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The leaked dossier prepared for Five Eyes intelligence agencies claims Australian special forces soldiers veterans are helping train Russians to fight in the Ukraine.

Just how different would the world be today if US and UK intelligence services hadn’t got it so wrong post-9/11? At 87, John Howard is finally ready to consider the possibilities.

US President Donald Trump has made an extraordinary pitch to hand out $5000 US to every American if Republicans win the November midterm elections, prompting bribery claims and warnings of ‘massive’ inflation.

THE WASHINGTON POST: Israel has ramped up strikes in southern Lebanon, killing more than two dozen people and prompting fears of an even larger-scale military escalation ahead of Israel’s elections.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has warned there is a one in three chance Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a military grab for Taiwan.

US President Donald Trump says his Russian counterpart wants to make a Ukrainian peace deal as Ukrainian President ‌Volodymyr Zelensky visited Oslo.

At President Donald Trump’s urging, the Republican Party is staging a midterm convention centered on him.

The investigation comes a week after a TV expose in which two senior Reform UK officials appeared to discuss ways to get around foreign donation rules in order to receive an American financier’s cash.

LATIKA M BOURKE: A cast of countries led by the UK has declared a ban on Israeli goods from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank — with Australia a notable omission.

King Charles has issued a letter to UK officials concerning the royal status of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Lebanon's Health Ministry says Israel's air force has carried out two strikes on a southern Lebanese village, killing at least 11 people.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Nigel Farage’s popularity has peaked but could still become Prime Minister under the UK’s current first-past-the-post voting system, Britain’s top political analyst has declared.

US envoy ​Steve Witkoff says his ​team ​has been ‘very ‌encouraged’ by what he described as a ‘substantive, important’ ​discussion with Ukrainian officials.

Ulrich Siegmund, has harnessed his online popularity to come closer to power than any other far-right politician in Germany since the Nazi era ended in 1945.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Fresh from meeting his US counterpart at the Pentagon, Richard Marles is now in London, armed with a new excuse for why he is not raising defence spending.

THE ECONOMIST: The former TV host turned secretary of war’s latest purge of the department has claimed the army’s great reformer.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The US is still bogged down in Iran after six months of conflict, despite President Trump’s declarations of military dominance.

The latest flare-up in the Middle East threatens to deepen a conflict that has dragged on since the United States launched strikes on Iran in February.