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October 2024

Amry truck in Ballina in 2022.

‘We should learn from history’: ex-general warns of climate wars

As chief of the Dutch armed forces, Tom Middendorp was castigated for suggesting climate change was a security threat. Now his views are mainstream.

  • Andrew Tillett

January 2024

Five maps that show why the Red Sea is so important

The Houthi attacks on shipping and the US-led response have highlighted the global significance of this narrow stretch of water.

  • Ingrid Fuary-Wagner, Jenny Wiggins and Les Hewitt
The Houthis care little for international seafarers and commercial shipping passing their shores.

We’ve sent an unambiguous message to the Houthis: your attacks have to stop

We endured attacks on international shipping and freedom of navigation for months without responding. Now we have taken necessary, lawful and proportionate military action as a last resort.

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  • David Cameron

December 2023

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Shippers know the Suez is always a crisis waiting to happen

The channel should still be used, when it’s safe, as the savings are great. But knowing there’s a backup is enough assurance that the global economy won’t crash.

  • Tim Culpan
A photo released by the Houthi Media Centre shows a Houthi gunman on the cargo ship Galaxy Leader on November 19.

The Houthi rebels ignored for 10 years who threaten global trade

Gulf experts say the West may have underestimated the power of the Iran-backed militant group.

  • James Rothwell and James Crisp
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Thousands of WA sheep are expected to be loaded onto a ship in Fremantle Harbour this week, bound for the Middle East.

Live sheep exports to Saudi Arabia to resume after 12 years

About 5000 sheep will be exported this week, as farmers fight Albanese government moves to shut down the industry.

  • Brad Thompson and Tom Rabe

September 2023

Putin says he won’t renew grain deal until West meets demands

Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed the Kremlin’s demands as a ploy to advance its own interests.

  • Matthew Lee

January 2023

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Davos: a pointless elitist indulgence or inspirational agenda-setter?

The annual World Economic Forum meeting is about to get underway in Davos. European correspondent Hans van Leeuwen and special contributor Peter Holmes a Court go to head-to-head on whether the world should care.

  • Hans van Leeuwen and Peter Holmes à Court

June 2022

Stagflation danger prompts World Bank to cut growth outlook

The bank slashed its annual global growth forecast to 2.9 per cent from January’s 4.1 per cent.

  • David J. Lynch

November 2021

A young Kurdish man from Iran sits by a fire at a makeshift camp in Dunkirk; he and thousands of others are trying to get across the Channel to the UK.

Channel deaths fuel UK-France tensions over migrant boats

Britain reiterated calls for joint patrols along the French coast, and France demanded more support from its neighbours.

  • Rick Noack and Karla Adam

October 2021

People light candles at a vigil in Leigh-on-Sea to honour British Conservative MP David Amess.

British MP’s murder suspect was flagged to counter-extremism officials

London’s Metropolitan Police said they had been granted a warrant under the Terrorism Act to keep the suspect in detention for six extra days.

  • Edward Malnick, Izzy Lyons and Robert Mendick

September 2021

Lloyd Austin: “The whole community is kind of watching to see what happens and whether or not al-Qaeda has the ability to regenerate in Afghanistan.”

Pentagon chief: al-Qaeda may seek comeback in Afghanistan

Lloyd Austin says the US military is capable of containing al-Qaeda or any other extremist threat to the US emanating from Afghanistan.

  • Robert Burns
US troops in Syria during the 2019 withdrawal. The US won’t resist intervention for long.

No more US intervention? Tell me another one

America is said to be on the verge of something called ‘isolationism’. The record, by contrast, tells us to expect another show of force in some remote trouble spot or other by mid-decade. Go with the record.

  • Janan Ganesh

August 2021

Joe Biden’s credibility, and America’s standing in the global community, have been shattered by the humiliation in Afghanistan.

Biden’s Afghan disaster will follow him home

What happens in Afghanistan won’t stay there. The consequences of defeat are never small even for the greatest nations.

  • Bret Stephens

October 2020

Dr Ian Norton, managing director of Respond Global: "If we get further waves, or suspect cases in particular areas or business centres, this test will come into its own.”

Time to test for the virus, over and over

One answer to living with COVID-19 is taking less accurate but quicker tests more often. Australia is cautious, but it's an obvious alternative to lockdown.

  • Jennifer Hewett
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August 2020

Bill Morneau announces his resignation at a news conference in Ottawa.

Canada's embattled finance minister quits Trudeau cabinet

Bill Morneau's resignation follows controversy over his ties to a charity that won a key government contract and as the budget deficit soars to $360 billion.

  • Amanda Coletta

February 2020

A farmer looks across as swarms of desert locusts feed on her crops, in Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya.

Fear the apocalypse? Stop reading now.

A plague of locusts sweeping across the Horn of Africa has potential to cause harm on a biblical scale.

  • The Lex Column

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