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Iran players saluted instead of singing their national anthem before the Matildas match. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

Iranian footballers face wrath of Tehran over brave defiance

Iran's state television has called for its women's team to be punished for failing to sing the anthem.

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What’s his end game? The world is asking itself that question over and over as it watches Donald Trump double down in the Middle East.

What you need to know about Trump’s end game in Iran

What’s his end game? The world is asking itself that question over and over as it watches Donald Trump double down in the Middle East.

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A former head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is warning of petrol rationing should the Iran war continue.

Warning Australia may have to start rationing petrol

A former head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is warning of petrol rationing should the Iran war continue.

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Mum terrified as 25yo daughter faces life in jail in Dubai

A distraught mother has opened up about her ongoing worry for her daughter who was arrested in Dubai and remains in custody as the Middle East war continues.

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Friends and family are saying it’s a ‘miracle’ he’s alive after he was left dangling from a burning cherry picker before plummeting to the ground in a ball of fire.

WATCH: Worker dangles from cherry picker engulfed in flames

Friends and family are saying it’s a ‘miracle’ he’s alive after he was left dangling from a burning cherry picker before plummeting to the ground in a ball of fire.

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Ian Huntley murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

Dire state of killer whose head was ‘split in two’ revealed

Bashed unconscious and his head ‘split in two’ during a frenzied jail attack, double child killer Ian Huntley’s dire condition as he fights for life in hospital has been revealed. 

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A Queensland woman’s idyllic holiday has turned into a nightmare after a makeshift platform collapsed beneath her during a boat tour in the Philippines, leaving her pinned under concrete in the water.

Aussie tourist’s holiday takes nightmare turn in seconds

‘We had been having the best time...and then all of a sudden. . . I was just screaming.’

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Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents.

Only prison visitor for Rob Reiner's son is his lawyer

Since being held in custody in December, Nick Reiner's only visitor while awaiting trial for the murders of his parents has reportedly been his lawyer.

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The ‘kamikaze’ drone that Iran is using in the war aginst the US.

Iran unleashes thousands of ‘kamikaze’ drones

The long-ranged Shahed-136 drone has become central to Iran’s retaliation strategy against the US and its regional allies. 

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Scientists have ruled out a collision between asteroid 2024 YR4 and both the earth and the moon.

NASA updates warning over asteroid collision with moon

A 60-metre-long asteroid will not crash into the moon in 2032, NASA analysts say after refining its orbit.

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Three Australians on-board US sub that sunk Iranian warship.

Australia helping US, Israel in war with Iran: PM

Anthony Albanese has confirmed Australia is helping the United States and Israel with operations in Iran, also confirming Australian sailors were onboard the submarine that sunk an Iranian warship.

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President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday.

Trump is just the most recent President to declare war

A steady line of American Presidents have chipped away at a foundational principal of American democracy — unless the US is under attack, the power to declare war remains with Congress

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 A woman waves an Iranian flag in front of portraits of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran this week.

The Iranian regime is built to last and won’t go quietly

Secret command structures: The deadly attacks from the US and Israel have not threatened the Iranian regime’s grip on power, say European and Arab officials

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Protesters burn a poster of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after strikes on Iran killed Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

Netanyahu will get the blame if his war goes wrong

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has spent much of his long career lecturing American presidents on the need to confront Iran. 

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