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Nahji Chu in the street dubbed “Rue de Chu”. “I’m … tired of being in the background and all my people being quiet,” she says, “and that’s why I’m loud, sometimes rude and obnoxious.”

‘Real straight-shooter’: Lady Chu’s founder is famously brusque. She has her reasons

She has a reputation for being abrupt and impatient, but Nahji Chu is a survivor who’s built a flourishing Vietnamese food empire.

  • By Sue Williams

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Abdinasir Abdullahi Salad died in the shooting after police said he lunged at them with a knife.

Somali refugee was shot by police in Footscray within 11 seconds, court told

Abdinasir Abdullahi Salad, a rough sleeper with mental health issues, was fatally shot last month after allegedly lunging at police with a stolen knife.

  • Melissa Cunningham
The Afrikaner refugees arrived at Dulles International Airport.

Trump grants white South Africans refugee status in the US

The group of about 50 arrived in the US as refugees, a humanitarian designation meant for those fleeing war or persecution that the Trump administration has suspended for all other groups worldwide.

  • Teo Armus and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux
Many in the group from South Africa held small American flags as two officials welcomed them at an airport hangar outside Washington on Monday.
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Trump administration welcomes 49 white South Africans as refugees

Many in the group from South Africa held small American flags as two officials welcomed them at an airport hangar outside Washington on Monday.

Dinh Nguyen escaped from Vietnam after more than six years in a “re-education camp” after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.

When Saigon fell, Dinh Nguyen was condemned to torment beyond imagining

Dinh Nguyen has lived through pain and loss inconceivable to most of us. But on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, he says he lives in heaven now.

  • Tony Wright
Pope Francis had a brief private meeting with US Vice President J.D. Vance on Sunday.

The story behind J.D. Vance’s unlikely visit with Pope Francis

Donald Trump’s vice president had come on the busiest weekend of the church’s Jubilee year, expecting a meeting with a sickly pope who had condemned his policies.

  • Natalie Allison
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Illustration: Joe Benke

As Dutton parades his softer side, let’s not forget how hard he’s played the politics of race

In these racially charged times, the opposition leader has returned to old ways as the election campaign approaches.

  • Sean Kelly
Police and emergency services stand near a damaged car that drove into demonstrators marching in Munich.

‘Probably an attack’: Children among injured as car drives into Munich crowd

The incident came hours before Munich was to host a conference of world leaders, and before Germany’s federal election.

  • Anja Guder and Wolfgang Rattay
A woman washes her clothes in the al-Hawl camp in 2019.

Peter Dutton said it was too dangerous to go to this Syrian prison camp. We went there anyway

In the power vacuum left by Bashar al-Assad’s fall, amid the weakness of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, nobody knows who will control Syria or how they will rule.

  • Michael Bachelard
Illustration: Andrew Dyson

Trump would love these terrifying laws. Why are we passing them without proper debate?

Entire communities of people, based only on where they are from, could be barred from Australia.

  • Sarah Dale

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