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Zelensky and Witkoff in Berlin.

Trump offers ‘platinum standard’ security guarantee for Ukraine in bid to end war

The NATO-like security proposal would only be on the table for a limited time. Germany’s leader said, “For the first time, a ceasefire now seems possible”.

  • Michael Koziol

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People hold candles during a vigil in Providence for the victims.

Authorities to release person of interest detained in US university shooting

Officials said the investigation had taken them in a “different direction”.

  • Kimberlee Kruesi and Jennifer McDermott
Weapons collected in 1997 during the buyback that was part of John Howard’s gun control reforms.

Australia has gun control under control, right? Looks like we were wrong

We told ourselves John Howard’s gun control reforms would prevent this kind of horror from happening. The awful events of Sunday night show we can no longer rest on those laurels.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Jimmy Lai pictured in 2020.

HK media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted under Beijing-imposed national security law

The 78-year-old, an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party and a vocal democracy campaigner, faces potential life imprisonment.

  • Lisa Visentin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered to drop Ukraine’s goal to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees.

Ukraine drops NATO goal as Trump envoy sees progress in peace talks

The move marks a major shift for Ukraine, which has fought to join NATO as a safeguard against Russian attacks.

  • Friederike Heine, Matthias Williams and Olena Harmash
Another image released by the House oversight committee Democrats shows Allen looking up at Epstein, who is presumably visiting him on a film set.

Woody Allen is not sorry about his friendship with Epstein

The nonagenarian director is taking a slightly different tack than many of the other powerful people associated with the disgraced former financier.

  • Ginia Bellafante
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski smiles as he arrives at the US embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Nobel Peace Prize winner, key opposition figures freed in Belarusian deal with US

The prisoner release was by far the biggest since Trump’s administration opened talks this year with veteran authoritarian leader and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko.

  • Andrius Sytas, Felix Light and Mark Trevelyan
After the release of the US National Security Strategy, Vladimir Putin’s press secretary said the Trump administration’s foreign policy was now “in many ways” aligned with Moscow’s.

‘Crossed the line’: The week Trump turned his back on Europe

A US security plan takes aim at European governments for being weak, with a fixation on open borders, political correctness and censorship.

  • James Rothwell
Lionel Messi and the World Cup in 2022.

Australia among nations driving demand for World Cup tickets despite ‘disgraceful prices’

FIFA received five million requests for World Cup tickets in the first 24 hours of the latest sales phase, it says, despite an outcry over prices.

  • Rory Carroll
President Donald Trump holds an artist rendering of the interior of the new White House ballroom in October.

National Trust sues Trump to stop White House ballroom after East Wing razed

The controversial ballroom project is among several sweeping changes the US president has made to the White House since he returned to office.

  • Bill Barrow

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