Max Walden
Digital Journalist, Asia Pacific at ABC News (Australia)
Journalist with @abcnews Asia Pacific Newsroom. PhD from @MelbLawSchool. Bad opinions my own.
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4 days ago |
abc.net.au | Max Walden
US President Donald Trump is in Qatar. It's mid-May, 2025. He addresses troops at Al Udeid air base — the largest US base in the Middle East and the launch point for air, sea, and intelligence missions. At the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the base hosted around 10,000 US soldiers. "No visit in the Gulf would be complete without stopping to salute the people who keep America safe, strong and free," Mr Trump says.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Max Walden |Erwin Renaldi
The decision by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to skip the G7 meeting in Canada and to visit Russia has raised eyebrows in Western capitals. The official reason provided was that his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin was pre-planned. Prabowo, being a man of his word, had decided to skip the G7 meeting of wealthy liberal democracies in favour of attending the little-known St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Max Walden
Iranians face a nationwide internet blackout as Israeli strikes continue to pummel the country, including the capital Tehran. NetBlocks, an internet watchdog run by British human rights advocate Alp Toker, reported mid-Thursday (Australia time) that Iran had been offline for more than 12 hours. It said authorities had imposed a nation-wide internet shutdown, citing Israel's alleged "misuse" of the network for military purposes.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Leonie Thorne |Max Walden
What started as a tense build-up to a meeting about Iran's nuclear capabilities this week has spiralled into a conflict that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East. Under what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has deemed Operation Rising Lion, strikes against Iran killed key military figures including its highest-ranking military officer, Mohammad Bagheri, as well as several nuclear scientists. Both sides say civilians have been hurt in the attacks.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Max Walden
It was Gilbert Goh's experience of growing up a foster child that motivated him to work with displaced children. The Singaporean humanitarian was working with Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Lebanon on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. Israel invaded Gaza soon afterwards, starting a war during which Palestinian authorities say more than 55,000 people have been killed.
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