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The family of one of the 41 Australians missing in Nepal following devastating flash flooding say they are praying for a miracle after wrongly believing he had escaped the disaster unscathed.

Six months after US-Israeli strikes disrupted fossil fuel production and turned the Strait of Hormuz into a battleground, the world is getting a fuller picture of how the war has shaped the economics of energy.

Like America, China wants its laws to apply everywhere. The measures range broadly and touch on everything from foreign sanctions to ethnic policy. 

Years of long-distance division between Prince William and his younger brother will be tested now that Harry has returned to Britain.

Moscow’s onslaught across the Ukraine, which included missiles and drones, began after nightfall Wednesday and continued into daylight hours Thursday.

Russia’s embassy has hit out at last week’s arrest of a 27-year-old man on charges of foreign interference claiming the move by Australian authorities was ‘taken in the interests of a foreign nation – Ukraine’.

Scientists are rushing to understand the exact causes of the deadly flash flood that sent a devastating wall of mud and water tearing through Himalayan river valleys. 

On the 2024 campaign trail, Donald Trump promised a tariff-fuelled revival of America’s old industrial towns. The promise was not just US-made goods, but more Americans making them. Has the President delivered?

Qantas Group is set to release its full-year earnings, four months after it reduced domestic flights because of the soaring price of jet fuel from the Iran war.

General Randy George appeared troubled by the encounter with General Chris LaNeve, the Army’s No. 2 officer now favoured for the service’s top job, people familiar with the matter told The Post.

The announcement from Iran came came after an oil tanker was disabled in an attack off the coast of Oman on Monday night.

It’s believed 34 Australians are among the hundreds of people reported missing in the massive flash floods that have so far left at least 98 people dead.

It is the second time in a month that Kyiv’s long-range drones have struck a major warehouse belonging to Russia’s biggest online retailer.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: For months, threats and ultimatums delivered results. Now world leaders are testing what happens when they simply say no.

Iran says while it is willing to continue peace talks, it denounces expanded US sanctions, while Washington begins sending diplomats back to the region.

Iran is pledging to fight back against expanded US sanctions aimed at isolating its economy, expressing confidence that major trading partners will resist Washington’s pressure campaign.

LATIKA M BOURKE: The energy chief says the winners in the fallout from the war on Iran and oil uncertainty will be coal, renewables and nuclear options.

The United Nations says two of its peacekeepers have been killed in an attack carried out by unknown perpetrators on a patrol in South Sudan.