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Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy says Labor is not to blame for a surge in support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.
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Politics
Latika M Bourke

Don’t blame Labor for One Nation surge, says Pat Conroy

A Senior Labor Minister says the surge in support for One Nation is a Coalition failure, rather than a verdict on the Albanese Government.

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The strikes on Iran are a ‘significant setback’ for Xi and Putin.
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World
Latika M Bourke

How Iran attack has made China and Russia weaker

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser says China and Russia may be in a weaker position to cause trouble as a result of the US strikes on Iran. 

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Keir Starmer reiterated that Britain was not involved in the joint US-Israel air strikes ?on Iran.
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Staff Writers

Starmer backs US defensive strikes on Iran

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK has accepted a US request to use British bases for limited defensive strikes against Iranian missile sites.

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US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth speaking to the media.
Australia
Katherine Kraayvanger, Kimberley Braddish, Madeline Cove and Matt Shrivell

‘We didn’t start this war but we are finishing it’: Hegseth

Two drones intercepted over British air base in Cyprus

Hezbollah’s military activity ‘illegal’: Lebanese government

15 injured as Iran strikes southern Israel

Ship traffic through Gulf of Hormuz plummets

Iran to appoint a new Supreme Leader ‘quickly’: Cleric

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

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.
Australia
Zac de Silva and Dominic Giannini

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.
Politics
Ria Pandey

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.
Politics
Caitlyn Rintoul

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)
Opinion
The New York Times

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.
Middle East
Eloise Budimlich

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.
World
The Washington Post

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)
US Politics
Staff Writers

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.
US Politics
Eloise Budimlich and Peta Rasdien

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’.
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Middle East
Caitlyn Rintoul

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)
World
Matt Spetalnick, Andrea Shalal and Idrees Ali

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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