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Ardern extends lockdown as cluster grows
The New Zealand PM says the country's latest outbreak comes from a new strain of the virus.
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- Praveen Menon
Hong Kong media executive says Australia should step up
Jimmy Lai's right-hand man, Mark Simon, says Australia should take in more Hong Kong citizens and offer sanctuary for the city's companies spooked by the erosion of the rule of law.
- Michael Smith
On the plane with Kamala Harris
Joe Biden and his vice-presidential nominee will make their case to lead America at next week's Democratic convention, but the race is tighter than headline polls suggest.
- Jacob Greber
China's industrial growth steady in July, retail weak
In good news for Australian iron ore demand, China's crude steel production jumped 9.1 per cent in July to 93.4 million tonnes.
- Michael Smith
At home with the Trumps
Mar-a-Lago, also known as 'the Winter White House', is where US President Donald Trump is most comfortable, surrounded by adoring courtiers, says a new book.
- Sarah Blaskey, Nicholas Nehamas, Caitlin Ostroff and Jay Weaver
This town has fastest rising home prices in the US, due to NYC exodus
New Yorkers are fleeing the city for this picturesque Hudson Valley town north of the metropolis — and bidding wars are inflating its home values.
- Prashant Gopal
Opinion & Analysis
Trump claims foreign policy win he craves with UAE-Israel accord
The deal would make Trump the third US president after Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton to get an Arab nation to establish ties with Israel.
Contributor
Locked out expats yearn for the lucky country
After cancelling his trip home due to COVID-19, The Australian Financial Review's London correspondent Hans van Leeuwen craves direct conversation, droll humour and big waves.
Europe correspondent
Burning platform must fuel reform ambition
As Australia stands on a burning platform of change, the national interest demands the political system be more ambitious in pursuing economic reform in the COVID-19 era.
Editorial
Joe Biden and the riddle of Kamala Harris
Biden has hired not just a running mate but an executive burden-sharer and — forgive the macabre note — a viable stand-in. But who is Kamala Harris really?
Contributor
From the Financial Times
Even imperfect technology is important for Japan’s earthquake watchers
Most Japanese accept the high probability of a huge quake at some point in the next few decades. They just hope for some time to dive under the tables.
- Leo Lewis
- Opinion
- US votes 2020
Joe Biden and the riddle of Kamala Harris
Biden has hired not just a running mate but an executive burden-sharer and — forgive the macabre note — a viable stand-in. But who is Kamala Harris really?
- Updated
- Janan Ganesh
Sunak weighs delaying autumn budget on second COVID-19 wave
The chancellor expects to deliver his budget as planned but stands ready to delay big public spending decisions until after the crisis.
- George Parker and Delphine Strauss
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- Middle East tensions
Trump claims foreign policy win he craves with UAE-Israel accord
The deal would make Trump the third US president after Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton to get an Arab nation to establish ties with Israel.
- David Wainer, Glen Carey and Jordan Fabian
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Locked out expats yearn for the lucky country
After cancelling his trip home due to COVID-19, The Australian Financial Review's London correspondent Hans van Leeuwen craves direct conversation, droll humour and big waves.
- Hans van Leeuwen
America facing its worst autumn 'in history', say COVID experts
The warning comes as Joe Biden called for a nationwide mask mandate to curb the spread of pandemic.
- Jacob Greber
Trump announces historic peace agreement between Israel and UAE
The Persian Gulf state becomes the third Arab country to open diplomatic relations with the Jewish nation.
- Anne Gearan and Steve Hendrix
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Burning platform must fuel reform ambition
As Australia stands on a burning platform of change, the national interest demands the political system be more ambitious in pursuing economic reform in the COVID-19 era.
- The AFR View
The media mogul who fired Tom Cruise and passed on Facebook
Sumner Redstone began with a string of drive-in movie theatres and ended up with a media giant worth $110 billion at its peak.
- Edmund Lee
Lebanon’s power problem: how the country came to this
A deadly explosion forced the government to resign but its inability to deliver basic services, like electricity, is at the heart of Beirut's biggest crisis in three decades.
- Tom Perry and Ellen Francis
Even imperfect technology is important for Japan’s earthquake watchers
Most Japanese accept the high probability of a huge quake at some point in the next few decades. They just hope for some time to dive under the tables.
- Leo Lewis
Yesterday
Calls to bolster yuan's global reach as US tensions rise
Chinese officials and economists have been unusually public in discussing worst-case scenarios under which China is blocked from dollar settlements.
- Kevin Yao, Winni Zhou and Samuel Shen
Blast knocked out half of Beirut's healthcare centres
The blast heavily damaged at least four of the city's major hospitals, sparking mass evacuations even as wounded residents streamed in looking for help.
- Louisa Loveluck, Loveday Morris and Sarah Dadouch
China expands port facilities for Brazil's iron ore supercarriers
The giant ships used by Brazil's Vale group, the main competitor to Rio Tinto, BHP and Fortescue Metals, can carry almost double the amount of iron ore than those used by Australian miners.
- Michael Smith
- Opinion
- US votes 2020
Joe Biden and the riddle of Kamala Harris
Biden has hired not just a running mate but an executive burden-sharer and — forgive the macabre note — a viable stand-in. But who is Kamala Harris really?
- Updated
- Janan Ganesh
Biden plans to make Harris as powerful a Veep as he was
Joe Biden plans to model Kamala Harris' role on the influential part he played himself for eight years as Barack Obama’s vice-president.
- Michael Hirsh
Ben & Jerry's in Twitter fight with UK government
The feud began when the Vermont-based dessert brand directed a refugee-themed tweet at Britain’s interior minister, Home Secretary Priti Patel.
- Associated Press
Harris on Trump: He's run America down, 'like everything he inherited'
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have made clear they would seek to turn the coming campaign into a referendum on Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis.
- Jacob Greber
US budget deficit is tipping toward $4.2 trillion for 2020
The US budget deficit came in at an astonishing $1.2 trillion for the month of June, reflecting the surge in federal spending in response to the pandemic.
- Jeff Stein
This Month
Three believed killed as passenger train derails in Scotland
Emergency services were called out to a "major incident" after a passenger train derailed near Aberdeen in the country's east.
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
NZ's second lockdown may be one too many
If life continues to be disrupted in New Zealand, the public appetite for keeping the country COVID-19-free at any cost will likely wane.
- Updated
- Luke Malpass
UK deep in recession as output shrinks 20 per cent
The UK's contraction was the largest reported by any major economy so far, official figures showed on Wednesday.
- Updated
- David Milliken and William Schomberg
