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Australia is working to finalise an upgraded security treaty with Fiji this week as China appears to have killed off efforts to clinch a similar deal with Vanuatu. 

The three-year-old’s mother reportedly returned home from partying and forgot about her son in the car.

The ceasefire was teetering as Iran and the US traded fire over the Strait of Hormuz and the United Arab Emirates reported attacks for the first time since the truce was declared nearly a month ago.

The blockade remains, the war began 65 days ago, and the President still has to deal with the question of Iran’s uranium.

A car ploughed into a crowd in the historic centre of the eastern German city of Leipzig on Monday, killing two people and injuring several others, authorities said.

An influencer aboard the cruise ship at the centre of the hantavirus outbreak said passengers were ‘not just headlines’ and that they want to go home.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have agreed to end their legal battle over the acrimonious production of their 2024 film It Ends With Us.

Australians among the almost 150 people aboard a cruise ship which has become the epicentre of a hantavirus outbreak.

Seven cases of the deadly hantavirus have now been identified in a suspected outbreak on a luxury cruise ship off West Africa.

Flights are being diverted, airspace is under pressure and explosions have been heard across the UAE as the Middle East conflict intensifies.

A drone strike has ignited a major UAE oil hub, with missiles intercepted overhead and fears rising of a wider Gulf escalation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a two-day ceasefire in Ukraine later this week, officials say, while Ukraine says its truce will start earlier.

Hantavirus can ‌be spread when droppings and urine of rodents become airborne, such as when people sweep out ​sheds where mice have been living.

The King is said to be ‘delighted’ with the news.