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As the risk of region-wide war grows in the Middle East, the United States looks increasingly like an ineffectual bystander ...

All of Hamburg hates the AfD,” tens of thousands of demonstrators chanted in Germany’s second-largest city on 19 January this ...

Canny coalition-building fuelled the ascendancy of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. But does his chosen successor represent continuity or change?

At a time when a special series on schools means for the Age “celebrating schools that achieve outstanding improvement in their VCE results over a decade”; when think tanks assume that to think about ...

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National affairs That fickle budget bounce Peter Brent 17 May 2024 All eyes will be on the next round of opinion polls. But it’s the ones that come later that count ...

“The cold war is back — with a vengeance, but with a difference. The mechanisms and the safeguards to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seem to be present.” — António ...

Captured on camera chatting with American diplomat Kurt Campbell in Tonga last month, Anthony Albanese described Pacific leaders’ support for a new Australian-led policing initiative as a big win. “We ...

It was not quite a “mission accomplished” moment, but there were echoes of George W. Bush’s hubristic declaration in May 2003 that the United States invasion of Iraq had largely met its goals — not ...