British Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference on nationalising British Steel.

‘National security on the line’:Starmer pulls off extraordinary move to save British steel

The UK parliament was recalled for just the fifth time since WWII to vote on emergency legislation,and passed the bill in less than 24 hours.

  • Rob Harris

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It’s worse than any war or pandemic,so why are our leaders ignoring it?

Tell me I’m not dreaming:2025 could be the year of bipartisan action on catastrophic climate change.

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Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen.

Renewables surge shows Australia can meet ambitious 2035 reductions

The UK has promised to cut emissions by 81 per cent by 2035. The Climate Change Authority is considering how much more we could do.

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I’m beginning to think MAGA doesn’t mean what Trump thinks

Somewhat ironically,the issue of whether age should preclude Trump and Biden from seeking the top job is the only one on which the two men are united.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,centre right,with heads of states after a group picture during the summit on peace in Ukraine in Switzerland.

G7 leaders back ‘Olympic truce’ for wars in Ukraine,Middle East

Leader of the G7 urged “all countries to observe the Olympic Truce individually and collectively” in support of a French proposal to temporarily halt conflicts around the world during the Games.

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Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin in 2019.

Named and shamed:The West just turned up the heat on China and Russia

It was an eventful meeting of some of the world’s leading finance ministers at a resort town in Italy.

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Many have realised that what we’ve been calling AI isn’t really intelligence,but souped-up autocorrect. Yet that doesn’t mean that it’s not important.

World scrambles to control ‘the most consequential technology of our time’

There has been a flurry of activity this week as the US,Europe and the Group of Seven economies scramble to regulate the rapidly evolving AI sector.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

The G7 minutes make grim reading for China and Russia

The world’s seven most industrialised countries have sent both Russia and China a clear message of their solidarity and resolve.

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Zelensky is becoming the statesman of our times

If the president leads Ukraine to victory,there will be statues of him in Europe. If he loses,all of it will be for nothing.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
President Joe Biden with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the G7 summit in Hiroshima.

Zelensky makes impassioned plea for arms at G7 after bombing of Bakhmut

The Ukrainian president compared Bakhmut’s “total destruction” to the Japanese city of Hiroshima after the nuclear strike of 1945.

  • Eryk Bagshaw