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French former president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Sarkozy sentenced to five years over Gaddafi campaign funds conspiracy

A court found former French president Nicolas Sarkozy conspired to illegally finance his 2007 campaign using funds from Muammar Gaddafi, the late Libyan dictator.

  • Henry Samuel and Iona Cleave

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Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, right, welcomes Emirati Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan as he arrives in Baghdad ahead of the Arab League summit on in May.

The sheikh who conquered soccer – and coddles warlords

The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of Manchester City soccer club. Behind the scenes, he is called the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

  • Declan Walsh and Tariq Panja
Embattled Ukraine is among the countries US diplomats have approached to take US deportees.

America’s most unwanted and the urgent cable that reveals where Trump wants them to go

The global dealmaking efforts show the measures the US president is willing to take to fulfil his aspirations for mass deportations, even if it means flying immigrants into danger.

  • Edward Wong, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and Minho Kim
US President Donald Trump at a Summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday.

‘We don’t want them’: Trump imposes travel bans on citizens from 12 countries

The US president has announced a total ban on citizens from a dozen countries entering the US and a partial ban on several more nations, a move that partly revives controversial travel restrictions from his first term.

  • Michael Koziol
US President Donald Trump says he will hold an Oval Office news conference on Thursday (Friday AEST).

Judge steps in over Trump’s touted plan to send migrants to Libya

The relatives of a Mexican man said he had been instructed to sign a document allowing for his deportation to the African nation.

  • Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Humeyra Pamuk

Trump’s war on efforts to slow climate change futile

By doubling down on his cry to “drill, baby, drill” and removing all limits on America’s booming fossil fuel industry, the new president has once again declared war on the world’s climate mitigation efforts. But this is a war he can’t win.

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Hunter Biden arrives at federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, in June.

Biden strains the quality of mercy by pardoning his son Hunter

President Joe Biden said he would not pardon his son, but his backdown sets a new low in American public life.

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Bev Todd, Doug Burrows and Noel Craig in Egypt.

Calypso the dog, WWII and tracing the extraordinary life of a one-armed man

For Andrew Probyn, a picture of a dog on the beach in Trinidad and Tobago began a quest to uncover names in a series of Kodachrome slides from 1956.

  • Andrew Probyn

Stay put and risk death or cross sea of landmines: aftermath of a horror flood

Thousands of people were killed after two dams collapsed in Libya during a storm, destroying entire blocks of homes as people slept. The crisis is far from over.

  • Ahmed Elumami
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Sure, blame the Donald

Just don’t rain on his pomade.