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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Emily Clark |Toby Mann
There are now numerous reports the US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was sharing sensitive military plans in a second Signal chat — a development that has been slammed as the latest in a "month from hell" for the Pentagon. The reports have prompted calls for Mr Hegseth to be fired and come as the former top Pentagon spokesperson alleges the past month has seen "chaos" and "dysfunction" reign under his leadership.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Matthew Doran |Emily Clark |Toby Mann
There might be a ceasefire, but the people of Gaza are far from free. This is a brief look beyond Israel's fortified border wall. While Donald Trump says he has grand plans to redevelop Gaza into the "Riviera of the Middle East", the reality is the small territory is still home to a population of Palestinian people who are just trying to survive.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Emily Clark |Toby Mann
Donald Trump has hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in the first state visit by a foreign leader since he was sworn in just two weeks ago. There were several moments when both leaders spoke to the press, and the comments have triggered a wave of concern and reaction across the world.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Lucia Stein |Toby Mann |Rebecca Armitage
During a severe blizzard in the winter of 1984, Canada's long-serving prime minister Pierre Trudeau went for a long walk. By the time he came back, he had resolved to give up politics, quit his job, and make way for the next generation. So admired was his decision that it remains a common adage in Canadian politics.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Eric Tlozek |Rebecca Armitage |Toby Mann
From Bashar al-Assad's abandoned palace to the site of one of the country's most horrific massacres, the ABC spent three days in Syria, uncovering the fallen dictator's secrets. December 8, 2024 was a political earthquake for the Middle East. After half a century of tyrannical rule, the Assad dynasty spectacularly crumbled. Rebels swept through the country with stunning speed, meeting little resistance from Bashar al-Assad's men as they advanced further and further towards the capital, Damascus.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Matthew Doran |Toby Mann
Starving miners fearing arrest have spent months underground, blockaded by South African authorities who say they are cracking down on illegal operations. Police have stopped relatives from delivering food, water and other essentials to those hiding inside an abandoned goldmining operation in Stilfontein, according to the South African Human Rights Commission. Reports vary widely about how many people have been trapped in the mine — and how their health is faring.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Erwin Renaldi |Toby Mann
He sells rice, oil, sugar and other daily essentials, but customers have been a relatively rare sight recently for Erick Saputra. Mr Saputra, from Bukittinggi on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, said that for the past five months his small shop had made the equivalent of less than $30 per month. That's less than half of what he usually earns. "It seems people are not spending as much anymore," he told the ABC.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Toby Mann |Basel Hindeleh |Eric Tlozek
The death of Hassan Nasrallah is a monumental moment for the Middle East. The leader of the region's most powerful militia and Iran's strongest ally is gone and Hezbollah, the group he led, has been decimated by intense Israel attacks. It's a very different outcome to the last time Hezbollah fought Israel. "Nasrallah wins the war", the Economist magazine declared when Israel and Hezbollah signed a ceasefire after a 34-day war in 2006.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Toby Mann |Lice Movono |Doug Dingwall
It was a failed coup that unleashed nearly two years of violent turmoil in Fiji — events that brought suffering still deeply felt by victims. Former businessman George Speight stormed the nation's parliament in May 2000 with an Indigenous nationalist group, holding the prime minister and cabinet members hostage for 56 days. And this week, the violence and uncertainty that followed the attempted coup rushed back to the spotlight in Fiji after Speight's release from jail last Thursday.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Emily Clark |Toby Mann
As Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII is laid to rest in New Zealand, his youngest child and only daughter has been named as the new Māori monarch. Kuini Nga Wai Hono i te Po was raised up in a ceremony known as Te Whakawahinga, in front of thousands of people gathered to mourn Kiingi Tuheitia. She is the second woman to be named monarch and the second youngest person to hold the position in the 160-year history of the Māori royal movement.
