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How Ukraine pulled off its biggest gamble: invading Russia
Kyiv’s troops say they found a Russian unit calmly drinking coffee as they crossed the border.
- Christopher Miller
US ready for Iran attack on Israel ‘as soon as this week’
“We share the same concerns and expectations that our Israeli counterparts have with respect to potential timing,” national security spokesman John Kirby says.
- Trevor Hunnicutt and Michael Martina
Russian reveals Ukraine’s successes before Putin cuts him off
The frankness from Alexey Smirnov, the acting regional governor of the Kursk region, in a televised address was too much for Vladimir Putin.
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- Daryna Krasnolutska
Wildfire menaces Athens suburbs, forcing residents to flee
Hundreds have fled as flames as high as 25 metres spread in to the Greek capital’s suburbs, fuelled by gale-force winds.
- Angelos Tsatsis and Renee Maltezou
Pelosi welcomes Harris home as West Coast donors raise $18m
The former House speaker appeared with the Democratic presidential nominee in San Francisco at an event the Harris campaign said raised more than $18 million.
- Jeff Mason
Russia evacuates another border region amid threats from Ukraine
Russia has imposed a sweeping security regime in the Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod regions, while ally Belarus says it is bolstering troop numbers at its border.
- Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly
Opinion & Analysis
Trump calling Harris a communist shows he’s desperate
The vice president is a social democrat, but that doesn’t mean she believes in state control of the economy.
Contributor
Like a French film, it was genius and difficult, but a fitting end
The closing ceremony was slow, and some people walked out, but the fans stayed until the end and only the Hollywood part was a bit off.
AFR Magazine editor
Why Musk’s antics now appear to be hurting his bottom line
After a string of inflammatory remarks on social media, Elon Musk seems to be turning off the most obvious customers for his cars.
Columnist
Australia should focus on rules, not ‘rules-based order’, in Asia
Support for the transition from a US-led world to a multipolar world is gaining traction.
South East Asia expert
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How Ukraine pulled off its biggest gamble: invading Russia
Kyiv’s troops say they found a Russian unit calmly drinking coffee as they crossed the border.
- Christopher Miller
Investors hit pause on Biden’s manufacturing renaissance
Companies said deteriorating market conditions, slowing demand, and lack of policy certainty in a high-stakes election year have caused them to change their plans.
- Amanda Chu, Alexandra White and Rhea Basarkar
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
Why Musk’s antics now appear to be hurting his bottom line
After a string of inflammatory remarks on social media, Elon Musk seems to be turning off the most obvious customers for his cars.
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- Pilita Clark
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- US election
Trump calling Harris a communist shows he’s desperate
The vice president is a social democrat, but that doesn’t mean she believes in state control of the economy.
- Paul Krugman
Yesterday
The five charts that show it really was our best Games ever
Australia won 53 medals across 20 different sports. Outgoing IOC vice president John Coates says we can win even more.
- Zoe Samios
Investors hit pause on Biden’s manufacturing renaissance
Companies said deteriorating market conditions, slowing demand, and lack of policy certainty in a high-stakes election year have caused them to change their plans.
- Amanda Chu, Alexandra White and Rhea Basarkar
US orders armed submarine to Middle East as tensions mount
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin also ordered the Abraham Lincoln strike group to hasten its deployment to the region, as Israel prepares for Iran’s attack.
- Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart
Frustrated Trump claims large crowds at Harris rallies are fake
The former president, in a series of social media posts, said Vice President Kamala Harris had used AI technology to create images of crowds at her events.
- Shane Goldmacher
Paris changes as the Paralympics get ready to arrive
Four-time Paralympic gold medallist Dylan Alcott just attended his first Olympics. It’s given him a taste of what’s to come, and how the city has changed accessibility.
- Zoe Samios
- Opinion
- Paris 2024
Like a French film, it was genius and difficult, but a fitting end
The closing ceremony was slow, and some people walked out, but the fans stayed until the end and only the Hollywood part was a bit off.
- Matthew Drummond
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
Why Musk’s antics now appear to be hurting his bottom line
After a string of inflammatory remarks on social media, Elon Musk seems to be turning off the most obvious customers for his cars.
- Pilita Clark
Macquarie-owned water company must double payouts to angry customers
The UK government proposes forcing Southern Water and other utilities to pay more for poor service, after water shortages and polluted supplies.
- Jessica Shankleman
Tom Cruise dives into star-studded Paris closing ceremony
With golden fireworks, celebrities and thousands of athletes partying into the night, the closing ceremony put a final flourish to Paris’ first Games in a century.
- John Leicester
Harris more trusted on US economy than Trump: poll
The Michigan Ross poll shows a Democratic candidate leading on the key issue for the first time in nearly a year.
- Lauren Fedor and Eva Xiao
The good, the bad and the ridiculous: We’ll always have Paris 2024
Sporting triumph and tragedy, a blockbuster Aussie medal haul, controversy, bad food, Gina Rinehart, Snoop Dogg. Here’s what you missed in the past fortnight.
- Hans van Leeuwen
This Month
Opals win bronze in emotional send-off for talisman Jackson
The women’s basketball team lifted Australia’s total medal tally to the highest since Sydney 2000, and made a fitting finale for the game’s five-time medallist.
- Hans van Leeuwen
White supremacists turn UK riots into online recruiting pitch
Hard-line organisations previously designated by the UK as domestic terrorists are calling for an overthrow of the British government.
- Jeff Stone
Russia pushes back at Ukraine’s cross-border assault
One of the strikes on Ukrainian troops involved a thermobaric missile that causes a blast wave and suffocates those in its path, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
- Kim Barker
- Opinion
- East Asia Forum
Australia should focus on rules, not ‘rules-based order’, in Asia
Support for the transition from a US-led world to a multipolar world is gaining traction.
- Anthony Milner
Multinationals sound alarm over weak demand in China
Weak demand in China has been a feature of half-year earnings across much of the global consumer goods sector.
- Edward White and Thomas Hale
Harris courts Latino vote with tax pledge, leads Trump in key states
In a dramatic turn for the Democrats, the vice president is ahead of the Republican candidate by 4 percentage points in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
- Darlene Superville and Josh Boak
Inside the worst three weeks of Donald Trump’s campaign
People around the former and would-be president see a candidate knocked off his bearings, disoriented by his new contest with Kamala Harris and unsure of how to take her on.
- Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Trump’s campaign says its emails were hacked
The former president’s team accused Iran of stealing sensitive internal documents, a day after Microsoft warned of foreign interference in the US election.
- Bill Barrow
