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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.
- by Jim Tankersley, Steven Erlanger and David E. Sanger
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2000-year-old basilica found in London office basement
Archaeologists at the site of a planned 32-storey office tower have unearthed the remains of a thriving Roman town centre at the heart of old Londinium.
- by Jill Lawless
Britain’s cinemas face their curtain call
In age of rising costs, streaming services and limited content, movie theatres across the UK are closing down left, right and centre.
- by Rob Harris
Russian drone attack damages Chernobyl nuclear plant’s shelter, Zelensky says
Radiation levels have not increased, the Ukrainian president and the UN atomic agency say.
- by Reuters
Opinion
Russia-Ukraine war
For Ukrainians like me, a Trump-Putin ‘peace deal’ is a sickening betrayal
Other nations may suffer similar fates if Russian aggression in Ukraine is legitimised. Australia must continue to support Ukrainian sovereignty.
- by Kateryna Argyrou
Updated
Traffic incident
‘Probably an attack’: Children among injured as car drives into Munich crowd
The incident came hours before Munich was to host a conference of world leaders, and before Germany’s federal election.
- by Anja Guder and Wolfgang Rattay
Updated
Russia-Ukraine war
What might a Ukraine-Russia peace deal look like?
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin may have broken the ice, but Ukraine’s president says his country will not accept any deal unless it is included in the talks.
- by Rob Harris
‘Security shield’: US hands Zelensky draft deal on rare minerals
The idea of a minerals-for-security deal is said to have come from Ukraine to appeal to Donald Trump’s business-first mindset.
- by Tom Balmforth, Max Hunder and Yuliia Dysa
Analysis
Russia-Ukraine war
This is Putin and Trump’s world now
America is no longer interested in underwriting Ukrainian and European security. Britain and Europe must ask whether they want to be at the table – or on the menu.
- by Roland Oliphant
World of photos, February 14, 2025
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors.
Beavers finish seven-year dam project in two days
Despite a seven-year planning process and successfully securing the funding, the Czech Republic’s dam plans went nowhere. Until the animal workers arrived.
- by Harriet Barber
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