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  • A child looks through a door in a makeshift building

    Charges flagged as women and children from IS-linked families set to fly from Syria to Australia

    Home affairs minister Tony Burke says government continues to refuse to help the group of 13
  • Vessels in the strait of Hormuz near Bandar Abbas, Iran.

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    US petrol prices hit highest level in years – as it happened

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  • A tanker vessel anchored in the strait of Hormuz.

    US-Iran truce teeters on meltdown as stalemate takes toll on each side

    Conflict appears to have reached impasse, but leaders in Tehran and Washington seem to think victory is near
  • FILE PHOTO: Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel, exits following a hearing at the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York City, U.S., May 17, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

    Ex-US spy for Israel calls for Gaza ethnic cleansing as he seeks Knesset seat

  • A woman walking past a mural

    A veneer of normality has returned to Tehran but fears for the future are rife

  • Palestinians throwing stones at Israeli forces during a military raid in the West Bank.

    Israeli army chief says West Bank troops ‘killing like we haven’t killed since 1967’

  • Portrait of Narges Mohammadi taken in 2021

    Jailed Iranian Nobel prize winner Narges Mohammadi ‘between life and death’

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  • Concierge firm co-founded by queen’s nephew went on ‘ill-timed’ hiring spree before Iran war

  • Middle East crisis live
    First Russian oil reportedly arrives in Japan since Iran war – as it happened

  • Children play in the water, with vessels sit offshore in the distance

    Donald Trump sends warships to break Iran’s strait of Hormuz blockade

  • Donald Trump shouting

    ‘Project Freedom’: a grand humanitarian gesture, or a fast track to more war?

  • CCTV footage shows crew members holding their hands up

    British Gaza flotilla activists say they needed hospital care after Israeli forces’ abuse

  • The four Saad siblings of the Galilee Quartet perform at Milton Court, London

    Galilee String Quartet review – Palestinian ensemble improvise their signature east-west blend

  • Iran executes three men in relation to January anti-regime protests

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  • Could Iran’s escalating economic crisis weaken negotiating position with US?

  • Security or justice? Syria faces post-Assad reckoning after string of arrests

  • Trump says US navy will ‘guide’ trapped ships from strait of Hormuz amid ‘very positive’ talks with Iran

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