World
New book paints Trump as wounded, forgetful and hung up on Hollywood
Disgraced, defeated and twice impeached. Trump’s party had abandoned him and he focused on happier times – when he was just a celebrity businessman.
- by Shawn McCreesh
Opinion & Perspectives
What most Israelis hope will happen to Netanyahu when the war is over
More Israelis would vote for a man who’s not even in parliament if an election were held today, according to a poll published on Friday.
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
Can a national hero like Kylian Mbappe stop the rise of the far-right in France?
Before President Emmanuel Macron’s stunning decision to dissolve parliament and call a snap poll, France’s reckoning with the hard right was scheduled for 2027.
Rob Harris
Europe correspondent
Pandas can’t paper over Australia’s differences with China
Premier Li Qiang’s visit was the culmination of hard work by the government to recalibrate the relationship with China. But it also exposed differences that cannot be papered over with diplomatic niceties.
Lisa Visentin
North Asia Correspondent
North America
Breaking
Assange saga
Julian Assange strikes plea deal with US, to walk free
A court filing outlines a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents.
- by Matthew Knott
Texas woman accused of attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian-American girl
Human rights advocates have reported a rise in Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian bias and antisemitism in the US since the latest eruption of conflict in the Middle East.
- by Kanishka Singh
Europe
Crimean beachgoers struck by deadly shrapnel shower from missile
- by Guy Faulconbridge and Filipp Lebedev
Asia
Chinese dissident recalls secretive jet-ski escape across the Yellow Sea
Kwon Pyong escaped China on a jet-ski last summer. He strapped five fuel barrels to his craft, and brought five water bottles and five sandwiches for the dash across the sea.
- by John Yoon
‘Bad spiral’: Feeling the heat in Ukraine, Putin turns up the temperature elsewhere on the West
Some analysts worry that Western desensitisation to Putin’s warnings, particularly about using nuclear weapons, has created a precarious situation.
- by Paul Sonne
Analysis
China relations
Pandas can’t paper over Australia’s differences with China
- by Lisa Visentin
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
What most Israelis hope will happen to Netanyahu when the war is over
More Israelis would vote for a man who’s not even in parliament if an election were held today, according to a poll published on Friday.
- by Peter Hartcher
Heat deaths in Mecca shine light on underworld pilgrim industry
- by Emad Mekay and Vivian Nereim
