President Donald Trump doubled down on his criticism of Rob Reiner, asserting Monday that the slain Hollywood director was “a deranged person".

The country’s southern regions have long been a breeding group for Islamic militancy, attracting foreign fighters to a network of shadowy training camps.

The president has followed through on his threat to sue Britain’s public broadcaster in a row over edited speech footage that has already cost the jobs of two senior executives.

American gun lobbyists quickly hijacked the Sydney massacre for their own political purposes, as did anti-immigration activists – in a harbinger of what’s to come.

The former Duke of York – a former naval helicopter pilot who flew in the Falklands conflict – had his honorary military rank removed over his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The NATO-like security proposal would only be on the table for a limited time. Germany’s leader said, “For the first time, a ceasefire now seems possible”.

A quiet, months-long battle between a Republican congressman and Bill and Hillary Clinton could come to a head this week.

Officials said the investigation had taken them in a “different direction”.

The 78-year-old, an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party and a vocal democracy campaigner, faces potential life imprisonment.

The move marks a major shift for Ukraine, which has fought to join NATO as a safeguard against Russian attacks.

As hundreds braved bitterly cold conditions in the US capital to light the National Menorah, the horrific news and images from Sydney were top of mind.

Barely two months after the deadly Manchester synagogue attack, a senior Jewish figure in the UK says the Bondi massacre must be a line in the sand against religious hatred.

A tranche of documents about Jeffrey Epstein will be unsealed this week. What are they, and what might they reveal?

America used to be the conscience of the world. Those days are long gone.

It is little wonder that Vladimir Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine. From the vantage point of the Kremlin, the war is going according to plan.

The nonagenarian director is taking a slightly different tack than many of the other powerful people associated with the disgraced former financier.

At least two people have been killed and eight more injured in a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, US.

Australia has just introduced a world-leading sanctions regime against the Taliban, an important but insufficient step as the world turns away.

The prisoner release was by far the biggest since Trump’s administration opened talks this year with veteran authoritarian leader and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko.

It is the highest-profile assassination of a senior Hamas figure since the Gaza ceasefire deal came into effect in October.