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Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, right, welcomes Emirati Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan as he arrives in Baghdad ahead of the Arab League summit on in May.

The sheikh who conquered soccer – and coddles warlords

The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of Manchester City soccer club. Behind the scenes, he is called the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

  • Declan Walsh and Tariq Panja

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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
Ingram in October 2024, in a shelter in Beirut.

From Perth to Manhattan to Sudan, this is the year that changed my life

I haven’t felt that way about many, if any, of the 34 years I lived before this one. But I am certain what I experienced in 2024 will stay with me forever.

  • Tess Ingram
Mohamed Ahmed Omer – the first person in Victoria to be prosecuted for the Commonwealth offence of exit-trafficking – was found guilty in the County Court in April.

‘Discarded at your will’: Abusive man jailed for stranding wife in Africa

Mohamed Ahmed Omer, who abandoned his wife in Sudan before returning to Australia with their young children, was handed a four-year sentence.

  • Emily Woods
Smoke risse over Khartoum after Sudan’s military started an operation to take areas of the capital from its rival, the RSF, in September.

Mass civilian deaths reported after Sudan’s army ups airstrikes

The war between the army and paramilitary forces has already created the world’s largest displacement crisis and caused famine.

  • Nafisa Eltahir
Bibi Rahimi, from Afghanistan, one of several thousand refugees stranded in Indonesia who will lose their UNHCR funding.

Bibi was given $4 a day to survive. Now that allowance has been cut to zero

As humanitarian crises unfold around the globe, the United Nations is looking at its books.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
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Ukraine wheat arrives in Port Sudan last month.

Ukraine is employing a new weapon against Russia: sending aid to Africa

Even as the war-torn nation defends its homeland against the Russian invasion, it is delivering major shipments to vulnerable populations.

  • Rob Harris
Palestinian masked members from the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, a military wing of Hamas, ride next to a rocket launcher during a rally in Rafah refugee camp, Gaza Strip, in 2016.

Mining, chickens, equity fund. Hamas’ money machine ignored by Israel

The ledgers, pilfered from the computer of a senior Hamas official, listed assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Netanyahu “didn’t care much about it”.

  • Jo Becker and Justin Scheck
ChatGPT’s use has exploded in popularity.

‘Attack everything’: Russia-linked hackers claim they knocked OpenAI offline this week

Anonymous Sudan presents itself as a “hacktivist” gang that is waging attacks out of Africa, but cybersecurity researchers say its targets consistently match the Kremlin’s geopolitical priorities.

  • Ryan Gallagher
The Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower in the centre of Khartoum, Sudan, on fire on September 19.

Landmark office tower burns in Sudan’s capital turned into urban war zone

The headquarters of the oil company and buildings of government agencies have been destroyed.

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