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Venezuelan President Nicolás  Maduro. (Image: EPA/Christian Hernandez)

Venezuelan coup draws battlelines around the world

Previously, this coup would have been nothing more than the straightforward exercise of power in the US backyard. But we live in interesting times...

Detained Australian Yang Hengjun. (Image: AP/Zhan min)

It's time for Australia to face reality on China

The reasons for Yang Hengjun’s detention remain unclear. But human rights violations have escalated sharply under the increasingly repressive regime of Xi Jingping.

Notes and flowers at the site where Aya Maarsawe's body was found in Bundoora (Image: AAP/James Ross)

The politics of erasing Palestinians

Being Palestinian is not why student Aya Maarsawe was murdered but it has everything to do with how she lived, how she is mourned and how she will be remembered.

The 35-year commemoration of Bloody Sunday in Londonderry. (Image: Wikicommons)

Daft Brexit threatens a brittle peace in Northern Ireland

A car bomb in the centre of Derry is not without a nostalgic touch; as '70s as flares and Thin Lizzy. But it signals an end to the Good Friday agreement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Elections to watch around the world in 2019

The top 10 elections to watch this year.

State Counselor of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar faces a maze of conflicts on the road to peace

The Myanmar government is eager to crush resistance in conflict-plagued Rakhine State but, as always, is fighting a war on several fronts.

(Image: White House/Joyce N. Boghosian)

The first fast-food president

A photo of congealing fast food dished up stone cold may not do anything to Trump, but it sure symbolises where his presidency is at.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May.

May flounder: UK leader emphatically defeated on Brexit vote

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has had her planned Brexit deal thoroughly demolished in the House of Commons.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May.

Negotiating Brexit is a parliamentary pantomime

With no clear path in sight, the over-complicated Brexit farce is now threatening the legitimacy of the UK parliament.

China outrages West by doing the same commercial spying we do

Lurid reports of Chinese hacking omit that we engage in exactly the same — and occasionally worse — cyber-espionage.