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US Vice President J.D. Vance stuns the audience at the 61st Munich Security Conference with his intervention in European politics.

Vance stuns Europeans with lesson on whom to trust

Leaders had gathered expecting to hear the Trump administration’s plans for ending the war in Ukraine. The US vice president decided to toe the Elon Musk line instead.

  • Jim Tankersley, Steven Erlanger and David E. Sanger

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Members of the National Socialist Network are arrested as they hold a counter-protest on Australia Day in Adelaide.

Australian neo-Nazis suspended from X

White supremacists Thomas Sewell and Blair Cottrell had their accounts suspended on Tuesday, two days after this masthead reported neo-Nazism was thriving on the platform.

  • Paul Sakkal
Randwick council cleaners remove antisemitic graffiti from houses in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

What if the antisemitic tide has a bigger target: Australia’s stability?

If foreign malign forces masterminded some of this wave of attacks, as authorities suspect, Australia will not be alone.

  • Lydia Khalil
Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2017.

National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96

Jean-Marie Le Pen shook the French political establishment when he used his pugnacious race politics to reach the presidential election run-off in 2002.

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Five Eyes nations sound unprecedented alarm on ‘shocking’ teenage terror threat

Australian children as young as 12 are at risk of becoming terrorists, demanding a “whole-of-society” response to online radicalisation, authorities say.

  • Matthew Knott
Candace Owens has made claims about a range of minority groups, including Jews and transgender people.

Extremist influencer Candace Owens vows to appeal against Australian visa cancellation

The agitator said she and her tour promoter would file an appeal, and the case would be reviewed by a federal judge in days.

  • Olivia Ireland
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British far-right activist Tommy Robinson in London in 2019.

Tommy Robinson, anti-migrant, anti-Muslim agitator, jailed in UK

The sentencing came two days after thousands of his supporters took to the streets of London for a rally that prompted a large counter-demonstration.

  • Stephen Castle
Police doused “neo-Nazis” in pepper spray as they tried to disrupt a refugee rally.

Neo-Nazis pepper-sprayed after attempting to disrupt refugee rally

Police dispersed a balaclava-clad group near a refugee encampment on Tuesday night, sending them running as demonstrators cheered.

  • Cassandra Morgan
The men, believed to be part of a white supremacist group, gather in front of the Corowa war memorial.

Corowa neo-Nazi rally sparks call for united front against hate

Political leaders have condemned a gathering of white supremacists as “disgraceful and cowardly”.

  • Rachel Eddie
Jacob Hersant appears at the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court.

Neo-Nazi Jacob Hersant to be jailed for performing Nazi salute

A magistrate has signalled he will sentence Hersant to time in prison after he found the white supremacist guilty of performing a Nazi salute.

  • Erin Pearson

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