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Yesterday

Then Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh greets a crowd in the northeastern state of Assam in 2014.

Manmohan Singh, leader who unleashed India’s economy, dies

The Oxford and Cambridge-educated former prime minister paved the way for the transformation of the South Asian nation’s economy.

  • Anup Roy

This Month

Australians William Swann and Sagar Sritharan are part of the team trying to put cricket on the map in the United States.

Meet the Aussies taking cricket to the home of Moneyball

Home runs and hot dogs aren’t normally associated with cricket but a small group of Australians are trying to make America fall in love with the sport.

  • Gus McCubbing

October

A mushroom cloud after an atomic bomb test in French Polynesia in 1971.

Iran, Israel and the rising threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb

Iran’s supreme leader may decide that the only way ahead for the regime - despised by its own citizens and vulnerable to Israeli attack - is nuclear weapons.

  • The Economist

September

Plumes of smoke rise above a fire after an Israeli strike on Hodeida, Yemen.

Israel strikes multiple fronts amid fears of regional war

Israel’s show of military force reached from Lebanon to the province of Hodeidah in Yemen, where IDF warplanes attacked power plants and shipping infrastructure.

  • Christopher Maag, Euan Ward and Adam Rasgon

August

Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus .

Bangladesh protesters back Nobel laureate for government role

Protesters have called for Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to be named chief adviser of a new interim government after PM Sheikh Hasina fled the country.

  • John Reed, Benjamin Parkin and Lucy Fisher
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Protesters at a rally in Jakarta, Indonesia in support of Palestinians last month.

Widespread boycotts in Muslim countries hammer Western brands

Consumers are shunning goods produced by companies such as Coca-Cola, KFC, Starbucks and Mondelez in protest against their perceived support for Israel in the war in Gaza.

  • FT Reporters

July

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Tech companies are racing to get access to the company’s GPUs.

Struggling bitcoin miners seek deals with AI companies

They now hope to benefit from a surge in demand for powerful but scarce chips which are used in both crypto mining and AI processing.

  • Nikou Asgari and Tim Bradshaw

June

Biden is a good man and my friend, but he must bow out

We are at the start of the biggest disruptions in human history, so if there was ever a time the world needs America at its best, it is now.

  • Thomas Friedman
Hezbollah supporters watch a speech given by the militant group leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.

Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said militant leaders from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen had previously offered to send tens of thousands of fighters to help.

  • Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue

May

Hossein Amirabdollahian was also involved in efforts to reach a détente with regional rival Saudi Arabia in 2023.

Foreign Minister another hardliner close to Revolutionary Guard

Hossein Amirabdollahian represented the hardline shift in Iran after the collapse of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers when Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew.

  • Jon Gambrell
Chinese students are not suffering the same visa knock back rates as those from other countries.

Chinese do better than others in student visa crackdown

Nearly every Chinese student who applies for a visa to study at an Australian university gets approved. It’s a different story for others.

  • Julie Hare
Nothing to fear. Donald Trump speaks to Miami Formula One winner Lando Norris on Sunday (Monday AEST).

Gallows humour and escape: Trump’s possible return rattles Washington

Much of official Washington is bracing for the former president’s return – this time with ‘retribution’ as his avowed mission, the discussion is about self-imposed exile.

  • Peter Baker
Pauline Hanson leaves court with her barrister, Sue Chrysanthou, SC, in Sydney on Monday.

Judge retires to consider if Pauline Hanson is a racist

After a bitterly fought trial, a judge has retired to consider whether Pauline Hanson made a racial slur when telling a Muslim senator to go back to Pakistan.

  • Miklos Bolza

April

This image from video provided by the Indian Space Research Organisation shows the surface of the moon as the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft prepared for landing in August last year.  India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole.

China set to launch high-stakes mission to moon’s ‘hidden’ side

China has made leaps forward in its lunar exploration, narrowing the technological chasm with the United States and Russia.

  • Albee Zhang and Ryan Woo
Muzafar Ahmed Tahir (bottom left), brother of Faraz Tahir, at his funeral on Friday.

‘In his blood’ for security guard to protect people

The family of Faraz Tahir, the security guard killed at Westfield Bondi Junction two weeks ago, reunited in their grief at his funeral in western Sydney on Friday.

  • Belad Al-karkhey
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A solar farm in Lilyvale, Queensland. powering the sunshine state.

Let’s not waste the green energy opportunity

The government’s industry policy is not some throwback to the Deakinite settlement. It’s quite the opposite.

  • Chris Bowen
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India’s global power ambitions come down to economic reform

Without reform, India will continue to be marked by the paradox that characterises China – having a large economic mass that does not translate into high levels of distributed prosperity. 

  • Ashley Tellis
Zomi Frankcom (left) at a World Central Kitchen site in Gaza at the end of last month.

‘Full accountability’: PM seeks answers over Aussie aid worker death

Anthony Albanese says the death of 43-year-old Zomi Frankcom due to an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip was “beyond any reasonable circumstances”.

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  • Tom McIlroy

February

Imran Khan’s candidates were set to be the largest group in parliament, but they still fell short of a simple majority.

Imran Khan’s poll win from prison humiliates Pakistan’s generals

The party of the jailed former prime minister took the most seats in national elections, stunning Pakistan’s military rulers and creating a political crisis.

  • Christina Goldbaum

January

Imran Khan

Pakistan court jails ex-PM Imran Khan for 10 years ahead of elections

The move ensures the popular former prime minister and star cricketer will remain in jail, and out of the public spotlight.

  • Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam and Ariba Shahid

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