This Month
- Exclusive
- Defence
Questions surface over fast-tracked $10b warships
Shipbuilders have been given just three weeks to outline their opening pitch to build new frigates for the navy.
- Andrew Tillett
Madrid leads European house price gains with double-digit surge
Housing shortages are fuelling dramatic price increases in Europe’s major cities. Madrid has been particularly affected by an influx of Latin American money.
- Ainhoa Goyeneche and Fabiola Moura
Furious Israel pulls funding after Palestinian state recognition
Tel Aviv will not transfer much-needed funds to the Palestinian Authority after three European countries decided to recognise a Palestinian state.
- Aaron Boxerman
Norway, Ireland, Spain recognise Palestinian state in ‘historic’ move
Israel’s foreign minister branded the three countries’ decision a “distorted step”, which shows “terrorism pays” and immediately recalled its ambassadors.
- Joseph Wilson
Countries wooing corporate digital nomads hope to make them stay
More countries have introduced a form of digital nomad visa since the pandemic increased demand from employees to “work from anywhere”.
- Emma Agyemang
The Spanish family who netted $18.5b from a beauty IPO
Members of the Puig family, who made their fortune in perfume and cosmetics, are billions of dollars richer after Europe’s biggest listing this year.
- Ben Stupples and Clara Hernanz Lizarraga
April
Australia named top destination in the world for expats
Australia has been named the No.1 destination in the world for professionals seeking to relocate internationally.
- Euan Black
- Opinion
- Middle East tensions
Like Biden, Labor is on its own Israel journey
Penny Wong wants a two-state solution, but the reality is Gaza is looking more like the US quagmire in Iraq
- Updated
- James Curran
From Branson to Nadal – big names are investing millions in Mallorca
Forget the parties and tacky tourism around Magaluf. Celebrities and luxury hotel chains are putting up brass plates across one of Spain’s favourite Balearic Islands.
- Jane Knight
March
Newly enlarged NATO starts drill in Finland, Norway and Sweden
With more than 4000 Finnish soldiers taking part, the Nordic Response 2024 represents the newcomer’s largest ever participation in a foreign exercise.
- Jari Tanner
February
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Bold navy plan needs backing with hard cash
Australia reaped a resources bonanza from China’s rise as the workshop to the world. Now some of that needs to be redirected as a national security insurance premium.
- The AFR View
‘Riddled with bullets’: Russian defector hunted down in Spain
The helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine last year was found dead in a Spanish coastal town, fuelling speculation Moscow’s intelligence services were responsible.
- Michael Schwirtz and Constant Méheut
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
GenesisCare emerges from bankruptcy, cuts deal with government
The country’s largest cancer treatment group had charged patients for treatment when it was required by the federal government to only bulk bill them.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Jemima Whyte
January
French farmers lay siege to Paris with vow to cut off food
Long lines of tractors blocked motorways at eight entry points to the city as one militant union promised to take control of the world’s biggest fresh food market.
- Henry Samuel
Kerr honoured at FIFA awards as Ange, Gustavsson miss out
Sam Kerr was named in the FIFA FIFPRO Women’s World XI, voted for by players around the world.
- Updated
- Analysis
- World elections
Becoming Taiwan: in China’s shadow, an island asserts its identity
As elections loom, Taiwanese of all generations are forging a new vision of their past – and future.
- Kathrin Hille
Sam Kerr suffers ‘devastating’ ACL injury
Sam Kerr has suffered an ACL injury during Chelsea’s warm weather training camp in Morocco, almost certainly ruling her out of the Olympics.
- Glenn Moore and Anna Harrington
European holidaymakers turn to cooler climes after scorching summers
The chief executive of eDreams Odigeo said climate change was ‘having an impact’ on bookings, with some customers turning to typically overlooked destinations.
- Philip Georgiadis
Maersk suspends Red Sea shipping as US strikes Houthis
Shipping giant Moller-Maersk on Monday halted transit through the Red Sea after an attack on one of its vessels by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, in a sharp escalation of violence in the vital waterway.
- Mark Mulligan
November 2023
- Opinion
- Property development
Victoria’s big tax stick isn’t going to prod more housing supply
Increasing taxes on developers is not going to bring down the price of housing. But states are climbing on the bandwagon.
- Kristina Popova and Aathees Paransothy
