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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.

Donald Trump has set his sights on another major landmark on the world map.

The Canadian PM has hit back against the Trump Administration for their ‘memes’ after a week-long wave of online taunts from the White House.

The announcement comes just days after US President Donald Trump revealed an ambitious deal to develop the nation’s oil reserves and give the Pentagon a stake in the profits.

Kuwait City and Bahrain were both targeted by Iranian drones as Tehran responded to a night of US strikes.

The explosion and discovery of a second suspicious device at a train station came just hours after the European nation blamed Russia for a failed drone attack.

Thai authorities claim the harsh crackdown aims to address concerns around foreigners misusing extended stay visas to become involved in criminal activity.