling cow milk. What he earns is just a fraction of what he earned by exporting live cattle, but he is trying to hold on through the lean times. "Tiempos de vacas flacas" — times of the lean cows — as he calls them. At least it lets us continue ranching, the 57-year-old said with a white cowboy hat perched on his head. Even as ranchers in Sonora intensify their efforts to make sure the parasitic fly never makes it into their state, they've had to seek new markets. In the past two months, they've sold more than 35,000 mature cows within Mexico at a significant loss. "We couldn't wait any longer," said Juan Carlos Ochoa, president of the Sonora Regional Cattle Union. Those sales, he said, came at a "35 per cent lower price difference compared with the export value of a cow". That's hard to stomach when beef prices in the US are rising. The US first suspended cattle imports last November. Since then, more than 2258 cases of screwworm have been identified in Mexico. Treatment requires a mix of manually removing the maggots, healing the lesions on the cows and using anti-parasite medicine. Some ranchers have also started retail beef sales through luxury butcher shops referred to as "meat boutiques". There are other foreign markets, for example, Japan, but selling vacuum-sealed steaks across the Pacific is a dramatically different business than driving calves to US feedlots. The switch is not easy. With his calves mooing as they ran from one end of a small corral to the other, waiting to be fed, Ibarra Vargas said he still hasn't figured out how he will survive an extended period of not being able to send them to the US. The recent two-year drought reduced his cattle stocks and forced him to take on debt to save the small family ranch that has survived for three generations. Juan Carlos Anaya, director of Agricultural Markets Consulting Group, attributed a two per cent drop in Mexico's cattle inventory last year to the drought. Anaya said Mexican ranchers who export are trying to get the US to separate what happens in southern Mexico from the cattle exporting states in the north, where stricter health and sanitation measures are taken, "but the damage is already done". "We're running out of time," said Ibarra Vargas, who laments that his children are not interested in carrying on the family business. The United States' suspension of live cattle imports from Mexico hit at the worst possible time for rancher Martín Ibarra Vargas, who after two years of severe drought had hoped to put his family on better footing selling his calves across the northern border. Like his father and grandfather before him, Ibarra Vargas has raised cattle on the parched soil of Sonora, the state in northwestern Mexico that shares a long border with the US. His family has faced punishing droughts before,, but is now facing a new scourge: the New World Screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite. US agriculture officials halted live cattle crossing the border in July – the third suspension of the past eight months — due to concerns about the flesh-eating maggot which has been found in southern Mexico and is creeping north. The screwworm is a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly that can invade the tissues of any warm-blooded animal, including humans. The parasite enters animals' skin, causing severe damage and lesions that can be fatal. Infected animals are a serious threat to herds. The US Department of Agriculture calls it a "devastating pest" and said in June that it poses a threat to "our livestock industry, our economy, and our food supply chain". It has embarked on other steps to keep it out of the United States, which eradicated it decades ago. As part of its strategy, the US is preparing to breed billions of sterile flies and release them in Mexico and southern Texas. The aim is for the sterile males to mate with females in the wild who then produce no offspring. The US ban on live cattle also applies to horses and bison imports. It hit a ranching sector already weakened by drought and specifically a cattle export business that generated $US1.2 billion ($A1.9 billion) for Mexico last year. This year, Mexican ranchers have exported fewer than 200,000 head of cattle, which is less than half what they historically send in the same period. For Ibarra Vargas, considered a comparatively small rancher by Sonora's beef-centric standards, the inability to send his calves across the border has made him rethink everything. The repeated bans on Mexican cows by US authorities have pushed his family to branch into beekeeping, raising sheep and selling cow milk. What he earns is just a fraction of what he earned by exporting live cattle, but he is trying to hold on through the lean times. "Tiempos de vacas flacas" — times of the lean cows — as he calls them. At least it lets us continue ranching, the 57-year-old said with a white cowboy hat perched on his head. Even as ranchers in Sonora intensify their efforts to make sure the parasitic fly never makes it into their state, they've had to seek new markets. In the past two months, they've sold more than 35,000 mature cows within Mexico at a significant loss. "We couldn't wait any longer," said Juan Carlos Ochoa, president of the Sonora Regional Cattle Union. Those sales, he said, came at a "35 per cent lower price difference compared with the export value of a cow". That's hard to stomach when beef prices in the US are rising. The US first suspended cattle imports last November. Since then, more than 2258 cases of screwworm have been identified in Mexico. Treatment requires a mix of manually removing the maggots, healing the lesions on the cows and using anti-parasite medicine. Some ranchers have also started retail beef sales through luxury butcher shops referred to as "meat boutiques". There are other foreign markets, for example, Japan, but selling vacuum-sealed steaks across the Pacific is a dramatically different business than driving calves to US feedlots. The switch is not easy. With his calves mooing as they ran from one end of a small corral to the other, waiting to be fed, Ibarra Vargas said he still hasn't figured out how he will survive an extended period of not being able to send them to the US. The recent two-year drought reduced his cattle stocks and forced him to take on debt to save the small family ranch that has survived for three generations. Juan Carlos Anaya, director of Agricultural Markets Consulting Group, attributed a two per cent drop in Mexico's cattle inventory last year to the drought. Anaya said Mexican ranchers who export are trying to get the US to separate what happens in southern Mexico from the cattle exporting states in the north, where stricter health and sanitation measures are taken, "but the damage is already done". "We're running out of time," said Ibarra Vargas, who laments that his children are not interested in carrying on the family business. The United States' suspension of live cattle imports from Mexico hit at the worst possible time for rancher Martín Ibarra Vargas, who after two years of severe drought had hoped to put his family on better footing selling his calves across the northern border. Like his father and grandfather before him, Ibarra Vargas has raised cattle on the parched soil of Sonora, the state in northwestern Mexico that shares a long border with the US. His family has faced punishing droughts before,, but is now facing a new scourge: the New World Screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite. US agriculture officials halted live cattle crossing the border in July – the third suspension of the past eight months — due to concerns about the flesh-eating maggot which has been found in southern Mexico and is creeping north. The screwworm is a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly that can invade the tissues of any warm-blooded animal, including humans. The parasite enters animals' skin, causing severe damage and lesions that can be fatal. Infected animals are a serious threat to herds. The US Department of Agriculture calls it a "devastating pest" and said in June that it poses a threat to "our livestock industry, our economy, and our food supply chain". It has embarked on other steps to keep it out of the United States, which eradicated it decades ago. As part of its strategy, the US is preparing to breed billions of sterile flies and release them in Mexico and southern Texas. The aim is for the sterile males to mate with females in the wild who then produce no offspring. The US ban on live cattle also applies to horses and bison imports. It hit a ranching sector already weakened by drought and specifically a cattle export business that generated $US1.2 billion ($A1.9 billion) for Mexico last year. This year, Mexican ranchers have exported fewer than 200,000 head of cattle, which is less than half what they historically send in the same period. For Ibarra Vargas, considered a comparatively small rancher by Sonora's beef-centric standards, the inability to send his calves across the border has made him rethink everything. The repeated bans on Mexican cows by US authorities have pushed his family to branch into beekeeping, raising sheep and selling cow milk. What he earns is just a fraction of what he earned by exporting live cattle, but he is trying to hold on through the lean times. "Tiempos de vacas flacas" — times of the lean cows — as he calls them. At least it lets us continue ranching, the 57-year-old said with a white cowboy hat perched on his head. Even as ranchers in Sonora intensify their efforts to make sure the parasitic fly never makes it into their state, they've had to seek new markets. In the past two months, they've sold more than 35,000 mature cows within Mexico at a significant loss. "We couldn't wait any longer," said Juan Carlos Ochoa, president of the Sonora Regional Cattle Union. Those sales, he said, came at a "35 per cent lower price difference compared with the export value of a cow". That's hard to stomach when beef prices in the US are rising. The US first suspended cattle imports last November. Since then, more than 2258 cases of screwworm have been identified in Mexico. Treatment requires a mix of manually removing the maggots, healing the lesions on the cows and using anti-parasite medicine. Some ranchers have also started retail beef sales through luxury butcher shops referred to as "meat boutiques". There are other foreign markets, for example, Japan, but selling vacuum-sealed steaks across the Pacific is a dramatically different business than driving calves to US feedlots. The switch is not easy. With his calves mooing as they ran from one end of a small corral to the other, waiting to be fed, Ibarra Vargas said he still hasn't figured out how he will survive an extended period of not being able to send them to the US. The recent two-year drought reduced his cattle stocks and forced him to take on debt to save the small family ranch that has survived for three generations. Juan Carlos Anaya, director of Agricultural Markets Consulting Group, attributed a two per cent drop in Mexico's cattle inventory last year to the drought. Anaya said Mexican ranchers who export are trying to get the US to separate what happens in southern Mexico from the cattle exporting states in the north, where stricter health and sanitation measures are taken, "but the damage is already done". "We're running out of time," said Ibarra Vargas, who laments that his children are not interested in carrying on the family business. The United States' suspension of live cattle imports from Mexico hit at the worst possible time for rancher Martín Ibarra Vargas, who after two years of severe drought had hoped to put his family on better footing selling his calves across the northern border. Like his father and grandfather before him, Ibarra Vargas has raised cattle on the parched soil of Sonora, the state in northwestern Mexico that shares a long border with the US. His family has faced punishing droughts before,, but is now facing a new scourge: the New World Screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite. US agriculture officials halted live cattle crossing the border in July – the third suspension of the past eight months — due to concerns about the flesh-eating maggot which has been found in southern Mexico and is creeping north. The screwworm is a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly that can invade the tissues of any warm-blooded animal, including humans. The parasite enters animals' skin, causing severe damage and lesions that can be fatal. Infected animals are a serious threat to herds. The US Department of Agriculture calls it a "devastating pest" and said in June that it poses a threat to "our livestock industry, our economy, and our food supply chain". It has embarked on other steps to keep it out of the United States, which eradicated it decades ago. As part of its strategy, the US is preparing to breed billions of sterile flies and release them in Mexico and southern Texas. The aim is for the sterile males to mate with females in the wild who then produce no offspring. The US ban on live cattle also applies to horses and bison imports. It hit a ranching sector already weakened by drought and specifically a cattle export business that generated $US1.2 billion ($A1.9 billion) for Mexico last year. This year, Mexican ranchers have exported fewer than 200,000 head of cattle, which is less than half what they historically send in the same period. For Ibarra Vargas, considered a comparatively small rancher by Sonora's beef-centric standards, the inability to send his calves across the border has made him rethink everything. The repeated bans on Mexican cows by US authorities have pushed his family to branch into beekeeping, raising sheep and selling cow milk. What he earns is just a fraction of what he earned by exporting live cattle, but he is trying to hold on through the lean times. "Tiempos de vacas flacas" — times of the lean cows — as he calls them. At least it lets us continue ranching, the 57-year-old said with a white cowboy hat perched on his head. Even as ranchers in Sonora intensify their efforts to make sure the parasitic fly never makes it into their state, they've had to seek new markets. In the past two months, they've sold more than 35,000 mature cows within Mexico at a significant loss. "We couldn't wait any longer," said Juan Carlos Ochoa, president of the Sonora Regional Cattle Union. Those sales, he said, came at a "35 per cent lower price difference compared with the export value of a cow". That's hard to stomach when beef prices in the US are rising. The US first suspended cattle imports last November. Since then, more than 2258 cases of screwworm have been identified in Mexico. Treatment requires a mix of manually removing the maggots, healing the lesions on the cows and using anti-parasite medicine. Some ranchers have also started retail beef sales through luxury butcher shops referred to as "meat boutiques". There are other foreign markets, for example, Japan, but selling vacuum-sealed steaks across the Pacific is a dramatically different business than driving calves to US feedlots. The switch is not easy. With his calves mooing as they ran from one end of a small corral to the other, waiting to be fed, Ibarra Vargas said he still hasn't figured out how he will survive an extended period of not being able to send them to the US. The recent two-year drought reduced his cattle stocks and forced him to take on debt to save the small family ranch that has survived for three generations. Juan Carlos Anaya, director of Agricultural Markets Consulting Group, attributed a two per cent drop in Mexico's cattle inventory last year to the drought. Anaya said Mexican ranchers who export are trying to get the US to separate what happens in southern Mexico from the cattle exporting states in the north, where stricter health and sanitation measures are taken, "but the damage is already done". "We're running out of time," said Ibarra Vargas, who laments that his children are not interested in carrying on the family business.
Perth Now
05-08-2025
- Health
- Perth Now
Flesh-eating parasite rattles Mexican cattle producers
The United States' suspension of live cattle imports from Mexico hit at the worst possible time for rancher Martín Ibarra Vargas, who after two years of severe drought had hoped to put his family on better footing selling his calves across the northern border. Like his father and grandfather before him, Ibarra Vargas has raised cattle on the parched soil of Sonora, the state in northwestern Mexico that shares a long border with the US. His family has faced punishing droughts before,, but is now facing a new scourge: the New World Screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite. US agriculture officials halted live cattle crossing the border in July – the third suspension of the past eight months — due to concerns about the flesh-eating maggot which has been found in southern Mexico and is creeping north. The screwworm is a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly that can invade the tissues of any warm-blooded animal, including humans. The parasite enters animals' skin, causing severe damage and lesions that can be fatal. Infected animals are a serious threat to herds. The US Department of Agriculture calls it a "devastating pest" and said in June that it poses a threat to "our livestock industry, our economy, and our food supply chain". It has embarked on other steps to keep it out of the United States, which eradicated it decades ago. As part of its strategy, the US is preparing to breed billions of sterile flies and release them in Mexico and southern Texas. The aim is for the sterile males to mate with females in the wild who then produce no offspring. The US ban on live cattle also applies to horses and bison imports. It hit a ranching sector already weakened by drought and specifically a cattle export business that generated $US1.2 billion ($A1.9 billion) for Mexico last year. This year, Mexican ranchers have exported fewer than 200,000 head of cattle, which is less than half what they historically send in the same period. For Ibarra Vargas, considered a comparatively small rancher by Sonora's beef-centric standards, the inability to send his calves across the border has made him rethink everything. The repeated bans on Mexican cows by US authorities have pushed his family to branch into beekeeping, raising sheep and selling cow milk. What he earns is just a fraction of what he earned by exporting live cattle, but he is trying to hold on through the lean times. "Tiempos de vacas flacas" — times of the lean cows — as he calls them. At least it lets us continue ranching, the 57-year-old said with a white cowboy hat perched on his head. Even as ranchers in Sonora intensify their efforts to make sure the parasitic fly never makes it into their state, they've had to seek new markets. In the past two months, they've sold more than 35,000 mature cows within Mexico at a significant loss. "We couldn't wait any longer," said Juan Carlos Ochoa, president of the Sonora Regional Cattle Union. Those sales, he said, came at a "35 per cent lower price difference compared with the export value of a cow". That's hard to stomach when beef prices in the US are rising. The US first suspended cattle imports last November. Since then, more than 2258 cases of screwworm have been identified in Mexico. Treatment requires a mix of manually removing the maggots, healing the lesions on the cows and using anti-parasite medicine. Some ranchers have also started retail beef sales through luxury butcher shops referred to as "meat boutiques". There are other foreign markets, for example, Japan, but selling vacuum-sealed steaks across the Pacific is a dramatically different business than driving calves to US feedlots. The switch is not easy. With his calves mooing as they ran from one end of a small corral to the other, waiting to be fed, Ibarra Vargas said he still hasn't figured out how he will survive an extended period of not being able to send them to the US. The recent two-year drought reduced his cattle stocks and forced him to take on debt to save the small family ranch that has survived for three generations. Juan Carlos Anaya, director of Agricultural Markets Consulting Group, attributed a two per cent drop in Mexico's cattle inventory last year to the drought. Anaya said Mexican ranchers who export are trying to get the US to separate what happens in southern Mexico from the cattle exporting states in the north, where stricter health and sanitation measures are taken, "but the damage is already done". "We're running out of time," said Ibarra Vargas, who laments that his children are not interested in carrying on the family business. For a rancher who "doesn't have a market or money to continue feeding his calves, it's a question of time before he says: "you know what, this is as far as I go".
Perth Now
17-07-2025
- Business
- Perth Now
Arsenal break world record for women's soccer transfer
Canada forward Olivia Smith has become the most expensive player in women's soccer history after Arsenal signed her from Liverpool for a reported one million pounds ($A2.1 million). The new benchmark would surpass the 900,000 pounds ($A1.9 million) Chelsea paid when signing Naomi Girma from the San Diego Wave in January. Smith's four-year deal highlights the increase in spending in women's soccer, with transfer records regularly broken. Zambia striker Rachael Kundananji joined Bay FC from Madrid CFF for a record $US788,000 ($A1.2 million) last year, and that figure was quickly exceeded by Girma's move to Chelsea. As recently as 2020, the most expensive women's player was Denmark's Pernille Harder, who joined Chelsea from Wolfsburg for $US355,000 ($A549,000). The 20-year-old Smith has rapidly risen since developing in the US college system. Smith joined Sporting Clube in Portugal in 2023 and scored 16 goals in 28 appearances in her debut season. She moved to Liverpool last year and scored nine times in 25 games. Smith is also Canada's youngest international after making her debut at the age of 15 in 2019. "Olivia is an exciting young player and we believe she can make a big contribution here at Arsenal," the club's head coach Renee Slegers said on Thursday. "We've been impressed by her mentality and character, excelling in two European leagues at such a young age." Arsenal are 15-time English champions and won the Champions League for the second time in their history this year. Three Australians - Steph Catley, Caitlin Foord and Kyra Cooney-Cross - were part of the winning side. Despite Chelsea being the dominant force in women's soccer in England, Arsenal are the only English team to win the Champions League. "It's my dream to compete for the biggest titles here in England and in Europe, and I'm excited to get started and contribute to doing that here with Arsenal," Smith said.
The Advertiser
12-05-2025
- Business
- The Advertiser
US, China hail 'constructive' Geneva trade talks
The United States and China have ended high-stakes trade talks on a positive note, with US officials touting a "deal" to reduce the US trade deficit. Chinese officials said the sides had reached "important consensus" and agreed to launch another new economic dialogue forum. Neither side released details after they wrapped up two days of talks in Switzerland. Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said a joint statement would be released in Geneva on Monday, local time. Vice Commerce Minister Li Chenggang said it would contain "good news for the world". US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer described "substantial progress" and also said details would be announced on Monday. In separate briefings with reporters, neither side mentioned any agreement to cut US tariffs of 145 per cent on Chinese goods and China's 125 per cent tariffs on US goods. Greer and Bessent took no questions from reporters. Greer described the Geneva meetings' conclusion as "a deal we struck with our Chinese partners" that will help reduce the $US1.2 trillion ($A1.9 trillion) US global goods trade deficit. "And this was, as the secretary pointed out, a very constructive two days," Greer said. "It's important to understand how quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought," Greer said. The US trade chief called He, Li and Vice Finance Minister Liao Min "tough negotiators". Vice Premier He, speaking to reporters at China's mission to the World Trade Organisation, described the talks as "candid, in-depth and constructive" on issues of concern to both countries. "The meeting achieved substantial progress, and reached important consensus," He said, drawing applause from a large audience of Chinese officials present at the WTO office. The US and China agreed to establish a new consultation mechanism for trade and economic issues, with relevant details to be finalised as soon as possible, He added. The meeting was the first face-to-face interaction between senior US and Chinese economic officials since Trump took office and launched a global tariff blitz, declaring a national emergency over the fentanyl crisis and imposing a 20 per cent tariff on Chinese goods in February. Trump followed with a 34 per cent "reciprocal" duty on Chinese imports in April, and subsequent rounds pushed the rates into triple digits, bringing nearly $US600 billion ($A935 billion) in two-way trade to a standstill. China had insisted that tariffs be lowered in any talks. Trump said on Friday that an 80 per cent tariff on Chinese goods "seems right", suggesting for the first time a specific reduction target. Greer said there was a lot of groundwork done before the Geneva meetings on Saturday and Sunday, and the result would address the national emergency that Trump declared over growing US trade deficits. "We're confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency," Greer said. Earlier on Sunday, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told Fox News more foreign trade deals could be coming with other countries as soon as this week. Last week's limited trade deal with Britain left 10 per cent US duties in place on many UK products. Hassett said he had been briefed by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on two dozen pending deals in development with Greer. "They all look a little bit like the UK deal but each one is bespoke," Hassett said. Overnight, Trump gave a positive reading of the talks, saying on his Truth Social media platform that the two sides had negotiated "a total reset ... in a friendly, but constructive, manner". The United States and China have ended high-stakes trade talks on a positive note, with US officials touting a "deal" to reduce the US trade deficit. Chinese officials said the sides had reached "important consensus" and agreed to launch another new economic dialogue forum. Neither side released details after they wrapped up two days of talks in Switzerland. Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said a joint statement would be released in Geneva on Monday, local time. Vice Commerce Minister Li Chenggang said it would contain "good news for the world". US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer described "substantial progress" and also said details would be announced on Monday. In separate briefings with reporters, neither side mentioned any agreement to cut US tariffs of 145 per cent on Chinese goods and China's 125 per cent tariffs on US goods. Greer and Bessent took no questions from reporters. Greer described the Geneva meetings' conclusion as "a deal we struck with our Chinese partners" that will help reduce the $US1.2 trillion ($A1.9 trillion) US global goods trade deficit. "And this was, as the secretary pointed out, a very constructive two days," Greer said. "It's important to understand how quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought," Greer said. The US trade chief called He, Li and Vice Finance Minister Liao Min "tough negotiators". Vice Premier He, speaking to reporters at China's mission to the World Trade Organisation, described the talks as "candid, in-depth and constructive" on issues of concern to both countries. "The meeting achieved substantial progress, and reached important consensus," He said, drawing applause from a large audience of Chinese officials present at the WTO office. The US and China agreed to establish a new consultation mechanism for trade and economic issues, with relevant details to be finalised as soon as possible, He added. The meeting was the first face-to-face interaction between senior US and Chinese economic officials since Trump took office and launched a global tariff blitz, declaring a national emergency over the fentanyl crisis and imposing a 20 per cent tariff on Chinese goods in February. Trump followed with a 34 per cent "reciprocal" duty on Chinese imports in April, and subsequent rounds pushed the rates into triple digits, bringing nearly $US600 billion ($A935 billion) in two-way trade to a standstill. China had insisted that tariffs be lowered in any talks. Trump said on Friday that an 80 per cent tariff on Chinese goods "seems right", suggesting for the first time a specific reduction target. Greer said there was a lot of groundwork done before the Geneva meetings on Saturday and Sunday, and the result would address the national emergency that Trump declared over growing US trade deficits. "We're confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency," Greer said. Earlier on Sunday, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told Fox News more foreign trade deals could be coming with other countries as soon as this week. Last week's limited trade deal with Britain left 10 per cent US duties in place on many UK products. Hassett said he had been briefed by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on two dozen pending deals in development with Greer. "They all look a little bit like the UK deal but each one is bespoke," Hassett said. Overnight, Trump gave a positive reading of the talks, saying on his Truth Social media platform that the two sides had negotiated "a total reset ... in a friendly, but constructive, manner". The United States and China have ended high-stakes trade talks on a positive note, with US officials touting a "deal" to reduce the US trade deficit. Chinese officials said the sides had reached "important consensus" and agreed to launch another new economic dialogue forum. Neither side released details after they wrapped up two days of talks in Switzerland. Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said a joint statement would be released in Geneva on Monday, local time. Vice Commerce Minister Li Chenggang said it would contain "good news for the world". US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer described "substantial progress" and also said details would be announced on Monday. In separate briefings with reporters, neither side mentioned any agreement to cut US tariffs of 145 per cent on Chinese goods and China's 125 per cent tariffs on US goods. Greer and Bessent took no questions from reporters. Greer described the Geneva meetings' conclusion as "a deal we struck with our Chinese partners" that will help reduce the $US1.2 trillion ($A1.9 trillion) US global goods trade deficit. "And this was, as the secretary pointed out, a very constructive two days," Greer said. "It's important to understand how quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought," Greer said. The US trade chief called He, Li and Vice Finance Minister Liao Min "tough negotiators". Vice Premier He, speaking to reporters at China's mission to the World Trade Organisation, described the talks as "candid, in-depth and constructive" on issues of concern to both countries. "The meeting achieved substantial progress, and reached important consensus," He said, drawing applause from a large audience of Chinese officials present at the WTO office. The US and China agreed to establish a new consultation mechanism for trade and economic issues, with relevant details to be finalised as soon as possible, He added. The meeting was the first face-to-face interaction between senior US and Chinese economic officials since Trump took office and launched a global tariff blitz, declaring a national emergency over the fentanyl crisis and imposing a 20 per cent tariff on Chinese goods in February. Trump followed with a 34 per cent "reciprocal" duty on Chinese imports in April, and subsequent rounds pushed the rates into triple digits, bringing nearly $US600 billion ($A935 billion) in two-way trade to a standstill. China had insisted that tariffs be lowered in any talks. Trump said on Friday that an 80 per cent tariff on Chinese goods "seems right", suggesting for the first time a specific reduction target. Greer said there was a lot of groundwork done before the Geneva meetings on Saturday and Sunday, and the result would address the national emergency that Trump declared over growing US trade deficits. "We're confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency," Greer said. Earlier on Sunday, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told Fox News more foreign trade deals could be coming with other countries as soon as this week. Last week's limited trade deal with Britain left 10 per cent US duties in place on many UK products. Hassett said he had been briefed by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on two dozen pending deals in development with Greer. "They all look a little bit like the UK deal but each one is bespoke," Hassett said. Overnight, Trump gave a positive reading of the talks, saying on his Truth Social media platform that the two sides had negotiated "a total reset ... in a friendly, but constructive, manner". The United States and China have ended high-stakes trade talks on a positive note, with US officials touting a "deal" to reduce the US trade deficit. Chinese officials said the sides had reached "important consensus" and agreed to launch another new economic dialogue forum. Neither side released details after they wrapped up two days of talks in Switzerland. Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said a joint statement would be released in Geneva on Monday, local time. Vice Commerce Minister Li Chenggang said it would contain "good news for the world". US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer described "substantial progress" and also said details would be announced on Monday. In separate briefings with reporters, neither side mentioned any agreement to cut US tariffs of 145 per cent on Chinese goods and China's 125 per cent tariffs on US goods. Greer and Bessent took no questions from reporters. Greer described the Geneva meetings' conclusion as "a deal we struck with our Chinese partners" that will help reduce the $US1.2 trillion ($A1.9 trillion) US global goods trade deficit. "And this was, as the secretary pointed out, a very constructive two days," Greer said. "It's important to understand how quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought," Greer said. The US trade chief called He, Li and Vice Finance Minister Liao Min "tough negotiators". Vice Premier He, speaking to reporters at China's mission to the World Trade Organisation, described the talks as "candid, in-depth and constructive" on issues of concern to both countries. "The meeting achieved substantial progress, and reached important consensus," He said, drawing applause from a large audience of Chinese officials present at the WTO office. The US and China agreed to establish a new consultation mechanism for trade and economic issues, with relevant details to be finalised as soon as possible, He added. The meeting was the first face-to-face interaction between senior US and Chinese economic officials since Trump took office and launched a global tariff blitz, declaring a national emergency over the fentanyl crisis and imposing a 20 per cent tariff on Chinese goods in February. Trump followed with a 34 per cent "reciprocal" duty on Chinese imports in April, and subsequent rounds pushed the rates into triple digits, bringing nearly $US600 billion ($A935 billion) in two-way trade to a standstill. China had insisted that tariffs be lowered in any talks. Trump said on Friday that an 80 per cent tariff on Chinese goods "seems right", suggesting for the first time a specific reduction target. Greer said there was a lot of groundwork done before the Geneva meetings on Saturday and Sunday, and the result would address the national emergency that Trump declared over growing US trade deficits. "We're confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency," Greer said. Earlier on Sunday, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told Fox News more foreign trade deals could be coming with other countries as soon as this week. Last week's limited trade deal with Britain left 10 per cent US duties in place on many UK products. Hassett said he had been briefed by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on two dozen pending deals in development with Greer. "They all look a little bit like the UK deal but each one is bespoke," Hassett said. Overnight, Trump gave a positive reading of the talks, saying on his Truth Social media platform that the two sides had negotiated "a total reset ... in a friendly, but constructive, manner".
