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Punch the baby orphan macaque is so popular a zoo near Tokyo has had to set rules to make visitors be quiet and limit viewing times to 10 minutes.

Punch the orphan monkey is outgrowing his plushie

Punch the baby orphan macaque is so popular a zoo near Tokyo has had to set rules to make visitors be quiet and limit viewing times to 10 minutes.

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A former Royal Australian Navy officer says the destruction of the Iranian frigate may have been intended to warn China about the costs of launching a broader war.

‘Sitting duck’: Iranian warship sunk ‘to warn China’

A former Royal Australian Navy officer says the destruction of the Iranian frigate may have been intended to warn China about the costs of launching a broader war.

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Double child murderer Ian Huntley is fighting for life after a horrific prison attack

Cops give update on child killer after head ‘split in two’

A week after inmates cheered while double child murderer Ian Huntley was brutally attacked, police have issued an update on his condition.

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Michael Harris was found after four hours beneath the snow after an avalanche.

The iPhone feature that saved a man after being buried alive

A concerned wife backed her gut feeling and the ‘Find My iPhone’ app when her husband disappeared after a massive avalanche in the US.

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Overnight, the first of six crisis response teams began departing for the Middle East.

PM calls for ‘de-escalation’, DFAT teams sent to Middle East

Anthony Albanese has called for Iran to ‘cease’ attacks as DFAT crisis response teams head to the Middle East to provide on-the-ground consular assistance to Australians stuck there.

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Horror moment man almost falls to his death when lift stops working.

WATCH: Man narrowly escapes death as lift malfunctions

Shocking CCTV footage has emerged showing the moment a malfunctioning elevator suddenly surged upward as a man stepped out.

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Israel intercepts a missile in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The Iran war has been a stunning operational success

Careful planning, massive firepower and the overwhelming success of the attack on Iran belies the the US’s bumbling over dubious and contradictory reasons

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An armored personnel carrier travels along a security fence after crossing back to the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip in October.

Israel the big winner from 29 months of violent turmoil

In 29 months the Middle East has been revamped on a scale comparable to the Arab Spring or the carving up of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century.

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The US’s shock and awe tactics have given way to qualifying statements on the longevity of war on Iran.

‘Metrics are shifting’: Why Iran war is just getting started

LATIKA M BOURKE: The US’s shock and awe tactics have given way to qualifying statements on the longevity of war on Iran.

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event about the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House.

Trump says US will no longer be ‘pushed around’

US President Donald Trump has provided an update on the US military action ‘wiping out’ Iran’s leadership and a disturbing reminder about their quest for a nuclear weapon..

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Escalating conflict in the Middle East could disrupt flights for months, but there are alternative flight routes to avoid the region.

How Aussies can travel to Europe avoiding the Middle East

Escalating conflict in the Middle East could disrupt flights for months, but there are alternative flight routes to avoid the region.

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The US Department of War has released images of the moment an Iranian warship was sunk.

US sub launches first torpedo in combat since World War II

WATCH: A torpedo launched from a US Navy submarine struck a vessel in combat, sending the Iranian frigate Iris Dena to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

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Iranian official behind alleged Donald Trump assassination plot hunted down

‘I got him before he got me’: Trump after Iran figure killed

US Defense Secretary ‌Pete Hegseth says an Iranian official who oversaw an alleged assassination plot against US President Donald Trump has been killed.

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More than 200 passengers have returned to Australia on a flight from the United Arab Emirates.

War-trapped Aussies arrive home on first Dubai flight

Australians stranded for days in Dubai have touched down on the first Sydney flight out of the UAE city since the US and Israel conflict with Iran erupted.

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