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Israeli security forces inspect a destroyed building that were hit by a missile fired from Iran, in Holon, near Tel Aviv, Israel.

Israel-Iran conflict LIVE updates: Trump to decide on US involvement ‘within two weeks’; Iranian missiles hit Israeli hospital

The world is waiting to find out if US President Donald Trump will authorise American strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. Follow all the latest developments.

  • Lachlan Abbott, Anthony Segaert and Lynette Eyb

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the US president would decide on any US action in Iran “within two weeks” – indicating there could be no resolution any time soon.
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Trump will decide 'within two weeks' on Iran

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the US president would decide on any US action in Iran “within two weeks” – indicating there could be no resolution any time soon.

War in the Middle East may lead to higher petrol prices at the pump.

Oil prices have jumped. Do you need to run to the petrol station?

There’s no crisis in oil markets yet, but your bill at the bowser might creep up.

  • Millie Muroi
Hancock Prospecting executive chairwoman Gina Rinehart.

Gina Rinehart spends thousands evacuating media chief from Israel

PR operative James Radford was stuck in Israel last week. Then his boss, Australia’s richest person, stepped in, leaving other stranded Australians frustrated.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
A satellite image shows the Fordow nuclear plant in central Iran.

What happens if a nuclear facility is blown up? The contamination threat explained

The fallout of blowing up nuclear sites, how close Iran is to making a bomb and how Israel’s nuclear stockpile measures up.

  • Angus Delaney
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in 2017. They’ve been in contact several times since Trump’s return to the White House.

This is the war Trump didn’t want, and his ‘peacemaker’ credentials are falling apart

Never has a US president delegated the negotiation over a critical national interest to an American enemy. Yet we seem to be on the brink of exactly that.

  • Peter Hartcher
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A baby is carried away from the site of an Iranian missile attack in Israel.

Israel-Iran conflict as it happened: Trump privately approves attack plan as US readies for ‘potential strike’; Israelis hurt in Iranian hit on hospital; IDF kills second Hezbollah commander

A look back at the latest news from the Middle East as Iran and Israel traded strikes and the US prepared for the possibility of attacking Iran.

  • Lachlan Abbott, Anthony Segaert, Lynette Eyb and Hannah Hammoud
A Palestinian boy carries a sack of food and humanitarian aid unloaded from a World Food Program convoy.

As bombs rain down on Israel and Iran, Gaza’s carnage continues

While Israel’s stunning attack on Iran and the possibility of all-out regional war transfix the world, in the background, Gaza’s death toll continues to climb.

  • Tom Housden
Beachgoers in Tel Aviv leave during a missile alert from Iran.

Armoured cars, ferries: How Australians are fleeing the Middle East

About 1500 Australians have asked the government for help to flee Iran and almost as many to flee Israel amid the escalating conflict.

  • Olivia Ireland, Patrick Begley and Elias Visontay
Smokes raises from a building of the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran in Be’er Sheva, Israel,

Trump has approved Iran attack plan but is yet to hit go, US media reports

A senior intelligence source told US media the president wanted to give Tehran more time to agree to a deal as Iran struck an Israeli hospital.

  • Jana Choukeir, Alexander Cornwell and Crispian Balmer

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