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‘They are safe here’: five Iranian women footballers granted humanitarian visas in Australia

Home affairs minister Tony Burke confirms US president Donald Trump’s overnight comments on social media that the players had been ‘taken care of’Middle East crisis – live updatesFive members of the Iranian women’s football team have been granted humanitarian visas in Australia, with Anthony Albanese offering assistance to the other players and saying “help is here”.The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, confirmed the dramatic humanitarian offer on Tuesday morning, hours after US President Donald Trump posted about their plight on social media. Burke said the visas had been granted around 1.30am on Tuesday morning, around the time Trump’s social media posts, which first criticised, then praised, Australia. Continue reading...

Middle East crisis live: Iranian missiles intercepted over Turkey and Qatar as Israel resumes strikes across Tehran and Beirut

Trump calls Operation Epic Fury ‘one of the most complex and stunning operations ever conducted’; Iran’s foreign minister says ‘Iran does not want to harm ordinary Americans’ Tell us: how have you been affected by the latest events in the Middle East?Donald Trump has said a decision on when to end the war with Iran will be a “mutual” one he’ll make together with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Times of Israel has reported.It said Trump also claimed in a brief telephone interview on Sunday that Iran would have destroyed Israel if he and Netanyahu had not been around. The US president said:Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it … We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account. Continue reading...

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