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UK politics
UK politics so much funnier than fiction, comedy writer finds it ‘hard to match’
The Tories are in a spot of bother as the UK heads to an election. A possible catastrophic defeat would be both self-inflicted and richly deserved.
- by Rob Harris
Arizona charges 18 over 2020 election, including Giuliani and Meadows
- by Jacques Billeaud, Jonathan Cooper and Josh Kelety
IDF claims it killed half of Hezbollah commanders in southern Lebanon
- by Laila Bassam and James Mackenzie
Hamas video shows Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin alive
- by Josef Federman and Jack Jeffery
Opinion & Perspectives
UK politics so much funnier than fiction, comedy writer finds it ‘hard to match’
The Tories are in a spot of bother as the UK heads to an election. A possible catastrophic defeat would be both self-inflicted and richly deserved.
Rob Harris
Europe correspondent
Iran’s show of force has demonstrated that Israel is not invincible
This month’s military exchanges between Israel and Iran may have largely been a show of force, but they have sent a number of clear messages about any future conflict.
Amin Saikal
Professor of Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Islamic Studies
Whether Trump did or didn’t let loose, there’s a whiff of defeat about him
Just when you thought the most buffoonish member of the US right could not get any sillier, he managed to pull it off – and it stinks.
Bill Wyman
Columnist
North America
Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York top court
The ruling is the second major #MeToo setback in the last two years and reopens a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures.
- by Michael Sisak
Arizona charges 18 over 2020 election, including Giuliani and Meadows
“I will not allow American democracy to be undermined,” Democratic state Attorney-General Kris Mayes said.
- by Jacques Billeaud, Jonathan Cooper and Josh Kelety
Europe
Asia
‘Infiltrators’: Indian PM Narendra Modi accused of using hate speech against Muslims
Critics of the prime minister — an avowed Hindu nationalist — say India’s tradition of diversity and secularism has come under attack since his party won power a decade ago.
- by Krutika Pathi
Her investigations were not welcome in Modi’s India, so neither was she
Avani Dias, the ABC’s lead India correspondent, has returned to Australia after a campaign of intimidation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
- by Zach Hope
Also in World
IDF claims it killed half of Hezbollah commanders in southern Lebanon
The two sides appear to be striking deeper and more effectively inside each other’s borders, while disputing their claims.
- by Laila Bassam and James Mackenzie
Hamas video shows Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin alive
- by Josef Federman and Jack Jeffery
Rafah airstrike kills nine, including six children, after 12 killed in West Bank
- by Mohammad Jahjouh and Samy Magdy