World politics
Thousands gather to protest as Zelensky signs bill weakening anti-corruption agencies
Thousands gather to protest as Zelensky signs bill weakening anti-corruption agencies.
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- Russia-Ukraine war
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
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
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
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
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 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
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
- Analysis
- Middle East at war
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
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
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