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Former vice-president Dick Cheney, left, sits with his daughter, then-newly-elected Representative Liz Cheney in 2017.

Defiant Liz Cheney blasts Trump election lies ahead of leadership vote

Cheney said those who dispute the election results were at war with the Constitution and were sowing the seeds of future political violence.

  • by Matthew Knott

Opinion & Perspectives

The latest cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians will be hard to stop

Roland Oliphant

Diplomatic pressure is unlikely to have much effect as the death toll rises and action brings more retaliation.

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.

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Two dead whales dislodged from underneath a Royal Australian Navy ship as it berthed in San Diego at the weekend.

Two dead whales dislodge from hull of HMAS Sydney in California

The Royal Australian Navy has confirmed the two carcasses shifted from underneath the vessel as it berthed.

  • by Sarah McPhee
Former vice-president Dick Cheney, left, sits with his daughter, then-newly-elected Representative Liz Cheney in 2017.

Defiant Liz Cheney blasts Trump election lies ahead of leadership vote

Cheney said those who dispute the election results were at war with the Constitution and were sowing the seeds of future political violence.

  • by Matthew Knott

Europe

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Asia

“Kate Webb faces the microphones at Kingsford Smith Airport yesterday.” May 12, 1971.

From the Archives, 1971: Reporter back from dead

After her capture and eventual release by the Viet Cong, journalist Kate Webb had the bizarre experience of reading her own obituaries.

  • by Staff reporter
At least 11 people have been killed and many more wounded after one or more gunmen opened fire in a school in the south-western Russian city of Kazan.

Putin orders gun control review after students killed in Russian school shooting

At least seven students and two school employees have been killed and many others wounded after a gunman opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan.

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Israeli forces run during clashes with Israeli Arabs in the Israeli mixed city of Lod, Israel.

The latest cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians will be hard to stop

Diplomatic pressure is unlikely to have much effect as the death toll rises and action brings more retaliation.

  • by Roland Oliphant

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