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  • Sections of an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) octagon rise from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC on 5 June 2026.

    Trump administration briefing
    Trump news at a glance: watchdog group sues to block president’s ‘deeply corrupt’ birthday party

  • Cars queue on a road beside a gas station price board displaying all zeros

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    Ukraine war briefing: Russia’s Peskov admits ‘certain problems’ with fuel supplies after energy sites targeted

  • a woman counting ballots

    Why the California vote count is slow – and Trump’s fraud claims are bogus

  • Tony Popvic (left) and Mohamed (Mo) Touré (right).

    Imagining Australia’s path to World Cup glory: who stands in the Socceroos’ way?

  • Trump claims he ‘didn’t guarantee’ no US wars. Here’s what he’s actually said

  • Iran war: who is fighting and why?

  • How to win the World Cup – video explainer

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  • Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu stand at microphones, one looking down, the other looking ahead, with an American flag visible behind them

    Trump administration briefing
    Trump news at a glance: Israel strikes back at Iran despite president’s appeal

  • Roman Abramovich rests his chin on his clasped hands, looking pensively ahead

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says he met Roman Abramovich in Kyiv in backchannel to Putin

  • People gather on a beach, as a vessel in the strait of Hormuz is visible

    Trump administration briefing
    Trump news at a glance: Iran war pushing millions into hunger, UN says, as president struggles to reach peace deal

  • Russia's president Vladimir Putin

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv unleashes hundreds of drones on Russia after Putin rejected Zelenskyy meeting

  • Person getting flu vaccine

    Australia’s winter illness season is back – what viruses are prevalent this year and when should you get vaccinated?

  • A Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral

    SpaceX IPO: how can I buy shares, and what are the risks?

  • Screens show Russian President Vladimir Putin participating in the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    Ukraine war briefing: Putin says ‘no point’ meeting Zelenskyy, insists Russia will win the war

  • Bill Pulte, during a senate committee hearing last year.

    Trump administration briefing
    Trump news at a glance: new intelligence director given green light to fire ‘a lot of people’

  • A man draped in a union jack confronts a line of riot police

    How did the notion of ‘two-tier policing’ evolve, and does it really exist?

  • Mark Nowak, speaking to the media outside Southampton crown court beside members of his family and others

    How Britain was rocked by Henry Nowak’s murder – and why the US intervened

  • Swedish minister Johan Forssell in a dark suit and blue tie stands in a professional setting

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    Ukraine war briefing: Ukrainian men should be turned back from EU to fight, says Swedish minister

    ‘The war needs to be fought and won – essential more men stay’ in Ukraine, says Johan Forssell; Zelenskyy writes open letter to Putin. What we know on day 1,563
  • Two people in suits walk past the US Capitol dome under a clear blue sky

    Trump administration briefing
    Trump news at a glance: Senate Republicans keep president’s $1.8bn ally payout fund alive – for now

    Trump’s plan for an ‘anti-weaponization’ fund that could issue financial settlements to people connected to the January 6 insurrection has sparked dissent in his party – key US politics stories from Thursday 4 June at a glance
  • Elderly hands rest on top of a wooden walking stick with metal ferrules

    Why is Andy Burnham talking about fixing England’s social care system?

    Prospective MP and potential Labour leader has said tackling the issue is a priority. But why is the system in crisis and what can be done about it?
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