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Vanessa is News Corp Australia’s US Correspondent. The Walkley award-winning journalist has covered court, crime, politics and business for a number of Australian mastheads. She was previously based in Brisbane with The Courier-Mail as Chief of Staff, and prior to that was the paper’s Chief Court Reporter.

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Middle East

Israeli emergency services and security officers search for casualties in the rubble of a building hit by an Iranian missile in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 24, 2025. US President Donald Trump announced a phased 24-hour ceasefire process beginning at around 0400 GMT on June 24, which Israel said it had agreed to. Iran has not formally accepted a ceasefire. (Photo by John Wessels / AFP)

US, Iran to resume talks; White House fumes over leak

The US and Iran have quietly reopened talks on Tehran’s nuclear program after a furious Donald Trump dropped the F-bomb and a report into the impact of US strikes on Iran was leaked.

Middle East

Reports of explosions over Qatar after warnings Iran would attack US base. Picture: X.

Israel to ‘respond forcefully’ after accusing Iran of breaking ceasefire

After intercepting missiles from Iran, Israel’s Defence Minister has ordered the military to “respond forcefully to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire”. Follow live updates.

National

Two reactors were under construction at Southern Co.’s Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in February. PHOTO: HANDOUT/REUTERS

Nuclear energy’s new era: Why Australia should heed the US

America’s first US nuclear power plant in more than a decade, earmarked for New York, is a positive example for Australia, says a leading advocate.

UpdatedMiddle East

Sneaky Iran move in Strait of Hormuz that could

Iran move that would send global oil prices soaring

One move by Iran in retaliation for US air strikes on three nuclear sites could send global oil prices flying.

Middle East

PM backs Iran strikes, dodges vital question

Anthony Albanese has avoided a key question over the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, as he warned against full-scale war.

ANALYSISMiddle East

(FILES) (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 7, 2024 shows Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) speaking after casting his ballot during the runoff presidential election in Tehran on July 5, 2024, and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waving at supporters at the end of a campaign rally at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 4, 2024. The UN nuclear watchdog said Israeli strikes on June 18 destroyed two buildings making centrifuge components for Iran's nuclear programme near Tehran, while Iran said it fired hypersonic missiles as the arch foes traded fire for a sixth day. Hours after US President Donald Trump demanded Iran's surrender, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed his country would show

US attack on Iran risks sparking wider, deadlier conflict

America’s shock bombing raid on Iran has signalled the beginning of an unpredictable new political era. Here’s what could happen next.

UpdatedNorth America

TOPSHOT - NATO country leaders, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (3rdL), US President Donald Trump (4thL), France's President Emmanuel Macron (R), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (Rear R) pose with King Willem-Alexander (C-L) and Queen Maxima (C-R) of the Netherlands for a family photo as they attend a social dinner at the 'Huis ten Bosch' Royal Palace during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Heads of State and Government summit in The Hague, on June 24, 2025. NATO leaders hold a two-day summit on June 24 and 25 in The Hague. (Photo by Haiyun Jiang / POOL / AFP)

Queen steals limelight as Trump arrives for NATO summit

Donald Trump has joined more than 30 world leaders at the NATO summit in the Netherlands, where fashion forward Queen Máxima turned heads.

Middle East

President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, June 21, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three Iranian nuclear and military sites, directly joining Israel's effort to decapitate the country's nuclear program, as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)

Trump warns Iran to ‘make peace’ after ‘spectacular military success’ of US strikes

In a short address, Donald Trump said Iran’s three nuclear sites were “completely obliterated” as he blasted the nation as the “bully of the Middle East”.

World

Australian Army Soldiers board a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft in support of Operation Beech, at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland. *** Local Caption *** Australian Defence Force personnel and aircraft have deployed to the Middle East in non-combat roles under Operation Beech 2025 to assist Australian Government efforts to support Australians seeking to leave the region. This is as a precautionary measure to support Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade led whole-of-Australian-Government contingency planning and delivery of support to Australian citizens and approved foreign nationals in the region. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade are the lead agency for Australian consular assistance and support.

Aussies get a step closer to home as air force jets arrive in UAE

Two Royal Australian Air Force C-17 Globemasters have arrived in the United Arab Emirates ahead of the start of repatriation flights for Australians out of the Middle East.

Middle East

Each time the sirens sound across Tel Aviv warning of an incoming barrage of Iranian rockets, May Dohand is gripped by the crippling fear she will soon be dead.

‘I imagine I’m going to die soon’: Israelis’ gripped by fear

One woman from Tel Aviv who speaks for many Israelis says she is sleep deprived and traumatised as air raid sirens don’t stop sounding across the capital warning of constant danger.

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