{"id":805209,"date":"2026-07-17T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805209\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:30:10","slug":"australia-news-live-trump-says-china-tried-to-influence-2020-us-election-in-national-address-telstra-fronts-senate-inquiry-over-nationwide-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805209\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Trump says China tried to influence 2020 US election in national address; Telstra fronts Senate inquiry over nationwide outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina\u2019s President Javier Milei has said he won\u2019t be attending Sunday\u2019s World Cup final (Monday AEST) because of superstition, instead choosing to view the match between Spain and Argentina from home \u2013 where he has watched the defending champion\u2019s previous seven games, all victories, in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to help his nation\u2019s beloved soccer team secure its second consecutive title, Milei added, he\u2019ll be wearing the same heavy jacket, too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Argentina\u2019s Lionel Messi celebrates with his teammates at the end of the World Cup semi-final against England.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9acf1114cbfa5628da602fa519a53fb787923050.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Argentina\u2019s Lionel Messi celebrates with his teammates at the end of the World Cup semi-final against England.AP<\/p>\n<p>Fans and players around the world cling to superstitions they believe can bring good luck to their team \u2013 or misfortune to their opponents. But in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina, so-called \u201ccabalas,\u201d or ritualistic beliefs and habits, carry unusual weight, reflecting the intensity with which many here watch their national team.<\/p>\n<p>When asked on Thursday whether he\u2019d travel to New Jersey for Sunday\u2019s game to watch alongside his close ally President Donald Trump and FIFA president Gianni Infantino, as was widely expected, Milei replied: \u201cNo way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to keep watching all the games from Olivos,\u201d he told a local Buenos Aires radio station, El Observador, referring to his presidential residence.<\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentina\u2019s President Javier Milei has said he won\u2019t be attending Sunday\u2019s World Cup final (Monday AEST) because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-805209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}