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Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney at Parliament House in Canberra.

A political rock star comes to Canberra. Did he match the hype?

The Canadian prime minister set the foreign policy world alight with a speech early this year. He arrived in Australia on a mission to show that middle powers matter.

  • Matthew Knott

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Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney addressing the Australian parliament.

Carney: Australia and Canada must ‘combine for strength’ or face domination

The Canadian prime minister said smaller nations were concluding that they must pursue “greater strategic autonomy” in an era of great power competition.

  • Matthew Knott
Trump called time on nuclear talks with the Iranian regime.

A seven-page proposal was on the table. Then Trump learnt a tantalising fact

For months before Saturday’s strike on Iran, politicians and analysts argued about the country’s nuclear capability. Trump cut through them.

  • Michael Koziol
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, centre, with Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino,

‘The world needs us’: Carney pushes Australia and Canada to deepen trade, defence ties

Australian and Canadian troops would move easily between each other’s facilities under a new agreement being pushed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

  • Matthew Knott and Peter Hartcher
Australian mother Catherine Birmingham with her British husband, Nathan Trevallion, and their children. 

‘Empty inside’: The Australian family fighting Italy for their ‘unschooled’ children

The authorities in Abruzzo have taken a dim view of a couple’s off-grid style of parenting.

  • Amelia Adams, Natalie Clancy and Nichola Younger
Brothers in arms: US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Iran’s regime is vile, but what Trump and Netanyahu have done is a war crime

The US and Israel have used the same perverse justification for the attack on Iran that Putin used to invade Ukraine.

  • Geoffrey Robertson
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Vice President JD Vance is a sceptic about foreign entanglements, but supported last year’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

JD Vance’s silence on the Iran strikes is starting to get very loud

For 48 hours, the US vice president has said next to nothing about Operation Epic Fury in an administration where praising the leader’s success is virtually mandatory.

  • Michael Koziol
The Iranian women’s football team has arrived in Australia to play in the Asian Cup.

Fears Iranian Revolutionary Guards coming to Australia with Asian Cup team

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been listed as a terror group, but there are concerns those with close links to the entity have entered Australia.

  • Matthew Knott
The former politician was unmoored by the unexpected death of his wife.

Bob Carr on marriage, grief and finally learning how to do a load of laundry

Life became very dark for the former foreign minister after the sudden death of his beloved wife Helena.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Donald Trump at an event in Washington on Monday.

Trump’s new worldwide tariff goes into effect – and it’s back to 10 per cent

Meanwhile, cargo giant FedEx has sued the Trump administration for “a full refund” of the tariffs Trump imposed using emergency powers that were ruled unlawful by the nation’s highest court last week.

  • Michael Koziol