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

Kevin Rudd
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
Peter Hartcher

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

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North America

Family and friends of the victims who died in a shooting, comfort each down the street from the scene in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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
Holding tanks for Colonial Pipeline Company during Tropical Storm Harvey in Port Arthur, Texas in 2017.
Cyber warfare

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

Like many others DarkSide seems to spare Russian, Kazakh and Ukrainian-speaking companies, suggesting a link to the former Soviet republics.

  • by Raphael Satter
Representative Liz Cheney, the House Republican Conference chair.
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
Members of the Biden administration have said they will ensure the vaccine technology will not flow to Chinese biotech.
Coronavirus pandemic

US wary of boosting China biotech with COVID vaccine patent waiver

  • by Andrea Shalal, Carl O'Donnell and David Lawder

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Asia

People above 18 years age queue up to get vaccinated against the coronavirus in Gauhati, Assam, India, Monday, May 10, 2021.
Coronavirus pandemic

India’s COVID-19 cases hold close to record highs as calls widen for lockdown

India has recorded 22.66 million COVID-19 cases and 246,116 deaths as hospitals run out of oxygen and beds and morgues and crematoria overflow.

Papuan activists scuffle with police and soldiers near the presidential palace in Jakarta during the 2019 unrest.
International affairs

Indonesian police arrest Papuan independence figure for suspected treason

Indonesian authorities have arrested Papuan independence leader Victor Yeimo over accusations that he orchestrated some of the most serious civil unrest in decades.

  • by Kate Lamb and Agustinus Beo Da Costa
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

  • 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

  • by Elaine Lies and Leika Kihara
Dr Dao Ngo bought her own land in Triem Tay village to do her conservation work.
Paris Agreement

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

  • by Lam Le

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Palestinian medics say hundreds protesters have been hospitalised after clashes with Israeli police.

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Several injured in stabbing attack at New Zealand supermarket

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Eyeing Indian outbreak, Africa ramps up monitoring of coronavirus variants

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Islam

Bahrain, UAE condemn Israel over clashes at al-Aqsa mosque

  • by Zainab Fattah
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