Australia’s richest 200 people now own $625 billion in personal wealth, equal to nearly one-quarter of the national economy—a threefold jump from 8 percent twenty years ago.
Israel’s brutal war against Gaza has cost at least 40,000 Palestinian lives. Now, with the assassinations of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the situation could escalate into a regional war.