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Representative Liz Cheney, the House Republican Conference chair.

‘Basically the Titanic’: Republicans expected to oust Trump critic Liz Cheney

Cheney is under fire as a party leader because of her repeated criticism of ex-president Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

by David Morgan

EU has not ordered AstraZeneca vaccines beyond June

by Sybille de La Hamaide

Holding tanks for Colonial Pipeline Company during Tropical Storm Harvey in Port Arthur, Texas in 2017.

DarkSide, ransom group linked to Colonial Pipeline hack, new but not amateur

by Raphael Satter

Family and friends of the victims who died in a shooting, comfort each down the street from the scene in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Boyfriend attacks birthday party, kills six and himself in Colorado, say police

by Keith Coffman

Dr Dao Ngo bought her own land in Triem Tay village to do her conservation work.

How a ‘green pillow’ is helping to save Hoi An from climate change floods

by Lam Le

Opinion & Perspectives

Ill-disciplined chest-thumping has put war at centre of what’s left of the Australia-China relationship

Kevin Rudd

The Morrison government has trashed a 50-year convention when it comes to public comment about Taiwan.

Europe’s carbon tariff plan will ‘trigger a race to the top’, but there will be tensions

Frans Timmermans and Josep Borrell

There is no time to lose in transitioning to a world run on clean technology but it will have its risks and obstacles, write two senior European lawmakers.

China’s latest move a mere formality as Xi and Morrison speak the dialogue of the deaf

Peter Hartcher

Beijing’s decision to suspend a high-level economic dialogue with Australia has no practical effect. But it conveys important information nonetheless.

Forty years ago, Bob Marley, the crown prince of reggae, died of cancer aged 36. A devout Rasta and skillful singer and songwriter, he infused his art with a political religion that gave Jamaica a new cultural identity.

by Rod Bishop and AAP

Mass shooting

Boyfriend attacks birthday party, kills six and himself in Colorado, say police

The massacre is the latest in a resurgence of mass shootings in the US after such incidents seemed to recede during the height of coronavirus pandemic restrictions.

by Keith Coffman

Cyber warfare

DarkSide, ransom group linked to Colonial Pipeline hack, new but not amateur

by Raphael Satter

US politics

‘Basically the Titanic’: Republicans expected to oust Trump critic Liz Cheney

by David Morgan

Tanitoluwa Adewumi, pcitured at the age of 8, is now a chess master.

Asylum seekers

Did you hear about the seven-year-old homeless chess talent? He’s now a chess master

by Nicholas Kristof

Europe

The fossilised bones were found in the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo, between Rome and Naples.

Evolution

Neanderthals weren’t cannibals but were eaten by giant hyenas

by Nick Squires

Gender

‘Harmful’: French education ministry bans gender-inclusive language

by Rebecca Rosman

Coronavirus pandemic

EU has not ordered AstraZeneca vaccines beyond June

by Sybille de La Hamaide

Re-elected mayor of London Sadiq Khan after the result declaration at City Hall, London.

World elections

Consolation for Labour as Sadiq Khan re-elected London mayor

by Michael Holden

Scotland

‘Divided down the middle’: Scottish independence suffers an election setback

by Bevan Shields

Shaiz Javaid from Pakistan has given up any hope of returning to finish his Bachelor of Business in Australia and will try enrolling in the UK.

Coronavirus pandemic

‘Forget Australia’: Britain snaps up stranded international students

by Latika Bourke

Asia

A Chinese navy chorus marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army in 2019. The Chinese navy has conducted joint military exercises over the weekend with the Indonesian navy.

China relations

As China freezes out Australia, the superpower befriends Indonesia

China and Indonesia staged a joint naval exercise in the Java Sea only days after Beijing offered to recover the sunken KRI Nanggala 402 off Bali for free

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by Chris Barrett

Demonstrators march around the New National Stadium, the main stadium for the Tokyo Olympics, during a protest against the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday, May 09.

2021 Tokyo Olympics

Japan PM says he ‘never put Olympics first’ as polls show 60% want Games cancelled

International Olympic officials, Tokyo planners and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga himself have insisted the Games will go on in “a safe and secure” way.