Svoboda | Graniru | BBC Russia | Golosameriki | Facebook
Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statement
  • Advertisement

    News and analysis from AFR correspondents on the biggest global stories.

    Sign up to the World View newsletter.

    Sign up now

    Latest

    The Princess of Wales looked in good spirits on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with her family.

    All eyes on Kate in first appearance since cancer diagnosis

    The Princess of Wales has appeared in public for the first time this year, as she begins her return to public life with an all-family outing at Trooping the Colour.

    • Updated
    • Hannah Furness
    Smoke rises over the Golan Heights after a Hezbollah rocket attack on Northern Israel.

    Israeli jets strike targets in Lebanon after missile barrage

    The Israeli military said its jets and artillery attacked targets operated by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon.

    • James Mackenzie

    Putin demands land concessions from Ukraine

    The Russian president said Ukraine must recognise four regions and Crimea as Russian territory and Kyiv’s neutral status needs to be cemented.

    • Bloomberg News

    Bankers sacked for faking work in rise of ‘mouse jigglers’

    US banking giant Wells Fargo dismissed members of its wealth and investment management arm after investigating claims that they were pretending to be busy.

    • Hannah Levitt

    Nigel Farage’s party overtakes Tories in UK poll blow

    Right-wing Reform UK provides a symbolic ‘crossover moment’ in support that Conservative strategists have been fearing for months.

    • Alex Wickham

    Why Keir Starmer’s wife is being kept off the campaign trail

    Victoria Starmer is said to be highly resistant to the idea of breaking up the family’s happy life in the leafy streets near Hampstead Heath, and has kept a remarkably low profile.

    • Guy Kelly and Eleanor Mills

    Opinion & Analysis

    Starmer will be centrism’s last chance

    Voters need to see normal politics working for them again. Keir Starmer not only carries the dreams of a country demanding change but the hope of all who fear what follows if he fails.

    Robert Shrimsley

    British political commentator

    What Aussie business can expect from Europe’s far-right shift

    Both sides of politics in Europe will back industrial policies designed to onshore or diversify supply chains – and that’s the space where Australia plays.

    Hans van Leeuwen

    Europe correspondent

    White Britons are receiving special attention but don’t tell them that

    The most important ethnic group in British politics is the one nobody talks about.

    The Economist

    Contributor

    Talks on EU top jobs kick off at G7 summit

    A summit of G7 leaders hosted by Italian PM Giorgia Meloni will feature private conversations with the EC president as she seeks five more years in the job.

    Henry Foy and Andy Bounds

    Contributor

    From the Financial Times

    Ursula von der Leyen’s team are nervous about how the French president’s major electoral gamble will affect his strategy for the EU’s future leadership.

    Talks on EU top jobs kick off at G7 summit

    A summit of G7 leaders hosted by Italian PM Giorgia Meloni will feature private conversations with the EC president as she seeks five more years in the job.

    • Henry Foy and Andy Bounds

    EU to impose multibillion-euro tariffs on Chinese electric cars

    The European Commission is set to tell carmakers that it will provisionally apply additional duties of up to 25 per cent on imported Chinese EVs from July.

    • Andy Bounds

    The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government

    Emmanuel Macron has concluded that power often tames radical parties or demonstrates their incompetence. His election call might be the most prudent thing he could have done.

    • Janan Ganesh
    Advertisement

    This Month

    Biden vows weapons, aid for Ukraine ‘until they prevail’

    The US president has signed a new security agreement with Volodymyr Zelensky, and the G7 plans $75 billion in aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.

    • Updated
    • Matt Viser and Tyler Pager

    Macron has poured on the petrol. Someone will get burnt

    The President hopes to prove that votes for the right in Europe were just voters venting steam. If he’s wrong, the consequences will be felt far beyond France.

    • Hans van Leeuwen

    KPMG to cut 200 jobs | Musk’s $72b payday | Trump promises tax cuts

    Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

    The ‘fundamental gap’ in the UN Gaza peace plan explained

    Neither Hamas nor Israel will agree to the proposal without at least one significant change, according to policy experts.

    • Updated
    • Emma Connors

    China’s broken housing market and a generation ‘lying flat’

    While wallets were open at last weekend’s national Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese consumers are still not spending enough to get the economy out of its housing hole.

    • Jessica Sier
    Advertisement

    Trump promises tax cuts in pitch to top CEOs

    The former president delivered his populist economic pledges to Wall Street titans at a business roundtable event in Washington before the US election.

    • Matthew Cranston

    Tesla shareholders approve Musk’s $72b pay package

    The shareholder vote is a major win for the Tesla chief executive as he seeks to reassert control over the company.

    • Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis

    UK’s likely next PM copies Albanese election playbook

    Labour leader Keir Starmer unveiled a policy manifesto containing almost no new policies, confirming just a handful of tax tweaks if his party is elected on July 4.

    • Updated
    • Hans van Leeuwen

    US jobless claims jump to the highest level in 10 months

    The number of unemployment claims rose 13,000, higher than economists expected.

    • Matt Ott

    Argentine Senate passes Milei reform bill as protests rage outside

    The bill is key to overhauling an embattled economy, and includes plans for privatising public firms, granting special powers to the president and spurring investment.

    • Nicolás Misculin and Eliana Raszewski

    Musk says shareholders approving his $75b pay package

    It’s D-Day for the Tesla CEO as shareholders vote on his controversial pay package – with major implications for the billionaire and his company.

    • Updated
    • Trisha Thadani

    Starmer will be centrism’s last chance

    Voters need to see normal politics working for them again. Keir Starmer not only carries the dreams of a country demanding change but the hope of all who fear what follows if he fails.

    • Robert Shrimsley

    What Aussie business can expect from Europe’s far-right shift

    Both sides of politics in Europe will back industrial policies designed to onshore or diversify supply chains – and that’s the space where Australia plays.

    • Updated
    • Hans van Leeuwen

    Macron urges unity against surging far-right turmoil

    The French president made the call after the centre-right Republicans ditched its chairman, who had called for an alliance with the hard right.

    • Updated
    • Hans van Leeuwen

    White Britons are receiving special attention but don’t tell them that

    The most important ethnic group in British politics is the one nobody talks about.

    • The Economist
    Advertisement

    Upbeat markets price in rate cut as US inflation eases

    US President Joe Biden welcomed the news of falling inflation but said more needed to be done to reduce the cost of living.

    • Updated
    • Matthew Cranston

    Britain’s economy stalls in blow for Sunak

    Gross domestic product was flat in April compared with the previous month, a slowdown from 0.4 per cent growth in March.

    • Tom Rees and Irina Anghel

    Talks on EU top jobs kick off at G7 summit

    A summit of G7 leaders hosted by Italian PM Giorgia Meloni will feature private conversations with the EC president as she seeks five more years in the job.

    • Henry Foy and Andy Bounds

    China’s mild inflation fails to quell fears over weak demand

    May inflation figures point to a mixed picture for the economy as domestic consumption picks up slightly.

    • Zhu Lin

    EU to impose multibillion-euro tariffs on Chinese electric cars

    The European Commission is set to tell carmakers that it will provisionally apply additional duties of up to 25 per cent on imported Chinese EVs from July.

    • Andy Bounds