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Donald Trump at the United Nations in 2019.

Trump pulls US out of UNESCO for second time

The president has continued his pattern of withdrawing from global agencies, this time claiming that the UN culture and education agency supports “woke” policies.

This Month

Palestinians react after carrying the bodies of those killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza.

‘Tanks trapped us’: 85 killed in Gaza on deadliest day for aid-seekers

Israeli troops have killed at least 85 Palestinians trying to reach food in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the territory’s Health Ministry said.

Inside Gaza’s humanitarian aid ‘death traps’

A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Between local thieves and IDF attacks, many return empty-handed, or not at all.

Displaced Palestinians move between southern and northern Gaza on the outskirts of Gaza City.

BCG earned over $1.5m for mothballed Gaza aid project

Work with the private US group Fogbow overlapped with the start of a separate effort to help the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Australia’s top climate diplomat Kristin Tilley has left her post.

Australia loses top climate diplomat as COP bid on edge

The Albanese government has left a key diplomatic post vacant as it scrambles to secure hosting rights for a major UN climate summit next year.

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Aboriginal rock art, or petroglyph of a sea turtle on the Burrup Peninsula.

Watt blasts activists for politics not science in World Heritage fight

Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt says some Woodside opponents are undermining a World Heritage bid to protect ancient Indigenous rock art.

Smoke rises from Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, seen from southern Israel, last week.

Israel sends delegation to Qatar for talks on Gaza truce

Although Israel and Hamas appear willing to explore the new plan, they could still stall over the most sensitive sticking points, as has happened before.

Dead sea life in SA caused by the algal bloom

Bowen defends summit bid as climate action anger mounts

The Coalition and the Greens joined forces to put pressure on the government to act on an algal bloom that is killing untold numbers of marine wildlife.

June

A satellite image shows the aftermath of the US strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility. The actual damage done is unclear.

Iran could be enriching fuel again in a ‘matter of months’

The chief United Nations nuclear inspector said that the damage to the Islamic Republic’s facilities from the US attacks was “severe” but not “total”.

US President Donald Trump is flanked by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the NATO summit.

Trump says US will speak with Iran next week, war ‘over’ for now

The president said America may sign an agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program, and dismissed a report that said the impact of United States’ strikes was limited.

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows a close view of the Isfahan nuclear technology in Iran after US strikes.

‘Gambler’ Trump turns to China to pressure Iran on oil supply

An increasingly isolated Iran promises to end the war on its terms, as US and Europe warn against closing the world’s busiest shipping lane for oil.

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows damage at the Fordow enrichment facility in Iran after US strikes.

Where is Iran’s uranium? Fate of US bombings hangs on 400kg stockpile

The critical question will be whether the country’s nuclear program has been destroyed, or simply pushed into smaller, secret facilities that are harder to find.

A photo within the uranium conversion facility inside the Isfahan nuclear centre from 2005.

US strikes core of Iran’s secret nuclear program

The three sites the US hit with missiles and bombs represent critical parts of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, some of which are buried deep underground.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the site of the Weizmann Institute of Science, which was hit by missiles fired from Iran, in the central city of Rehovot.

‘For him, it’s personal’: Netanyahu’s relished war with Iran

The Israeli prime minister’s career looked finished after the October 7 attack by Hamas. But now he is pursuing a conflict he has proposed for years.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2012 with an illustration reflecting his concerns over Iran’s nuclear ambitions during an address to the United Nations General Assembly.

Is Iran really developing nuclear weapons?

Experts question Israel’s claim that Tehran had begun a nuclear weapons program, but warn it has become a “threshold” state.

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Iranians cross into Turkey at the Gurbulak Bazargan border post between the two countries.

Israel widens attacks against Iran, striking broadcaster

An Iranian state news anchor was live on air when an explosion shook the scene, causing falling debris and the sound of screams and breaking glass.

The IDF striking a surface-to-air missile launcher in Tehran.

Iran lauds ‘new method’ as missiles hit Tel Aviv, Haifa

At least five people were killed in the latest Iranian strikes, the national emergency service said, raising Israel’s death toll to 18 since Friday.

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility.

The nuclear fortress Israel is desperate to destroy

Buried half a kilometre underground, Iran’s Fordow enrichment plant is the ultimate test of Israeli air power.

Benjamin Netanyahu makes a recorded address to Israel on Friday.

Netanyahu’s 6 reasons for hitting enfeebled Iran now

In attacking, the Israeli prime minister has short-circuited the debate in Washington and started a possible new cycle of escalation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Donald Trump in the Oval Office in April.

Israel’s strikes are major snub to ‘global peacemaker’ Trump

Israel’s strikes on dozens of Iranian targets appear to rebuff the US president, who has repeatedly urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to target Tehran.

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