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U.S. intelligence officials have been skeptical that a popular uprising could dislodge the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which controls much of Iran's security apparatus.

Explosions occurred in various locations in Beijing, China.

The United States Armed Forces conducted airstrikes against targets in Tehran, Iran.

Iran's government vowed retaliation against the United States and Israel for the airstrikes.

US President Joe Biden condemned the Iranian retaliation as an unacceptable escalation.

China should build an underground network across its western region to protect key energy and defence facilities

China should build an underground network to secure long-term reserves while boosting national security and crisis resilience

Zhang Shishu, chief technical expert at Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina), called for critical facilities to be embedded deep beneath the Earth's surface at a safer, less detectable level

Israel launched strikes on Iranian oil facilities

The strikes hit four storage facilities and an oil production transfer centre in Tehran and Alborz provinces

The attacks sparked huge fires at the targeted facilities

An executive order gave protection to the herbicide Roundup

An executive order gave protection to the U.S.'s only supply of a controversial, highly flammable munition

China has signalled strong optimism for finalising negotiations with neighbouring Asian countries to seal a new institutional framework on contested South China Sea waterways.

At China's annual foreign policy press conference on Sunday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi described the negotiations as having entered a 'critical phase' for talks on the South China Sea Code of Conduct (CoC).

The negotiations on the South China Sea Code of Conduct (CoC) are at the heart of easing tensions in the disputed waterways.

Hundreds of activists filled the streets of New York City in protest of the Israeli-US war on Iran.

Wang Yi cast China as: an irreplaceable mainstay

Wang Yi rejected any suggestion of a US-China G2 duopoly for global co-leadership as a replay of disastrous great-power rivalries

Wang Yi renewed Beijing's call for a post-hegemonic order anchored in the United Nations, advocating an "equal and orderly multipolar world" that transcended bloc confrontation

Israel Defense Forces conducted strikes on fuel depots in Iran

The Israeli strikes generated massive black clouds of smoke over the Iranian capital Tehran

The U.S. and Israel have pounded Iran's leadership and undercut its defense capabilities

President Trump has offered wildly different explanations for what he hopes to achieve

US-Israel strikes caused a reduction in shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and production slowdowns in some oil and gas producing states in the Middle East

The US Department of Energy secretary, Chris Wright, said the spike in energy prices would last weeks, at the worst, not months

The US would not target Iran's energy industry

Keir Starmer and Donald Trump held a call on Sunday about the Middle East war

The call was about the Middle East war

The call came after fierce criticism of Keir Starmer by Donald Trump

The criticism from Donald Trump was over Keir Starmer's initial refusal to have any role in the US-Israeli war with Iran

China's foreign minister Wang Yi outlined his country's positions on the war in Iran

China's foreign minister Wang Yi outlined his country's positions on general relations with America

Iran indicated it had chosen Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's son Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, as his successor

Israel struck fuel depots in Tehran overnight

Bahrain said an Iranian attack had damaged one of its desalination plants

The United States and Israel struck Iranian oil storage depots and refining facilities in Tehran.

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran's slain Supreme Leader, is a mysterious figure

The succession of the slain leader's son is seen as a signal of the Islamic republic's defiance of Israel and the United States

The succession of the slain leader's son is seen as a signal of continuity during crisis

The U.S. State Department ordered its diplomats in Saudi Arabia to leave.

Senior diplomats are bracing for a possible surge in violence in the war with Iran.

ASX to fall as investors fret over oil supplies

Craig Foster is 'very worried' about Iran women's football team

A man was charged with murder after an alleged stabbing in Sydney's inner west on Sunday

Escalating geopolitical tensions will not derail Hong Kong's goal set out in the country's 15th five-year plan and its efforts to implement the blueprint, former leader Leung Chun-ying has said

Leung Chun-ying described agility and adaptability as in Hong Kong's DNA

Beijing expected Hong Kong to serve national development more proactively, calling on the city to "step forward"

The annual 'two sessions' in Beijing are under way

Beijing has been blunt about the problems it thinks Hong Kong faces

There is the usual praise for the Hong Kong government and Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu's leadership

Premier Li Qiang included in his annual work report, delivered at the opening session of the National People's Congress, a striking difference

Mojtaba Khamenei chosen as: supreme leader of Iran

oil prices spiked past: 100

Australian shares plunged: ~130

Donald Trump says oil price spike 'a small price to pay'

A U.S. cruise missile struck an Iranian school compound

President Trump said Iran was responsible for the strike