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The White House released this footage of the sinking of an Iranian warship, the IRIS Dena, off the coast of Sri Lanka. The torpedo was fired from a US fast attack submarine.

Albanese confirms three Australians on US sub that sank Iranian ship

The prime minister insists “no Australian personnel have participated in any offensive action against Iran”. Greens senator David Shoebridge says both things cannot be true.

  • Matthew Knott and Nick Newling

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Leaders behaving badly or if not, woefully

Readers evaluate the actions of Trump, Netanyahu and the words of Albanese and the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and only one of them gets a positive result.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses parliament.

Question time as it happened: Canadian PM Mark Carney addresses parliament, Labor’s FOI bill ditched in Senate

Question time returns to the House of Representatives after Canadian leader Mark Carney addressed a joint sitting of parliament earlier today.

  • Nick Newling
Opposition spokesman for housing Andrew Bragg.

Labor offered Coalition more staff to support dead FOI bill, says Bragg

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has revealed a negotiating tactic from the government in seeking support for the controversial bill that was shelved on Thursday.

  • Nick Newling
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney addressing the Australian parliament.

Carney: Australia and Canada must ‘combine for strength’ or face domination

The Canadian prime minister said smaller nations were concluding that they must pursue “greater strategic autonomy” in an era of great power competition.

  • Matthew Knott
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Now is time to expedite cleaner, more secure transport

Readers argue that the volatility of Middle East oil should propel the government to incentivise the take-up of clean energy.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, centre, with Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino,

‘The world needs us’: Carney pushes Australia and Canada to deepen trade, defence ties

Australian and Canadian troops would move easily between each other’s facilities under a new agreement being pushed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

  • Matthew Knott and Peter Hartcher
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History repeats: foreign intervention, dictators

Readers write of the US and Israeli attack on Iran as just the latest attempt by foreign powers to influence its leadership.

Will James King, 19, was arrested by police after he sent messages to the prime minister and NSW premier Chris Minns threatening to kill them.

West Australian teenager pleads guilty to threatening to kill prime minister, Minns

The 19-year-old also sent a message to NSW Premier Chris Minns saying ‘I’ll assassinate you and Albo and the country will be a better place’.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt and Rachael Clifford
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during question time on Tuesday.

‘Frightening’: Labor luminary hits out at Australian support for Iran strikes

The former foreign minister’s comments came after opposition frontbencher Andrew Hastie said he was comfortable with the US demonstrating its strength as a deterrence to adversarial nations.

  • Matthew Knott and Nick Newling