International news and global affairs
An Australian woman and her British partner are battling Italian authorities to regain custody of their three children, removed from their Abruzzo forest home in late 2025.
Ella Sullivan 
Dozens of flights to and from Australia are cancelled as Middle East airspace shuts down. Petrol prices could surge up to 40% if Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz.
Jake Nguyen 
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Zara Mitchell 
Penny Wong warns Australians of 'difficult days ahead' in the Middle East as US-Iran-Israel tensions ground flights and close airspace across the region.
Yuki Tamura 
Dubai International Airport has been struck in an apparent Iranian retaliatory missile attack, injuring four staff. Emirates flights to and from Australia use the airport daily.
Sophia Vargas 
Donald Trump has announced a major US-Israeli military operation against Iran, demanding the government's overthrow in a development that reshapes Middle East geopolitics.
Priya Narayanan 
When Iranian missiles targeted US-linked sites in the Gulf, the UAE's sophisticated missile defence network was put to its most serious real-world test.
Yuki Tamura 
Iranian users of a Muslim prayer app received 'surrender' push notifications during Israeli strikes, in what researchers are calling a sophisticated information operation.
Zara Mitchell 
NASA is restructuring the Artemis programme under new leadership, aiming to accelerate a return to the Moon amid cost blowouts and schedule delays.
Daniel Kovac 
X is being flooded with disinformation following the US-Israeli strike on Iran, with misleading claims about locations and scale spreading rapidly.
Sophia Vargas 
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been killed in joint US-Israeli strikes, triggering public celebrations across Iran and raising urgent questions about regional stability.
Aisha Khoury 
Iranian officials say a strike on a girls' primary school in Minab killed more than 100 children, triggering an emergency UN meeting and international condemnation.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Ali Khamenei's death marks a genuine inflection point in Middle Eastern geopolitics, but history cautions against assuming the regime will simply collapse.
Priya Narayanan 
Trump's justifications for attacking Iran contained exaggerated and unsupported claims, raising serious questions about the basis for US military action.
Mitchell Tan 
Penni Milton and her two teenage children have spent nights stranded at Doha airport after Iran's missile strikes forced their flight to turn back mid-air.
James Callahan 
Canada's new Prime Minister brings a boldness to global affairs that some argue Australia would do well to emulate. The question is whether Canberra has the appetite.
Marcus Ashbrook 
Anthony Albanese has voiced Australia's support for US-Israeli strikes on Iran, raising questions about Australia's role in an increasingly volatile Middle East.
Riley Fitzgerald 
Donald Trump has confirmed the death of Iran's supreme leader following a joint US-Israel military strike. The implications for the Middle East and beyond are profound.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Iran has struck international airports in the UAE following Israeli and US attacks on Iranian territory, killing one person and disrupting regional air travel.
Zara Mitchell 
Closed airspace across the Middle East has thrown travel plans into disarray for Australian passengers, with airlines cancelling and rerouting flights worldwide.
Yuki Tamura