The US military has launched new strikes on Iran after President Donald Trump said US forces would hit the country “hard” as Tehran has taken “too long to make a deal” to end the war.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared to embrace data showing inflation has risen more than ‌4%, telling reporters that he “loved” inflation and reiterating his belief that prices will fall as soon as the Iran war ends.

A man accused of committing one of Australia’s worst mass shootings, at Sydney’s famed ​Bondi Beach last December, has been charged with ‌19 additional offences.

Greece’s parliament approved legislation late on Tuesday to fast-track deportation of rejected asylum seekers and allow their ​transfer to “return hubs” outside the bloc once bilateral agreements ‌are reached with third countries.

Pope Leo spoke in Catalan, a language key to the ‌region’s identity, as he arrived in Barcelona on Tuesday for the second stop of a week-long tour of Spain in which he has warned that conflicts have pushed the world into a profound crisis.

The United States on Tuesday launched ​strikes against Iran after President Donald Trump said Tehran had shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz, deepening doubts about prospects for peace between ‌the two countries.

One of the world’s biggest smartphone makers is finally entering its artificial intelligence era in a move analysts say could change the way Australians use the technology.

Boosting electricity’s contribution to world energy needs from 20 per cent to 35 per cent features in a Turkey-led COP31 action agenda supported by Australia in its negotiations role.

The Indonesian parliament passed revisions to the country’s national police law on Tuesday that allow serving police officers to accept posts in the civilian government.

ran’s football federation (FFIRI) said on ​Tuesday that its ‌ticket allocation for the World Cup has ​been pulled ​just days before football’s ⁠global showpiece kicks ​off, leaving supporters ​who had already made travel plans unable to ​attend their ​team’s matches.

In launching ​renewed strikes on Iran on Monday in apparent open defiance of Donald Trump, Israel has tried to make its case to have a say at ‌the peace negotiating table, where it has so far been kept at arm’s length by the U.S. president.

Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump that ​they immediately “stop ‘shooting'”, though Tehran said it would resume strikes if Israel continued to hit Hezbollah in Lebanon.