The intelligence community has found “no smoking gun” that the Russian president was aware of the timing of Navalny’s death or that he directly ordered it.
A visit by Deputy Prime Minister Richard Males – the first by a member of the Albanese government for almost two years – coincided with another fierce round of Russian airstrikes.
Defence Minister Richard Marles was in Lviv on Saturday,becoming just the second federal government minister to visit Ukraine since the war started.
US President Joe Biden signed off another billion-dollar assistance package just as the tide was turning against the Ukrainians on the battlefield.
If I have paid a high price for a ticket to an evening show,screaming children are not part of the deal. It’s not fair to the other members of the audience or the performers.
The US House Speaker’s personal dilemma likely explains months of delay that undoubtedly cost Ukrainian lives and has helped Russia make battlefield gains.
The response of politicians to the growing repugnance to social media’s malign influence following the Sydney stabbings is big on rhetoric,but a large gap yawns between their words and actions.
Russia’s foreign ministry said the Australians were handed indefinite bans “in response to politically motivated sanctions against Russian individuals”.
After agonising over how to proceed on the package for days,Mike Johnson notified Republicans he would push to hold three votes on Ukraine,Israel and the Indo-Pacific.
Thousands have been evacuated as major rivers such as the Ural,which flows through Kazakhstan into the Caspian,overwhelm embankments.
Some 90 per cent of Russia’s microelectronics and machine tools used to produce missiles,tanks and aircraft,come from China,says the US.