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Ardern-slide: Labour's 'antidote to anxiety' win
Labour's Jacinda Ardern looks likely to be New Zealand's first outright majority government leader in decades after riding a wave of support for her world's-toughest lockdown response to the COVID-19 pandemic to a massive election victory.
- Updated
- Praveen Menon
French teacher brutally murdered in Paris suburb
The history teacher had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class. Police shot dead the knife-wielding attacker after he refused to surrender.
- Adam Nossiter
Virus surges in key battleground states as election nears
Confirmed virus cases and deaths are on the rise in the swing states of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin.
- Scott Bauer
From QAnon to dictators, Trump embraces those who embrace him back
When pressed, the President feigns ignorance, offers light praise and then seeks to change the topic.
- Ashley Parker
Trump's comments on QAnon celebrated by far-right groups
Donald Trump's response to a question from NBC's Savannah Guthrie offered a shot of validation to the baseless conspiracy theory.
- Craig Timberg
Biden leads Trump in ratings battle of the network town halls
Joe Biden, on one network, drew more viewers than Donald Trump did on three networks, according to Nielsen's preliminary data.
- Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin
Opinion & Analysis
Trump, or the last stand of White America
All means have been used — lies, brutality, incitement. But fear has been Donald Trump's main weapon.
Contributor
Donald Trump's hot stuff was a missed opportunity
The President’s full-frontal performance in the face of an hour of intense NBC network TV “town hall” scrutiny shows why he might have missed a chance to put Joe Biden to the sword.
United States correspondent
Trump or Biden, Australia is alone
America protected Europe through the Cold War with a credible nuclear deterrent. Indo-Pacific nations can expect no such pledge.
Contributor
Ardern eyes victory in election - but NZ's future isn't clear
The New Zealand election is all over bar the shouting. The question is, however, what Jacinda Ardern does with her thumping victory.
Stuff political editor
From the Financial Times
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Shenzhen is Xi's frontline in the US-China tech wars
Sprawling Shenzhen, with its aseptic shopping malls and barely concealed rough edges, is now more than ever pitted against San Francisco. That contest will show whether blunt state power can foster the creativity free markets inspire on the US west coast.
- The Lex Column
- Analysis
- Royalty
All the king’s money: Thailand divided over a $US40b question
The role and wealth of the Germany-based King Maha Vajiralongkorn is subject to unprecedented scrutiny amid national protests.
- John Reed
Chinese groups go from fish to chips in new ‘Great Leap Forward’
More than 13,000 Chinese enterprises registered as semiconductor companies in the first nine months of this year. The numbers are double the monthly average of last year.
- Updated
- Kathrin Hille and Sun Yu
Yesterday
- Opinion
- US votes 2020
Trump, or the last stand of White America
All means have been used — lies, brutality, incitement. But fear has been Donald Trump's main weapon.
- Roger Cohen
This Month
Thai police to charge two for violence against queen
Two men will be charged with attempted violence against Thailand's queen, which carries a possible death sentence, after heckling her motorcade.
- Panarat Thepgumpanat and Patpicha Tanakasempipa
- Analysis
- US votes 2020
Donald Trump's hot stuff was a missed opportunity
The President’s full-frontal performance in the face of an hour of intense NBC network TV “town hall” scrutiny shows why he might have missed a chance to put Joe Biden to the sword.
- Jacob Greber
Ardern, Collins make final pleas to voters before NZ election
'If you want pace and speed, give us a strong mandate,' Jacinda Ardern told voters on the eve of Saturday's poll.
- Praveen Menon
Can China go it alone under Xi's new economic plan?
After fending off a second wave of coronavirus, Xi Jinping's next challenge is insulating the world's second-largest economy from a global recession and US aggression.
- Michael Smith
- Opinion
- China relations
Trump or Biden, Australia is alone
America protected Europe through the Cold War with a credible nuclear deterrent. Indo-Pacific nations can expect no such pledge.
- Sam Roggeveen
Trump, Biden town halls a contrast in style and substance
An argumentative Trump denounced white supremacy and said he would accept the result of a fair election, while Joe Biden said he would contain the coronavirus by 'being rational' in two meetings that replaced the second presidential debate.
- Updated
- Jordan Fabian and Tyler Pager
Donald Trump's narrow path to victory
On the ground in key battleground states, the story about who will be America's next president isn't as clear as the polls suggest.
- Jacob Greber
Hong Kong-Singapore travel bubble to reopen financial hub links
Singapore and Hong Kong will open their borders to each other for the first time in almost seven months.
- Updated
- Will Davies, Katrina Nicholas and Kyunghee Park
Records set across Europe as virus spirals out of control
The WHO's director for the Continent warned that by January, daily deaths could be 'four to five times higher than what we recorded in April'.
- Michael Birnbaum, Chico Harlan and William Booth
Brazilian President's ally caught hiding cash in his underwear
Federal police targeted Roraima state senator Chico Rodrigues as part of a probe into the alleged misappropriation of COVID-19 funds.
- Christiana Sciaudone and David Biller
Republicans on warpath over Twitter 'censorship' of newspaper
"Drunk with power" Twitter is "interfering in this election", said Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who is demanding social media titan Jack Dorsey appear before the Senate next week.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- World elections
Ardern eyes victory in election - but NZ's future isn't clear
The New Zealand election is all over bar the shouting. The question is, however, what Jacinda Ardern does with her thumping victory.
- Luke Malpass
British class action against NAB, Virgin Money heads to court
The company behind the lawsuit is filing claims from another batch of aggrieved customers, as the case approaches a first hearing in December.
- Hans van Leeuwen
More than 1 million California ballots already cast, shattering records
The immediate response suggests voters are especially engaged amid a contentious presidential election and the disruption to work and education caused by the pandemic, experts say.
- Matt Stiles
Biden revels in record cash haul as Trump rally marathon continues
The apparent cash-raising imbalance between the two men may serve to enhance Donald Trump's attempts to portray himself once again as the anti-establishment outsider battling a huge surge of 'dark money'.
- Jacob Greber
Thailand arrests protesters, declares state of emergency
The emergency decree, announced on state television, was needed to 'maintain peace and order' and put an end to 'illegal public assemblies' in Bangkok, the government said.
- Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Jiraporn Kuhakan
China wine buyers brace for early tariffs on Australian imports
Chinese importers have been urging Australian winegrowers to get shipments into the country within the next week as fears grow that Beijing will impose tariffs on $1.2 billion of exports as early as Sunday.
- Updated
- Michael Smith
- Opinion
- Trade wars
Shenzhen is Xi's frontline in the US-China tech wars
Sprawling Shenzhen, with its aseptic shopping malls and barely concealed rough edges, is now more than ever pitted against San Francisco. That contest will show whether blunt state power can foster the creativity free markets inspire on the US west coast.
- The Lex Column
