Yesterday
Russian player arrested at French Open
Police reportedly arrested tennis player Yana Sizikova in dramatic scenes soon after she lost her first round doubles match against two Australians.
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
If you’re not jabbed, you’re not coming to dinner
It’s only fair that vaccine dodgers are snubbed over their anti-social stance.
- Updated
- Kate Mulvey
This Month
Euro zone inflation rate hits 2pc for first time since 2018
Germany, Spain and Italy -- three of the four largest euro-zone economies -- all reported increases in consumer prices.
- Alexander Weber and Jana Randow
May
Osaka cops a serve, a fine for skipping French Open news conference
The star was fined $19,415 by Remy Azemar, tournament referee, for declining to appear at a mandatory post-match news conference. She also risks stronger penalties, including default from the tournament.
- Christopher Clarey
Boris Johnson marries in low-key, surprise ceremony
The event was not announced in advance and media reports on Sunday (AEST) said guests were invited at the last minute to the Roman Catholic cathedral in central London.
- Alistair Smout and Paul Sandle
Russia confirms second loan for Belarus amid ‘piracy’ furore
President Vladimir Putin showed Russia’s long-standing ally support in the stand-off with the West over a jet grounded in Minsk and the arrest of a dissident.
- Polina Ivanova
Australia on cusp of taking on China at WTO over punitive wine tariffs
Trade Minister Dan Tehan hinted Australia would open a second front against Beijing, which is already being challenged at the WTO for its tariffs on Australian barley exporters.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen and Jacob Greber
- Analysis
- World politics
Cormann starts work at OECD with a double boost from Biden
A key Democratic Party apparatchik has joined Mathias Cormann’s inner circle, and a big deal on company tax is looming into view.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Analysis
- Aviation
Belarus hijack darkens the skies for dissidents, airlines and the West
The democratic fraternity faces a testing moment as an embattled dictator threatens to up-end the norms of political asylum and civil aviation.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Greensill fallout could scare business away from policy process: Sunak
Britain’s chancellor says business input into policymaking is important, but the threat of their discussions being made public could fray those ties.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Australians to get cheaper scotch, Stilton and Bentleys, UK signals
UK Trade Minister Greg Hands has dropped hints on the free trade agreement, as he urges MPs to focus on opportunities for British exporters over any threat to farmers.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Lukashenko’s air piracy has no Western precedent
There’s a world of difference between what just happened to the Ryanair flight carrying a Belarusian journalist and to Bolivian president Evo Morales’s jet in 2013.
- Leonid Bershidsky
- Opinion
- Brexit chaos
Contradictions pile up in Cummings’ claws-out rewriting of history
Former adviser’s aim was clearly to concede wrongdoing while suggesting he was the unwitting victim of an ‘overall system failure’.
- Camilla Tominey
Cummings fires blistering salvo at ex-boss Boris Johnson over COVID-19
Former Downing Street svengali Dominic Cummings paints a picture of an unprepared, dysfunctional government led by a PM ‘unfit for the job’.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- UK
Bigger prize awaits UK after trade deal with Australia
Australia enjoys a comparative advantage in the production of many foodstuffs and that is precisely why Britain should buy food from them.
- Roger Bootle
Belarus hijack poses threat to all civil aviation, UK says
The forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk creates uncertainty for everyone travelling by air, sparking a push for more sanctions on President Lukashenko.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- Belarus
Skyjacking could bring down pariah state
The extraordinary forced landing of a commercial flight with a Belarusian dissident aboard escalated into one of the biggest flare-ups in East-West tensions in recent years.
- Anton Troianovski
Cable car plunges in Italy, killing at least 14
The cause of the accident was not immediately clear, a spokesman for the military police said.
- Gaia Pianigiani
US, EU denounce Belarus’ forced landing of Ryanair jet
Belarus’ authoritarian government ordered the landing of a jet crossing its airspace and officers then removed an opposition journalist from the plane.
- Milda Seputyte and Aliaksandr Kudrytski
Europe outraged as Belarus forces Ryanair jet to land in Minsk
The forced landing to detain a journalist drew unusually sharp condemnation from across the European Union.
- Milda Seputyte and Aliaksandr Kudrytski
