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Players from Iran women’s football team ‘seek refuge in Australia’

Five members of the Iranian women’s football team have left their training camp and sought refuge in Australia after fears of “dire consequences” if they returned home. Iran’s exiled crown prince said he had been told Fatemeh Pasandideh, Zahra Ghanbari, Zahra Sarbali, Atefeh Ramazanzadeh and Mona Hamoudi were in a “safe location”. US President Donald […]

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UK must urgently boost defence spending or risk being vulnerable to missile attacks, general warns

General Sir Richard Barrons told Sky News this meant politicians would have to make “very difficult choices” to shift investment away from peacetime priorities such as health and welfare but that – following the eruption of war between the US and Israel against Iran – the world has become even more dangerous than when his

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Iran war: Markets are plummeting as the conflict escalates – but not every industry is affected

The conflict in Iran is inflicting misery on millions – driving up bills and upending energy markets. But a perverse effect of war is that some industries do well: that’s the way our global financial system works. In this case, a group of American energy companies stand to benefit. “US liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporters

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Iran war: Oil suffers biggest one-day gain in six years as stocks plunge

The price of oil has clocked its biggest single-day gain in six years – with Brent crude surging by more than 20% to $114 (£85) a barrel. It comes as investor uncertainty surrounding the war in Iran deepens, with fears growing of a prolonged conflict across the Middle East. Stock markets across Asia also fell

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Woman armed with AR-15 rifle fires gunshots into Rihanna’s California home

Several gunshots have been fired into Rihanna’s California home – with one round penetrating the mansion’s wall. A 30-year-old female suspect was taken into custody following the incident in Beverly Hills on Sunday afternoon. Los Angeles Police have said the popstar was home at the time – but it is unclear whether her partner A$AP

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Woman arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after shots fired at Rihanna’s LA home

A 35-year-old Florida woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after shots were fired at Rihanna’s home. The incident happened in the Beverly Hills area of LA on Sunday afternoon. Police confirmed to NBC News in Los Angeles that the star was home with her partner A$AP Rocky and their three young children.

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Huge fire shuts Scotland’s busiest train station indefinitely

A fire at a vape shop has forced the closure of Scotland’s busiest railway station “until further notice”, Network Rail says. Dozens of trains were cancelled on Sunday after a four-storey building in Union Street, close to Glasgow Central Station, caught fire. The building has partially collapsed, and the station will not reopen on Monday

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Iran’s miscalculation has ‘destroyed everything’, Qatar’s PM says

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani has described Iran’s strikes on Gulf countries as a “dangerous miscalculation” – warning the escalation risks destabilising the region and sending shockwaves through the global economy. Speaking to the media for the first time since Qatar has come under repeated missile and drone attacks, the prime minister told Sky

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UK health agency investigating London legionnaires’ disease cluster

Specialists from Britain’s Health Security Agency (UKHSA) are investigating a cluster of Legionnaires’ disease cases linked to north and southwest London. The public health body is working to discover whether the cases are linked and to establish their possible source. Legionnaires’ disease is a severe pneumonia, which is caught by breathing in tiny droplets of

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