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Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Angus Taylor says welcome to countries should be used less The opposition leader, Angus Taylor , has called for welcome to country remarks to be delivered less often, saying he is frustrated they have been “devalued” by “overuse”. Can I say, booing, whatever the cause, on Anzac Day, Anzac Day ceremonies, is absolutely inappropriate and un-Australian. It shouldn’t happen. It simply shouldn’t happen. I can understand the frustration Australians feel about over-use of welcomes to country. I feel that at times. Often actually. I think it is overuse and as a result they are devalued. Absolutely not boo, absolutely. Some of the great Australians have come from countries that were bad countries at the time. But there is a higher risk that some bad people come from those bad countries. We have bad countries around the world. I mean, to claim that Iran is a good country right now, seriously, and the government itself has put legislation in place to make it harder for people to come from Iran. We have seen terrible acts of atrocity coming from Gaza. Continue reading...

Iran had earlier said there were no plans for a direct meeting with a US delegation led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

Trump canceled planned Iran talks in Pakistan, citing regime infighting, and experts say Tehran's good cop, bad cop negotiating tactic has collapsed.

US president says ‘too much time’ has been ‘wasted on traveling’ as Israel strikes Lebanon, claiming Hezbollah also launched rockets We have some images coming through the newswires of Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi , speaking with Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, and other officials in Islamabad this morning. Araghchi arrived in Pakistan last night. He wrote on social media that his trip would focus on “bilateral matters and regional developments”. Continue reading...

The armed group JNIM claimed to have seized two key cities and destroyed the defense minister’s residence in a coordinated offensive that experts said was a major escalation in yearslong hostilities.

Witnesses report clashes in the centre and north, in what has been described as the largest jihadist attack in years.

The two Americans were killed on Sunday when their vehicle crashed while returning from an antidrug operation led by Mexico’s armed forces in the state of Chihuahua.

A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble.

Al-Qaida-linked group JNIM claims responsibility for strikes on airport in capital, Bamako and four other cities Islamic militants and separatists attacked several locations in Mali’s capital and other cities on Saturday in one of the largest coordinated attacks in the country in recent years. The al-Qaida-linked militant group JNIM claimed responsibility for the attacks on Bamako’s international airport and four other cities in central and northern Mali on its website, Az-Zallaqa. It said the attacks were carried out jointly with the Azawad Liberation Front, a Tuareg-led separatist group. Continue reading...