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KAMPALA, UGANDA - FEBRUARY 12: Two members of the senior management team for Uganda Young Positives (UYP) continue work for the organization on a voluntarily basis, following USAID cuts, on February 12, 2025 in Kampala, Uganda. Uganda Young Positives (UYP) is a non-governmental organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for young people living with HIV/AIDS, and reducing infection rates through awareness campaigns and programs. Uganda has been a major beneficiary of HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in conjunction with The United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Following US President Donald Trump's executive order to pause all USAID funding for 90 days, UYP's Executive Director Kruish Mubiru says that 95% of his organization's programs and staff have been impacted by the cuts. US and global health officials have warned that the impacts of the cuts will be detrimental, and in some cases fatal, to people living with the disease, as well as the decades-long efforts to stem infection rates. (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty Images)

Freeze ‘could cause more deaths’

Donald Trump’s decision to suspend US overseas funding could result in millions more deaths from AIDS, the UN has warned.

AFP

CommentaryCompanies

Hot roll coils are formed in the Hot Strip Mill during the manufacturing of steel at BlueScope Steel Ltd.'s Port Kembla Steelworks, in Port Kembla, outside Sydney, Australia, on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. BlueScope Steel Ltd. is Australia's largest steelmaker. Photographer: Jeremy Piper/Bloomberg

Fighting fit: BlueScope CEO’s battle plan to cut $200m in costs

Exposed to a trade war on one side and cheap steel dumping by China on the other, the boss of BlueScope goes for attack as the best form of defence.

Eric Johnston

FINANCEBusiness Breaking News

WOLLONGONG, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos March 8, 2021. Energy Minister Matt Kean and Member for Kiama Gareth Ward launching the NSW GovernmentÃs Net Zero Industry and Innovation Programme at Blue Scope Sell in Wollongong.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Simon Bullard.

Aussie winner from Trump’s tariff

An Australian business could be a major winner from Donald Trump’s steel tariff even if the country is not spared from the controversial levy.

Cameron Micallef

Presidential raceWorld

US President Donald Trump rides in the Presidential limousine during a pace lap ahead of the start of the Daytona 500 Nascar race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, on February 16, 2025. (Photo by Chris Graythen / POOL / AFP)

Trump sets the pace on ‘hot lap’ during Daytona 500 visit

Donald Trump paid a flying visit to the iconic race, saluting fans as ‘your favourite president’ as he led drivers around the circuit in The Beast | WATCH

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a joint press conference at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem on February 16, 2025. Rubio said on February 16 that the United States and Israel expect the Lebanese state to work towards disarming Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, which fought a deadly war with Israel last year. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP)

‘Palestinian exodus the only viable plan’

Benjamin Netanyahu has signalled he is pushing ahead with Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer the Palestinian population out of Gaza.

MATTHEW LEE and NATALIE MELZER

Saudi summitWorld

President Donald Trump walks with his granddaughter Carolina before the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (Chris Graythen/Pool via AP)

Trump ‘could meet Putin very soon’: US, Russia envoys to meet

Donald Trump tells reporters a meeting with Putin could be imminent; Russian and US officials are set to meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss the Ukraine war in a sign the US is eager for an agreement.

Michael R. Gordon and Maggie Severns

CommentaryCommentary

28-10-2024 - Incoming ASX chair David Clarke at the ASX AGM. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers / The AustralianÃ

Board diversity is great, but merit is more important

A new wave of technological revolution is cresting. Why is the ASX burying its head in the sand?

Robert Gottliebsen

‘a star is born’The Wall Street Journal

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 12, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

Karoline Leavitt’s rapid rise

The 27-year-old ‘speaks Trump fluently’.

Joshua Chaffin and Meridith McGraw

CommentaryCommentary

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on February 12, 2025 shows (L-R) US President Donald Trump on February 10, 2025, in Washington, DC and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in Warsaw, Poland on January 15, 2025. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a telephone call with Donald Trump on February 12, 2025, the presidency in Kyiv said, shortly after the US president said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian presidency told reporters that the call lasted approximately one hour. Trump had earlier said he would call Zelensky after speaking with Putin. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS and Sergei GAPON / AFP)

Ukraine must be part of peace talks to end Putin’s terror

If Russia is recognised or rewarded for a neo-colonial land grab and the brutal subjugation of a nation, a green light is also given to others who might seek to assert their hegemony on a region or a neighbour.

Vasyl Myroshnychenko

CommentaryCommentary

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Vance home truths on democracy a blow to Euro-elite

For the Euro-elite, the new US administration is the sum of all fears. The 47th President is not merely some kind of second Trump, but the actual Donald Trump with an agenda.

Nick Cater

LettersLetters

Trump ‘America first’ policy leaves allies on edge

It’s a nervous time for friend and foe alike, but especially for rent-seekers at home and abroad.

World

White South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

White South Africans ‘thank God for Trump’

Some white South Africans showed support for President Donald Trump on Saturday and gathered at the US embassy in Pretoria to claim they are victims of racism by their own government.

ALFONSO NQUNJANA and GERALD IMRAY

PoliticsNewsWire

US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Picture: NewsWire / Jim WATSON / POOL / AFP

Peter Dutton warns against Trump ‘mistake’

The man vying to yank the reins of power from Anthony Albanese has revealed how he would navigate Australia’s relationship with the Trump White House.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

MediaThe Wall Street Journal

OAKS, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 14: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, holds a town hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center on October 14, 2024 in Oaks, Pennsylvania. His rival, Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, is speaking in Western Pennsylvania city of Erie. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Paramount Global in quandary over Trump lawsuit

Media company executives fear liability from potential settlement paid before Skydance merger.

Jessica Toonkel

Military spendingBusiness

The Australian Defence Force of Operation Kudu, in South East England. This is the British-led mission to train members of the AFU (Force Ukraine) that Australia has been part of since January 2023. Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Simon Stuart, AO, CSC, Picture: Defence

Defence technology fund fires up amid Trump demands

Tech entrepreneur Steve Baxter says Donald Trump’s push for Western countries to spend more on their militaries will be a boon for his specialist defence venture capital fund Beaten Zone.

Glen Norris

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US President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he steps off of Air Force One upon arrival at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on February 14, 2025, en route to his Mar-a-Lago resort. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Trump and his deputies wield power with a ‘macho’ hand

Donald Trump is back in the White House, where he and his acolytes are applying what they see as a decidedly masculine stamp on all they do.

Aurelia End

Israel ceasefireThe Wall Street Journal

Hostages L to R: Israeli-American Sagui Dekel-Chen, Israeli-Argentinian hostage Yair Horn and Israeli-Russian Sasha Trupanov stand on stage next to Palestinian militatns during their handover over to a Red Cross team in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 15, 2025, as part of the sixth hostage-prisoner exchange. Masked Hamas militants handed over three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza on February 15, in the sixth hostage-prisoner swap under its ceasefire agreement with Israel, an AFP journalist reported. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

Hamas takes swipe at Trump’s Gaza plan during hostage release

Hamas has released three hostages including the last living American-Israeli civilian held in the Gaza Strip and took a swing at the Trump plan for rebuilding the enclave.

Anat Peled, Feliz Solomon and Summer Said

Inside storyThe Wall Street Journal

Elon Musk and Sam Altman. Illustration: Taylor Callery/WSJ

Bromance to brawl: Musk vs Altman goes nuclear

The two tech titans are in the meanest fight in business. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

Keach Hagey, Berber Jin, Dana Mattioli and Josh Dawsey

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US President Donald Trump, with (L-R) Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, speaks to the press before signing an executive order on halting federal funds for schools and universities that impose coronavirus vaccine mandates in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 14, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump bans news agency for not renaming Gulf of Mexico

President Donald Trump has banned a major US news agency from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

Staff Writer

LettersLetters

Transactional Trump’s Ukraine ‘deal’ making Russia great again

By sidelining Ukraine, and conceding Ukrainian territory even before talks start, Trump has delivered a huge pay-off for Putin’s recent lavish praise.

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