Ben Doherty
Foreign Affairs Correspondent at The Guardian
International Affairs, The Guardian. Australia. Fellow @risj_oxford Oxford University. Opinions - hilarious/insightful/otherwise - my own.
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4 days ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Doherty
The UK government has declared it will put the first of 12 Aukus-class submarines in the water on schedule in the late 2030s, despite its own major projects agency saying the plan to build the nuclear reactor cores needed to power the submarines is “unachievable”.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Doherty |Josh Butler
Australia will continue to push Donald Trump to abandon his administration’s tariff regime entirely, after a US court blocked the president’s “liberation day” tariffs from coming into effect. The Manhattan-based court of international trade said the US constitution gives the Congress exclusive powers to regulate commerce with other countries, and ruled that power was not superseded by the president’s self-declared “emergency” he cited to safeguard the US economy.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Doherty
Donald Trump has falsely claimed that Australia is being “inundated” with white South Africans who have fled their farms, repeating a baseless conspiracy theory that white people in South Africa are being systematically murdered and their land expropriated.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Aakash Hassan |Hannah Ellis-Petersen |Ben Doherty
For days, residents living on both sides of the volatile border between India and Pakistan, dividing the disputed region of Kashmir, had been bracing themselves for war. After India accused Pakistan of involvement in a terrorist attack which killed 26 people, and vowed to retaliate with military might, locals knew a confrontation between the two countries could take place at any moment.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Doherty
Police officers illegally strip-searched a woman at a Byron Bay music festival, the New South Wales supreme court has heard, subjecting her to a “degrading and humiliating” inspection that included being told to remove her tampon while undressed in front of a police officer. NSW police admitted in court documents that its July 2018 strip search of Raya Meredith – which discovered nothing illegal – was unlawful and unjustified, and ignored laws protecting her rights.
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