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King Charles and Donald Trump

How the royal ‘Trump whisperers’ will be key to winning back Washington

With British PM Keir Starmer’s reputation state-side at a low, the King and Queen will have to work their magic on their latest visit.

  • Hannah Furness, Connor Stringer and Tony Diver

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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
There are heightened tensions between the US and Cuba.

A stolen boat, a deadly gunfight and a supposed plot against Cuba

Havana’s account of a supposed armed raid into its territory has been called into question after one of the men identified as being on the vessel turned up in Miami.

  • Frances Robles and Patricia Mazzei
Ali Larijani is now effectively running Iran as it teeters between deal and destruction.

The Putin whisperer who is really running Iran

Iranian security chief Ali Larijani is charged with ensuring the regime’s survival as it teeters between deal and destruction.

  • Akhtar Makoii
There are heightened tensions between the US and Cuba.

Cuba shoots four people dead on US-based speedboat

The Cuban government says those onboard the boat opened fire on its forces while attempting to infiltrate the country to unleash “terrorism” amid tension between Cuba and the United States.

  • Daniel Trotta
Nanette Castillo in Manila on Monday night watching the livestream from the first day of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s committal hearing at The Hague.

For more than eight years, Nanette has been waiting for Rodrigo Duterte to pay

The first day of the former Philippine president’s committal hearing for crimes against humanity took place in The Hague on Monday. In Manila, families of the dead gathered to watch the livestream.

  • Zach Hope
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An Australian child hoping to escape al-Roj camp in Syria on Monday, February 21.

How PM’s tough line on IS brides has left 34 women and children in no man’s land

Buried in the fine print of Anthony Albanese’s harsh words is a caveat: almost all of these people are entitled by law to come back to Australia from Syria.

  • Michael Bachelard
US President Donald Trump launched the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace in Washington.

Trump tells Board of Peace he’ll decide on bombing Iran within 10 days

Amid growing expectations of war with Iran, the Board of Peace announced five nations led by Indonesia had agreed to commit troops to an International Stabilisation Force in Gaza.

  • Michael Koziol
Cannabis was decriminalised in Thailand in 2022, leading to a boom in dispensaries.

Will a new government breathe life into Thailand’s gasping cannabis industry?

Weed parlours were everywhere in Bangkok, like pubs in London. But the trade has been a debacle of the former government’s own making.

  • Zach Hope
Alexei Navalny stands in the defendants’ cage during a hearing into his 2014 criminal conviction in Moscow.

Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with dart frog toxin, European nations say

The foreign ministries of the UK, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said analysis in European labs of samples taken from Navalny’s body “conclusively confirmed the presence” of the neurotoxin.

  • Jill Lawless