45 m. ago Katharine Murphy quits as Anthony Albanese’s press secretary

The Guardian Australia’s political editor defected to the Prime Minister’s Office last January. Now, she’s on the move again

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4 h. ago ‘Doesn’t add up’: RACQ slams Brisbane petrol price hikes as unfair

Brisbane drivers are being urged to fill up the tank as unleaded petrol prices rise by almost 60 per cent a litre at some service stations.

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7 h. ago ‘Truly extraordinary’: Trump gets royal welcome in Europe after NATO boss’s gushing text

The US president received the red-carpet treatment on arrival – including an upgrade to stay at a Dutch palace – even as he wavers on whether America would come to their aid in a time of war.

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11 h. ago ‘Urgent concerns’ after 20 new bat viruses discovered in China

One of the viruses is the closest-known relative of Hendra and Nipah viruses, which have human mortality rates as high as 80 per cent.

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15 h. ago Trump scolds Israel and Iran as he accuses both of violating ceasefire

The US president reserved his harshest words for America’s special ally, Israel, and said the two countries had been fighting for so long they “don’t know what the f--- they’re doing”.

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16 h. ago Trump lashes out at Israel and Iran as he accuses both sides of violating the ceasefire

US President Donald Trump unleashed a tirade against Israel and Iran before jetting off to the NATO summit, telling reporters both countries “don’t know what the f— they’re doing”.

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17 h. ago ‘We got smashed’: Ley orders existential review of her own party

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will confront her party’s electoral thrashing and announce a second, deeper review of the Liberal Party’s mission and purpose.

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20 h. ago Australia needs to find its courage because no matter what Trump says, this is not over

Trump has long framed himself as the anti-war, anti-national security state president. But this has never been true.

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20 h. ago Albanese’s class of 2025 tightens prime minister’s grip on Labor Party

Labor’s thumping election win delivers a boost for the PM in his party room, but the political certainties of decades past look to be over.

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20 h. ago ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: Florida’s $690m plan to help Trump’s immigration crackdown

The state is turning a swampy airfield into a new detention centre - and says it will save money on security because alligators and pythons will do the job.

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20 h. ago Trump ceasefire plan falters as Israel accuses Iran of launching more missiles

Israel’s defence minister said Tehran had violated the ceasefire just hours after it began but Iranian state media said reports of fresh missile strikes were false.

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20 h. ago Trump was boasting of his ceasefire deal. In my Tel Aviv bunker, it was a different story

Reporter Matthew Knott and photographer Kate Geraghty shuttled back and forth between their Tel Aviv hotel rooms and a bomb shelter. It felt like anything but the ceasefire US President Donald Trump had declared was in place.

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22 h. ago Chalmers to push tariffs case on Trump team, still no meeting for Albanese

The prime minister has not met Trump face to face more than five months into the US leader’s second presidency.

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23 h. ago Qatar hosts the US air base attacked overnight. Where is it and what else is there to know about this Gulf state?

When Trump visited Qatar in May, the talk was about a fancy jet from the Qataris. But he also dropped into Al Udeid Air Base. Here’s why.

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27 h. ago Trump may have pulled off a brilliant deal this time – but can you trust the boy who cries victory?

The US president is always so boastful, so outlandish in his claims of unprecedented success, that one can’t help but be sceptical – even when it seems he might have just done something right.

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27 h. ago ‘Afraid of his own shadow’: The split that could finally take down Trump’s old enemy

US Fed chair Jerome Powell has been fighting to hold on to his job since Donald Trump returned to the White House. It just got a lot harder.

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30 h. ago Trump announces Iran and Israel agree to total ceasefire for next 12 hours

US President Donald Trump has announced that Iran and Israel have agreed to a total ceasefire over the next 12 hours.

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31 h. ago Trump announces ‘complete and total’ ceasefire between Israel and Iran

Trump’s announcement came after Iran attacked America’s Al Udeid air base in Qatar in retaliation for America’s weekend strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities.

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31 h. ago Trump is already casting Iran’s retaliation as a sign of peace. It offers both sides an ‘off ramp’

Tehran telegraphed its missile attack on America’s Al Udeid air base in Qatar well in advance, suggesting a symbolic show of force while offering a way to de-escalate. The US president even thanked them.

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32 h. ago US attacks Iran LIVE updates: Trump labels Iranian missile attack on US military base in Qatar ‘weak’: Middle Eastern neighbours call for peace in region

Iran has launched a missile attack on a US base in Qatar in retaliation for an American strike on its nuclear facilities. Follow live coverage here.

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