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    Yesterday

    The Alfama neighbourhood in downtown Lisbon. Portugal is among the countries offering digital nomad visas.

    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

    This Month

    Charlotte Tilbury is one of the brands under the Puig family brand.

    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

    Sydney was ranked as the 10th most desirable city for expats.

    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
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    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

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    • James Curran
    Junior Suite at Zel, Mallorca.

    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
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    March

    Finnish President Alexander Stubb will inspect the NATO operations later this week.

    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

    Artist’s impression of Navantia’s Tasman class warship, a Tier 2 corvette or light frigate.

    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
    Maksim Kuzminov.

    ‘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
    GenesisCare is the largest operator of cancer care clinics in the country.

    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

    Farmers block a highway in Argenteuil, north of Paris. Protesting farmers were encircling Paris with tractor barricades and drive-slows.

    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
    Sam Kerr

    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
    People enjoy the view of the Taipei 101 tower, once the world’s tallest building, and the Taipei skyline.

    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 has ruptured her ACL during a Chelsea training camp.

    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
    Struggling to cope at the Piazza del Popolo in Rome.

    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
    A Harrier aircraft lands on the flight deck of the USS Bataan operating in the Red Sea.

    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
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    November 2023

    Developers will simply learn to shun Victorian housing

    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
    Abdulellah Al-Malki of Saudi Arabia celebrates a 2-1 win against Argentina in a World Cup match in Qatar last year.

    Was Saudi Arabia’s World Cup win an inside job?

    Australia and other potential bidders for the 2034 soccer tournament didn’t go ahead, raising questions about possible FIFA favouritism.

    • Tariq Panja

    September 2023

    Dan Collins. in 2014, shortly after KKR invested in his oncology group, GenesisCare.

    GenesisCare business comes back to life, won’t offset payments bungle

    The collapsed cancer services group will likely split its US assets ahead of a sale.

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    • Carrie LaFrenz and Jemima Whyte
    A woman comforts a child outside a destroyed house following an earthquake in Tafeghaghte, in the Al Haouz region of Morocco.

    Rescuers race to find survivors over 48 hours after Morocco quake

    Search teams from Spain and Britain are joining efforts to find survivors of the 6.8-magnitude quake that struck 72 kilometres south-west of Marrakech.

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    • Tom Perry
    Luis Rubiales with Spain’s Women’s World Cup soccer winners being received by Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez last month. Mr Rubiales resigned on Monday (AEST).

    Spain’s top soccer official resigns over unwanted World Cup kiss

    Luis Rubiales posted a statement on social media saying he had submitted his resignation as the federation’s president and as vice president of UEFA.

    • Michael Wolgelenter and Rachel Chaundler