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Donald Trump thinks daylight saving is inconvenient.

Trump wins $24m defamation claim against ABC America

The settlement related to his felony conviction; Britain joins CPTPP; Jim Chalmers says Coalition nuclear plan willcut growth by $4 trillion. How the day unfolded.

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  • Andrew Hobbs

April

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Havana Syndrome Russian sabotage US

Havana Syndrome: Inside the mysterious attacks on CIA officers

New evidence points to unexplained health problems possibly caused by energy weapons wielded by Unit 29155 of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service.

  • Roman Dobrokhotov, Christo Grozev and Michael Weiss

May 2023

The collapse of Credit Suisse has raised some hairy questions.

Credit Suisse ordered to pay Georgian tycoon $1.4b

The ruling from the Singaporean judge comes shortly before UBS is expected to complete a takeover of its Swiss rival.

  • Chanyaporn Chanjaroen and Hugo Miller

December 2022

A Qantas A380 had to make an emergency landing in Baku on Friday afternoon following a fault indicator in the cockpit.

Qantas’ QF1 makes emergency landing in Azerbaijan

Qantas pilots have made an emergency landing in Azerbaijan after receiving an “intermittent fault indicator” in the cockpit.

  • Lucas Baird
A man rides a bike past a destroyed house in a village on the outskirts of Kherson.

NATO seeks to sustain support against Russia

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russian President Vladimir Putin had focused ‘his ire and his fire’ on Ukraine’s civilian population.

  • Grant McCool and Stephen Coates
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October 2022

Russian software engineer Nikita Shembel on the waterfront in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The private jet that took 100 Russians away from Putin’s war

Thousands of entrepreneurs, software engineers, bankers, scientists and designers have fled to neighbouring countries. This is how they got out and what their departure means for Russia.

  • Willem Marx

June 2022

Vladimir Putin has used the cover of his special military operation in Ukraine to finally snuff out any domestic political opposition.

Farewell to Russia and to the Sinatra doctrine

Officials used to joke that liberated states ‘were doing it their way’. Thirty years later, Vladimir Putin has taken Russia back to the imperialism of the Soviet period.

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  • Gideon Rachman

March 2022

The dangers of cornering Putin is Washington’s new concern

Senior White House officials have begun quietly debating a new concern: that the avalanche of sanctions directed at Moscow is cornering Vladimir Putin and may prompt him to lash out.

  • David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes

February 2022

Vladimir Putin hopes to establish new international realities, with Europe again divided between East and West.

The world that Vladimir Putin wants to see

The Russian President would rather have a global disorder where Russia is central, than an order where it is peripheral.

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  • Bobo Lo

January 2022

Putin’s end game is to ensure Ukraine stays out of NATO

Creating a security crisis and sending mixed signals about his intentions is a classic strategy as he attempts to limit the Western alliance’s expansion.

  • Anton Troianovski

August 2020

Protesters picket Belarussian State TV headquarters at the weekend.

Battling protests, Lukashenko brandishes strongman Putin

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he had secured a pledge from Russia to provide comprehensive assistance if needed to ensure the security of his country in a phone call with President Vladimir Putin at the weekend.

  • Andrei Makhovsky and Polina Devitt

March 2020

France is the latest European country to shut down all non-essential businesses that serve the public to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Lockdowns, sweeping restrictions take hold across Europe

European nations have enacted sweeping restrictions on citizens' freedom to move around and socialise to combat the coronavirus outbreak, leaving shops shuttered, travel plans scrapped and streets empty.

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  • Staff Correspondents

January 2020

Demonstrators hold portraits of former militant Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in front of the German embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia after he was assassinated in a Berlin park last August.

How Russian agents hunt down Putin's enemies

An investigation shows an elite team of Russian soldiers is deployed for 'sabotage, subversion and assassinations' to eliminate Vladimir Putin's opponents.

  • Maik Baumgärtner

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