World
Five things to look for at the Democratic National Convention
An introduction, a hero’s welcome, protests and one big party. But while Kamala Harris has managed to consolidate the Democratic base, polls show the race with Donald Trump is still anyone’s to lose.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion & Perspectives
Inaction man: As Kursk response shows, in a crisis Vladimir Putin freezes up
The Kursk incursion has humiliated Russia’s military and demonstrated Ukraine’s resilience, but it has not altered the fundamental situation, including Putin’s grip on power.
Robyn Dixon
Kamala Harris is ascendant, but these minefields could deny her victory
The US has the world’s strongest economy but the lived experience of Americans is of prices 20 to 40 per cent higher than when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office.
Bruce Wolpe
Senior fellow at the US Studies Centre and former political staffer
Can Kamala slay the vampire? I asked Obama’s vote-whisperer
Kamala Harris may have had “the best month in modern American political history”, but Jim Messina thinks she’s still a long way from winning the White House.
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
North America
Five things to look for at the Democratic National Convention
An introduction, a hero’s welcome, protests and one big party. But while Kamala Harris has managed to consolidate the Democratic base, polls show the race with Donald Trump is still anyone’s to lose.
- by Farrah Tomazin
How Trump would use soldiers against riots, crime and migrants … on US soil
In his first term in office, Donald Trump had a vision of using troops to enforce the law on US soil. If he wins a second term, he wants to make that vision a reality.
- by Charlie Savage, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
Europe
Kremlin accuses the West of helping Ukraine attack Russia
- by Guy Faulconbridge and Olzhas Auyezov
Asia
More than one million doctors go on strike in India
India’s medical workers held a countrywide strike to protest the rape and killing of a trainee doctor – but the nation’s reckoning with sexual violence against women is longstanding.
- by Sheikh Saaliq
Dolphin attacks spoil summer along stretch of Japanese beaches
One man told local media that he was swimming close to the shore when a dolphin bit his arm and tried to force itself on top of him, almost pushing him underwater.
- by Hisako Ueno and Yan Zhuang
Also in World
Israeli airstrike kills 18 people from one family in Gaza
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and Lebanon killed at least 28 people, just hours after mediators expressed optimism for an imminent ceasefire.
- by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy
Explainer
Middle East tensions
Death in a guesthouse, ships under attack, a ‘wounded snake’: How to understand the Middle East
- by Jackson Graham, Angus Holland and Cindy Yin
As Gaza toll passes 40,000, the dead are buried in yards, streets, stacked graves
- by Julia Frankel and Wafaa Shurafa
Graphic content
Domestic violence
‘Grievous bodily harm’: Argentina’s ex-president accused of beating first lady
- by Jack Nicas and Daniel Politi
