World leaders are flying to Phnom Penh for the East Asia summit just weeks after long-time ruler Hun Sen threatened to have the country’s main opposition party dissolved.

The Chinese metropolis is very exposed to international trade and any Shanghai-style lockdown is likely to have a flow-on effect on consumers in Australia. 

While the fate of Congress is still too close to call, US President Joe Biden is celebrating after avoiding a bloodbath in the midterms.

The celebrity challenger is among a slew of Donald Trump-anointed candidates that failed to secure the wipe-out the GOP was hoping for.

Villagers hoped they had escaped Russia’s grasp before the missiles started falling from the sky. Anthony Galloway and Kate Geraghty report from just outside the key city of Kherson.

Thousands have been gathering outside military installations asking the armed forces to keep Bolsonaro in office claiming the election “was stolen”.

Millions of votes still to be counted in US midterms, with control of Congress in the balance.

There are still plans for the Russian president to be involved in talks on the Indonesian island by video link, as Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky will be.

While the US president said the Democrats had a “strong night” he also acknowledged the economic pain voters were feeling and vowed to tackle inflation.

One group ran ads amplifying the conservative credentials of Republican election deniers in Maryland and Michigan who won their primaries but lost the general election.

The announcement signals another humiliating setback for Moscow’s forces in the eight-month-old war.

Two Oxford University museums are among several institutions under increased pressure to re-evaluate and return the many “colonial prizes” in their collections.

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Even if Republicans edge over the line in both the House and the Senate, this is a staggering defeat for Donald Trump and his hand-picked candidates. Florida governor Ron DeSantis may well be anointed as the next Republican presidential candidate.

One law professor warns that the US is not “out of the woods” from the threat of election denialism by any means.

Footage on social media showed four eggs flying past the British monarch and his wife and smashing on the ground.

But the prospect of Donald Trump facing fierce rivalry for the presidential nomination has intensified after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis win puts him in the race.

In a midterm election set against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, rising crime and immigration woes, many Americans compared the Democrats to the alternative.

The UK is about to make history by blasting satellites into space for the first time from British soil.

Civilian slayings by the Myanmar military continue unabated while the world’s eyes are on Ukraine, a new report says.