Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has faced an awkward public rebuke from one of the European Union's key figures in his first trip overseas since tearing up a deal to spend $90 billion on French submarines sparked a major diplomatic crisis.The confrontation at the United Nations General Assembly in New York came as the French continued to express their fury at a "stab in the back" from close allies. One official on Tuesday suggested the choice to ditch French diesel-electric subs in favour of American nuclear-powered vessels was "bad news" for Australia.Mr Morrison touched down in New York on Monday night (Tuesday AEST) as the fallout from the AUKUS alliance announcement and the sub deal, which France insists it was kept in the dark over, threatened to affect negotiations for an EU-Australia free trade deal.
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