Politics

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump has announced the United States will ‘run’ Venezuela following an advanced military operation that saw President Nicolás Maduro and his wife captured.

Some of Australia’s best-known sporting identities are calling on Anthony Albanese to show ‘decisive national leadership’ by holding a Commonwealth royal commission into the worst terror attack on home soil.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Government of Israel on Friday accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York of antisemitism, following his decision the day before to cancel two executive orders issued by his predecessor.

Ministers across the world have raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Elon Musk's AI tool Grok.

US President Donald Trump has invited Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to visit the US, although the White House is yet to confirm the invitation.

President Donald Trump says US forces are ‘ready to go’, issuing a blunt warning, as another Government warns the Republican over ‘chaos’ that could follow.

Global instability and political tension will continue to dominate the news headlines in 2026, with wars continuing, elections at home and abroad, further fall out from the Bondi Beach terror attack.

The Nightly can reveal that the Australian government sent the non-refundable money at the end of last year, in the largest transaction since the nuclear submarine deal was announced.

Government backing for critical minerals should focus on rare earths vital for clean energy and national security and emulate an existing scheme underpinning renewable projects, the sector has told ministers.

A former royal commissioner who knows more than most about the process of holding a national public inquiry says there must be an independent probe into the Bondi massacre.

NEVILLE OWEN: The horrors of Bondi far outweigh the empty arguments against a royal commission into our worst terror attack on Australian soil.

Labor minister Tanya Plibersek says she ‘one hundred per cent understands’ why people are calling for greater accountability about the Bondi Beach shooting, as pressure grows for a Federal royal commission.

An extremist slogan graffitied on a suburban Canberra fence is on the radar of police as the nation grapples with the fallout of the terror attack in Bondi nearly three weeks ago.

The deaths may mark the start of a heavier-handed response by Iran’s theocracy over the demonstrations, which have slowed in the capital, Tehran, but expanded elsewhere.

Major business groups have joined calls for a national royal commission into anti-Semitism and the terror attack at Bondi Beach, following on the heels of more than 130 eminent Australians.