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A tense exchange between the United States and Iran, recorded by a sailor in the Persian Gulf who has been speaking with the ABC, shows the extremely fraught situation in the Strait of Hormuz, as a fragile ceasefire hangs in the balance. Source link

Donald Trump’s planned United States naval blockade of Iranian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz reveals the president once again playing loose with the fortunes of financial markets and the global economy as he struggles to find a way out of the war that he and Israel started. Source link

Writing on social media after the pope called for peace, US President Donald Trump says the first American pope is “terrible for foreign policy” and he should “stop catering to the Radical Left”. Source link

Amnesty International calls for an independent investigation into an air strike on a Nigerian market, where the country’s military says it was targeting militants. Source link

The Australian government will give $2.5 million to support relief and recovery efforts in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands after Tropical Cyclone Maila. Source link

Pope Leo has fired back after criticism from Donald Trump, as the US says it will implement a blockade of “all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports” from midnight AEST. Source link

While the bombs may have stopped falling on Iran for now, Iranians who’ve been speaking with ABC News say the mood on the ground is anything but happy.  Source link

Prominent labour hire company iComply owed more than $12 million when it collapsed, according to a damning liquidator’s report, with workers chasing millions in superannuation. Source link

A television show that uses generative artificial intelligence to animate Indonesian folktales is creating a stir. Source link

The stockpile is part of a longer skirmish for access to and control of a bonanza playing out an ocean away, in a country clambering to reinvent itself amid political turmoil. Source link