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Opinion & Perspectives

If the US election were held today, Trump would win

Trump’s many outrages are plain for all to see, yet thus far he is playing the winning hand against Joe Biden.

Bruce Wolpe
Bruce Wolpe

Senior fellow at the US Studies Centre and former political staffer

Netanyahu and Hamas know this war is unwinnable. So how does it end?

With impossible war aims, neither side credibly can claim victory. So the conflict grinds on.

Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher

Political and international editor

In the president v the porn star, Stormy Daniels is a legal dominatrix

The compelling part of this case is not whether Trump did something wrong with business papers, but how it shows – in a vivid way – that he’s the wrong man for the job.

Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd

New York Times columnist

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North America

From left, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy  look on as former President Donald Trump talks to the media outside Manhattan criminal court in New York

‘Cult of Donald Trump’ goes on trial – and on display – in hush money case

Michael Cohen testified that after his home was raided in 2018, he received a call from Trump, who told him: “Don’t worry, I’m president ... you’re gonna be OK.”

  • by Farrah Tomazin
Former president Donald Trump walks to the courtroom following a break in his trial at Manhattan criminal court on May 9.

If the US election were held today, Trump would win

Trump’s many outrages are plain for all to see, yet thus far he is playing the winning hand against Joe Biden.

  • by Bruce Wolpe

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Asia

Chinese international student Aaron dressed as Winnie the Pooh as part of his protest against Chinese president Xi Jinping at a bus stop outside the entrance to the University of Sydney in February 2023.

Aaron staged a protest in Australia, then Chinese police paid his parents a visit

Aaron, an international student studying in Sydney, knows all too well that the industrial-scale surveillance deployed by the Chinese government doesn’t stop at the border.

  • by Lisa Visentin
Australian Troy Smith.

Drugs allegedly mailed to Australian in Bali were gift in toothpaste tube: lawyer

Australian Troy Smith was holidaying with his wife in Bali when he was allegedly caught with methamphetamine.

  • by Zach Hope

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Women activists hold a silent protest with placards in Arabic, Hebrew and English calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and safety, freedom and equality for Israelis and Palestinians, outside of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday.

Fewer women and children confirmed dead but Gaza toll still over 35,000

Israel has questioned why the figures, provided by the Hamas-run Health Ministry, for the deaths of women and children has halved.

  • by Michelle Nichols and Emma Farge

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