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Zelensky and Witkoff in Berlin.

Trump offers ‘platinum standard’ security guarantee for Ukraine in bid to end war

The NATO-like security proposal would only be on the table for a limited time. Germany’s leader said, “For the first time, a ceasefire now seems possible”.

  • Michael Koziol

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Bill Clinton (right) with Jeffrey Epstein.

Inside the Clintons’ fight to avoid testifying in the US Congress over Epstein

A quiet, months-long battle between a Republican congressman and Bill and Hillary Clinton could come to a head this week.

  • Annie Karni
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered to drop Ukraine’s goal to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees.

Ukraine drops NATO goal as Trump envoy sees progress in peace talks

The move marks a major shift for Ukraine, which has fought to join NATO as a safeguard against Russian attacks.

  • Friederike Heine, Matthias Williams and Olena Harmash
Russian President Vladimir Putin

With an army of yes-men, how Putin’s world turned into an echo chamber

It is little wonder that Vladimir Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine. From the vantage point of the Kremlin, the war is going according to plan.

  • Mary Ilyushina
War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The war crimes case against Trump and Hegseth

America used to be the conscience of the world. Those days are long gone.

  • Geoffrey Robertson
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski smiles as he arrives at the US embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Nobel Peace Prize winner, key opposition figures freed in Belarusian deal with US

The prisoner release was by far the biggest since Trump’s administration opened talks this year with veteran authoritarian leader and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko.

  • Andrius Sytas, Felix Light and Mark Trevelyan
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After the release of the US National Security Strategy, Vladimir Putin’s press secretary said the Trump administration’s foreign policy was now “in many ways” aligned with Moscow’s.

‘Crossed the line’: The week Trump turned his back on Europe

A US security plan takes aim at European governments for being weak, with a fixation on open borders, political correctness and censorship.

  • James Rothwell
Former prime minister Tony Abbott during an Inside Politics podcast recording in Sydney on Monday.

‘Need more firepower now’: US should give Australia retired nuclear subs, says Abbott

The former prime minister said Australia should prepare itself for a conflagration in the Indo-Pacific by gearing up with retiring Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines.

  • Paul Sakkal and Jacqueline Maley
The increased military presence on Yonaguni could make it a “high priority” target for China in the event of war.

Japan accelerates military build-up amid tensions with China

Japan is racing to fortify some of its most vulnerable territory, but that is raising the stakes of the current spat between Tokyo and Beijing.

  • Alastair Gale in Yonaguni
Stop laughing, this is serious ... President Donald Trump at the Congressional Ball in the Grand Foyer of the White House on Thursday.

A deep dive into the time of Trumpian magical realism

“What will fiction be like in the Trump era?” one writer wondered eight years ago. Now we have the answer: not as fanciful as reality.

  • Nikki Barrowclough

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