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Interpol drops red notice against Gregor Haas, lawyer calls for release
Australia should demand the father of NSW prop Payne Haas be released immediately if he is not set free, his legal team says following the global agency’s decision.
- by Chris Barrett and Zach Hope
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British man survives Air India disaster which killed at least 240 people
Officials initially believed there were no survivors when the Boeing 787 jet crashed shortly after take-off, before Indian authorities confirmed a passenger in seat 11A was pulled alive from the wreckage.
- by Rob Harris
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‘Heartbreaking beyond words’: More than 200 people killed in Air India plane crash
Black smoke billowed from the site where Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, went down in a populated area near the airport, hitting a medical college hostel.
Trump hails a ‘done deal’ with China on trade. What’s actually in it is fuzzy
The US president declared a great deal has been made with China, but with few details and seemingly no progress, analysts have doubts.
- by Lisa Visentin
World in pictures this week, June 12, 2025
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors.
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Trade wars
After two days of talks, Trump’s China trade deal is right back where it started
After a marathon round of talks, US and Chinese negotiators arrived back at the same starting point they brokered one month ago.
- by Lisa Visentin
The US and China thrashed out their trade fight for 20 hours. Here’s what they agreed to
In a new round of negotiations that were sparked by a phone call between the US president and his Chinese counterpart, officials emerged vowing to resurrect a fragile truce.
- by Lisa Visentin
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World politics
Sex drops and whiskey packets: The bizarre market built around a barbed wire fence
An international border separates the vendors from customers, while behind it people live in the middle of a river, knowing their houses will soon be washed away.
- by Zach Hope
Putin declares it’s an unshakeable friendship. But his spies say China is ‘the enemy’
A secretive intelligence unit in Russia’s domestic security agency has warned that China poses a serious threat to security as it tries to recruit Russian spies and get its hands on sensitive military technology.
- by Jacob Judah, Paul Sonne and Anton Troianovski
North Korea raises capsized warship damaged in botched launch
It wasn’t immediately clear what condition the ship is in from lying in the water for several days after the launch failure, which Kim Jong-un labelled “a criminal act”.
- by Kim Tong-hyung
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World elections
He’s survived slums, sweatshops and a stabbing. Now this leader has to survive Donald Trump
When the US president launched his global trade war in April, South Korea was hamstrung, frozen by political turmoil. And a key industry was in the firing line.
- by Lisa Visentin
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