The Latest Breaking News from Tim Watts

Australians in Lebanon will be transported by two mercy Qantas flights from Cyprus to Sydney as tensions in the region remain ongoing.

Plus, are potentially catastrophic spills now so common that they barely merit a mention?

Project Arrow contract signed amid scramble to keep on track £1.6bn defence deal and ran until at least 2017

Seven Russian prison officials involved in the mistreatment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in jail, have been sanctioned by Australia.

Greens say Israel’s actions ‘a slaughter’ and Labor says other parties trying to ‘divide our community’

US defence official dismissed reports of attack against a US military cargo ship, Ocean Jazz, as Houthi propaganda

Criticism from the assistant foreign minister, Tim Watts, comes as backbencher says Israeli prime minister ‘is not a partner for peace’

Penny Wong will visit the Middle East within weeks, following a bipartisan delegation travelling to Israel.

Brittany Higgins received a settlement of $2.4 million from the Commonwealth with no admission of liability, contrary to what she told the Federal Court in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation suit, and broadcaster Alan Jones says he will sue over Nine newspapers’ allegations he indecently assaulted young men.