Michael Koziol
Michael Koziol is the North America correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He is a former Sydney editor, Sun-Herald deputy editor and a federal political reporter in Canberra.
US lifts sanctions on Russian oil as Trump derides Iran’s leaders as ‘deranged scumbags’
Iran’s new leader vowed to keep blocking the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil supplies ordinarily moves.
- Michael Koziol
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How a Trump post sparked a wave of misinformation about Australia
The twists and turns in the tale of the Iranian women’s team in Australia this week came with a deluge of social media misinformation amplified by the usual suspects.
- Michael Koziol
Man dead after ramming car into Detroit synagogue hosting preschoolers
Meanwhile, a shooting at a university campus in Virginia is being treated as an act of terrorism, with the assailant having been previously jailed for supporting Islamic State.
- Michael Koziol
New tariffs coming: Trump fires fresh trade salvo at 15 countries, EU
The move came as US trade representative Jamieson Greer told an audience at the Australian embassy in Washington: “If your point is ‘take down all the tariffs’, we’re not going to get along.”
- Michael Koziol
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- Middle East at war
US blows up minelaying boats near Strait of Hormuz amid conflicting claims
President Donald Trump vowed to bomb Iran “at a level never seen before” if it placed mines in the passage following reports the regime had begun deploying the devices.
- Michael Koziol
- Analysis
- Middle East at war
‘We haven’t won enough’: Markets like what Trump’s saying but mixed messages abound
The US president’s latest proclamations have calmed the nerves of investors, but they tell us next to nothing about what happens next in the ongoing conflict in Iran.
- Michael Koziol
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- Middle East at war
‘Aussie, Aussie, Aussie’: Cheers after five Iranian players granted asylum after escape
News of the escape prompted US President Donald Trump to intervene overnight, first by demanding on social media that Australia give the women asylum, and then by speaking with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
- Matthew Knott, Emma Kemp and Michael Koziol
Trump says Iran ‘excursion’ will be over soon, dials back claims on school strike
The price of oil plunged and sharemarkets rallied after the US president offered new – although sometimes contradictory – remarks about when the war would end.
- Michael Koziol
- Analysis
- Middle East at war
Trump’s middle-of-the-night Australian intervention drips with hypocrisy
The US president’s sympathy for the Iranian women’s soccer team in Australia comes despite his administration deporting plane loads of people back to Iran and into potential peril.
- Michael Koziol
Trump officials ‘asked why Australian Jews aren’t carrying guns’
Australian Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin says the White House is continuing to take a significant interest in the spread of antisemitism in Australia.
- Michael Koziol