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Andriy Yermak fires back: 'Always treated ... Kushner with full respect'

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Latika Takes Interviews Dmytro Kuleba

Europe must act as though it is alone

Latika Takes interviews Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

What I'm Reading

Australia and New Zealand to contribute to PURL

Latika Takes interviews Ambassador John Bolton

What I'm Reading - The Trump peace plan edition

MI5 warn MPs about Chinese spies...a bit too late?

Latika Takes interviews Cheng Lei

The return of What I'm Reading

McSweeney created Starmer, now he may be his executioner

Hegseth and Rutte have a 1939 message to defence companies

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ From Washington DC: Latika Takes interviews the Butterworths founders

'Freedom is like air': An interview with Svitlana Tsikhanouskaya

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ From the White House: Albanese's date with Trump could not have gone better*

πŸ‡΅πŸ‡± From Warsaw Security Forum, Latika Takes interviews David Petraeus

Kemi Badenoch resists populist path with tax-cutting promise

Why Andrew Hastie quit the frontbench

πŸ—½ From NYC, Latika Takes interviews Richard Branson

The brightest news out of Europe since Putin started the war

Australia's Labor PM doesn't want to see the rise of Reform

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³ From UNGA in NYC: Trump's quest to Make the West Great Again

Trump gets a royal visit down nostalgia-lane

Gobsmacked MPs urge rethink on dropped China spying charges

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ From YES in Kyiv, Latika Takes interviews Kurt Volker

Peace through strength looks a lot like old-fashioned weakness

'Slower than a slug', Boris Johnson hits out at 'frail' Putin

Latika Takes interviews Jan LipavskΓ½

Yulia Navalnaya wanted to meet Australia's prime minister

Russia hits VDL's flight with electronic warfare

We call this Dictator-Chic

Latika Takes interviews Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik

Finally, signs of life in the Democrats

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Happy Independence Day Ukraine

Taking Putin's assets would 'hurt him most' says Reform

Zelensky's Eurosquad can breathe a sigh of relief

Zelensky and the Eurosquad head to the White House

Palestine recognition shows US influence declining under Trump

Ahead of Alaska, is Trump reverting on Ukraine?

Latika Takes interviews Richard Tice

Netanyahu is losing Israel generational support

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ In Ukraine, an old 4WD transforms into a 'realistic life-saving instrument'

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ From Kyiv: Latika Takes interviews Ukrainian Action's Jeff Hartman

Trump's Russia nuclear submarine threat dissected

Kyiv 'weird' on Taiwan admits Ukraine's Foreign Affairs committee chair

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ From Kyiv, Latika Takes interviews Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Committee chair Oleksandr Merezhko

Zelenskyy starts backtracking

From the Kyiv protests: Zelenskyy's power-grab puts Ukraine at risk

Latika Takes interviews NATO's Director of Nuclear Policy Jim Stokes

What I'm Reading

Memo MAGA: Hectoring the Indo-Pacific could backfire

Novelty of Trump resolving Ukraine has worn off admits Hungary

What I'm Reading - the nuclear weapons edition

We need to derisk from China, Trump and social media says Macron

Latika Takes interviews Richard Spencer

The return of Average Albo

What I'm Reading

Rachel Reeves tears expose Labour's hollow victory

What I'm Reading - the NATO 2025 edition

Latika Takes interviews Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles

Rutte's fawn offensive saves NATO, for now

Latika Takes interviews Middle East analyst Jonathan Schanzer on Trump's attacks on Iran

'America First' review to see if AUKUS fits with Trump's priorities, Hegseth

Volodomyr Zelensky's message to GLOBSEC after Operation Spiderweb

Undermining AUKUS is a win for China

German intelligence boss warns Russia preparing to test NATO

Latika Takes interviews James Paterson

Latika Takes interviews Andrew Hastie

What I'm Reading

Chinese hackers who targeted MPs, UK Electoral Commission strike Czechia

AUKUS central to the US-UK relationship under Trump

What I'm Reading

The day Peter Dutton lost the Australian election

Catch up on last night

It’s the centre, stupid!

Latika Takes interviews Scott Ryan

Latika Takes interviews Peter Dutton

Three weeks on the road with the Australian Prime Minister

Latika Takes interviews Anthony Albanese

Trump's climate, aid policies harm US influence, says Australian PM

Resurgent Albanese braces for Trump tariffs

Is Trump Making Incumbency Great Again?

MAGA's extractive ideology exposed in Signal chat

Latika Takes interviews Canadian pollster David Coletto

What I'm Reading

A foreign policy election?

Putin is outsmarting Trump

Latika Takes interviews Labour Together's Jon Ashworth

What I'm Reading: 🍁 The Canada Edition

Ball's in Russia's court, but also MAGA's

Some professional news...

America First isn't isolationist, it's destructionist

Latika Takes interviews former Kamala Harris adviser Michael Nellis

What I'm Reading: The Oval Office fallout

With an ambush, Europe is plunged into peril

Is Donald Trump proving to be the making of Keir Starmer?

What I'm Reading: The Trump v Zelensky Edition

MAGA's Munich outing

What I'm Reading: The Munich Security Conference Edition

Trump truth bombs rock Munich

What I'm Reading

BREAKING: Donald Trump supports AUKUS

Starmer goes nuclear and finally finds his mojo

How Make America Great Again could be China's Trump card

Latika Takes interviews top pollsters Tony Barry, James Johnson and Luke Tryl

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Starmer's Mandelson drama

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Rubio throws China caution out the window in Quad debut

What if Trump isn't a China hawk after all?

Latika Takes interviews bountied Hong Kongers Chloe Cheung and Finn Lau

What I'm Reading: The TikTok Ruling

Journalists should welcome AI says Microsoft CEO

UK Labour speaks with a forked tongue on China

What I'm Reading

'Fragile' British economy needs China to save it from food banks

Musk v Farage is likely a godsend for Reform

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Are left-wing goverments becoming one-termers?