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Iranian forces have seized two container ships in the Strait of Hormuz, and attacked a third.
That ship has been identified by the Nour News, Fars and Mehr agencies as a vessel called the Euphoria, which is registered under the flag of Panama.
Iran has maintained that it will not consider attending further ceasefire talks while the US maintains its own blockade of Iranian ports and ships.
But American diplomat and retired lieutenant general in the US Army Keith Kellogg has told Fox News, the US naval blockade is working as intended.
"President Trump has it right. Pushing this thing economically is going to break their back. I think we need to continue both the blockade. But ramp it up even more. Make it so that it is almost impossible for them to do so. That doesn't meant you launch to downtown Tehran. But it can be very selective raids, which you want to do. And create problems for them in command and control. And I think the President has the ability to do that."
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Meanwhile a number of ships remain stranded in the Persian Gulf as the Iranian blockade of the Strait continues.
The United Nations has continued to call for a diplomatic solution to the standoff.
Captain Raman Kapoor, who is serving on a ship carrying crude oil, says there are hundreds of ships like his in a similar position.
"Since 54 days, we are here stranded inside this conflict zone. And, the most important, most concerning part is the uncertainty and helplessness and prolonged stays, delayed repatriations - all these points are very much concerning at the moment."
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Disability advocates have welcomed some aspects of the federal government's plan to reform the National Disability Insurance Scheme but say there must be further clarity around cuts to support and eligibility, with fears that those in need will lose access to vital supports.
The CEO of Carers A-C-T Cain Beckett says the changes could save billions without necessarily reducing services.
"By simplifying the scheme that we have ended up with, which wasn't what we intended, we can save billions and billions of dollars without reducing services."
Under tighter eligibility assessments, up to 160,000 people are expected to lose access to the scheme between now and the end of the decade.
People with Disability Australia president Jeremy Hope says there was little clarity provided over what will happen to those people.
"There wasn't a lot of detail around the what next, and we very much want to be part of that what next? How do we make the scheme sustainable and work? How do we ensure that people have ongoing access and security."
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Food rescue charity OzHarvest says more than a-third of people seeking help in the past year have been doing so for the first time, as cost-of-living pressures continue to mount.
The charity has released its annual Frontline Report which shows those seeking help include double income households and families with mortgages.
OzHarvest CEO James Goth says more than 74,000 people are being turned away from food support each month.
He says they're hearing heartbreaking stories.
"One that's particularly impacted me is we've got one of our charities that had to shut down for four weeks recently because they didn't have enough resources to keep operating and over that period one of their recipients had to put her child into foster care so you can see the flow on effect of a lack of food flowing through to bigger impacts on families and on people's lives."
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More details have emerged about a traffic crash in Queensland that claimed the life of a three-year-old girl on Monday night.
The toddler was fatally struck by a ute as she was walking home from daycare in Caboolture, in the state's Moreton Bay region.
Queensland Police says the toddler was with her mother, grandmother and baby brother when she ran into the path of the Nissan Navara utility.
An investigation so far suggests the 49-year-old driver had been turning slowly and did not see the child run onto the road.
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A traditional landowner from Papua New Guinea has been awarded one the world's most prestigious environmental prizes.
Theonila Roka Matbob has won the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize, also known as the "Green Nobel", for her work in leading a landmark legal complaint in 2020 against Rio Tinto over environmental and human rights violations caused by its former mine at Bougainville.
The mining giant says it has committed to address the impact of the old copper and gold mine that operated from 1972 until 1989.
