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Donald Trump has flagged blanket 15 to 20 per cent levies on countries without a new deal by August 1.

Trump says Palestinian recognition a threat to trade talks in warning to Australia

The United States president has warned that Palestinian recognition could threaten talks as Labor ministers on Thursday welcomed international momentum for a two-state solution.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The Palestine recognition train has left the station. Will Albanese jump aboard?

Western leaders are vowing to recognise Palestine for different purposes, but some advocates for the cause have come to believe it is a sideshow.

  • Matthew Knott
Global pressure is mounting on Israel over starvation in Gaza.

Albanese resists ‘moral momentum’ call to join UK plans for recognising Palestine

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s major shift in foreign policy follows a declaration that France would recognise a Palestinian state at the UN.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos, David Crowe and Matthew Knott
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Donald Trump.

Government scrambling for details after Trump threatens higher tariffs

Australian officials do not know how high a tariff Donald Trump will place on the country’s exports to the US and there are no signs a deal is imminent.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos, Matthew Knott and David Crowe
A video of Donald Trump near a sand trap on a Scottish fairway.

Can the world trust Trump? This golf video might have the answer

The US president has made some big claims, but his tough talk could be drowned out by one seemingly dubious play on the golf course.

  • David Crowe
US President Donald Trump speaking to reporters as he meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Trump Turnberry golf club.

‘That’s real starvation stuff’: Trump disputes Israel’s Gaza claims, slashes Putin’s Ukraine deadline

The US president has called on Israel to speed up the flow of food to Gaza and set a new timeframe for Russia to end the war in Ukraine, intensifying his demands on both global flashpoints.

  • David Crowe
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is weighing up whether Australia will join France by recognising Palestine.

Albanese plans to recognise Palestine but the timing is crucial

The prime minister wants to recognise Palestine. The question is one of timing and how to ensure an Australian intervention has the maximum diplomatic impact. 

  • Matthew Knott
Well may he laugh: Reform leader Nigel Farage, whose party stands to claim the biggest block of votes at the next election.

No laughing matter: how Nigel Farage stole the lead in UK politics

It couldn’t happen in Australia, where compulsory and preferential voting protect the two-party system, but British politics is fractured – on the right and the left.

  • George Brandis
Anti-Trump protesters gather in Aberdeen on Saturday.

Protesters throw Scottish slang at Trump as he tees off at his golf course

Hundreds lined the streets of Edinburgh as the US president landed for a golfing weekend, some saying they were disgusted at the red carpet treatment Trump was receiving from British and Scottish leaders.

  • Andrea Shalal
Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity distribution point in the city of Gaza.

‘Catastrophe must end now’: European leaders unite on Gaza, divide on statehood

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and British PM Sir Keir Starmer have chosen not to back French President Emmanuel Macron’s call to recognise a Palestinian state.

  • David Crowe

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