8+ hour, 49+ min ago   (1447+ words) September 14, 2026 — 3:22pm Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was riding high in early July, fresh off the successful negotiation of a peace agreement with the United States, and had travelled to neighbouring Iraq for part of a weeklong funeral spectacle for Iran’s slain…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (725+ words) September 13, 2026 — 3:42pm There was widespread surprise when NAZA, an Israeli documentary that had a record-breaking 25-minute standing ovation at the 83rd Venice Film Festival, won the special jury prize at the awards ceremony on Saturday. That early award meant Israeli filmmakers Yuval…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1692+ words) When US President Donald Trump accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of “gambling with World War III”, in a furious exchange in the White House in March last year, it was easy, perhaps, to write the statement off as overblown rhetoric....

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (557+ words) September 12, 2026 — 1:30pm No spreadsheet could capture how it felt to be one of the 150 Hazara men, women and children stepping down onto the deck of the Norwegian cargo boat MV Tampa in 2001, after their rapidly sinking refugee boat was rescued in…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (139+ words) SMH.com.au Senator Wong’s parliamentary speech on the West Bank situation was weak. The senator has just become another sleepy, boring, government talking head whose upper limit is being “concerned”. So-called targeted measures are not good enough. Real action…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (809+ words) September 9, 2026 — 3:20pm Israel has applauded the Albanese government for declining to join a United Kingdom-led push to crack down on imports from settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, a move former Labor foreign minister Bob Carr has branded astonishing and cowardly....

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (956+ words) September 9, 2026 — 3:15am London: Israel has slammed a move by a dozen countries to impose trade sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, launching a furious diplomatic response after Britain accused it of allowing “ethnic cleansing” in the contested lands. Israeli…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (790+ words) September 8, 2026 — 5:00pm The Albanese government is preparing to announce a new sanctions package against Israel, but has rejected internal calls to join the United Kingdom by banning commercial activity with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. UK Prime Minister Andy…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (112+ words) September 2, 2026 — 5:00am Trump was elected on a promise that not only would there be no more wars (something he has since denied), but he would end wars. An admirable aspiration no doubt, but such aims require a coherent strategic vision, deft…...