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The deployment of about 2,500 Marines to the Middle East represents a new phase in the weeks-old war in Iran, as Iranian forces increase their attacks on the Strait of Hormuz.

Australian families face a devastating double blow as the fallout from the Middle East smashes domestic households.

Japan is worrying about its fuel supplies while the Iran war rages so is calling on its "energy security lifeline" Australia to ramp up much-needed gas exports.

Twelve doctors, paramedics and nurses have been killed in an Israeli strike on a healthcare centre in southern Lebanon, the World Health Organisation says.

Israeli forces say they have carried out about 400 waves of air strikes in the first two weeks of the war with Iran, each involving numerous fighter jets.

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.

President Donald Trump said that the US military had conducted a bombing raid targeting military facilities on Kharg Island, a small landmass in the northern Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran. 

Massive defence projects will no longer be subject to public scrutiny in a move described as the ‘final nail in the coffin of transparency and accountability’.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has not ruled out relaxing Australia’s total ban on importing Russian oil and petrol following reports China may halt its exports to Australia.

North Korea has fired at least one projectile into its eastern sea amid tensions around allied drills between the US and South Korea.

Energy minister Chris Bowen has been accused of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ as Australians in some areas face ‘unacceptable’ fuel shortages.

Weird voice-overs. Fake images of politicians. Scenes that seem real until you look closely. The AI era of campaign advertising seems to be upon us — and it’s a pretty fast-moving and complex situation.

Defence personnel, military planes, and missiles are being deployed to the Middle East, as Australia’s involvement in the United States-Israeli war on Iran deepens.

About 2,500 Marines aboard as many as three warships are heading to the Middle East from the Indo-Pacific region as Iran increases its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, two US officials said.

‘There is nothing they can do about it!’ the President said in a statement.