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Defence Secretary John Healey stressed the need to redouble efforts to get ceasefires in the Middle East

Prime minister says UK should ‘unequivocally stand with Jewish community’ and reflects on deaths in Israel

Western leaders look feeble and helpless as religious fanatics and rightwing zealots dig the region deeper into conflict

Two bereaved young men — one Arab, one Israeli — at a tiny New York gathering may show us all a way forward

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Politicians will return to Canberra as tensions simmer over escalating conflict involving Gaza, Lebanon, Israel and Iran.

Israel's invasion of Lebanon this week and Iran's missile attack on its regional foe, all while war rages on in Gaza, have heightened the risk of a high-intensity conflict across the Middle East.

Oil prices stabilised Friday after soaring on fears about the Middle East crisis as investors await Israel's response to Iran's missile attack, while shares in Hong Kong resumed their rally on a mixed day for equity markets.

The dollar index (DXY00 ) Thursday rose by +0.26% to a 6-week high. The dollar remains underpinned as heightened Middle East tensions are boosting safe-haven demand for the dollar. Also, higher T-note yields Thursday strengthened the dollar’s interest rate differentials. In addition, weakness in the yen supports the dollar as...