After waiting a long time to meet Donald Trump, Anthony Albanese has now done so twice in 10 days, as his US counterpart talks up cooperation on rare earths and other issues.

Albanese followed last week’s trip to Washington by sitting next to the US president on Wednesday evening at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit dinner in Gyeongju, South Korea.

Eight leaders including the prime ministers of New Zealand, Canada, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam attended the dinner in the tourist town, held in honour of Trump ahead of his highly anticipated meeting with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping. Trump and Xi talks could end months of global economic chaos Read more

Addressing the gathered officials, Trump reserved some of his strongest praise for the Australian prime mi

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