内容摘要：Trump has given a boost to the right-wing, with some of them gathering outside the US embassy in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, in February with placards that read: "Make South Africa Great Again" - an adaptation of Trump's "Make America Great Again".

Trump has given a boost to the right-wing, with some of them gathering outside the US embassy in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, in February with placards that read: "Make South Africa Great Again" - an adaptation of Trump's "Make America Great Again".

The president insists there is no quid-pro-quo involved and that the plane is a simple exchange between two allies.On Truth Social he wrote: "The Defense Department is getting a gift, free of charge, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40-year-old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction."

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani has said the transfer "is a government-to-government transaction."It has nothing to do with personal relationships - neither on the US side, nor the Qatari side. It's between the two defence ministries," he said.But those assertions have done little to

"I think it's not worth the appearance of impropriety, whether it's improper or not," Rand Paul, Republican senator from Kentucky, told Fox News."I wonder if our ability to judge [Qatar's] human rights record will be clouded by the fact of this large gift," Paul said.

Another Republican senator, Ted Cruz of Texas, said accepting the gift would pose "significant espionage and surveillance problems".

Labor's Anthony Albanese has defied the so-called "incumbency curse" to be re-elected Australia's prime minister in a landslide."As you would expect, something that large at that amount of speed, were going to have a lot of throw that goes every which direction," he explained.

Footage from the scene shows the charred cars littered across the street.Local resident Christopher Moore told the Associated Press that he and his wife were woken by a loud bang in the early hours of the morning.

Mr Moore said they looked out the window and saw smoke, and the couple grabbed their two young children and fled.Once on the street, they saw a car engulfed in flames.