World
After six weeks that shook the world, Trump’s honeymoon is over
After a victory lap speech to Congress this week, the president must now face reality: legislative delays, court setbacks, fading popularity and a looming government shutdown.
- by Michael Koziol
Updated
Trade wars
Trump changes course again, delays tariffs on some Mexican, Canadian imports
- by Christopher Rugaber
CIA stops sharing intelligence with Ukraine after Oval Office stoush
- by Jonathan Landay and Erin Banco
Opinion & Perspectives
Trump’s ode to himself, the Action Jackson of braggart presidents
In 2016, I wondered if Donald Trump could ever be presidential, but he didn’t need to alter his behaviour. He simply altered the presidency to match his personality.
Maureen Dowd
New York Times columnist
Trump says he’s ‘just getting started’ in address to rowdy US Congress
Before a highly charged and divided joint sitting of the House of Representatives and Senate, Trump delivered a long, rally-like speech that was heavy on political venom.
Michael Koziol
North America correspondent
‘Random country’: Vance remark sparks outrage in UK
Even Nigel Farage, Britain’s right-wing populist figure and a close ally of Trump, was left incensed by the vice president’s comment, which was seen as disrespectful of British soldiers.
Rob Harris
Europe correspondent
North America
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes, debris streaks through Florida skies
“Unfortunately this happened last time too, so we’ve got some practice now,” SpaceX spokesman Dan Huot said on the live stream.
- by Joey Roulette
Updated
Trade wars
Trump changes course again, delays tariffs on some Mexican, Canadian imports
The taxes proposed by the US president have caused a gaping wound in the decades-old North American trade partnership.
- by Christopher Rugaber
CIA stops sharing intelligence with Ukraine after Oval Office stoush
- by Jonathan Landay and Erin Banco
Europe
Asia
Olarenshaw’s wife found guilty of allowing ‘pornography services’
In a bad day for purveyors and partakers in Bali’s raunchy massage scene, two other Australians were also found guilty on the charges in separate cases.
- by Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Updated
Inside China
‘Changes unseen in a century’: China braces for shifting global order
As a trade war with the United States begins, China wants to fire up its economy and plans to increase defence spending.
- by Lisa Visentin
Updated
China relations
China says it ‘will not flinch’ as it meets Trump’s new tariffs with its own
- by Lisa Visentin
Bali bombing patients caught up in Indonesia’s DOGE-style budget cuts
- by Zach Hope, Amilia Rosa and Karuni Rompies
Opinion
Thailand
The White Lotus effect has landed in Thailand, with a plague of lotus-eaters
- by Sarah Macdonald
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New Zealand’s most senior diplomat in London loses job over Trump remark
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said the remark from the high commissioner was “disappointing” and made the envoy’s position “untenable”.
- by Charlotte Graham-McLay
Updated
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Trump threatens Hamas after secret talks with terror group revealed
- by Steve Holland and Matt Spetalnick
What we know about the deadly mystery illnesses affecting hundreds in Congo
- by Chinedu Asadu and Jean-Yves Kamale
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