Politics

Donald Trump says major cities around the world have large arch monuments, and Washington DC is the only one without one.

A US delegation led by Vice President JD Vance has arrived in Pakistan to join Iranian government ministers and officials for peace talks.

Singapore insists there are no plans to restrict fuel exports to Australia even if the Middle East conflict continues and strangles supply.

Now that the United States and Iran have put the war on pause, the voyage through the Strait of Hormuz may be less dangerous. But it is no less challenging politically or diplomatically.

The government agency that keeps a list of draft-eligible men will begin automatically registering names later this year, abandoning a decades-old requirement that they register themselves.

Australia’s fuel distributors are in a global scramble to secure shipments, having mere hours to decide whether to spend millions of dollars.

Donald Trump has given US Vice President JD Vance the mission of negotiating with Iran to resolve the conflict that's blocked a vital shipping route.

A gas export tax could make it harder for Australia to secure imported fuel from Asia, with a Senate committee examining the idea as Anthony Albanese is in Singapore meeting with its PM Lawrence Wong.

BEN HARVEY: Even if this ceasefire does hold, the best we can hope for is this is the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end.

Opening the Strait of Hormuz will not stop the economic fallout but there is a silver lining to the turmoil.

The US military is making a major change to enrolment, affecting all ‘eligible men’, with the White House saying Donald Trump now has ‘options on the table’.

Ireland's prime minister says the government ‘had to act’ as the military moved in to remove protesters blocking fuel depots.

Diplomats say NATO chief Mark Rutte has told European governments that the United States needs a concrete answer within days.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has given an instruction to ‌begin peace talks with Lebanon including on the ‌topic of disarming Hezbollah.