a new golden age of the US-japan alliance......

US President Donald Trump has promised sweeping support for Japan and its new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, amid the intensifying rivalry with China in the Indo-Pacific.

US President Donald Trump has promised sweeping support for Japan and its new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, amid the intensifying rivalry with China in the Indo-Pacific.

Putin calm re oil sanctions and in reply to first question re EU ban on Russian toilet bowls: “This will cost them dearly. They will need them, if they maintain same policies toward Russia.” FSB’s Bortnikov briefs Nat’l Security Council on counterterrorism...
It’s now in all the media. Lee Jae-myung will meet Donald Trump and Xi Jinping next week.
Both are billed as state visits; only one will function as one. The first will be a circus, the second will be a summit. The difference could not be starker.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would only meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin once the terms of a potential deal were clear. Moscow agrees that such a meeting must be carefully prepared, but the two sides mean very different things.

Environment Minister Murray Watt wants the Parliament to amend our environmental laws, but leave a key component for him and his Department to sort out later. Former Senator Rex Patrick reports on EPBC reform.
“Trust me, I’m from the Government”.

A US warship has docked in Trinidad and Tobago as Venezuela blasts the Caribbean island nation for holding joint exercises with the United States.

Vladimir Zelensky expects Ukraine to be able to fight Russia for up to three more years, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has told The Sunday Times. The Ukrainian leader’s reported remark comes as the EU is looking for new ways to fund Kiev, eyeing Russia’s frozen central-bank assets as an option.