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In this photo released by the Pakistan Prime Minister Office, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, left, greets Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi before their meeting in Islamabad at the weekend.

Ceasefire in doubt as US cancels trip and Iran’s top diplomat leaves Pakistan

The negotiations were meant to follow historic face-to-face talks earlier this month between the US and Iran.

  • Josh Wingrove and Galit Altstein

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U.S. Vice President JD Vance, center, walks with Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshall Asim Munir, left, and Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar after arriving for talks with Iranian officials in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, April 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Vance in Pakistan for Iran talks as impasse looms over Lebanon

The US and Iran are trying to end to the six-week-old war despite a series of sticking points over the conflict in Lebanon and the still-closed Strait of Hormuz.

Rubio said making a deal with Iran would be hard because its leaders are guided by theology.

Iran hints at compromise as US warns a nuclear deal will be ‘very hard to do’

Iranian officials suggest a deal providing economic benefits to both sides could be reached as the US ratchets up pressure on Tehran ahead of further talks this week.

Mark Zuckerberg’s island mansion.

‘Billionaire bunker’ blooms as Zuckerberg moves house

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has joined the exodus of the ultrarich out of California seeking to avoid a new “wealth tax” by moving to a luxury private island.

  • Lily Shanagher
Donald Trump, pictured after his address to the United Nations in September, has proposed an alternative organisation, the “Board of Peace”, to oversee Gaza.

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is a sham designed to give the US ultimate control

The choice facing Anthony Albanese and other world leaders is between international law and a “mafia world order” in which the US plays landlord and arbiter.

  • Maher Mughrabi
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a media conference at the EU Summit in Brussels last week.

‘Putin wants more’: Amid peace talks, US spies say Russia still aims to reclaim former Soviet bloc

Reports from US intelligence present a starkly different picture from  that painted by US President Donald Trump and his Ukraine peace negotiators.

  • Jonathan Landay, Erin Banco and John Irish
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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. The presdient’s son-in-law has found himself at the centre of a number of

‘We always bring Jared’: Trump’s son-in-law can’t escape the president’s inner circle

For a man who vowed to stay out of the spotlight, Jared Kushner is finding himself very much in its glare.

  • Justin Sink
Zelensky and Witkoff in Berlin.

Trump offers ‘platinum standard’ security guarantee for Ukraine in bid to end war

The NATO-like security proposal would only be on the table for a limited time. Germany’s leader said, “For the first time, a ceasefire now seems possible”.

  • Michael Koziol
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is part of the hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.

Trump’s son-in-law part of Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros

The company, which has close ties to the Trump administration, has launched an offer that challenges Netflix’s plan to create an unassailable media empire.

  • Michael Koziol
This image made from a December 2025 video provided by the Ukrainian Defence Forces shows the heavily bombed city of Myrnohrad in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

‘Trying to erase it from the face of the earth’: Drones show carnage in Ukrainian town

Russian forces have nearly encircled a town that was once home to 46,000 people, but which is now an uninhabitable shell after a brutal year-long assault.

  • Isobel Koshiw