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Israel recovers bodies of hostages amid fierce fighting in northern Gaza
The Israeli military says it has retrieved the bodies of three Israeli hostages from Gaza including Shani Louk, the 23-year-old German Israeli, who was pronounced dead last year.
- Nidal al-Mughrabi and Nataliya Vasilyeva
Paul McCartney is reportedly Britain’s first billionaire musician
The 81-year-old is the richest musician in the UK, thanks in part to superstar Beyonce.
China unveils dramatic steps to rescue property market
China announced a slate of measures aimed at reinvigorating its ailing property industry and stabilising growth in the world’s second-largest economy.
- Updated
- Amanda Wang
‘Massive’ French police force arrives in riot-hit New Caledonia
Deadly violence has raged across the French Pacific territory this week over electoral reforms pushed in Paris, forcing France to impose a state of emergency.
- Kirsty Needham and Camille Raynaud
The number that sums up Biden’s biggest economic problem
While price rises have cooled from more than 9 per cent to 3.4 per cent, household budgets have not recovered since Biden took office.
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- Matthew Cranston
The red line on Gaza: PM draws it, students ignore it
Tensions have come to a head after Australia voted “yes” in a United Nations vote to support a Palestinian bid to become a full member.
- Patrick Durkin
Opinion & Analysis
Trump shows the cost of pettiness among the powerful
Donald Trump’s vendetta against wind turbines is not unusual among plutocrats and tech lords who believe they should have more say.
Contributor
China-US clean energy trade war could get dirty
History suggests Beijing will reply in kind and lift tariffs on a range of American exports, which will raise the stakes once again in their long-running tit-for-tat tussle.
North Asia correspondent
China’s housing mess has finally reached Xi Jinping
The president is stepping in to help the country’s beleaguered developers. But only the state-owned players who are critical to his power base.
Business commentator
What a ‘free Palestine’ means in practice
The campus protesters are not the first generation of Western activists who have championed movements that promised liberation in theory and misery and murder in practice.
Contributor
From the Financial Times
Dalio warns of US debt pile, and he wants Taylor Swift for president
The billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates is worried about investors being able to absorb new supply, and why he would vote for Taylor Swift as president.
- Kate Duguid
- Opinion
- Globalisation
America’s race to tear up trade rules hurts everyone
The US is growing tired of upholding the economic rules it laid out for the world after 1945. But tariffs only punish consumers and undermine competitiveness.
- Edward Luce
US to send $1.5b in new military aid to Israel
The White House has alerted Congress a security package is in the works, after it paused a bomb shipment last week in a warning to Israel over its war in Gaza.
- James Politi
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump shows the cost of pettiness among the powerful
Donald Trump’s vendetta against wind turbines is not unusual among plutocrats and tech lords who believe they should have more say.
- Paul Krugman
- Analysis
- Critical minerals
China-US clean energy trade war could get dirty
History suggests Beijing will reply in kind and lift tariffs on a range of American exports, which will raise the stakes once again in their long-running tit-for-tat tussle.
- Jessica Sier
- Opinion
- China
China’s housing mess has finally reached Xi Jinping
The president is stepping in to help the country’s beleaguered developers. But only the state-owned players who are critical to his power base.
- Shuli Ren
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
What a ‘free Palestine’ means in practice
The campus protesters are not the first generation of Western activists who have championed movements that promised liberation in theory and misery and murder in practice.
- Bret Stephens
More troops, better tech: Putin’s Ukraine push worries West
Multiple factors are helping Russia’s military advance, including a delay in US weaponry and Moscow’s technological innovations on the battlefield.
- David E. Sanger, Julian E. Barnes and Kim Barker
‘That is a lie’: Trump’s lawyer attacks Cohen’s credibility
The former president’s lawyers have attempted to destroy Michael Cohen’s credibility, grilling the prosecution’s star witness at the “hush-money” trial.
- Michael Sisak, Jennifer Peltz and Michelle Price
Inside the weird, deluded world of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
The former president exists in a parallel universe inside the walls of his beloved Florida estate.
- Ben Terris and Josh Dawsey
This Month
PM tells Vic Labor to sort out Gaza split
Labor factional powerbrokers were ordered to an emergency meeting to make sure a split on the Palestinian-Israel issue +does not erupt at the Victorian Labor conference.
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- Patrick Durkin
Xi tells Putin their nations’ ties should last ‘generations’
The Chinese president said his country was “ready to work with Russia as a good neighbour, friend and partner with mutual trust”.
- jing Li
Dalio warns of US debt pile, and he wants Taylor Swift for president
The billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates is worried about investors being able to absorb new supply, and why he would vote for Taylor Swift as president.
- Kate Duguid
Hamas regroups and Israel’s Gaza endgame is missing
US and Israeli officials are offering blunt assessments about Hamas’ resilience and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to plan for post-war Gaza.
- Loveday Morris, Shira Rubin and Hazem Balousha
Slovakia’s populist prime minister shot in assassination attempt
Robert Fico was gravely wounded after a political event in an attempted assassination that has shocked the small country and reverberated across Europe.
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- Bela Szandelszky and Karel Janicek
They still hate him, but Wall Street’s big donors turn to Trump
Exasperated with Joe Biden’s policies, top financiers are increasingly on board for a second Trump term despite being alienated during his first presidency.
- Rob Copeland
Morrison says Trump legal ‘pile-on’ political
Speaking in Washington, Scott Morrison backed Donald Trump’s assertion that America’s legal system is being used against him.
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- Matthew Cranston
‘Let’s get ready to rumble’: Biden and Trump agree to TV debates
The two men will go head-to-head on CNN on June 27 then on ABC News on September 10.
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- Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin
- Opinion
- Globalisation
America’s race to tear up trade rules hurts everyone
The US is growing tired of upholding the economic rules it laid out for the world after 1945. But tariffs only punish consumers and undermine competitiveness.
- Edward Luce
How 18-year-old Barron Trump could follow in his father’s footsteps
The youngest of Donald Trump’s children graduates high school this week, which makes him a target for the press.
- Kate Wills
US stocks close at record high on slower inflation pace
Wall Street notched record closes after data showed price growth moderated, bolstering investor hopes for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
AUKUS is ok with Trump, says Morrison
Donald Trump has indicated solid support for the AUKUS submarine deal, according to former prime minister Scott Morrison, who met with the former president at Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday AEST.
- Matthew Cranston
China’s military incursions inch closer to Taiwan
An increasing number of Chinese military planes and vessels have staged drills that have alarmed Taiwan, as it prepares to inaugurate its new president.
- Yimou Lee
