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Global cobalt output increased 23 per cent, or by 35,000, tonnes in 2022 over the previous year.

How Trump’s tariffs will turbocharge child deaths in Africa

Three-quarters of the world’s cobalt, used in smartphones and laptops, comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo. This makes us vulnerable.

  • Passy Mubalama

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Trump says Ukraine deal discussed in meeting at Pope’s funeral

A new agreement will give America preferential access to Ukraine’s critical minerals, while providing Kyiv with some assurance about continued US support.

  • Tom Balmforth, Yuliia Dysa and Trevor Hunnicutt
An F-35 fighter jet.

How China is controlling Australia’s – and the world’s – rare earths trade

China is threatening to land a knockout blow in its trade war with Donald Trump, targeting a vulnerability in the United States’ most crucial military infrastructure with a strike that was decades in the making.

  • Simon Johanson and Colin Kruger
Footage online appears to show an Optimus model talking to an attendee at the event and having a discussion about where it lives and where it was trained.

Elon Musk warns rare earth magnet shortage may delay Tesla’s robots

China’s halt this month on exports of magnets containing heavy rare earth metals has affected Tesla’s plans to manufacture Optimus robots.

  • Keith Bradsher

Trump’s gut tells him he’s got China on the ropes. He couldn’t be more wrong

Donald Trump believes his tariff folly will isolate its superpower adversary. But it will be the US, not China, that could find itself outside the tent.

  • Peter Hartcher
The heavy rare earth metals covered by the export suspension are used in magnets essential for many kinds of electric motors, including EVs.

China halts critical mineral, magnet exports as trade war intensifies

The move threatens to choke off supplies of components central to car makers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.

  • Keith Bradsher
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has dumped his pledge to curtail Commonwealth public servants working from home.

Mining sector urges Dutton not to class gas a ‘critical mineral’

Classing gas as a “critical mineral” would qualify gas drillers for support from a $4 billion loans facility.

  • Nick Toscano and Simon Johanson
Vladimir Putin made it a crime punishable by up to 15 years’ jail for Russians to criticise his invasion of Ukraine.

Trump’s peace talks are just a charade. Russia wants to obliterate Ukraine

The notion that a peace deal can be brokered with Vladimir Putin is a dangerous delusion, as the US is about to find out.

  • Rob Harris
A woman arranges campaign posters in Nuuk, Greenland.

The ‘orange guy’ wants Greenland – but what do Greenlanders want?

Voters brushed snow from their coats before finding a seat in the packed community hall. Then, with the world’s media watching, a man in a black and grey jumper stepped forward to the mic.

  • Christian Ulloriaq Jeppesen, Maya Tekeli and Jeffrey Gettleman
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump wants to extort $785b from Ukraine. But questions remain over Zelensky’s ‘treasure trove’

Donald Trump wants Ukraine to hand over $US500 billion of future income from its plentiful resources reserves – but what if those resources aren’t economically viable, and just a ploy from a “moderately successful comedian”?

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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