Moral clarity needed on Hamas savagery
After the recent Hamas killing of six hostages, Henry Ergas does a brilliant job in setting out the history of hostage-taking and the laws of armed conflict.
After the recent Hamas killing of six hostages, Henry Ergas does a brilliant job in setting out the history of hostage-taking and the laws of armed conflict.
Russian journalists allegedly conspired to illegally send $10m to a US media company to inject hidden Russian government messaging in a campaign aimed at helping Trump reclaim the White House.
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and five other ministers handed in their resignations in one of the biggest government shake-ups since Russia invaded.
Recent strategic gains Zelensky’s forces have made by advancing deep inside Russia’s Kursk region are at risk.
The attack on a military institute and a hospital that killed 51 and injured 271 in Poltava highlights how a shortage of air-defence systems is leaving Ukraine vulnerable.
Putin was welcomed by a guard of honour as he landed in Ulaanbaatar, in a show of defiance against the International Criminal Court, Kyiv and the West.
Ukraine fires 150 drones over Russia with at least one detonating over a major refinery in Moscow owned by state energy giant Gazprom, while another hit a power station.
The case of a Ukrainian soldier whose leg was amputated because British doctors could not treat his infection is a red light that needs global action.
More than 66,000 Russian military personnel have died during the war in Ukraine, according to independent Russian media outlet Mediazona.
Turn the tables: General Oleksandr Syrskiy learned from Ukraine’s previous counteroffensive and kept its Russian incursion a secret.
The withdrawal is the first sign that Kyiv’s incursion is forcing Moscow to rejig its invasion force as Zelensky sends tanks and other armoured vehicles to reinforce troops in Kursk.
Ukrainian drones are rewriting naval engagement rules and the world realises a new era is coming, which means Australia’s expensive frigates may be being built for an era that has passed.
The situation in Kursk is becoming a huge test for Putin, the first Russian leader to lose territory to a foreign power since WWII.
The plan is to force Moscow to shift troops from Ukraine resulting in the need to raise troop numbers with a general mobilisation which could, threateningly for Putin, cause splits in the army.
The unprecedented incursion by Ukraine in a war that Russia expected to win within a few days has dealt a massive blow to Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reduced his country to a nonentity in sports.
Kyiv and Moscow are trading blame for the fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, but as yet there is no detected spike in radiation levels
Vladimir Putin should also feel shame over the exclusion of Russian athletes from the Paris Olympics.
Ukraine’s 30km thrust into Kursk raises questions about Russian military capabilities and where Putin’s red lines may really lie.
Despite conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine, the drivers of last week’s sharemarket sell-off are based on economics and earnings, not geopolitics.
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