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The contest between Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will take place in the shadow of Donald Trump.

Expect Trump, Musk and Vance to meddle in Australia’s election

They have form when it comes to intervening in foreign election campaigns – and Peter Dutton might welcome that more than Anthony Albanese.

  • Bruce Wolpe

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The home of Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver who was murdered by Hamas during the October 7 attack in Kibbutz Be’eri.

‘Unfeasible’: How seven years of Hamas planning were dismissed by Israel

The IDF has released the report of its internal inquiry into the “historic failure” of October 7, 2023.

  • Henry Bodkin
Thousands of people line the entrance to the Ayalon highway to watch and pay their respects as the funeral procession carrying the caskets of Shiri, Kfir and Ariel pass by with the family in minibuses behind them.

‘I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you’: Father bids farewell to wife and little boys who captured a nation

After tens of thousands of Israelis lined the roads to honour his family, Yarden Bibas reflected on the last moment he shared with them.

  • Melanie Lidman

Trump ‘floods the zone’ with bizarre AI video of future Gaza where he is king

The short video, deemed repugnant even by his own supporters, depicts a glittery riviera complete with a shirtless Trump sipping cocktails with Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • Michael Koziol
British-Israeli hostage Emily Damari and her mother, Mandy, on a call with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after her release from captivity in Gaza.

Inside the hostage hotel, where freed Israelis come to terms with their new normal

No other hotel is quite like it. Close to a hospital, it shelters people who have had their faces in the world’s newspapers for 16 months.

  • Nicole Lampert
The funeral procession for former Hezbollah leaders, Hassan Nasrallah, front, and Hashem Safieddine, circles around the track at the Sports City Stadium on February 23, 2025 in Beirut, Lebanon. Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Beirut to attend the funeral of Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital. Nasrallah founded and led the Shi’ite Muslim group for 30 years, through decades of conflict with Israel and became one of the most prominent Arab figures in generations. (Photo by Daniel Carde/Getty Images)

Thousands attend funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

Hezbollah called on its supporters to attend the funeral in large numbers in what appears to be a move to show that it remains powerful, while Israeli warplanes flew overhead.

  • Bassem Mroue, Abby Sewell and Sally Abou Aljoud
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Kathy Shand has resigned from the writers festival.

Festival head quits as Middle East debate continues to split art world

The Sydney Writers’ Festival program is due to be announced in weeks but its chair Kathy Shand, who is Jewish, has sent her resignation to board members.

  • Paul Sakkal and Linda Morris
Hamas fighters prepare for the handover ceremony of Israeli hostages in Gaza on Saturday.

Israel delays prisoner release over ‘humiliating’ hostage ceremonies

Vehicles apparently carrying hundreds of Palestinian prisoners left the jail gates early on Sunday, only to turn around and go back in.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Mohammed Jahjouh and Melanie Lidman
A poster shows Shiri Bibas, who was kidnapped to Gaza with her husband and two young sons.

Israel confirms body of Shiri Bibas has been returned, Hamas to free six more hostages

The fragile truce in the war between Israel and Hamas militants had been threatened with derailment by the misidentification of a body released on Thursday as that of Bibas.

  • James Mackenzie and Maayan Lubell
Posters of Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir, who were taken hostage by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023.

‘Violation of utmost severity’: Israel says body released by Hamas is not of a hostage

Two of the bodies were identified as infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, while a third body that was supposed to be their mother, Shiri, was found not to match with any hostage, the military said.

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