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President Donald Trump holds the FIFA World Cup Winners Trophy during an announcement in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday.

Sucking up to Trump is now the diplomatic norm. But does it work?

Displays of deference by world leaders towards Donald Trump look so worshipful and self-belittling, they resemble courtiers tip-toeing around a mad monarch.

  • Nick Bryant

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Rishan, 27, a nurse in Canterbury who arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker when she was 17.

People in this city want the boats to stop. But they haven’t met Rishan

Traumatised and alone, the then 17-year-old made her way across northern Africa and Europe to seek safety in England.

  • David Crowe
London Asylum protest

Britain scrambles after shock court ruling in wake of furious protests

When residents of a small English town protested against the use of a local hotel to house asylum seekers, the council took up their cause - and won.

  • David Crowe
Author Sally Rooney, pictured in 2021.

Novelist vows to use TV royalties to fund Palestine Action

Bestselling writer Sally Rooney says she felt compelled to express support for the organisation that was recently designated a proscribed terror group.

  • Hayley Dixon
Mounted police disperse demonstrators blocking a highway in Tel Aviv during a weekend protest demanding the release of all hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and calling for an end to the war.

Recognising Palestine now only rewards Hamas, the side with clear genocidal intent

Condemnation of Israel’s actions – however justified – is no basis for reversing the long-held position that accepting Israel’s right to exist is a precondition of recognising a Palestinian state.

  • George Brandis
Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump.

Trump is watching Australia’s decision on Palestine. Does it matter?

The US president pays particular attention to the Anglosphere. But he has been relatively subdued in his response to other countries moving to recognise Palestine.

  • Michael Koziol
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London Asylum protest

This is angry England – and it demands to be heard

Locals feel aggrieved that they struggle to pay for housing while migrants stay for free in a comfortable hotel, and fear the health system cannot support more arrivals.

  • David Crowe
A still showing Israeli hostage Evyatar David from the video released by Hamas.

‘Walking to my grave’: Outrage after Hamas releases video of emaciated Israeli hostage

The terror group released a video of the emaciated man with a shovel in a darkened tunnel, saying on camera he was digging his own grave.

  • David Crowe
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron.

World leaders risk a Trump backlash to turn on Israel

Anthony Albanese will have to decide whether Australia stands with Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, or with the long list of leaders heading in the other direction.

  • David Crowe
Donald Trump has flagged blanket 15 to 20 per cent levies on countries without a new deal by August 1.

Trump says Palestinian recognition a threat to trade talks in warning to Australia

The United States president has warned that Palestinian recognition could threaten talks as Labor ministers on Thursday welcomed international momentum for a two-state solution.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos