Yard signs bearing the mugshots of alleged illegal migrants and criminals were erected on the front lawn of the White House.

‘I run the world’:Trump marks 100 days with stunts,boasts and propaganda

The US president also embraced Australian football player Jordan Mailata at a ceremony for the Philadelphia Eagles,who won the Super Bowl in February.

  • Michael Koziol

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Adolf Hitler with filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl on Nazi party day in Nuremberg,1934.

Hitler’s favourite filmmaker always denied she was a Nazi. Now we know the truth

The director of a new documentary on Leni Riefenstahl trawled through 700 boxes of material from her estate to find answers.

  • Garry Maddox
It takes an incredible range of skills to make it politics if you’re new to it.

When brilliance is not enough:What it takes for an outsider to become one of the political greats

Mark Carney is leaning heavily on his outsider status in his appeal to Canadian voters,but it may not be an advantage in the long run.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
Australian-based academic Seng Sary has admitted he was on the payroll of Cambodian ruler Hun Sen.

Academic who fled Cambodia for Australia was on Hun Sen’s payroll

Melbourne Uni made him a fellow. He posed for a photo with a soon-to-be federal minister,and was considered a hero. But it wasn’t the full picture.

  • Zach Hope
New bridge-making barges are believed to give China an advantage if it were to invade Taiwan.

China is said to be a step closer to being able to invade Taiwan

China has been practising unusual manoeuvres off its southern coast involving three special barges. Experts say it changes the equation on Beijing’s war readiness.

  • Chris Buckley,Christoph Koettl andAgnes Chang
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Trading in lunacy. How Trump’s tariffs will ‘save’ masculinity

Tariffs will bring “manly” jobs back to the US,according to Trump supporters. Economists aren’t so sure.

  • Jacqueline Maley
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Trump’s made nationalism great again,just not in America

Rather than jingoistic chest-thumping,Trumpism has stirred a stoical civic pride in the things that differentiate individual countries from the US.

  • Nick Bryant
Donald Trump is staring across the table at the “inscrutable” President Xi Jinping,writes Tom Dolan.

Xi holds more cards than Trump in trade showdown

With the two leaders standing eyeball to eyeball as global markets whipsaw around them,who will blink?

  • Lisa Visentin
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Thailand just gave Myanmar what it craved,and it wasn’t humanitarian aid

The junta was so happy with the news that it dominated the first five pages of the Myanmar newspaper,even as thousands lay dead or dying in rubble.

  • Zach Hope
President Yoon Suk Yeol at a hearing in February.

Dramatic fall for former star lawyer who went from political novice to president in just a year

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s political rise was fast. But his downfall was even faster.

  • Hyung-jin Kim andKim Tong-Hyung