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The American people are about to get a full-blooded update from their president on where the war with Iran is going next, and if peace is truly within reach.

Old Facebook messages between Harry and a British journalist disclosed in a court case suggest the two had a closer relationship than previously suggested.

The president and his defence secretary played down the importance of the strait to the US, even as the average price of petrol tipped over $US4 a gallon for the first time since 2022.

Donald Trump says the US will be finished with the Iran war inside three weeks.

A report by Donald Trump’s trade tsar adds several items to the US’s list of barriers with Australia, including local content rules for streaming platforms and the “unfair” Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Washington’s stockpile of vital missile-intercepting warheads was already running low. It is now in even worse shape.

Global affairs are in a bizarre state where the US president’s constant contradictions make us look to a murderous regime for the truth.

Woods has released his first statement after pleading not guilty in his driving under the influence case, hours after a sheriff’s report said he had opioid pills in his pocket and showed signs of impairment at the scene.

Two cars were involved in the kidnapping of freelance reporter Shelly Kittleson in Baghdad, authorities said. One crashed while being pursued and the journalist was then transferred to a second vehicle that fled the scene.

Golf superstar Tiger Woods had hydrocodone pills in his pocket and bloodshot eyes at crash scene, say US authorities.

Donald Trump tells the UK and other countries to "go get your own oil" from the Strait of Hormuz.

The US president and his associates have significant financial investments in pro-US Gulf states, and these may be ruined in an Iranian retaliatory campaign.

The King confirmed the state visit after weeks of debate over whether it was appropriate in light of political tensions.

If it wasn’t enough that DJT is constantly on your television and in your social media feed, soon he could be on your boarding pass, too.

Follow our live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East and related developments in Australia.

The US president has warned America will obliterate Iran’s energy plants and oil wells if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz.

The princesses have distanced themselves from their parents and the wider royal family since the Epstein files were published.

Every $US10 increase in oil prices benefits “Russia Inc” by about $US100 million a day at a time when the Kremlin had been facing a serious budget crunch.

The country is not immune from skyrocketing oil prices, but Beijing’s intervention has cushioned the blow at it stands ready to reap the rewards of a potential global surge in the uptake of EVs, batteries and solar.