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Donald Trump puts his foot down and says he won't resume trade talks with Canada ‘for a while’, reigniting tensions over his tariff policies.

Anthony Albanese insists he ‘very directly’ raised concerns with his Chinese counterpart over a recent military confrontation in which flares were released ‘dangerously’ close to an Australian plane.

CAMERON MILNER: The United Nations is going the way of the dinosaurs; it’s overly large and no longer suited to its fast-changing external environment.

Ukraine officials have accused the Albanese Government of turning a blind eye to a ‘loophole’ allowing illegal Russian oil imports into Australia, pumping millions back to Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will have a say on the makeup of foreign troops in any international force in the Gaza Strip.

Donald Trump has declared he must ‘defend’ the United States after a nation’s ‘hostile act’, increasing the tariff rate.

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky is pressing Donald Trump to supply long-range missiles and extend sanctions to every Russian oil firm.

Anthony Albanese is embarking on a week of quiet diplomacy at the ASEAN and APEC summits, where Donald Trump’s tariffs and China’s growing influence will dominate the agenda.

A Canberra think tank has been criticised over a paper emphasising China’s claims to the disputed South China Sea in the same week the country forced an Australian surveillance plane from the area.

LATIKA M BOURKE: It was surely a disappointing day for those who have exploited the US President’s style in a campaign to cool the alliance.

Resources Minister Madeleine King says with China dominating between 70 and 90 per cent of the sector, Australia needs to get in the rare earths fight.

China's ruling Communist Party says it will focus on speeding up self-reliance in technology in the coming five years to combat over-reliance on exports, at a time of heightened trade tensions with the US.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hit back at the US over its ‘attempted escalation’ through major oil sanctions, warning of an ‘overwhelming’ response in Ukraine.

The sanctions are among the most significant measures that the United States has taken against the Russian energy sector since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The White House is demolishing the entirety of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s $200 million ballroom, a construction project that is far more extensive than he let on.