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The US denies claims that the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier was hit with ballistic missiles.

First US troops killed in Middle East conflict

Three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded as the US military conduct strikes on Iran.

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Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has received a small bump in a new poll after ousting Sussan Ley.

Taylor in hot seat as MP backs One Nation voters

Angus Taylor is preparing for his first parliamentary sitting week as opposition leader, with global affairs front and centre of the political debate.

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Ex-One Nation candidate questions Bondi attack.

Sickening ‘Israel claim’ about Bondi attack

A former One Nation candidate has appeared to double down on a conspiratorial claim that questions if Israel was behind the Bondi terror attack.

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Iranian Australians are celebrating the fall of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after US-Israeli air strikes.

Celebrations erupt globally after Ayatollah Khamenei’s death

Iranians worldwide have celebrated the US-Israel strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with dancing, chanting, and flag-waving in cities from London to Sydney.

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Donald Trump's decision could become the biggest US military campaign since Afghanistan and Iraq. (AP PHOTO)

War and peace can’t be left to one man, especially not Trump

Donald Trump should have gotten congressional approval for striking Iran, or he should not have struck at all.

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The internet is scathing Donald Trump over the US military’s Operation Epic Fury.

Is it Operation Epic Fury or Operation Epstein Distraction?

In the wake of the US and Israel’s strikes on Iran, the internet is running rife with theories about Donald Trump’s true motivation for the assault.

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A man holds a children's backpack as rescue workers and residents search through the rubble in the aftermath of an Israeli-U.S. strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran.

Children killed after airstrike hits Iranian school

It’s believed more than 100 children who were in classes at a girls’ elementary school were killed after a reported airstrike in southern Iran.

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The F-18 can conduct air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, carrying bombs and missiles. (EPA PHOTO)

All the weapons the US has deployed in its attack on Iran

US Central Command has released photographs showing Tomahawk missiles, F-18 and F-35 fighter jets used in the strikes on Iran as ‌part of Operation Epic Fury.

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US President Donald Trump has launched an attack on Iran with the aid of Israel.

Trump boasts of killing ‘evil’ Iranian leader in strikes

Taking to Truth Social, Mr Trump said the US and Israel’s joint strikes had killed Iran’s supreme leader.

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Anthony Albanese says Australia supports military action to block Iran’s nuclear ambitions and its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ‘will not be mourned’.

Albanese says Iran’s supreme leader ‘won’t be mourned’

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has confirmed Australia had no advance notice of US-Israeli strikes on Iran but says the Government supports international efforts to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

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Donald Trump's decision could become the biggest US military campaign since Afghanistan and Iraq. (AP PHOTO)

Trump's Iran strikes mark his biggest foreign policy gamble

US President Donald Trump has taken the biggest foreign policy gamble of his presidency, one fraught with risks and unknowns.

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A leaked copy of the Liberal Party’s 2025 election review reveals the relationship between Peter Dutton and his campaign director broke down before the campaign began.

Secret Lib review slams ‘captain and ballboy’ Peter Dutton

A leaked copy of the Liberal Party’s 2025 election review reveals the relationship between Peter Dutton and his campaign director broke down before the campaign began.

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US President Donald Trump posts to Turth Social regarding Israeli defence ministry announcing a ‘preventive strike’ on Iran.

Trump: Iran’s ‘freedom’ goal of ‘major military operation’

‘All I want is freedom for the people,’ Mr Trump said in a brief interview when asked what he hopes his legacy will be as a result of the military action and a push for regime change in Iran.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has backed in US President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran.

Albanese says Australia united with US on Iran strikes

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has given his full support to the US strikes on Iran, saying they were necessary to “prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and risking world peace in a security.

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