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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
Firoza Amiri and Nahida Sapan, played for the Afghanistan XI in Melbourne in January.

Banned by the Taliban, this is how Afghanistan’s women cricketers got back on world stage

They fled the Taliban four years ago. But with support from Australian cricket powerbrokers, it looks like Afghanistan’s women’s cricketers will get to play as a team in international competitions.

  • Daniel Brettig
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WATCH: Liberal frontbencher heckled out of Melbourne mosque

The backlash came a day after Peter Dutton visited a Sydney mosque, as the Coalition courts voters in ethnically and religiously diverse communities.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
The Afghan Islamic Centre’s Rokhan Akbar at the Afghan Bazaar on Thomas Street in Dandenong on Monday.

Tensions flare over bazaar name change, threatening to shut down council meeting

The City of Dandenong has called in police amid a volatile dispute in the Afghan community over a push to change the name of a shopping strip.

  • Chip Le Grand
Sisters Setara Amiri, left, and Nazifa Hamdani, the star and writer respectively of the Setara chapter of My Melbourne.

Setara fled the Taliban. Now she’s living her dream, as a movie star

Three years after arriving in Australia as a refugee, Setara Amiri is one of the stars of an Australian movie about to be released in India.

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Bairstow revisited? Stumping controversy avoided as Smith takes the high ground

Australia avoided a repeat of the Jonny Bairstow saga after deciding to withdraw an appeal during their Champions Trophy clash with Afghanistan in Lahore.

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