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Paul McGeough

Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.

Battle of Britain: A flotilla of "leave" and "remain" campaigners took to the Thames River in London last week.

Stark lines link the US and Britain

As the Brexiteers and Trumpites head for the polls, there's an eerie similarity to the political noise on both sides of the Atlantic.

House Speaker Paul Ryan appears to have left the door open  for an anti-Trump strike.

Dump Trump movement gains momentum

Renewed agitation for Trump to be ambushed and stripped of the nomination at the party's July convention got a push along on Sunday when House Speaker Paul Ryan seemed to encourage the mooted revolt.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Moon, Pennsylvania.

Orlando shooting: Just another US massacre

Take the as-yet unproved foreign terrorism connection out of the Orlando slaughter, and this latest mass killing in the US is just another American disturbance of the peace.

Noor Zahi Salman, left, pictured with her husband, Orlando gunman Omar Mateen, and their son.

Wife of Orlando gunman questioned

US investigators have questioned the wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, before criminal charges could be laid.