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The fifth member of the Iranian soccer team has fled to asylum in Australia.

Iranian football captain flees amid claims of family missing

Iran’s women’s football captain has abandoned her Australian asylum bid, amid claims authorities in Tehran are pressuring players by targeting their families.

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Polling shows support for the coalition has dipped since Angus Taylor replaced Sussan Ley as leader. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Coalition dips to historic low as key by-election looms

One Nation has overtaken the Coalition for the first time in a major poll, spelling woes for the Liberal leader who rolled his predecessor after poor polling.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely gives interviews or holds news conferences.

WATCH: Netanyahu appears in video after death rumours

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to online rumours of his death by posting a video of himself at a cafe.

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The Israeli military says its air force has carried out more than 400 waves of strikes in Iran.

Israel drops new timeline for Iran war

Israeli officials say the country is prepared for weeks more strikes on Iran as the war escalates.

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Gazan health officials say Israeli fire has killed 36 people since the outbreak of the Iran war.

Fresh Israeli strikes leave dozens dead in Gaza region

Sixteen Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes and shootings across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, according to health officials.

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Governments have committed to make available 271.7 million barrels of oil from government stocks.

Emergency global stockpile oil coming soon, IEA says

The IEA will release more than 400 million barrels of oil reserves as conflict around the Strait of Hormuz rattles global markets.

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Does Donald Trump risk turning America into a rogue state?

Does Trump risk turning America into a rogue state?

In Iran I fear we may be retreating even further from the principles we once proclaimed, loosening the shackles that civilised nations place on themselves to protect our shared humanity.

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Doom and gloom as Chalmers warns of inflation rise

A widely-tipped interest rate hike on top of the ongoing global fuel crisis is spelling doom and gloom for household budgets as Jim Chalmers warns Treasury thinks inflation could rise close to 5 per cent. 

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Photograph released by Iranian state media agency Tasnim News of women's football team members Mona Hammoudi, Zahra Sarbali and Zahra Meshkekar, who changed their minds about seeking asylum in Australia.

Three more Iranian soccer players forfeit asylum in Aus

Another three members of the Iranian women’s football team who accepted asylum in Australia have now changed their minds and will return to Iran.

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Left to right: John Klinner, 33, Tyler Simmons, 28, Ashley Pruitt, 34, Seth Koval, 38, Curtis Angst, 30, Ariana Savino, 31.

US six killed in Iraq refuelling plane crash identified

The Pentagon has identified the six US service members who died this past week when a refuelling aircraft crashed in Iraq amid the US-Israeli war against Iran and the wider conflict in the Middle East.

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Mehreen Faruqi has expressed fears for her community amid rising Islamophobia. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Faruqi accuses Labor of ‘cherry-picking’ racism

One of Australia’s few Muslim federal parliamentarians has accused Labor of failing to confront rising Islamophobia in the country.

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Barnaby’s dire warning to Coalition ahead of Farrer race

Barnaby Joyce has made a bold prediction on whether the major parties may soon have no choice but to deal with One Nation.

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Donald Trump said he’s not ready to make a deal to end the war with Iran despite the country’s willingness to do so.

Trump urges allies to send warships as Iran vows escalation

US President Donald Trump says he hopes China, France, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and others will send warships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.

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Australia has stockpiled more than a month’s supply of fuel and is as ‘prepared as possible’ as the war in the Middle East continues to impact global supply.

Bowen says Australia is as ‘prepared as possible’ with fuel

Australia has stockpiled more than a month's supply of fuel and is as ‘prepared as possible’ as the war in the Middle East continues to impact global supply.

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