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Five men have been released on bail after being arrested over a suspected bomb plot.
The men were detained early Sunday after three vans were spotted near R-A-F Fairford, which has been used by the US in the Iran war.
The head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, says the vehicles have been subject to extensive examination.
He says the motives and associations of the suspects will also continue to be investigated.
"To be very clear, this does not mean that the investigation is over. They are subject to stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others. They absolutely remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines of inquiry."
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US and Iranian officials have spoken separately with mediators as part of a renewed effort to end seven months of war.
The IRNA news agency has reported Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi as saying Iran expected to receive the US response to its latest ceasefire proposals and its conditions for restoring passage of maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
US President Donald Trump says he expects more negotiations.
REPORTER: “Has your team spoken to Iran today?”
TRUMP: “Yeah they have.”
REPORTER: “They have to mediators?”
TRUMP: “Yeah. They have.”
REPORTER: “Anything else you can share…”
TRUMP: “No, no.”
REPORTER: “…about any movement on Iran talks?”
TRUMP: “No, no, we're going to win. As far as I'm concerned. It's going to be one way or the other. It's going to be… it's going to go pretty quickly too.”
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The family of an Australian activist missing in Cambodia is imploring the federal government to find him.
50-year-old Australian-Vietnamese democracy campaigner, Tran Hiep, has not been in touch with his wife since September 18.
Mr Hiep is a freelance I-T professional who founded the Australian Alliance to Combat Human Trafficking.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the government is doing what it can.
"We're continuing to deal, including engage with family involved and provide consular assistance. That's what Australian governments do for our citizens. And we'll continue to engage directly with the family."
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Aboriginal leaders are continuing to call for urgent child protection reform in Western Australia.
It follows a report in The Australian newspaper last week claiming more than a dozen children were living in dangerously squalid public housing in the remote mining town of Port Hedland, 1300 kilometres north of Perth.
The National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People, Sue-Anne Hunter, has begun a rapid review of child safety in the region.
Aboriginal community representatives are calling for a royal commission into the crisis.
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Larissa Waters is stepping down as leader of the Greens.
She has cited declining health due to a pre-existing kidney condition as her reason.
The Queensland senator says the demands of leadership, including additional travel, have taken a toll.
Ms Waters says a party room meeting will take place this week to determine the next steps for leadership.
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The Reserve Bank is expected to lift interest rates when it meets this afternoon.
Nationals Leader Matt Canavan has blamed the likely increase on out of control government spending.
But Treasurer Jim Chalmers has told Channel 7 that is not true.
"We've got an inflation challenge in our economy which is made much worse by the war in the middle east. That's not an opinion, it's a fact."
Meanwhile, Canstar's data insights director, Sally Tindall, has told SBS News that some mortgage holders don't have much of a buffer to fall back on if rates rise.
"For some borrowers they've already starred to bite and this could well be the straw that breaks the camels back for some. But looking at the data and looking at what we can see in aggregate the majority of Australian borrowers should be able to clear these higher repayments, for many it won't be easy, it won't be pretty, it might mean they have to eat into their buffers in their offset account or their extra repayments they had stored in their mortgage."
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A pay phone in the N-S-W south coast town of Narooma has been officially heritage listed.
It's been added to the National Trust Register for the role it played during the Black Summer bushfires.
Almost a thousand calls in two months were made from the payphone after mobile phone reception went down, as locals and tourists sought to check in with family and friends.
