Australia’s Labor government will prioritise dealing with the “dark shadow” of the US-China trade war following its resounding re-election victory, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said yesterday, after a campaign that highlighted concerns over US trade policy and the global economy.

US President Donald Trump said in an interview aired yesterday that he is not seriously considering running for a constitutionally-barred third White House term, after musing publicly over the idea.

Eleven days after gunmen shot 26 people dead in the scenic valley of Baisaran in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Pahalgam, India and Pakistan stand on the brink of a military standoff.

President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published yesterday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to take the war in Ukraine to its logical conclusion, though he hoped that there would be no need to use nuclear weapons.

A US appellate court on Saturday ruled against allowing Voice of America (VOA) staff to return to work, throwing its resumption of operations into question after President Donald Trump shuttered the broadcaster in March.

The Russian president's office said Xi would also hold bilateral talks with Putin

For 10 nights straight, gunfire between Indian and Pakistani soldiers has echoed from the border

Australia's left-leaning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese basked Sunday in his landslide election win, promising a "disciplined, orderly" government to confront cost-of-living pain and tariff turmoil

Wong's People's Action Party took all but 10 seats in the 97-seat unicameral legislature

Voice of America has been off the air since Trump ordered the dismantling of the US Agency for Global Media

Israel resumed major operations across Gaza on March 18

Gaza mediator Qatar rejected comments from Israel's PM that it needed to "stop playing both sides" in truce negotiations

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said one of its hospitals in South Sudan had been bombed early yesterday, with at least seven people killed by airstrikes in the area.

Germany’s domestic intelligence service on Friday designated the far-right AfD party as an extremist group, setting off a diplomatic spat with the United States.

Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet using a missile fired from a seaborne drone, Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency announced yesterday, in what it said was the world’s first downing of a combat plane by a maritime drone.

The cardinals of the Catholic Church held their ninth in a series of near-daily meetings at the Vatican on Saturday ahead of the election of a new pope.

Israel’s security cabinet approved plans for an expanded operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported on Friday, adding to signs that attempts to stop the fighting and return hostages held by Hamas have made no progress.

Australia’s Anthony Albanese claimed a historic second term as prime minister yesterday in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters’ concerns about the influence of US President Donald Trump.

Iran yesterday defended its “right” to enrich uranium despite growing Western concern that Tehran may be seeking nuclear weapons, and as talks with the United States were delayed.

The United States on Friday approved a $3.5 billion sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia, ahead of a visit to the kingdom by President Donald Trump.