The latest comments underscore a breakdown in relations between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump launches attack on ‘dictator’ Zelensky,implies he stole from US

The past 48 hours have seen relations between Trump and Zelensky rapidly deteriorate while Ukraine and Europe were left out of talks between senior American and Russian officials.

  • Michael Koziol

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Matthew Tkachuk of Team USA fights with Brandon Hagel of Team Canada at the Four Nations Face-off in Montreal.

Brawls,boos and boycotts:Trump resentment boils over in Canada

Three fights in the first nine seconds of a hotly anticipated USA-Canada hockey clash seemed to speak volumes about the state of relations between the two neighbours.

  • Michael Koziol
Donald Trump has threatened sweeping tariffs to allies and enemies of the US.

‘We will respond strongly’:Allies workshop how to talk back to Trump on tariffs

Canada’s visiting trade minister said Australia and Canada should forcefully argue the case for free trade as Donald Trump upends the global trading system.

  • Matthew Knott
 Greenland sled dogs

‘This is not a joke’:Could the US buy Greenland?

Trump is again floating the idea of acquiring Greenland. Could he? And what do Greenlanders think?

  • Angus Holland

‘Aluminium Albo’ has blueprint to test Trump’s mettle

Australian prime ministers have traditionally had poor name recognition in the US. But Anthony Albanese can change that.

  • Nick Bryant
A Chinese PLA J-16 fighter jet,similar to the one that shot a flare

China accuses Australia of ‘intruding’ in its airspace after jet flare incident

Australia complained to Beijing after a dangerous encounter with a Chinese fighter jet and sent a frigate to the Torres Strait to shadow three Chinese warships.

  • Matthew Knott andLisa Visentin
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Donald Trump has spent the first weeks of his second term as US president in a kind of extended road rage.

We need to become agile to avoid Trump’s road rage

Increasingly it feels as if we are living in a new age of the endlessly furious.

  • Tony Wright
White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro (centre).

Trump tariff warrior says Australian ‘China-owned’ companies are flooding US market. It’s not true

A top adviser to the US president has launched an extraordinary attack on Australian aluminium exporters,making a claim rejected by independent economists – and US trade data.

  • David Crowe andMichael Koziol
Then prime minister Scott Morrison and US President Donald Trump had a good rapport as “surprise” election winners.

What did Australia promise? Inside the room where Trump and Morrison talked tariffs

Australian officials scrambled when they heard Trump was bringing some of his top trade advisers to dinner with Morrison. They knew the trade warriors had an axe to grind.

  • David Crowe andMichael Koziol
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra.

Albanese’s formulas aren’t enough to handle a president like Trump

Being a close ally of the US does not mean we have to be so slavish that we abandon independent thinking.

  • Matthew Knott