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With classic English understatement, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer thanked Donald Trump for “changing the conversation”.

‘Five minutes to midnight’: New-look America sets clock ticking for Europe

Amid a growing divide between the United States and Europe, the continent has sharply accelerated its efforts to address pressing defence needs.

  • Rob Harris

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People board a boat at the Caribbean coastal village of Miramar, Panama, bound for the Colombian border as migrants return from southern Mexico after abandoning hopes of reaching the U.S. in a reverse flow triggered by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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World of photos, March 1, 2025

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors

Of the nine million visitors to the Louvre each year, 70 per cent are there just for a glimpse of the Mona Lisa.

Visiting France’s most famous museum has become a nightmare

With huge numbers queuing for a glimpse of the Mona Lisa, visiting the Louvre is an ordeal. And now Australians will have to pay even more to visit.

  • Abigail Buchanan
Limoges and its gothic cathedral.

‘Why?’: I stayed in the city that France forgot and loved it

Limoges has cobbled streets lined with half-timbered houses, a fabulous cathedral, a beautiful food market and – unlike Paris, Lyon, Nice and Bordeaux – few tourists.

  • Sue Williams
French President Emmanuel Macron said the stabbing attack in Mulhouse was terrorism.

One dead in suspected terrorist attack in France

President Emmanuel Macron said there was no doubt the violence was an “Islamist terrorist attack”. 

The trial begins on Monday.

Former French surgeon on trial for raping or abusing 299 children

France is set to hold its largest-ever child sex abuse trial of a former surgeon who kept diaries to document decades of sexual violence against children.

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The bilateral Trump-Putin discussions are unlikely to be a feasible way to resolve the war

The week that shook Europe: how Trump drastically reshaped global order

Donald Trump’s thunderous declarations have put Ukraine and its Western allies in a state of shock, questioning if America now stands with tyranny and extremism over the international democratic order.

  • Rob Harris
A night view of the Armazones hill in the Atacama desert.

‘Never observed before’: Wedding cake structure surrounding ultra-hot planet

It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet stream moves at 70,000 km/h in another.

  • Will Dunham
The TikTok effect … queues where you wouldn’t normally expect them.

I used social media to plan my Paris holiday. Result? Lots of queuing

Paris just closed its last tourist information office, citing social media as a better source. So I decided to put it to the test.

  • Nick Duerden
Caroline Darian, the daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, arrives in court for the sentencing of her father in December.

Gisele Pelicot’s daughter believes she was probably raped, too

Caroline Darian’s life was upended when she learnt that her father had been drugging and raping her mother for years. Then she learnt that she was also a victim.

  • Dimity Clancey and Natalie Clancy

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