World
Home at last: Adventurer and his faithful dog complete seven-year trek around the globe
Touched by tragedy, Tom Turcich left his home behind to embark on a remarkable journey across 38 countries.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion & Perspectives
Sadness behind the smile: Shireen Abu Akleh, a voice for Palestine
It is fitting that Shireen was given a state memorial service. She was a role model for millions of women who grew up watching her on television.
Sherine Salama
Fox and its white supremacists in suits give succour to mass killers
As broadcasters spout racist theories, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are under pressure to stop their “reckless amplification in the wake of the Buffalo massacre.
Anne Summers
Columnist
‘Hate will not prevail’: Biden visits Buffalo to mourn, denounce white supremacy
Biden called out sections of the media and political figures for radicalising “angry, alienated, lost and isolated individuals” into believing racist ideas.
Farrah Tomazin
North America correspondent
North America
From the Archives, 1962: Rousing welcome for astronaut after long sea ordeal
60 years ago, Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit Earth - but a series of glitches during re-entry almost cost him his life.
- by AAP
Biden calls monkeypox virus ‘a concern’ as three more countries diagnose cases
The White House says it has stockpiles of a vaccine to treat the disease. “This is not a new virus to us,” says Biden’s coronavirus chief Ashish Jha.
- by Rich McKay
Europe
‘Ashamed’ Russian diplomat resigns as soldier sentenced to life in prison
- by Elena Becatoros, Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ricardo Mazalan
British PM floats expanding AUKUS beyond defence in phone call with Albanese
- by Rob Harris and David Crowe
Asia
Biden pledges US military will defend Taiwan if China attacks
The White House was quick to insist US policy towards Taiwan ‘had not changed at all’ but the president’s remarks yet again challenge strategic ambiguity.
- by Jennifer Jacobs
Male newsreaders wear masks in protest as Taliban cover female TV anchors
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air as part of a hard-line shift.
- by Rahim Faiez
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Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Sadness behind the smile: Shireen Abu Akleh, a voice for Palestine
It is fitting that Shireen was given a state memorial service. She was a role model for millions of women who grew up watching her on television.
- by Sherine Salama
Israel, in shift, investigates possibility IDF soldier killed American journalist
- by Shira Rubin and Steve Hendrix
Opinion
China
Footy diplomacy v China’s Pacific expansion: why Australia must back PNG’s bid for an NRL team
- by Stephen Brancatisano