Sydney, April 7, 2025 (AFP) - Australian stock index down 4.2% at close

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2025-04-07
Australia's benchmark stock index closed 4.23 percent lower on Monday, recording one of its worst trading days in more than a year as US tariffs and China's reprisals roiled global markets. A benchmark index of the country's largest 200 listed companies sank to its lowest since late 2023, extending losses first sparked last week by US President Donald Trump's bombshell tariff announcement. sft/lec/dhw ...
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WALVIS BAY, 11 March 2025 - Four of the five people accused of defrauding a businessman of N.dollars 29 million making their appearance in the Walvis Bay Magistrate's Court. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

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KATIMA MULILO, 08 April 2023 - Unam Vice Chancellor, Professor Kenneth Matengu speaks at the graduation ceremony of students from the UNAM Katima Mulilo Campus on Tuesday. (Photo by: Michael Mutonga Liswaniso) NAMPA

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