This Month
World’s most expensive car licence plate sells for $22.5m
Emirates Auction sold the status symbol at a charity auction in Dubai, where people can be refused admission to hotels if they don’t have such trappings.
- Updated
- Low De Wei
Netanyahu instructs police, Israeli forces to mobilise
Reserve border police units and the IDF were ordered to mobilise additional forces after a car rammed into tourists in Tel Aviv killing one Italian and wounding five others.
- Reuters
Trump blamed for chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan
President Joe Biden’s choices ‘were severely constrained by conditions created by his predecessor’, the White House says.
- Zeke Miller and Nomaan Merchant
- Opinion
- Oil
OPEC’s shock cut is an admission of oil’s decline
OPEC+ wants more cash from the oil market, but it doesn’t think expanding production is the best way to get it.
- David Fickling
March
Netanyahu is back and he’s breaking Israel
Critics say the leadership comeback of “King Bibi” could lead to the destruction of Israel as infighting pulls the country apart.
- James Rothwell
The libertarian think tank behind Israel’s judicial crisis
An American-funded research group quietly authored the proposed judicial changes that have split Israeli society.
- Shira Rubin
Netanyahu delays reforms after chaos grips Israel
The prime minister’s announcement came after a hard-line member of his coalition, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said he was open to delaying a vote on the government’s plans.
- Patrick Kingsley
Mass protests erupt after Netanyahu fires defence chief
The unrest deepened a months-long crisis over the PM’s plan to overhaul the judiciary, which has sparked mass protests and alarmed business and security chiefs.
- Ilan Ben Zion
Netanyahu’s political touch eludes him as Israel spirals into chaos
How did a strategist known for risk avoidance and careful planning allow his triumphant restoration to power to be engulfed in chaos?
- Steve Hendrix
Iran, Saudi Arabia agree to resume ties, with China’s help
A joint statement calls for reestablishing ties and the reopening of embassies to happen “within a maximum period of two months”.
- Jon Gambrell
