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Trump’s art of the deal horrifies Ukraine and its allies

Browse through Donald Trump’s ghostwritten memoir, The Art of the Deal, and you’ll come across an aphorism which will go some way to explaining the US president’s approach to negotiating. Having established that he would do nearly anything within legal bounds to win, Trump adds that: “Sometimes, part of making…

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Europe readies for war as Russian rhetoric escalates

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Why Russia is accusing its own scientists of treason

A prominent Russian scientist specialising in hypersonic technology has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of treason. His conviction is the latest in a series of arrests targeting researchers since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, in what experts are calling a politically motivated crackdown on…

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Who was the 'Donbass Cowboy', the pro-Russian Texan who died in Donetsk?

Russell Bentley, a Texas native better known by his nickname "Donbass Cowboy", died in mysterious circumstances near Donetsk. His death provoked a strong reaction in Russian ultra-nationalist circles, where Bentley had made a name for himself over the past ten years by travelling through the territories occupied by pro-Russian forces…

France 24

Birobidzhan: Israel-Hamas war sows discord in remote Jewish region of Russia

The furore over the Israel-Hamas war has reached all the way to Birobidzhan in Russia’s Far East, the world’s only autonomous Jewish territory outside Israel, after a local newspaper published its support for the Palestinian cause. FRANCE 24 examines the history of this remote region – which in many ways…

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Prigozhin's death: Show of strength or admission of weakness for Putin?

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, was on board a plane that crashed in Russia on Wednesday, leaving no survivors, according to Russian media reports. While many details are yet to be confirmed, many Russia watchers wonder how and why Prigozhin survived so long after his June 23 mutiny…

France 24

Putin's defence chief Shoigu survived Wagner’s challenge – but for how long?

Russia’s embattled defence minister was in the hot seat long before Yevgeny Prigozhin sent his Wagner mercenaries racing to Moscow on a stated mission to oust him. The latter’s failure shows President Vladimir Putin is unwilling to sacrifice his long-time confidant – at least for now.

France 24

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The Gates review – retrofuturist tale of serial killer’s spirit on the rampage

Horror-thriller is a confusing mashup of science, religion and spiritualism, cursed with a sloppy script and bad acting

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A look at the Free Russia Legion, the pro-Ukrainian group that attacked Belgorod

A cross-border incursion into the Russian region of Belgorod on Monday put the Free Russia Legion under the spotlight, prompting questions about this mysterious paramilitary unit of anti-Putin Russians.

France 24

Tributes paid to ‘much-loved son’ stabbed to death in Cornwall - old

Michael Allen was killed and seven others suffered from stab wounds following a ‘serious altercation’.

The Independent UK

Cornwall stabbings: Everything we know as tributes paid to rubgy player killed near nightclub

Michael Allen, 33, has been named locally as victim in outbreak of violence near Eclipse Nightclub in Bodmin

The Independent UK

Tributes to ‘absolute legend’ rugby player stabbed to death near Cornwall nightclub

Michael Allen has been named as the victim who died during an incident in Bodmin that left seven others in hospital

The Independent UK

Dumfries and Galloway Council to recruit more staff to fix region's roads

Recruitment will begin this month as the local authority invests record amounts of cash into addressing the many potholes and crumbling roads across the region

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France 24

Sergei Roldugin, the cellist who looks after Putin’s fortune

A Swiss court this week convicted four Russian bankers for allowing Sergei Roldugin to deposit tens of millions of euros in bank accounts – colossal sums for a man who is, officially, a professional cellist. But it has long been suspected that Roldugin is tasked with looking after the enormous…

The New Daily

The Claremont Murders: The latest true crime TV drama continues our obsession with serial killers

WARNING: This story contains graphic content that some readers may find upsetting When three young women went missing late at night in the affluent Perth

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin visits Mariupol in first trip to occupied eastern Ukraine – as it happened

Russian president flew in by helicopter and then drove a car in several districts of the city, site of one of the war’s bloodiest battles

The Conversation

Ukraine recap: fears of escalation after US drone downed over the Black Sea

There was another of those moments when the world held its breath this week when news broke on March 14 of an incident between a US drone and two Russian jets. The unmanned US Reaper MQ-9 drone, reportedly on routine surveillance duties in international airspace, had to be brought down…

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Battle for Bakhmut highlights divide between Wagner mercenary chief and the Kremlin

The founder and leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been touted as someone who could pose a political challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Once a key battlefield ally, in recent days Prigozhin has publicly lamented losing his direct line to the Kremlin. Wagner fighters are not…

ABC News

Gervaise Widdowson handed life sentence over murder of Dinh Lam Nguyen whose body was found in wheelie bin

A second man is sentenced to life in jail for a murder where the victim's body was found in a wheelie bin floating in a dam in Perth's east.

France 24

Putin’s army chief handed ‘poisoned chalice’ amid Russian power tussle

President Vladimir Putin has put his top military officer Valery Gerasimov in charge of Russia’s stalled invasion of Ukraine, in the latest reshuffle since the start of the war. The chief of the general staff will be expected to bolster the army’s sagging war effort while contending with the Wagner…

ABC News

Todd Nathan Kiernan gets life sentence after labelling victim Dinh Lam Nguyen's body with his own name

A killer who was tracked down because he wrapped his victim's body in plastic that had his name on it, before placing it in a wheelie bin that contained letters addressed to him, is sentenced to life in jail.

France 24

‘Danger to the regime?’ Russia faces ethnic minority anti-mobilisation protests

Russia is seeing a wave of demonstrations in areas with high ethnic minority populations against President Vladimir Putin’s call for “partial mobilisation”. Analysts say this approach is undermining the Kremlin’s legitimacy among these groups and is likely to give Russia poorly motivated soldiers for its war against Ukraine.

ABC News

Babysitter Jareth Harries-Markham jailed for repeated sexual abuse of children in his care

An experienced WA prosecutor is almost brought to tears as he details the sexual abuse of 16 young girls, some of them just babies, by a man who was being paid to babysit them.

ABC News

Judges go bush to learn about Indigenous culture, with aim to deliver fairer justice in courts

Some of the nation's most senior legal officials undertake a three-day outback immersion program to learn about Indigenous culture and how to create a fairer court system.

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