Harris more of a match for trump than Biden: polls
The vice president has become a more competitive opponent to face Donald Trump after President Joe Biden’s debate disaster.
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He’s back! Boris joins Tory campaign trail at 11th hour
Appearing before Rishi Sunak at a Tory campaign event, Boris Johnson warned a Labour win was ‘pregnant with horrors’ and derided Nigel Farage as a ‘Kremlin crawler’.
China stages mock assault on US base
The copies, picked up on satellite imagery, include mock-ups of F-35 and F-22 fighter jets, among the most advanced warplanes used by the US and its allies
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Israeli military urges ceasefire in Gaza
Amid a deepening rift with Benjamin Netanyahu, the IDF believes a ceasefire is the best way to free the hostages, and could make it easier to head off a wider war with Hezbollah.
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So, Joe Biden is now senile? Don’t say I didn’t warn you
It’s easy to make fun of all this, but now the question arises: to what extent have the big policy calls of the Biden administration been influenced by dementia or some other condition?
Weak leaders are bringing the West to its knees
The main Anglosphere countries are full of doubt about their fundamental legitimacy and self-worth: America over slavery, Britain over colonialism, and Australia over the dispossession of the original inhabitants.
How NZ’s obsession with a clean green image is holding it back
As Peter Dutton promotes his vision of a nuclear-powered Australia, Kiwis are sitting atop a geothermal goldmine. Instead of taking advantage of that, they cling to the country’s ‘100 per cent pure’ image.
How ‘democratic’ is it to back a man who can’t finish a sentence?
You don’t get to deceive, dissemble and gaslight us for years about how Biden is brilliantly competent at his job, and now tell us, when your deception is uncovered, that it’s bedtime for Bonzo.
Supreme Court judgment on immunity is fit for a king
America’s highest court articulated something that has long been apparent – that the US president is not only the most powerful elected office in the world but is also, necessarily, very well protected, not unlike a British monarch of George III’s era.
Desperate Dems will hope courts throw Trump behind bars
The Biden campaign doesn’t control the courts. But the prosecutions of Trump, carried out by Democrat prosecutors, are a shocking and politically motivated abuse of process. This
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He’s back! Boris joins Tory campaign trail at 11th hour
Appearing before Rishi Sunak at a Tory campaign event, Boris Johnson warned a Labour win was ‘pregnant with horrors’ and derided Nigel Farage as a ‘Kremlin crawler’.
Top Democrats deny plotting to replace Biden
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is forced to deny she’s angling for Joe Biden’s job, as a sitting congressman becomes the first Democrat to publicly call for the President to step down.
More than 120 killed in India stampede
The incident at an overcrowded religious gathering in northern India is the worst such tragedy in more than a decade.
How NZ’s obsession with a clean green image is holding it back
As Peter Dutton promotes his vision of a nuclear-powered Australia, Kiwis are sitting atop a geothermal goldmine. Instead of taking advantage of that, they cling to the country’s ‘100 per cent pure’ image.
Inside the Biden White House: the tight inner circle urging the President to press on
Joe Biden has long relied on a small group of family members and advisers. Now they are counselling him to ignore critics and stay in the race.
Russia has arbitrarily detained WSJ reporter: UN
International legal scholars cite ‘striking lack of any factual or legal substantiation’ for espionage accusation
Israeli military urges ceasefire in Gaza
Amid a deepening rift with Benjamin Netanyahu, the IDF believes a ceasefire is the best way to free the hostages, and could make it easier to head off a wider war with Hezbollah.
Russian exiles call for armed resistance of Putin regime
More than 60 exiled politicians who once served in the Russian State Duma met in Warsaw this week to discuss a seven-point plan for overthrowing the Kremlin.
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In episode two of our Global Roundtable series, we bring you expert perspectives from the newsrooms of The Australian, The Wall Street Journal and The Times on what both sides do now.
Giuliani disbarred over 2020 election challenge
The former New York mayor has been disbarred after making repeated false and perjurious statements to federal courts as he challenged the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump’s hush money sentencing delayed
Donald Trump won’t be sentenced until Sept 18 due to the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity verdict as Nancy Pelosi asks if Biden’s debate performance was ‘an episode or a condition’.
Even Starmer’s freeloading can’t dent huge Labour victory
Keir Starmer enjoyed scores of football tickets and a freebie designer wardrobe but the freeloading hasn’t changed minds, with Labour expected to romp home in tomorrow’s general election.
Pell’s death ‘shrouded in mystery’: former Vatican auditor vows to get to the truth
Libero Milone, the only man left alive of the high-powered trio who launched Pope Francis’s reforms of the Holy See’s corrupt financial systems, reveals he made a heartfelt vow to George Pell while paying final respects at his coffin in Rome.
Koreas dispute North’s nuke-capable missile test
State media claimed Pyongyang had successfully launched the Hwasongpho-11Da-4.5 missile.
Satellite catches expansion of China spy bases in Cuba
Analysts identified four electronic eavesdropping stations, including a previously unreported site near a US naval base.
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