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Liagny Acosta holds her 2-week-old baby, Aran, who is hospitalized for a respiratory illness at the Hospital William Soler in Havana on March 22, 2026. Amid a U.S. oil blockade causing daily blackouts across Cuba, doctors say that rapidly deteriorating conditions at hospitals and clinics are causing deaths that would otherwise be preventable. (Jorge Luis Baos/The New York Times)

Cuban patients are dying because of US blockade

‘The magnitude and who will be affected will depend on these horrible decisions they have to make.’

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USS Minnesota (SSN 783) arrives in Western Australia on Feb. 25, 2025.

Defence official’s grim warning to AUKUS sceptics

A senior defence official has warned a room full of AUKUS sceptics that Australia will be left with no submarines if the project is dumped.

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Anthony Albanese is promising a national response to fuel shortages will avoid repeating the mistakes of COVID lockdowns.

In tackling fuel crisis, PM vows to learn from COVID blues

Anthony Albanese is promising a national response to fuel shortages will avoid repeating the mistakes of COVID lockdowns.

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Anthony Albanese has tried to soothe community anxiety about fuel shortages.

What crisis? Albo’s fuel approach is in full-on panic mode

Anthony Albanese says he is doing his best to help soothe community anxiety about fuel shortages. Here’s why the PM’s approach is looking panicked.

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Lawyer Adair Donaldson says systemic failure, not rogue soldiers, is at heart of ADF’s torture training.

ADF training, not ‘rogue’ soldiers, at heart of abuse claims

A lawyer for more than 200 ADF members says soldiers were exposed to ‘sadistic’ abuse – recognised as torture – over decades of interrogation training, and no one asked why.

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RBA governor Michele Bullock and Treasurer Jim Chalmers

Chalmers warned on Budget that could deliver fourth hike

Australia’s largest bank has warned the Albanese Government against any big-spending surprises in the May Budget that could deliver even more pain for already stretched households.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks on a national response to the fuel crisis.

PM rejects call to cut fuel excise, vows national response

The Prime Minister insists he’s doing everything practical to shield Australians from the worst impacts of the fuel crisis but rejected the Opposition’s call to cut the excise to ease the price pressure.

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Advantage Iran: A month of bombing has achieved nothing

Talks on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and steering Iran away from its nuclear program will be bitterly difficult. 

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US President Donald Trump has criticised Australia what he  claims is inadequate support for the Iran war.

Trump again slams Australia over ‘not great’ Iran support

For the third time in a fortnight, Donald Trump has called out Australia for what he sees as the Albanese Government’s failure to adequately support his war in Iran. 

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Donald Trump is ‘pausing’ a major threat to Iran.

Trump ‘pausing’ Iran destruction plans

US President Donald Trump has shocked the world, announcing a ‘pause’ to his plans to bring destruction to Iran, confirming the move in a statement requested by the Iranian Government.

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US President Donald Trump has called Iranian representatives "great negotiators".

‘Keep blowing them away’: Trump turns up pressure on Iran

Iran has dismissed a US ceasefire proposal as Donald Trump ramps up threats, warning the conflict could intensify.

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Experts warn it will be hard to fully restore traffic in the strait. Here’s why.

Reopening the Strait of Hormuz isn’t as simple as you think

As soaring oil prices rattle the globe, Trump has vowed to reopen the shipping route ‘one way or another’. But experts warn it will be hard to fully restore traffic in the strait. Here’s why.

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Defence Minister Richard Marles has sidestepped questions about explosive allegations of abuse within the ADF’s interrogation training program as pressure mounts on the government to respond.

Marles dodges questions as ADF abuse claims mount

Defence Minister Richard Marles has sidestepped questions about explosive allegations of abuse within the ADF’s interrogation training program as pressure mounts on the government to respond.

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Energy Minister Chris Bowen has confirmed 608 service stations across Australia are lacking either diesel or unleaded, despite a boost in deliveries from the nation’s two remaining oil refiners.

Fuel crisis looms as more than 600 servos now without fuel

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has confirmed 608 service stations across Australia are lacking either diesel or unleaded, despite a boost in deliveries from the nation’s two remaining oil refiners.

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