World
‘Fixer, procurer and enforcer extraordinaire’: The ultimate predator of the Epstein jungle
With her name and her face cropping up daily as the media pores over the latest damning dispatch of the Epstein files, Ghislaine Maxwell was no bit player in the disgraced financier’s web of exploitation.
- by Judith Woods and Natasha Leake
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaked confidential Treasury briefing to banker friend
- by Poppy Wood, Neil Johnston and Isabel Oakeshott
Opinion & Perspectives
Cars, cows and more as Australia gets closer to mega trade win
European exports including cars, trucks and appliances could all get cheaper for Australian households with the latest talk clearing the way for an official pact.
David Crowe
Europe correspondent
Albanese says ‘no country is more important to Australia’ than Indonesia. Is this really true?
Neighbourly love is overflowing between the PM and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, but the facts don’t quite match the rhetoric.
Zach Hope
South-East Asia correspondent
By this measure, Trump’s presidency is the best that ever was
No previous incumbent has cashed in on the American presidency like Donald J. Trump. He’s the GOAT.
Nicholas Kristof
Columnist
North America
‘The best thing that could happen’: Trump hints at change in power in Iran
The US president has sharpened his rhetoric against Iran’s leadership as another carrier group sets off to join other warships and military assets the US has built up in the region.
- by Konstantin Toropin, Aamer Madhani and Jon Gambrell
‘Fixer, procurer and enforcer extraordinaire’: The ultimate predator of the Epstein jungle
With her name and her face cropping up daily as the media pores over the latest damning dispatch of the Epstein files, Ghislaine Maxwell was no bit player in the disgraced financier’s web of exploitation.
- by Judith Woods and Natasha Leake
Europe
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaked confidential Treasury briefing to banker friend
- by Poppy Wood, Neil Johnston and Isabel Oakeshott
Asia
Analysis
Prabowo Subianto
Albanese says ‘no country is more important to Australia’ than Indonesia. Is this really true?
Neighbourly love is overflowing between the PM and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, but the facts don’t quite match the rhetoric.
- by Zach Hope
Judge orders release of Payne Haas’ father, brands detention ‘illegal’
A court in the Philippines has delivered a significant victory for Gregor Haas after two years in custody, but authorities there are yet to set him free.
- by Chris Barrett
Updated
China relations
‘Effectively a death sentence’: No mercy for Hong Kong media tycoon
- by James Pomfret and Jessie Pang
Analysis
World elections
Landslide win for Japan’s fledgling ‘Trump whisperer’ an opportunity for Canberra
- by Lisa Visentin
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Muted hearing of Christchurch mosque killer all part of the plan
The self-professed white supremacist behind the terror attack in 2019 wanted online fame, but New Zealand’s justice system is doing everything possible to make him invisible.
- by Charlotte Graham-McLay
Opinion
Bondi shooting
We have a choice with Herzog visit – futile fury or solemn solidarity
- by Peter Hartcher
Updated
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopens for limited traffic in key step for ceasefire
- by Samy Magdy and Josef Federman
‘Where is the ceasefire?’: Israeli strikes kill at least 30 Palestinians ahead of Gaza crossing reopening
- by Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Sam Metz
Trump weighs new military options against Iran
- by Tyler Pager, Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, David E. Sanger and Helene Cooper