Trump-Zelenskyy feud escalates as Republicans demand envoy’s removal

Zelenskyy’s visit to Pennsylvania weapons factory upsets speaker as Trump continues attacks on Ukrainian president

US senator targeted by deepfake caller posing as Ukrainian diplomat

FBI investigating call in which AI appearing to be Dmytro Kuleba asked Ben Cardin ‘politically charged questions’

Zelenskyy meets Biden to pitch ‘victory plan’ to end war with Russia

Ukraine president visits White House in effort to shore up US support, amid rising tensions between him and Tump

Israel ‘needs to listen’ to international community, Albanese says as Wong calls for Lebanon and Gaza ceasefires

‘War has rules – even when confronting terrorists,’ Australia’s foreign affairs minister tells UN security council

Trump and Zelenskyy meet for high-stakes talks in New York

Pair meet amid feud between Zelenskyy and Republicans that Ukraine fears could paralyse military aid if Trump wins

ABC rejects Russian claim two journalists involved in ‘illegal’ border crossing

Australian broadcaster’s Europe correspondent Kathryn Diss and camera operator Fletcher Yeung accused of ‘illegally’ crossing into Russia from Ukraine on 31 August

Top Russia diplomat warns west not to fight ‘nuclear power’ in UN speech

Sergei Lavrov accuses west of using Ukraine ‘to defeat’ Russia days after Putin shifts Moscow’s nuclear posture

American man pleads guilty in Moscow court to charge of fighting for Ukraine

Stephen James Hubbard, 72, is first US citizen to be tried as a mercenary in Russia during the war with Ukraine

HR McMaster on Trump claim he could end Ukraine war: ‘I don’t really buy it’

Second of Trump’s four national security advisers says his boasts are ‘a real myth – it’s a real misunderstanding of war’

Russia’s defence spending to rise by 25% next year, the highest since the cold war

Defence and security will amount to 40% of government spending as Vladimir Putin continues war against Ukraine

‘Everything is dead’: Ukraine rushes to stem ecocide after river poisoning

Russia is suspected of deliberately leaking chemical waste into a river, with deadly consequences for wildlife

Ukraine accuses Russia of executing 16 PoWs on eastern front

Prosecutor general investigating drone footage apparently showing summary executions of surrendering soldiers

Ukraine says its forces have withdrawn from defensive bastion of Vuhledar

Eastern city had resisted repeated attacks but Russian troops are close to ‘encircling’ it in Donetsk advance

Salman Rushdie to publish first work of fiction since 2022 stabbing

The author, who lost an eye as a result of the attack, tells Lviv BookForum he is working on a trilogy of novellas

Melbourne bishop’s appointment to College of Cardinals seen as gesture of support for Ukraine

Ukraine-born Mikola Bychok will become the only Australian resident in the powerful Catholic church position and the youngest cardinal overall

Russian court sentences 72-year-old American for fighting for Ukraine

Steven James Hubbard given six years and 10 months in prison, but family cast doubt on his reported confession

Trump secretly gave Putin Covid test machines, Bob Woodward book says

‘Please don’t tell anybody,’ Russian president advised, according to new book from veteran Watergate reporter

Zelenskyy ‘victory plan’ summit in doubt after Joe Biden pulls out

US president prepares for arrival of Hurricane Milton as German chancellor says meeting will be rescheduled

Ursula von der Leyen attacks Viktor Orbán over pro-Russia stance

Speech by EC president in Strasbourg was most pointed criticism of Hungarian leader’s economic and political policies yet

European summit to discuss Zelenskyy’s ‘victory plan’ is postponed

Biden withdrawal from talks in Germany due to Hurricane Milton followed by other world leaders pulling out