World - Saturday, May 23, 2026

President Trump said Iran and the United States had “largely negotiated” an agreement “pertaining to PEACE.” Three senior Iranian officials said Tehran had agreed to a memorandum of understanding, but there was no public statement from Iran’s government.

Shooting of man who was allegedly armed with a firearm at a house in Narangba to be investigated Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Pocock has advocated for a fair return on gas and other “industries of the future” including critical minerals and AI data centres. He said: I think we need to get a fair return from the export of our gas right now, but we need to be looking at all these other industries that we’re told are the industries of the future, critical minerals, AI data centres. I don’t have the specific solution to it, but I think it’s the principle of how do we get a fair return on resources that belong to the Australian people. We’re one of the biggest gas exporters in the world right now. My argument is we should be getting a fair return from the export of that gas, and also lowering the price of gas here in Australia. We’re constantly being told that we have some sort of shortage of gas. We’ve got manufacturers here paying more for Australian gas than Japan is buying our gas for. Continue reading...

US president says strait will be opened as part of the deal, but Iran’s influential Fars news agency reports that vital waterway would remain under Iranian control Full report: Trump says peace deal with Iran ‘largely negotiated’ with strait of Hormuz to open Trump’s social media post made no mention of Iran’s nuclear program and highly enriched uranium, which Tehran has sought to negotiate over later, but came amid growing optimism among officials over a potential deal to end the war. Earlier on Saturday, a regional official with direct knowledge of the Pakistan-led mediation efforts said the US and Iran were closing in on an agreement. Continue reading...

Thousands have been evacuated as officials warn a tank containing about 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate could explode.

In the relative calm of the early days of a cease-fire, there were heart-rending scenes as people exhumed their loved ones from temporary graves and reburied them.

China deployed over 100 vessels around Taiwan after the Trump-Xi Beijing summit, Taiwan's National Security Council Secretary General Joseph Wu says.

Iran’s Fars news agency, tied to Islamic Revolutionary Guard, says strait of Hormuz will remain under Iranian control Donald Trump announced on Saturday that a peace deal with Iran “has been largely negotiated”, after calls with a Pakistani mediator, Gulf allies and Israel, potentially paving the way for an end to the war launched by the US and Israel in February. Trump wrote on his social media platform that “final aspects and details” of a “Memorandum of Understanding” are still being discussed and “will be announced shortly”, but said the strait of Hormuz will be opened as part of the deal. Continue reading...

The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, called for an investigation and emphasized the need to “hold those responsible to account.”

The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv issued a security alert warning of a potentially significant air attack that may occur within the next 24 hours in Ukraine.

Rightwing commentator says she is hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket and claims she was misled by promoter Rocksman Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast None of the 15,000 ticket holders for conservative influencer Candace Owens’ cancelled Australian tour are expected to get their money back from the promoter, after it spent all its money then collapsed. Owens herself says she is hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket and claims she was misled by the promoter, Rocksman, a company with links to the influential conservative lobby group Turning Point Australia . Continue reading...