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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office.

Trump gives Putin 50-day deadline to end war or face secondary sanctions

The US president seized on Russia’s economic weakness and spoke openly of his ability to use US tariffs as a tool to compel foreign leaders to back down from war.

  • Michael Koziol and David Crowe

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Australia can’t expect ‘business as usual’ with Trump 2.0. So what’s the plan?

There is uncertainty about who is calling the shots at the heart of the Trump administration. That presents risk, and opportunity, for allies like Australia.

  • Michael Koziol
Mahathir Mohamad's power play this week backfired as political parties switched sides but he may still emerge victorious.

Keating called him ‘recalcitrant’. Others say he was an autocrat. But he’s received at least seven birthday cakes since Monday

His trips to hospital prompted predictions it might be curtains for the man who “put Malaysia on the map”. But comebacks are part of the Mahathir brand.

  • Zach Hope
Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrives at Government House for a cabinet meeting in Bangkok today.

Thai PM suspended over leaked phone call about border dispute

Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been suspended while a court considers whether she criticised a Thai general and showed undue deference to Cambodia’s de facto leader.

  • Zach Hope
Taiwan’s Vice President, Hsiao Bi-khim,

Taiwan’s vice president went to Europe. China followed and ‘planned intimidation’

Beijing denied any wrongdoing by Chinese diplomats and urged the parties involved “to not make a fuss over nothing”.

  • Jan Lopatka and Yimou Lee
Embattled Ukraine is among the countries US diplomats have approached to take US deportees.

America’s most unwanted and the urgent cable that reveals where Trump wants them to go

The global dealmaking efforts show the measures the US president is willing to take to fulfil his aspirations for mass deportations, even if it means flying immigrants into danger.

  • Edward Wong, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and Minho Kim
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US President Donald Trump.

Trump may have pulled off a brilliant deal this time – but can you trust the boy who cries victory?

The US president is always so boastful, so outlandish in his claims of unprecedented success, that one can’t help but be sceptical – even when it seems he might have just done something right.

  • Michael Koziol
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon on Sunday (local time).

How the US pulled off ‘Midnight Hammer’, the secret attack Iran didn’t see coming

The US strikes that targeted Iran’s nuclear sites involved a decoy mission and the largest-ever deployment of B-2 stealth bombers, the Pentagon says.

  • Tony Capaccio

‘I saw the flash’: How US nuclear tests changed life on this Pacific idyll forever

Marshall Islands locals watched radioactive coral fall from the sky for hours after the US’s bomb tests, 71 years ago. Now they face another existential threat.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Israeli security forces inspect a destroyed building that were hit by a missile fired from Iran, in Holon, near Tel Aviv, Israel.

Israel-Iran conflict as it happened: Australia deploys ADF to Middle East to evacuate citizens after embassy in Tehran closes; Trump to decide on US involvement ‘within two weeks’

The world is waiting to find out if US President Donald Trump will authorise American strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. Look back at the day’s events.

  • Cassandra Morgan, Lachlan Abbott, Anthony Segaert and Lynette Eyb

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