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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a pardon from Israel’s president.

Israel’s Netanyahu seeks a pardon to end his long-running corruption trial. Will he get one?

The Israeli prime minister has for years been dogged by charges of fraud and bribery in a case that has pushed Israel’s polarised politics even further apart.

  • Galit Altstein

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Donald Trump with Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israeli Knesset in October.

Trump’s Gaza peace plan approved by United Nations Security Council

The vote paves the way for an international security force to enter the beleaguered Palestinian territory, as well as the formation of a governing Board of Peace.

  • Michael Koziol
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike at the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on Wednesday.

Gaza ceasefire is back on, Israel says, after new strikes kill more than 100

The strikes, the deadliest since the ceasefire began on October 10, marked the most serious challenge to the tenuous truce to date.

  • Wafaa Shurafa and Josh Boak
West Australian MP Andrew Hastie.

Australian peacekeepers in Gaza would be ‘Hamas targets’, Liberal senator warns

Outspoken MP Andrew Hastie launched a provocative argument against sending Australian personnel to Gaza as world leaders plan a stabilisation force.

  • Matthew Knott
Stan Grant delivers the Centre for Public Christianity’s Richard Johnson Lecture in Chatswood on Wednesday night. 

In one girl’s tears I found the struggle for the human soul

In this world of toxic identity politics, young people like Kate are programmed for bitterness.

  • Stan Grant
Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat has won Olympic gold on the floor exercise in Tokyo and is the defending world champion.

Ban on Israeli gymnasts earns rebuke from Olympics body

Indonesia appears to have wrecked its chances of hosting the 2036 Games after denying visas to Israeli athletes who wanted to compete at a world championships in Jakarta this week.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
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Nepalese pay their respects to Bipin Joshi.

Their son was caught in someone else’s war – and came home in a coffin

As he left his mountain home to work thousands of kilometres away, Bipin Joshi gave his parents and little sister a big hug. They now know there will be no more.

  • Binod Ghimire and Pranav Baskar
Palestinians collect leaflets dropped by an Israeli drone warning people to stay away from the so-called yellow line in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

The one-word post that shows how hard it will be to keep peace in Gaza

The short-lived, if intense, Israeli military response to the latest violence in Gaza suggests US officials were at work behind the scenes to push restraint and keep the deal alive.

  • David M. Halbfinger
Smoke billows following an Israeli strike that targeted a building in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.

Israel says ceasefire and aid to resume after Gaza airstrikes

The Israeli military said it was responding to being fired upon, in what is the most serious test yet of this month’s US-brokered truce.

  • David Crowe
Ilana Haps. “This war not being my ‘fault’ will not spare me or my child from its shadow.”

As a Jew, I feel less safe than ever, but now we must share Gazans’ agony

For my child’s sake, my heartbreak over October 7 and the surging antisemitism in its wake cannot shield me from what lies buried in Gaza’s rubble.

  • Ilana Laps

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