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Richard Marles

Australia commits largest Ukraine package at $250m, personnel for NATO

Australia will provide its largest single military package to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion.

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  • Matthew Cranston
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ASX rallies 1pc; Pressure builds on Biden; Get-rich tricks

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This Month

Donald Trump at the Miami rally: “I don’t think Kamala Harris’s California socialism is going to go down well with the people of Doral, the people of Miami or the people of Florida.”

Trump steps up attacks on Harris, stays silent on running mate

The former president accused Vice President Kamala Harris of working with other Democrats to cover up Joe Biden’s alleged mental acuity issues.

  • Nathan Layne
Donald Trump at the debate: Joe Biden’s performance has obscured the serious flaws in Trump’s economic plans.

The economic consequences of re-elected President Donald Trump

Trump’s first-term tariffs did not crater the US or world economies. The same cannot be said for his far more ambitious plans the second time around.

  • Richard Holden
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Wall Street’s big run; Incitec dumps sale talks; Inside Biden’s fight

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Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin during an informal meeting near Moscow this week.

Zelensky blasts Modi’s visit to Russia as blow to peace

The Ukrainian president said the visit was a “devastating blow to peace efforts”. His comments came on the same day as a missile strike on Kyiv hit a children’s hospital.

  • Sudhi Ranjan Sen and Dan Strumpf
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2019.

On any measure, India has disappointed

It was never meant to be this way. India was to be in the corner of the democracies in the contest with the autocracies.

  • Geoff Raby
Putin said in Astana that Russia won’t declare a halt to fighting before Ukraine agrees to take “irreversible” steps demanded by Moscow, without specifying what those would be.

Putin says Trump ‘sincerely’ wants to end the war in Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin said Russia takes seriously statements by Donald Trump that he has proposals to end the war in Ukraine quickly.

  • Bloomberg News
Boris Johnson at the campaign event this week.

Boris Johnson in surprise late move to avert Tory wipeout

Making his first public appearance of the campaign, the former prime minister said Labour would “destroy so much of what we have achieved”.

  • Alex Wickham
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

Liberals panic worldwide as Trump, Le Pen rise

Liberals are in for a long struggle as nationalist populism surges in the US and Europe.

  • Gideon Rachman

June

Only one question for Democrats after Biden’s debate

Joe Biden faltered early. At one point, the words simply failed him. He appeared momentarily lost and Donald Trump went for the jugular.

  • James Curran
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Putin to Xi: I have options in East Asia

The Russian President’s visits last week to North Korea and Vietnam shows Russia’s residual capacity to stir trouble in East Asia.

  • James Curran
Donald Trump and Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman at the White House in 2017.

Why billionaires support Trump

Business people struggle to understand fanaticism. In commercial life, all actors are negotiable, even if their price is high. They also tend to overrate contrarianism.

  • Janan Ganesh

GyG’s winning bank; PM addresses gas risk; It’s Bullock v burritos

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un attend the official welcome ceremony in the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang.

Putin-Kim bond threatens Pacific security: envoy

Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia has made a fresh pitch for weapons to help Kyiv fight Russia.

  • Andrew Tillett
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Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Putin and Kim sign mutual defence pact

The pact could be a dramatic shift in the strategic balance in Northeast Asia by placing Russia’s heft behind North Korea.

  • Josh Smith and Ju-min Park
 Clive Palmer and Tucker Carlson in Brisbane on Wednesday.

Clive Palmer’s private jet picks up Tucker Carlson

The mining billionaire’s plane picked up a pain from Maine.

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  • Myriam Robin

Nuclear sites revealed; Trump, Biden switch; Nvidia’s scary rise

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.

Kim vows ‘full support’ for Putin’s war

The Russian president arrived for his first visit to the DPRK in 24 years, amid warnings of more arms transfers to Moscow for its war in Ukraine.

  • Kim Tong-Hyung
President Vladimir Putin  in Russia’s Far East en route to North Korea on Tuesday.

Putin vows trade, security with North Korea

The Russian president pledged his unwavering support in a letter published by North Korean state media on Tuesday ahead of his planned visit to the country.

  • Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith

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