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US President Donald Trump.
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Trump impeachment

US President Donald Trump impeached by the House over Ukraine dealings

President Trump has become the third US leader in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives for high crimes and misdemeanours.

  • by Matthew Knott
Chinese students attend a graduation ceremony at Fudan University in Shanghai. The university is one of three that have revised their charters to reflect Communist Party doctrine.
Education

Chinese universities replace 'freedom of thought' with Xi's teachings

  • by Anna Fifield
Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, left, with his father, President Jair Bolsonaro.
Anti-corruption

Rio prosecutors raid chocolate shop owned by Bolsonaro's son

  • by Rodrigo Viga Gaier
Papuan students, their faces painted in the colours of the banned Morning Star flag, protest in Jakarta on August 28.
Protest

Indonesia increases sentence for Polish tourist in Papuan protest

Republican Matt Gaetz speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Updated
Trump impeachment

Like 'Pearl Harbour, Jesus Christ': Republicans' florid defence of Trump during impeachment debate

  • by Matthew Knott

Opinion & Perspectives

The Boomer and the Butt: why Democrat race may come down to Warren and Buttigieg

Salvatore Babones

All eyes may be on Donald Trump's impeachment, but America's future may be decided in the Democratic contest for his challenger.

Whoever replaces Corbyn must immediately treat Labour's festering wound

Vic Alhadeff

The size of the Jewish community is too insignificant to explain Labour's fall, but revulsion of anti-Semitism played a significant role, Vic Alhadeff writes.

Right-wing populists look poised to keep winning

Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher

They are reshaping the Anglo-American world in their own image and developing a taste for success.

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US President Donald Trump.
Breaking
Trump impeachment

US President Donald Trump impeached by the House over Ukraine dealings

President Trump has become the third US leader in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives for high crimes and misdemeanours.

  • by Matthew Knott
Republican Matt Gaetz speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Updated
Trump impeachment

Like 'Pearl Harbour, Jesus Christ': Republicans' florid defence of Trump during impeachment debate

At one stage Republicans also rose to their feet and held a minute's silence to honour the Americans who voted for Trump at the 2016 election.

  • by Matthew Knott
Edward Snowden broke his agreements with the US government, a judge has ruled.
Privacy

US government can take Edward Snowden book money, judge rules

Paul Manafort, centre, pictured arriving at court in June.
Courts

Paul Manafort's fraud case dismissed, blocking effort to undercut potential Trump pardon

  • by Shayna Jacobs
Presidential hopefuls from left: Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders stand on stage for the fifth Democratic presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia, last month.
Opinion
USA

The Boomer and the Butt: why Democrat race may come down to Warren and Buttigieg

  • by Salvatore Babones

Europe

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Papuan students, their faces painted in the colours of the banned Morning Star flag, protest in Jakarta on August 28.
Protest

Indonesia increases sentence for Polish tourist in Papuan protest

Jakub Skrzypski was arrested in August last year in Wamena in easternmost Papua province and was accused of plotting against the Indonesian state.

Chinese students attend a graduation ceremony at Fudan University in Shanghai. The university is one of three that have revised their charters to reflect Communist Party doctrine.
Education

Chinese universities replace 'freedom of thought' with Xi's teachings

Based in Shanghai, Fudan University had enjoyed some political as well as geographical distance from the seat of Communist power in Beijing.

  • by Anna Fifield
A photo of climbers lining up at the summit of Mount Everest sparked a debate over deaths and traffic jams.
Adventure travel

'Group think': Everest climbers say new rules won't stop deaths

  • by Andrew Both
Freelance journalist Shiori Ito outside the courthouse on Wednesday.
MeToo movement

Tokyo court awards damages to female journalist in rape case

Sailors salute the Chinese President on the launch of the Shandong, China's first home-built aircraft carrier, on December 17, 2019.
Defence

Xi Jinping commissions first 'made in China' aircraft carrier

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Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, left, with his father, President Jair Bolsonaro.
Anti-corruption

Rio prosecutors raid chocolate shop owned by Bolsonaro's son

Investigators carried out 24 raids as part of a probe into a Flavio Bolsonaro former employee amid a wide-ranging corruption probe.

  • by Rodrigo Viga Gaier
Sydney teenager Winona Langford, whose body has not yet been found.
White Island eruption

Hopes fading in New Zealand volcano retrieval mission

  • by Ben McKay
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
World politics

Ardern staffer abuse claims thrown out

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne.
Updated
White Island eruption

Foreign Minister shows depth of emotion after White Island eruption

  • by Nick Bonyhady
Syrian President Bashar Assad told Italy's Rai News 24 last month that the global chemical weapons watchdog had faked and falsified a report over an attack near the capital Damascus last year "just because the Americans wanted them to do so."
Syrian conflict

US Congress to hit Syria's Assad with sanctions for war crimes

  • by Catie Edmondson
Sean McKinnon was killed in New Zealand in his campervan.
Courts

Australian surfer Sean McKinnon's death goes to trial in New Zealand

  • by Ben McKay
Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad.
Belt and Road

China in talks with Assad for Syria to join Belt and Road

  • by Josie Ensor

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