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Russia, Ukraine agree to three-day ceasefire, says Trump
The ceasefire, which Donald Trump said would last May 9 to 11, coincides with Russia’s Victory Day celebrations, the US president said in a social media post.
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Prince Harry delivers messages for Trump, Putin on surprise Ukraine visit
The trip came as Ukraine vowed it would not give up a “single millimetre” of its territory and landed a long-promised $147 billion European funding boost to help drive back Russia’s forces.
- David Crowe
‘The risk to human life is too high’: Iran withdraws from Paralympics as Russia bears flag
Iran’s only athlete at the Winter Paralympic Games was forced to withdraw, while Russia returned to the world stage.
- Frances Howe
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Oil companies put on notice over Russian ‘blood oil’
Fuel importers have been warned they could be breaching Australian sanctions law by importing Russian-origin oil processed in third countries.
- Matthew Knott
‘It’s broken the rules’: Ukraine to boycott Paralympics opening ceremony over Russia entry
Russian athletes will be allowed to compete at the Milano Cortina Paralympics because the International Paralympics Committee no longer has evidence that they are supporting the war through sport.
- Jake Niall
‘It ran and we followed’: US forces chase down oil tanker near Australian islands
The military boarded the sanctioned Venezuela-linked vessel in the Indian Ocean after “hunting” it for some 15,000 kilometres from the Caribbean, the Pentagon said.
- Michael Koziol
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- Venezuela crisis
Trump has pulled the US into a joint venture with a leftist kleptocracy
Little now remains of the moral and legal order that we used to call the West.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Sussan Ley says Ukraine occupied by ‘Soviet Union’
In a slip of the tongue, the opposition leader said Ukraine was illegally occupied by “the USSR”, which was formally dissolved over 34 years ago.
- Nick Newling
The British expat tracking Russia’s shadow fleet from his Singapore deck
On his lunch break from his sales job, Remy Osman tracks rickety old tankers, often flying false flags, as they carry sanctioned Russian oil through one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
- Lisa Visentin
- Political Sketch
- Foreign relations
Russian embassy loses its land, its cool and all sense of irony
The Russian Federation has finally lost the land on which it was planning to build a new embassy in Canberra. The Australian government feared the embassy would be a nest of spies.
- Tony Wright