World
‘Feeling the support’: Zelensky gets more weapons after EU leaders’ high-stakes visit
The Ukrainian president is triumphant: ‘Today is a truly historic day - Ukraine has felt the support of four powerful European states at once.’
- by John Leicester and Sylvie
Macron decries massacres, war crimes as European leaders visit Ukraine to support Zelensky
- by David Keyton and Benoit Van Overstraeten
Opinion & Perspectives
Guilty verdict against World Vision hero is a travesty of justice
The verdict overnight announces the demise of the rule of law in Israeli courts.
Tim Costello and Conny Lenneberg
Ukraine must maintain Western attention to win this war
At some point, Russia’s size, brutality and relative wealth will begin to crush the Ukrainians without ongoing Western assistance.
Mick Ryan
Military leader and strategist
Fifty years on, Australia and China can renew their diplomatic vows
The first bilateral ministerial meeting in two years offers signs of a thaw in Sino-Australian relations just as a significant diplomatic anniversary looms.
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
North America
Explainer
US politics
What are the Capitol riot hearings all about?
The hearings aim to show that Donald Trump was central to a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 US election results. But how do they work?
- by Farrah Tomazin
Lawyers told Trump that pressuring Pence to overthrow election was illegal
Things got heated in the White House when lawyers and a former judge were arguing against Trump’s plan, witnesses told the third hearing into the US Capitol riots.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Europe
‘Feeling the support’: Zelensky gets more weapons after EU leaders’ high-stakes visit
- by John Leicester and Sylvie
Macron decries massacres, war crimes as European leaders visit Ukraine to support Zelensky
- by David Keyton and Benoit Van Overstraeten
Asia
Cheng Lei’s partner says Australia must put her at the centre of negotiations with China
Nick Coyle says he wants to meet with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to ensure the Australian journalist’s case receives “urgency in bilateral discussions”.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
In Japan, online insults punishable by up to a year in prison
Japan has seen a sharp increase in incidents of online abuse and cyberbullying, with experts suggesting that people find it easier to criticise and insult behind the anonymity of social media posts.
- by Julian Ryall
Opinion
China relations
Fifty years on, Australia and China can renew their diplomatic vows
- by Peter Hartcher
Exclusive
China relations
Marles vows to continue flying over Paracels, increase military exercises with Japan
- by Eryk Bagshaw and Katina Curtis
Also in World
Aid group anger as Israel convicts Palestinian World Vision worker of supporting terrorists
A judge is set to rule on whether to dissolve the charity in Israel later this month.
- by Henriette Chacar
Updated
Missing person
Bodies retrieved in Amazon search for British journalist, Indigenous worker
- by André Spigariol, Jack Nicas and Ana Ionova
Opinion
Human rights
Guilty verdict against World Vision hero is a travesty of justice
- by Tim Costello and Conny Lenneberg