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Russia-Ukraine war
Trump on the attack calls Zelensky a dictator who ‘stole from US’
The past 48 hours have seen relations between Trump and Zelensky rapidly deteriorate while Ukraine and Europe were left out of talks between senior American and Russian officials.
- by Michael Koziol
Analysis
Russia-Ukraine war
It takes twisted logic to blame the victim, but we’re in a new world now
- by Michael Koziol
Two tiny captives, symbols of hostage crisis, to come home dead, Hamas says
- by Aaron Boxerman and Isabel Kershner
Opinion & Perspectives
It’s not your imagination, Trump siding with Putin on Ukraine is scary
Trump’s personal attack on Volodymyr Zelensky and his adoption of Putin’s talking points raises the question of who will stand up for truth and decency?
Michael Koziol
North America correspondent
Cuckold Europe, prop up dictators: Trump’s global plot laid bare
The US president’s shifting of the geopolitical tectonic plates may seem chaotic, but it’s not. He is a staunch sovereigntist and a shrewd geopolitical calculus is at work.
Clinton Fernandes
Academic and former intelligence officer
Trump and Musk’s ‘hard power’ is changing America before our eyes
“A big mouth doesn’t make a big man”: As the US president and his billionaire offsider exercise their “masculine maximalism”, they’d do well to listen to John Wayne.
Maureen Dowd
New York Times columnist
North America
Opinion
Russia-Ukraine war
It’s not your imagination, Trump siding with Putin on Ukraine is scary
Trump’s personal attack on Volodymyr Zelensky and his adoption of Putin’s talking points raises the question of who will stand up for truth and decency?
- by Michael Koziol
Analysis
Russia-Ukraine war
It takes twisted logic to blame the victim, but we’re in a new world now
Donald Trump has not only blamed Ukraine for the bloody war, but claims it would have never happened if he’d been president in 2022.
- by Michael Koziol
Europe
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Russia-Ukraine war
Trump on the attack calls Zelensky a dictator who ‘stole from US’
- by Michael Koziol
Asia
Singapore MP learns cover-up is worse than the crime, in case that has gripped nation
What could have been just an embarrassing episode involving a first-term MP has turned into a damaging and long-running saga for Singapore’s opposition leader.
- by Zach Hope
Matthew went to get his iPhone fixed – and spent the next five years in a Beijing jail
An Australian man says an extortion attempt at an electronics repair store landed him in prison, where he was forced to confess to stealing his own phone.
- by Lisa Visentin
China accuses Australia of deliberate provocation in South China Sea
- by Liz Lee, Xiuhao Chen and Kirsty Needham
‘Let’s go, bro!’ Australian tourist suspected of triggering wild Bali brawl
- by Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
The US was cleaning up its deadly mess in Cambodia – then came Trump’s call
- by Zach Hope and Nara Lon
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