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Analysis
China relations
Strategic confusion: Biden’s fifth Taiwan gaffe baits Beijing, rattles White House
The White House is again walking back the president’s gung-ho remarks about defending Taiwan from China. Is Biden confused or just indiscreet?
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion & Perspectives
Sadness behind the smile: Shireen Abu Akleh, a voice for Palestine
It is fitting that Shireen was given a state memorial service. She was a role model for millions of women who grew up watching her on television.
Sherine Salama
Fox and its white supremacists in suits give succour to mass killers
As broadcasters spout racist theories, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are under pressure to stop their “reckless amplification in the wake of the Buffalo massacre.
Anne Summers
Columnist
‘Hate will not prevail’: Biden visits Buffalo to mourn, denounce white supremacy
Biden called out sections of the media and political figures for radicalising “angry, alienated, lost and isolated individuals” into believing racist ideas.
Farrah Tomazin
North America correspondent
North America
TikTok, Instagram could be sued for up to $35k for teen scroll addictions
New bill tabled in California would allow parents to sue social media giants if they can demonstrate their child was harmed by their online time.
- by Adam Beam
Analysis
China relations
Strategic confusion: Biden’s fifth Taiwan gaffe baits Beijing, rattles White House
The White House is again walking back the president’s gung-ho remarks about defending Taiwan from China. Is Biden confused or just indiscreet?
- by Farrah Tomazin
Europe
‘Ashamed’ Russian diplomat resigns as soldier sentenced to life in prison
- by Elena Becatoros, Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ricardo Mazalan
British PM floats expanding AUKUS beyond defence in phone call with Albanese
- by Rob Harris and David Crowe
Asia
Biden pledges US military will defend Taiwan if China attacks
The White House was quick to insist US policy towards Taiwan ‘had not changed at all’ but the president’s remarks yet again challenge strategic ambiguity.
- by Jennifer Jacobs
Male newsreaders wear masks in protest as Taliban cover female TV anchors
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air as part of a hard-line shift.
- by Rahim Faiez
Also in World
Vast sandstorms blanket Middle East in bleak sign of climate change
Iraq urged everyone to stay home and shelter from the 10th storm in two months, as cities from Riyadh to Tehran choked under orange skies.
- by Samya Kullab
Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Sadness behind the smile: Shireen Abu Akleh, a voice for Palestine
- by Sherine Salama
Israel, in shift, investigates possibility IDF soldier killed American journalist
- by Shira Rubin and Steve Hendrix