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Pacific Islanders caught up in Iran conflict

Duration: 25 minutes 35 seconds

Israel, US set to increase strikes on Iran and Lebanon

An explosion on Beirut's southern suburbs after an Israeli strike on Friday.

Duration: 3 minutes 57 seconds

Australians urged to leave Middle East as strikes intensify

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Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds

Trump demands Iran's 'unconditional surrender'

U.S. President Donald Trump

Duration: 2 minutes 33 seconds

Katherine 'under threat' as 'major flood' risk

Floodwaters submerge part of the main street.

Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds

Worries for safety of Iran's women soccer team

Members of the Iranian women's football team watch on the bench during a game

Duration: 5 minutes 18 seconds

US asks Ukraine for help to fend off Iranian drones

A large set of drones is pictured inside a big warehouse-like space.

Duration: 4 minutes 1 second

K'gari backpacker died by drowning due to dingo attack: coroner

A young, dark-haired woman beneath a hazy sky.

Duration: 4 minutes 1 second

Government bans Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir

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Duration: 3 minutes 4 seconds

Head of US homeland security Kristi Koem sacked

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Duration: 4 minutes 18 seconds

Britney Spears arrested in California

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Duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds

Danielle Scott on medals, music and telling her family to stay away

Dani Scott holds up her medal

Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds

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Full Episode: PM says Australians not involved in sinking of Iran warship

Duration: 25 minutes 44 seconds

Israel bombs Beirut, targeting Hezbollah

A huge black plume of smoke rises over a city at early dawn.

Duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds

Concerns Australia being drawn into Iran war

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Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

Fears Iranian women's soccer team in danger

A Middle Eastern woman in white jersey and tudung kicks past red-shirted Asian women in soccer game

Duration: 3 minutes 57 seconds

NT town Katherine faces flood emergency

A hospital sign, with high water levels all around it.

Duration: 4 minutes 39 seconds

Adelaide Fringe boosts kids shows

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Duration: 4 minutes 43 seconds

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Can the Iranians outlast the Americans?

People inspect a damaged building, in the aftermath of a strike on a police station.

Duration: 12 minutes 44 seconds

How Iran's proxies have been degraded

Duration: 5 minutes 48 seconds

What's behind Trump's fight with an AI company?

Donald Trump

Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

A 'comeback' after 6,000 years of extinction

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Duration: 13 minutes 34 seconds

Magda Szubanski remembers comedy legend Ted Emery

Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds

Why did America decide to go to war with Iran?

Duration: 13 minutes 56 seconds

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US asks Ukraine for help to fend off Iranian drones

A large set of drones is pictured inside a big warehouse-like space.

Duration: 4 minutes 1 second

Worries for safety of Iran's women soccer team

Members of the Iranian women's football team watch on the bench during a game

Duration: 5 minutes 18 seconds

Katherine River to reach 'major flood' level

A flooded river reaching the 16m mark, with slight rain coming down.

Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds

Pygmy possum and glider rediscovered in West Papua rainforest

A small grey possum with black and white banded head and middle fingers twice as long as other digits.

Duration: 4 minutes 6 seconds

How weight loss drugs are helping with addiction

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Duration: 3 minutes 41 seconds

'Take a deep breath': Fmr senior US diplomat says Middle East unlikely to expand further

Iran damage

Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds

Gov refuses to confirm whether ADF were aboard US submarine

Negative vision of a large explosion on a warship

Duration: 2 minutes 37 seconds

Parents continuing to turn to private schools

Duration: 3 minutes 7 seconds

Slip Slop Slap campaign of the 1980s hailed a success

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Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds

Social cohesion at risk as trust in government falls

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Duration: 4 minutes 7 seconds

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Trump demands Iran's 'unconditional surrender'

Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 36 seconds

Iran conflict impacts Australia, flood insurance fight and skin cancer concerns | Australia Wide this week

Men in shirts and camouflage gear standing next to a yellow digger and collapsed concrete building.

Duration: 25 minutes 10 seconds

Danielle Scott on medals, music and telling her family to stay away

Dani Scott holds up her medal

Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds

DEEP DIVE: Do we deserve more holidays?

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Lismore still reeling despite $880 million flood recovery

A woman looks out of her first story window as flood water laps at hair stair case, her whole yard covered in brown water.

Duration: 24 minutes 59 seconds

'I still have hope, you should too' — lawyer Jen Robinson on the plight of the world

Duration: 55 minutes

PM says Australians not involved in sinking of Iran warship

Duration: 25 minutes 44 seconds

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