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A woman is in hospital with serious injuries after a car drove into outdoor seating at a cafe in Sydney this morning.

Two customers were sitting at an outside table at a cafe on Norton Street, Leichhardt about 9.50am when a silver BMW rolled across two lanes of traffic and drove into them.

A woman, believed to be aged in her 70s, was pinned to the wall of the cafe by the car.

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She was treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in a serious but stable condition.

The other patron managed to move out of the car's path, but was thrown to the ground in the process.

CCTV vision showed bystanders sprinting towards the car in desperate attempts to stop it from hitting diners.

Witnesses rushed to the aid of the victim and helped pull her out from the crash scene.

Other bystanders ordered the driver out of the car.

He was seen rustling through items on the passenger seat before getting back into the car and fleeing the scene.

Police located the car a short time later and arrested the driver, a man believed to be aged in his 30s.

He was taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital under police guard for assessment.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the crash.

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US President Donald Trump was geared up for a show of federal force in San Francisco, a city he's blasted as everything wrong with liberal governance. Then conversations with some of the Bay Area's most prominent tech leaders and the mayor changed his mind.

"I got a great call from some incredible people, some friends of mine, very successful people," Trump told reporters Thursday at the White House, specifically referencing Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, one of the world's most valuable tech companies, and Marc Benioff, CEO of software company Salesforce.

He said they told him San Francisco was working hard to reduce crime. "So we are holding off that surge, everybody. And we're going to let them see if they can do it," Trump said.

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He said he could change his mind if it "doesn't work out."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said

Trump said the increased federal force had been planned for Saturday.

He didn't specify whether he was just referring to National Guard troops, which he had threatened to send in, or if he would also halt a potential ramp up of immigration enforcement.

US Customs and Border Protection agents arrived at a US Coast Guard base near the city on Thursday morning, drawing protesters.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement informed Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez that the operation had been called off for the entire Bay Area, a nine-county region of about 8 million people, Sgt. Roberto Morales, a spokesman for the sheriff, said Friday.

A careful approach to Trump

Outreach from billionaire CEOs clearly had a hand in the rare reprieve Trump handed a Democrat-led city.

But Trump also credited Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has worked to avoid direct confrontation with the Republican president since both took office in January.

Lurie has governed as an earnest and relentless cheerleader of San Francisco, and repeatedly refused to weigh in on national politics or to mention Trump's name.

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Instead, he's focused on local issues — public safety, luring back business and reversing the city's pandemic-fueled decline.

When Trump said repeatedly earlier this week that he'd send the National Guard into San Francisco to quell crime, Lurie noted overall crime is down 26 per cent compared to last year and car break-ins are at a 22-year low.

"I told the mayor, I love what you're doing, I respect it, and I respect the people that are doing it," Trump said, referencing a phone call the two had Wednesday.

An heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and anti-poverty philanthropist, Lurie is a centrist Democrat who had never held office until he ousted then-Mayor London Breed in last November's election.

He has stated no other political aspirations than to improve the city and has said that he will work with anyone who wants to do the same.

Lurie said he told Trump that he welcomes the city's "continued partnership" with the Drug Enforcement Agency and other federal authorities to get illegal narcotics off the streets and contribute to San Francisco's falling crime rates. Fentanyl has been a major scourge on the city's streets.

"But having the military and militarized immigration enforcement in our city will hinder our recovery," Lurie said.

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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Friday that her department won't tolerate violence like the truck that rammed into a Coast Guard station in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday night.

She said during a news conference in Minneapolis that she had discussed the incident with Trump and suggested the president could change his mind about holding off a federal enforcement surge if more violence occurs.

If they "don't figure out how to protect our law enforcement officers and protect our Coast Guard members, that we would be forced to come in and protect those individuals," she said.

City reacts with praise and skepticism

Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat, praised Lurie on social media, saying that he "has demonstrated exceptional leadership." Steve Kerr, Golden State Warriors head coach, called him an "absolute superstar" responsible for the good things happening in San Francisco.

The office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a former San Francisco mayor, said on X that, "Trump, has finally, for once, listened to reason."

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Newsom, for his part, has repeatedly sparred with Trump, particularly after Trump deployed the California National Guard to Los Angeles against Newsom's wishes.

But others are skeptical that Trump will keep his word. Indeed, Trump said he was giving Lurie "a chance" to turn things around and said the federal government could "take criminals out" much faster.

"We cannot trust Trump," said San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, a progressive who runs politically left of Lurie but has a good working relationship with the mayor.

San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who is also more politically liberal than Lurie, said in a statement that she disagrees with Lurie's desire to coordinate more with federal law enforcement, saying that "is a dangerous invitation to a fascist administration."

CEOs make an appeal

Trump said he received "four or five calls" from business leaders urging him not to send federal force and to let city leaders continue to work on reducing crime.

"They're the biggest people in the world, a lot of the high tech," he said at the White House. "They want to do it. And I said, 'I am so honored to let you do it. And if it doesn't work out, we'll do it for you very quickly.'"

Benioff of Salesforce, who also owns Time magazine, told the New York Times earlier this month that he'd welcome Guard troops to help quell crime ahead of his major annual business conference.

He quickly face backlash and then apologized, saying the troops weren't needed. He confirmed to The Associated Press that he spoke to Trump but did not provide more details. Nvidia declined to comment.

In announcing his decision to back off a surge, Trump did not mention other cities in the Bay Area, including Oakland, where he has also threatened to send in federal troops.

Some other Democrats who have also taken a less combative approach to Trump have avoided his focus as he deploys Guard troops around the country.

He has not, for example, focused on Detroit despite criticism of the city. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has tried to engage with Trump including with White House visits.

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Exclusive: Jess Davis had been travelling Taliban-controlled Afghanistan for two weeks when her mum rang from Melbourne to call her out in a lie.

"I had lied and told them I flew elsewhere," she told 9news.com.au.

Davis had good reason to bend the truth – and her family had good reason to worry.

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She's among a growing number of Western tourists choosing to visit the Central Asian nation despite the threat of terrorist attacks, kidnappings and arbitrary detention.

Australia has it on a "do not travel" list and the Smartraveller website warns "no location in Afghanistan can be considered safe".

There are no Australian officials or consular support in Afghanistan, and airports, flights and telecommunications can be disrupted without notice.

Despite this, tourism to Afghanistan is on the rise.

Fewer than 700 tourists visited in 2021, the year the Taliban took over, but that figure rose to more than 9000 last year, according to officials.

While most Australian travel companies don't promote travel to Afghanistan, Flight Centre Travel Group global leisure chief executive James Kavanagh said some Aussies won't be deterred.

"We do receive the occasional request and book a very small number of trips each year for those determined to go," he said.

Some are travel influencers, many of whom have been accused of "romanticising" Afghanistan and downplaying potential dangers for views or sponsorships.

But many more are adventure travellers like Davis, who decided to visit after befriending Afghan refugees while travelling in Pakistan.

She said getting a visa was easy and that she never felt unsafe, as tourists like herself "basically have the safety guarantee of the Taliban".

"They want tourism, it looks good for improving their international image," she said.

"They do not want anything bad to happen to you. It doesn't look good for them."

Tahera Nassrat, founder and chief executive of the Afghan Peace Foundation, said that's exactly why the sudden spike in Western tourism to her home nation is a problem.

"Travelling to Afghanistan under the current regime risks normalising and legitimising a government that has been widely condemned for its ongoing human rights abuses," Nassrat said.

"And the idea that it's somehow a 'safe' place for tourism, especially for outsiders, is simply not accurate."

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Since the Taliban took power in 2021, many Afghan citizens have faced economic instability, fear of violence, and human rights violations under authoritarian rule.

Women and girls have become victims of what many have called a "gender apartheid", banned from receiving an education, holding most jobs, and even speaking in public.

But those profound ethical, political, and humanitarian concerns are rarely highlighted in Western tourists' curated social media posts.

Instead, their experiences and content may become part of the Taliban propaganda machine, the money they spend may end up in the pockets of Taliban authorities, and they could be subject to surveillance, intimidation, or exploitation.

That's especially true for women.

Though female tourists are afforded countless privileges and freedoms that have been stripped from Afghan women and girls, Nassrat said they're not truly safe in Afghanistan.

Davis admitted that while she never felt unsafe, being the only woman in most public places made her "uncomfortable".

As did hearing the experiences of Afghan women she met, like a young guide who said the only ways Afghan women can make money is through "sewing or sex work".

All of her friends had fled the country and she was considering doing the same.

"It's hard when I go [to Afghanistan], have a really great time and get treated well, but then I get to leave and they can't," Davis confessed.

Since returning home to Melbourne, she's been trying to spread awareness about the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan.

She shared a social media post about the issue, and mentioned fundraising efforts and supporting humanitarian organisations in her conversation with 9news.com.au.

But Nassrat said real solidarity with Afghan women comes by choosing not to participate in a system that oppresses them.

Instead, she called on Westerners to advocate from afar, amplify Afghan voices, support refugee and aid organisations, and resist the normalisation of "a regime that has rendered millions of women invisible".

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Davis said she wants her travels, which she shared on her personal Instagram account, to help dismantle negative stereotypes about Afghanistan and its people.

She rejected any suggestion that she or other tourists endorse or support the Taliban by visiting.

"Afghanistan's obviously politically tricky, but I think it's important to separate people living their everyday life from the government," she said.

"You can't help everyone, the best you can do as a tourist is bring some attention to their stories."

But Afghan refugees and members of the Afghan diaspora around the world have been working to bring attention to their lived experiences and those of the friends and family they had to leave behind for years.

Nassrat fled Afghanistan in the late 1990s when the Taliban surged to power and, like so many others, cannot safely return today.

"For Afghan refugees in Australia, many of whom carry the trauma of war, displacement, and family separation, watching foreign tourists walk freely through cities they were forced to flee can be profoundly painful," she said.

While Westerners certainly play an important role in amplifying Afghan voices and supporting humanitarian efforts, tourists promoting Afghanistan as a holiday destination are likely to do more harm than good.

Especially because what tourists see and experience is controlled by the Taliban to tell the story that suits the regime.

"Well-meaning tourists may unintentionally become tools of propaganda, helping to sanitise the image of a regime that continues to commit serious human rights abuses," Nassrat said.

"While genuine curiosity about Afghanistan's culture and people is understandable, the current surge in tourism — particularly under the guise of 'changing perceptions' — has more harmful than helpful consequences."

So is there any way to engage in ethical tourism to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan?

Nassrat said no, but Davis had a different perspective.

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She argued that when so many Australians have been raised on images of Afghanistan as a war zone, ethical tourism that centres the lived experiences of Afghan citizens and acknowledges the privileges afforded to Western tourists can have a positive impact.

"I know a few people who've just gone to make YouTube videos shooting guns with the Taliban and I think that is the complete wrong way to do tourism there," she said.

"But most people I met are going to bring some awareness and I think in that regard, it's, it's good.

"Nothing can change if people don't know about it."

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The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is drawing a volatile mix of blowback and praise for arguing that a Canadian government advertisement playing in US markets misrepresented the 40th president's words to blast US President Donald Trump's tariff policies.

It is not clear how the California-based Reagan Foundation decided to enter the fray over the ad, which was purchased by Ontario Premier Doug Ford and used portions of a 1987 Reagan speech on trade in which he questioned the wisdom of using tariffs as economic policy.

But shortly after the foundation said on social media that the ad misused "selective audio" of the former president, Trump cited the foundation when, in his own social media critique, he threatened to stop all trade with America's northern neighbour and blasted the ad as unduly interfering in US politics.

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The foundation statement seemingly aligned Reagan, a free-trade acolyte, with Trump, a protectionist who has flouted decades of US policy with high border taxes, including on goods from top US trading partners.

The foundation, which helps support the Reagan Presidential Library & Museum, also suggested it could take legal action against Ontario's provincial government, which sponsored the ad.

Reagan's speech is included in millions of administration records governed by the Presidential Record Act, signed in 1981 by his predecessor, US President Jimmy Carter.

That law puts presidential remarks in the public domain, meaning no one must seek permission from presidential foundations or libraries to redistribute them.

Ford said Friday that the ad would be phased out so the US and Canadian administrations can resume trade talks.

He said the ad had achieved its goal but would continue to air during the first two games of the World Series.

'Easily intimidated by a call from the White House'

The backlash on social media was explosive, immediate and far from unanimous.

"Incredible cynicism and betrayal of Reagan by his own foundation," Paul Novosad, a Dartmouth College economist, wrote on X.

Novosad said anyone who followed the foundation's advice to listen to Reagan's full remarks "would see he says exactly what the Ontario ad claims."

Jason Kenney, a former Canadian cabinet minister in a Conservative government, questioned the leadership of the Reagan Foundation on X.

He said the entity had been "easily intimidated by a call from the White House, yet another sign of the hugely corrosive influence of Trump on the American conservative movement."

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Trump supporters countered on social media with echoes of the president's assertions and accusations that Canada was meddling in US politics.

Foundation staff did not respond to Associated Press questions about how it has handled the matter.

But one board member said in a brief interview that he knew nothing about the statement and had not been asked to participate in any deliberations ahead of its release.

"There may have been discussions about it, but I wasn't a part of any of them," Bradford Freeman, a private equity executive, told the AP.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also did not immediately respond when asked via email whether the White House or anyone on the president's behalf asked the Reagan Foundation to intervene.

Several other board members also did not reply to AP inquiries.

An atypical role for a presidential foundation

At the least, the developments represent an unusually tense application of the foundation's typical mission, which is to buttress Reagan's legacy.

The situation also highlights the foundation as the latest US establishment institution to be drawn into the controversies of Trump's aggressive second administration.

Trump previously has elicited policy concessions from multiple US universities, including elite public and private schools, after withholding or threatening to withhold federal funding.

Presidents at Columbia University and the University of Virginia resigned as the Trump administration pressured their institutions.

Some US corporations voluntarily rolled back diversity initiatives.

More recently, high-profile firms including Amazon, Apple, Coinbase, Comcast, Google, Lockheed Martin and Meta Platforms have agreed to help finance the ballroom Trump plans for the White House after ordering the building's East Wing to be demolished.

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Many of those firms have regulatory business before Trump's administration.

On Truth Social, Trump called the Canadian ad "fake," despite the TV spot featuring clear audio excerpts from Reagan's April 25, 1987, radio address.

"CANADA CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT!!! They fraudulently took a big buy ad saying that Ronald Reagan did not like Tariffs, when actually he LOVED TARIFFS FOR OUR COUNTRY, AND ITS NATIONAL SECURITY," he posted Friday.

Reagan used the radio address to explain why he was imposing targeted levies on some Japanese products as leverage in the country's trade dispute over computer chips.

That gives Trump and his backers a hook to argue that Reagan might not oppose at least some of the current president's moves on trade. Yet Trump has imposed tariffs, often at unusually high rates, far more broadly than Reagan and other recent US administrations.

And even while explaining his Japan policy, Reagan spent much of the 1987 speech – less than 10 minutes long – emphasising that he remained an opponent of tariffs, a characterisation the Ontario ad appeared to accurately represent.

Reagan's speech affirmed his broad tariff opposition

"Throughout the world, there's a growing realisation that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition," Reagan said.

He expounded:

"You see, at first, when someone says, 'Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports,' it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works — but only for a short time.

"What eventually occurs is: First, homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs.

"They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets. And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs.

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'High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition.

"So, soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidise inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying.

"Then the worst happens: Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs."

The Reagan Foundation is a tax-exempt nonprofit that helps fund his library, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration.

As part of its tax-exempt status, the foundation is prohibited from endorsing political candidates and, generally, must be nonpartisan in its activities.

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