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The F/A-18 Hornet under the Aperture in the Middle East Gallery, seen during a visit to view construction work of Anzac Hall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Wednesday 2 July

From Black Hawks to $2 pool noodles: Inside the new Anzac Hall

Engineering and architectural nous is behind the controversial expansion of the Australian War Memorial, which will include helicopters, armoured vehicles and an F/A-18A Hornet.

  • Julie Power

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Afghan citizens pack inside a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III, as they are transported from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2021.

‘Bone-chilling’: The most expensive – and potentially deadly – email in history

The UK government tried to cover up an Afghan data breach that put thousands of lives at risk and could cost more than $14 billion.

  • Gareth Corfield and Robert Mendick
British troops in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2020.

Thousands of Afghans secretly resettled in Britain after data leak

Britain set up a secret scheme to bring 4500 Afghans and their families to the UK after their personal details were disclosed, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban.

  • Sam Tobin and Andrew MacAskill
A B-2 bomber in flight.

America’s most feared: The B-2 ‘stealth’ bomber that struck Iran’s ‘nuclear mountain’

The batlike B-2 is perhaps the most potent symbol of US military power – and it’s the only plane that could strike Iran’s deepest nuclear site.

  • Tom Housden
US President Donald Trump at a Summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday.

‘We don’t want them’: Trump imposes travel bans on citizens from 12 countries

The US president has announced a total ban on citizens from a dozen countries entering the US and a partial ban on several more nations, a move that partly revives controversial travel restrictions from his first term.

  • Michael Koziol
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Afghans wrestlers fight during a match at the Chaman-e-Hozari Park in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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World in pictures this week, June 5, 2025

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

A special forces soldier on the ground in Afghanistan.

War crimes investigator launches raids in major escalation

The elite anti-war crimes agency probing Ben Roberts-Smith and other ex-SAS soldiers has conducted raids in Perth.

  • Chris Masters and Nick McKenzie
Thomas Street is also colloquially described as ‘Afghan Bazaar’ or the ‘Afghan Precinc’.

Home Affairs sent in over Dandenong bazaar furore

A vexed issue over the name of a popular shopping strip returns to the council chamber on Monday night.

  • Rachael Dexter

War Memorial to update Roberts-Smith panels but display will remain

Greater context about the Brereton report into war crimes is also expected to be included when the memorial’s updated Middle East gallery opens this year.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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