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- Iran says retaliation will go beyond the region if US crosses a red line
- Former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith to appear in court today charged with war crimes
- Decorated cricketer David Warner charged with drink driving
Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, has criticised Donald Trump's latest threat against his country, after the US president warned that "a whole civilisation will die", if Tehran does not accept US war demands by his set deadline of Tuesday night.
Addressing the Security Council, Mr Iravani has said Tehran would take immediate and proportionate action, if US President Donald Trump followed through on his threats over the Strait of Hormuz.
"This threat constitutes a flagrant and egregious violation of the IHL (international humanitarian law) and the most fundamental rules of governing armed conflict. The United States would bear full and undeniable responsibility for committing a manifest war crimes and a crime against humanity. Iran will not stand idle in the face of such egregious war crimes."
As the deadline looms, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that 14 million Iranians, including himself, had volunteered to sacrifice their lives in the war.
Earlier, Iranian official Alireza Rahimi issued a video message calling on all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students and their professors to form human chains around power plants.
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A United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz has been vetoed by Russia and China.
Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya says his no vote was because he considered the draft to be unbalanced, inaccurate and confrontational, while China's ambassador said the resolution repeated mistakes of the past.
The 15-member Security Council otherwise voted 11 in favour of the resolution put forward by Bahrain, with Pakistan and Colombia abstaining.
The vote took place just hours before a deadline set by US President Donald Trump for Iran to open the strategic waterway or face attacks on its power plants and bridges.
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One attacker has been killed and two wounded after an extensive gun fight with police outside the Israeli embassy in Türkiye.
Shots rang for at least 10 minutes outside the Istanbul embassy, with two police officers wounded in the shootout that has been devoid of Israeli officials since 2023.
Türkiye's Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci says the three attackers, two of which were brothers, had links to an organisation that he says "exploits religion".
Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned the incident and promised a full inquiry into what happened.
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A lawyer representing the families of people who disappeared under Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship has welcomed the decision to extradite former Sydney nanny Adriana Alcira Rivas.
Ms Rivas, now in her 70s, is set to be sent back to Chile to face court over aggravated kidnapping allegations, after losing her seven-year battle to remain in Australia.
She is accused of participating in the disappearances of seven people while working for Augusto Pinochet's secret police force - charges she denies.
Adriana Navarro, who represented the families of the seven victims, has told SBS Spanish the decision ends years of uncertainty.
"Australia has never shown that it did not wish to go ahead with the case (of extradition). What has happened is that it has been trapped by the delays, trapped by clarifications and sometimes this has to do with the fact that we have two completely different legal systems. The domestic system in Chile is very different from that of Australia´s, in terms of procedures and, therefore, Australia needed clarity."
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Former member of the Australian Defence Force Ben Roberts-Smith has been charged with five counts of war crime-murder.
The 47-year-old Victoria Cross recipient is due to appear in Bail Division Court today after his arrest at Sydney Airport on Tuesday after arriving on a flight from Brisbane.
The charges have been brought after a joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police and the Office of the Special Prosecutor, an executive agency established in 2021 to investigate alleged war crimes committed by ADF personnel in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016.
AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett has provided detail of the charges, which relate to alleged unlawful killings of civilians in Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province between 2009 and 2012.
"It will be alleged the victims were not taking part in hostilities at the time of their alleged murder in Afghanistan. It will be alleged the victims were detained, unarmed and were under the control of ADF members when they were killed. It will be alleged the victims were shot by the accused or shot by subordinate members of the ADF in the presence of and acting on the orders of the accused."
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One of Australia's most decorated cricketers will face court after allegedly blowing twice the legal limit in a random breath test on Easter Sunday.
Police say David Warner was allegedly stopped at a roadside breath testing unit at Maroubra in Sydney's east, and charged after allegedly producing a blood alcohol reading of 0.104 - more than twice the legal limit.
Warner has been captaining the Karachi Kings in the Pakistan Super League in recent weeks.
He was one of Australia's most destructive batsmen until his retirement from Test cricket in 2024 and has since appeared on the Fox Cricket commentary team.
