The tectonic plates of the international order are moving and Australia finds itself very much in the earthquake zone.

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The Russian President used a five-hour meeting with his French counterpart to keep the world guessing about his Ukraine intentions.

Rawiri Waititi, co-leader of the Maori Party, said in a statement Sunday that a split with the British royals would “be an opportunity to reimagine a more meaningful and fulfilling partnership”.

Despite political divisions, there is “high interest” among both Democrats and Republicans to make AUKUS succeed in the face of a more aggressive China.

She sided with Mike Pence against her father, now those investigating the riot want to know what else Ivanka Trump heard and saw that day.

French President Emmanuel Macron has become the highest-profile Western leader to visit Moscow since Russia began massing troops on the border with Ukraine.

High-ranking officials are sending their children to overseas state schools and universities despite removing millions of girls from schooling since they seized power in Afghanistan.

On Friday, the British PM was rocked by the departure of five senior staff, including his chief of staff, his communications director and his policy director.

As the Beijing Winter Games elicit comparisons with Berlin 1936, China’s President Xi Jinping and ‘best friend’ Vladimir Putin have used this global moment to brazenly parade their authoritarian ambitions.

The detailed plan includes several controversial proposals but could help shape the debate over the decades-long conflict.

Australian alpine skier Katie Parker faces the prospect of testing positive for COVID-19 on arrival in Beijing, as she makes a last-ditch scramble to take her place at the Winter Olympics.

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Australia’s Kingsgate Consolidated has been given the green light to restart operations five years after Thailand’s then military government shut it down.

Donald Trump’s habit of shredding paper extended throughout his US presidency, resulting in special practices by his staffers to deal with the torn fragments of historical documents.

Major General Christopher Donahue, who on August 30 appeared in a grainy night vision image from the tarmac on the ground in Kabul, has appeared again, this time in Poland.

Due to security concerns, PM Justin Trudeau and his family left their downtown home last weekend and his location has not been disclosed.

The role of Boris Johnson’s wife in Downing Street is under fresh scrutiny after a biography containing claims about her wanting to “control everything” was serialised.

As the Ukraine crisis unfolds, Scholz’s imitation of Angela Merkel is less convincing. She was understated and studious, and often kept her work behind the scenes, but she was not invisible.

The backlash to a Holocaust exhibition in Indonesia has offered a glimpse into life for the tiny minority group in a nation of more than 250 million Muslims.

Charles responds to his mother’s public vote of confidence as he joins world and religious leaders to mark the Queen’s 70th year on the throne.

Mangeshkar’s voice has rung out for most of independent India’s three quarters of a century, earning her the title of “the Nightingale”.

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The Queen is clearly happy that her son and heir is with the woman who is the love of his life. Camilla can be the rock that Philip was for the Queen for so many years.

France has opened an inquiry into the “shocking” images of tens of thousands of dead fish.

Prince Andrew’s lawyers have previously called the lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre as “baseless”.

On the day of her platinum jubilee the Queen has spoken out about “loyal” Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

As the ash clouds clear after the devastating volcanic eruption, engineers are scrambling to repair the critical single undersea cable linking Tonga with the world.

Rayan had been trapped underground for five days. The rescuers dug up a northern Moroccan hillside to build a tunnel to retrieve the five-year-old.

The isolation required as New Zealand reopens make clear who this is for: the thousands of Kiwis who moved to Australia expecting they could always go home.

Releasing a Sino-Russian joint statement as the opening ceremony began made it clear the Winter Games would be the backdrop for a Cold War superpower summit.

More than 60 women employed at the embassy, one of Australia’s largest foreign missions, have lodged complaints with Royal Thai Police.

To mark her Platinum Jubilee, the Queen was filmed looking at gifts from loyal subjects over the decades, but Candy the dorgi wanted her attention.

The day after the Chancellor rebuked Johnson, two more MPs called for him to resign, three more criticised his conduct and another ‘Partygate’ photo emerged.

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The party’s national committee said the two Republicans on the House committee probing last year’s riot were helping to persecute ordinary citizens.

The Wall Street Journal said the hack dated back as far as February 2020, and that reporters’ emails and Google documents had been exposed.

Australia’s nuclear submarine treaty is criticised as Putin and Xi release joint statement saying there are “no forbidden areas of cooperation” between them.

The country where the coronavirus outbreak emerged two years ago has launched a locked-down Winter Olympics.

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Beijing’s opening ceremony, which starts at 11pm tonight, gives President Xi Jinping his best chance to use the Games to burnish his country’s image.

Decades collide as friends gather, lurid-coloured cocktails in hand, in a COVID-safe plastic dome at the hotel forever linked with the downfall of a president.

With mounting resignations, loss of support from his MPs and a police investigation into ‘partygate’, the UK Prime Minister has called on Australian strategists in a desperate attempt to save his leadership.

Police will soon be able to check vaccination status at traffic stops in the first Western democracy to make the jabs compulsory for almost all adults.

A sleepless night across Syria’s northern Idlib province on Thursday brought alarming sounds, deadly violence and a barrage of breathless rumours.

Johnson’s premiership is facing a growing crisis in the wake of anger over a series of alcohol-fuelled parties held at his Downing Street office and residence during coronavirus lockdowns.

Rescuers said on Friday they have managed to get down oxygen and water to him, and got a response from him. 

The Biden administration is making a concerted effort to publicise the intelligence in the hopes that it dissuades Russia from moving forward with an invasion of Ukraine.

The 45-year-old Iraqi had been an important leader in Islamic State’s precursor, the Islamic State of Iraq - an offshoot of al Qaeda.

The global leader of the Islamic State network has died, along with his wife and children, during a counterterrorism raid by US forces in north-western Syria.