November
Chinese ship dragged anchor for 160km to ‘sabotage’ sea cables
An investigation into the Baltic Sea incident focuses on whether Moscow directed the captain of the Yi Peng 3 to deliberately cut the cables.
- Kieran Kelly
Goldman Sachs takes $1.4b hit on green battery investment
The US bank is the second-largest shareholder in Swedish battery maker Northvolt which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- Richard Milne and Harriet Agnew
Chinese vessel spotted where Baltic Sea cables were severed
A Chinese-registered vessel on its way from the Russian port of Ust-Luga to Port Said in Egypt passed close to both the cables around the time each was cut.
- Richard Milne and Oliver Telling
September
- Opinion
- Global economy
What Taylor Swift and Oasis can teach us about the economy
The music industry’s shift from product to performance foreshadows a widespread move towards intangible assets in the wider economy.
- Andy Haldane
Inside the Swedish lolly craze sweeping TikTok
The world has gone mad for Scandinavian confectionery, thanks to a viral social media post about the high-quality, low-sugar sweets.
- Esme Fox
June
Assange ‘won’t be silenced’ after guilty plea deal
Julian Assange is officially a free man, with the WikiLeaks founder now a convicted felon after pleading guilty in a remote US Pacific island courthouse.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
A timeline of Julian Assange’s legal saga
A deal has brought an abrupt end to an extraordinary legal saga that has raised novel issues of national security, press freedoms, politics and diplomacy.
- Updated
- Charlie Savage
EU to impose multibillion-euro tariffs on Chinese electric cars
The European Commission is set to tell carmakers that it will provisionally apply additional duties of up to 25 per cent on imported Chinese EVs from July.
- Andy Bounds
May
High Court might rule on Assange extradition
Two judges at the High Court in London are set to rule on whether the court is satisfied by US assurances that Julian Assange, 52, would not face the death penalty.
- Michael Holden and Sam Tobin
- Opinion
- China relations
It’s economically naive to cut China out of direct investment
There may be more “like-minded” investors out there for Australia’s resources sector, but will they be as competitive and efficient as China has proven to be?
- James Laurenceson
Russia plotting sabotage across Europe, intelligence agencies warn
Russia has begun to more actively prepare covert bombings, arson attacks and damage to infrastructure on European soil, directly and via proxies, officials say.
- Sam Jones, John Paul Rathbone and Richard Milne
April
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
Bernanke tips BoE towards ‘scenario forecasts’ over Fed dot plots
This week, the former Fed chairman is expected to suggest the Bank of England adopt something new to update its forecasting process and repair its battered reputation.
- Philip Aldrick
March
Sweden and Canada resume funding UN’s Palestine aid agency
The countries were among those that suspended payments to UNRWA after accusations by Israel that some of its employees had been involved in the October 7 attacks.
- Victoria Kim
Do you really want to know if you’ll get Alzheimer’s?
A blood test will be able to predict which people in their 50s and 60s will develop the debilitating cognitive disease, which cannot be stopped.
- F.D. Flam
Newly enlarged NATO starts drill in Finland, Norway and Sweden
With more than 4000 Finnish soldiers taking part, the Nordic Response 2024 represents the newcomer’s largest ever participation in a foreign exercise.
- Jari Tanner
- Analysis
- Uranium
Sweden’s plan to ditch uranium ban will boost this ASX-listed stock
Australia isn’t the only country debating nuclear, and Melbourne-based company Aura Energy stands to be a big winner from Sweden’s renewed enthusiasm.
- Hans van Leeuwen
February
Sweden clears final hurdle to join NATO in historic shift
The vote in Hungary’s parliament opens the way for Stockholm to enter the US-led defence alliance as soon as this week.
- Krisztina Than and Niklas Pollard
How the hackers were hacked by federal agents
A coalition of international law enforcement breaches the world’s most prolific ransomware syndicate, LockBit, which left prints on the DP World hack.
- Updated
- Nick Bonyhady
January
European holidaymakers turn to cooler climes after scorching summers
The chief executive of eDreams Odigeo said climate change was ‘having an impact’ on bookings, with some customers turning to typically overlooked destinations.
- Philip Georgiadis