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‘The risk to human life is too high’: Iran withdraws from Paralympics as Russia bears flag
Iran’s only athlete at the Winter Paralympic Games was forced to withdraw, while Russia returned to the world stage.
- Frances Howe
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- Blood Oil
Oil companies put on notice over Russian ‘blood oil’
Fuel importers have been warned they could be breaching Australian sanctions law by importing Russian-origin oil processed in third countries.
- Matthew Knott
‘It’s broken the rules’: Ukraine to boycott Paralympics opening ceremony over Russia entry
Russian athletes will be allowed to compete at the Milano Cortina Paralympics because the International Paralympics Committee no longer has evidence that they are supporting the war through sport.
- Jake Niall
‘It ran and we followed’: US forces chase down oil tanker near Australian islands
The military boarded the sanctioned Venezuela-linked vessel in the Indian Ocean after “hunting” it for some 15,000 kilometres from the Caribbean, the Pentagon said.
- Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- Venezuela crisis
Trump has pulled the US into a joint venture with a leftist kleptocracy
Little now remains of the moral and legal order that we used to call the West.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Sussan Ley says Ukraine occupied by ‘Soviet Union’
In a slip of the tongue, the opposition leader said Ukraine was illegally occupied by “the USSR”, which was formally dissolved over 34 years ago.
- Nick Newling
The British expat tracking Russia’s shadow fleet from his Singapore deck
On his lunch break from his sales job, Remy Osman tracks rickety old tankers, often flying false flags, as they carry sanctioned Russian oil through one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
- Lisa Visentin
- Political Sketch
- Foreign relations
Russian embassy loses its land, its cool and all sense of irony
The Russian Federation has finally lost the land on which it was planning to build a new embassy in Canberra. The Australian government feared the embassy would be a nest of spies.
- Tony Wright
- Analysis
- Russia-Ukraine war
Inside Australian spy plane’s secretive night over Europe
The crew know that when their screens light up, it means terror is coming to someone on the ground below.
- David Crowe
This accidental president-in-exile would like a word with Anthony Albanese
An outspoken opponent of Vladimir Putin, Belarusia’s opposition leader is campaigning for democracy despite the risk to her life.
- Matthew Knott