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President-elect Donald Trump

How Australia, and the world, can respond to an unpredictable future

There are limited and difficult choices ahead for those who believe in a multilateral world order.

  • The Age's View

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What to expect around the world in 2025

One name keeps popping up as our correspondents note the major issues they will be watching on their patch. It promises to be a wild ride.

  • Lisa Visentin, Zach Hope, Farrah Tomazin, Rob Harris and Lia Timson
Elon Musk has supported a far-right German party on X.

‘Intrusive and presumptuous’: Fury in Germany after Musk backs far-right party ahead of elections

Elon Musk’s commentary has led to a debate in German media over the boundaries of free speech, with Welt am Sonntag’s opinion editor announcing her resignation on X.

A shadow has fallen over Anthony Albanese’s prime ministership in 2024.

Politics, like comedy, is about timing. Albanese will be a victim of the liberal era’s fall

Voters around the world are choosing a rougher cut of leader to champion them into the second quarter of the 21st century. Anthony Albanese will never be that.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Making news in 2024: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Kamala Harris, Catherine, Princess of Wales, King Charles III, Syria and Gisèle Pelicot.

The rise and fall of strongmen, and justice for a woman unbowed

It was a year of wars, election surprises, royal health scares and the reign of new queens. Within this maelstrom, one woman’s quiet courage shone through.

  • Lisa Visentin, Zach Hope, Farrah Tomazin, Rob Harris, Matthew Knott, Matt Wade and Lia Timson
Finnish National Police Comissioner Ilkka Koskim’ki attends a press conference in Helsinki, Finland.

Finland detains Russia-linked vessel over damaged Baltic Sea cable

The Eagle S was described by Finnish customs officials and the EU’s executive commission as being part of a Russian shadow fleet.

  • David McHugh
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Police secures the area near the Israeli embassy in Stockholm after a suspected shooting on October 1, 2024.

Iran is hiring children to attack Israeli targets in Europe

Investigators say three attacks this year are part of a new trend in which Iran-affiliated actors recruit local criminals to strike at targets in Europe.

  • Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (right), Economy and Climate Action Minister Robert Habeck and German Finance Minister Joerg Kukies (left) attend debates before Scholz lost a vote of confidence at the Bundestag.

Scholz branded a ‘failure’ as German government collapses

Germans are headed for a rare snap election, after the chancellor was accused of living “on another planet”.

  • Rob Hyde and Chris Jewers
The new Acropolis museum has empty plinths waiting for the Elgin Marbles.

Robots and replicas: Is the British Museum going to lose its Marbles?

Robot sculptors creating near-perfect replicas of the Parthenon Marbles may provide the key to the long-running dispute over the ownership of one of the ancient world’s most contested treasures.

  • Simon de Bruxelles
A Xiaomi SU7 electric vehicle on display in a Shanghai showroom. Almost half of car sales in China are likely to be EVs this year.

China is leaving Europe’s and America’s carmakers in the dust in the EV race

China’s 21st-century auto technology is causing turmoil for the big established US, Japanese and European carmakers.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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