USA
Hundreds of thousands sign petition to buy California for Denmark
The lighthearted petition was launched in response to US President Donald Trump’s talk about taking control of Greenland.
- Stefanie Dazio
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‘Security shield’: US hands Zelensky draft deal on rare minerals
The idea of a minerals-for-security deal is said to have come from Ukraine to appeal to Donald Trump’s business-first mindset.
- Tom Balmforth, Max Hunder and Yuliia Dysa
- Analysis
- Trade wars
We’ll know Trump’s tariff war is serious when he hits Big Macs
Despite the worries about Trump’s tariffs on Australian steel and aluminium, the real concern is if he widens his trade war to burgers.
- Shane Wright
- Analysis
- Russia-Ukraine war
This is Putin and Trump’s world now
America is no longer interested in underwriting Ukrainian and European security. Britain and Europe must ask whether they want to be at the table – or on the menu.
- Roland Oliphant
- Analysis
- Russia-Ukraine war
Putin accepts Trump’s invitation to ‘come in from the cold’
“The time has come for our countries to work together,” the Kremlin has said, after a phone call between the Russian and US presidents.
- Michael Koziol
- Updated
- Russia-Ukraine war
Trump and Putin plan Saudi Arabia meeting as US lays out blunt vision for Ukraine
While praising Putin for his “common sense”, Trump said the two men had a lengthy and productive phone call and agreed to visit each other’s countries.
- Michael Koziol
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Trump diplomacy
We need to become agile to avoid Trump’s road rage
Increasingly it feels as if we are living in a new age of the endlessly furious.
- Tony Wright
‘The uncertainty is killing us’: Our aluminium town’s nervous wait
NSW is home to Australia’s largest aluminium and steel producers. And the government has warned Donald Trump’s tariffs are the biggest threat to the state’s economy.
- Penry Buckley
Trump tariff warrior says Australian ‘China-owned’ companies are flooding US market. It’s not true
A top adviser to the US president has launched an extraordinary attack on Australian aluminium exporters, making a claim rejected by independent economists – and US trade data.
- David Crowe and Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- Political leadership
Trump is the US president Australia had to have
Donald Trump is brazenly upending the world order and threatening mostly America’s friends. Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will need to confront these profound changes.
- Shaun Carney
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