Vladimir Putin
- Tony Wright’s Column
- Middle East at war
In a world maddened by blood, has death lost its meaning?
It is the paradox of numbers. Lost amid the carnage of war and its endless casualties are personal grief and shattered lives.
- Tony Wright
Latest
- Opinion
- Middle East at war
Trump has no idea what he’s doing. Now his hubris has put the world on edge
The evidence is piling up – Trump has catastrophically miscalculated this war with Iran, just as Putin did with Ukraine.
- Peter Hartcher
- Opinion
- Middle East at war
If Trump’s America is not winning this war – and it’s not – who is?
US credibility is harmed, its power in the Indo-Pacific is drained and its munitions stocks are depleted. Yet the president can’t say what his goal is.
- Peter Hartcher
The US-Iran war is making Putin richer and stronger
The mood in Moscow is triumphant as elevated oil prices force the US to ease restrictions of Russian oil entering the market and help fund attacks on Ukraine.
- Ivan Nechepurenko and Paul Sonne
The world must treat Putin like the Nazis, says visiting foreign minister
Australia is being urged to consider joining plan to impose a sweeping travel ban on former Russian soldiers who participated in the war against Ukraine.
- Matthew Knott
After Iran, Russians say US can’t be trusted in Ukraine talks
The decision to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader while Iran was in active negotiations has reinforced the view among Moscow hardliners that diplomacy is fragile and maybe even pointless.
- Mary Ilyushina, Natalia Abbakumova and David L. Stern
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
A teacher in rural Russia took a stand against Putin. He could now win an Oscar
The documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin started out as “really weird footage” of one man eating cabbage soup.
- Paul Kalina
- Updated
- Middle East at war
Iran conflict to continue for ‘weeks’ as scope of attacks widens
Donald Trump aired his plan to sustain the bombing campaign in the hope that Iranians would overthrow the regime, declaring its leaders faced “certain death” if they did not sue for peace.
- David Crowe
- Exclusive
- 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