The US military has revealed two American troops are dead and one is missing after Iran launched more attacks on the United States Gulf allies.

The deaths occurred on Friday during an Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack on an American base in Jordan.

A senior Iranian official has warned that full scale war with the United States could soon resume as both sides continue to trade strikes.

Australian Muslim organisations say the federal government's response to an Islamophobia report is a "step in the right direction", but more needs to be done.

The government's responded to Special Envoy Aftab Malik's report 10 months after it was released, accepting 35 out of 54 recommendations.

Lebanese Muslim Association Secretary Gamel Kheir says the government needs to take a "proactive step" not a "reactive" one.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has attacked the Albanese government and blamed migrants for Australia's social problems.

Ms Hanson has ended what she calls a "fact finding mission" in Europe, after speaking to a mostly empty session of the Conservative Political Action Conference in London.

She sparked controversy after recording a podcast with UK far-right activist and convicted criminal Tommy Robinson.

She also attended a swish Dolce and Gabana fashion show in Sicily with her political benefactor, mining billionaire, Gina Rinehart.

The premier of Canada's Ontario province, Doug Ford has hit back at criticism from U-S President Donald Trump about wildfire smoke that's blanketed Canada and the United States.

Nearly one thousand blazes are continuing to burn across Canada, including 191 in Ontario.

Mr Trump has blamed the Canadian government for what he calls its poor forest management, and threatened to impose more tariffs.

Mr Ford says the U-S president has forgotten about how Canada came to the United States rescue last year.

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During the One Nation leader's two-week trip, which Pauline Hanson called a fact-finding mission, she's recorded a podcast episode with far-right campaigner and convicted criminal Tommy Robinson, stayed at a luxury resort, and been touted as a guest speaker at a political gala dinner closed to media.

The Prime Minister has announced the government's preliminary response to the special envoy’s report to combat Islamophobia. The government has updated its travel advice for Laos, telling Australians to exercise a high degree of caution.There have been reports of explosions across Iran as the US military says it has completed its seventh ​straight ‌night of strikes against the country, ​adding ‌that it targeted military logistics infrastructure and ​other ‌sites.

Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia has welcomed the federal government's response to his landmark report.

Josephine Asher with your top stories on this Saturday morning…Lao authorities have charged the owner of a distillery after a mass methanol poisoning incident in which two young Australian women died. 19-year-old Bianca Jones and Holly Morton-Bowles, died after consuming tainted drinks at a backpackers hostel in Vang Vieng in November 2024. The charges include the sale of food products harmful to health and operating an illegal business, which carry a possible jail term of up to four years. Gulf nations have again come under fire, as the United States and Iran have been escalating their attacks, since their ceasefire agreement collapsed last week.Iran reported targeting US assets in Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Jordan, and for the first time in Syria, saying it was responding to deadly US strikes.One nation leader, Pauline Hanson has appeared at a gala dinner for the UK's conservative political action conference, in London, but the media has been barred from entering the event.  The overseas visit described by the senator as a "fact finding mission" has drawn controversy after she met with far right anti-Islam campaigner, Tommy Robinson.Rescue authorities are continuing to search through the rubble of a large landslide in China's southwest, which has killed at least 8 people, and left 34 missing. And a leading oncologist and spokesperson for Bowel Cancer Australia says he's developing new guidelines for early-onset bowel cancer, with a growing number of people in their 20s and 30s being diagnosed. Press the 'Follow' or '+' button on this show page to add us to your playlist, so you never miss an episode.

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Telstra has blamed last week's network outage on failures in its maintenance procedures.

The telco's executives have been grilled by a Senate inquiry today over the outage, which blocked more than 600 triple zero calls and caused widespread problems on transport and payment networks.

Telstra says a fix to an earlier fault was not properly documented, and a crucial software update not performed.

CEO Vicki Brady has conceded the telco is at fault.

Moira Deeming's political career with the Victorian Liberals is over, after the party's state executive voted to revoke the MP's candidacy for the November election.

She had alleged her party room colleague Matthew Guy had assaulted her at a community event in May -- but after police reviewed CCTV, they said no offence was detected.

Mrs Deeming has refused to apologise, saying she made the allegation in good faith.

The Chinese Foreign ministry has rejected a claim by Donald Trump that China interfered in the 2020 US federal election.

The US President made the claim in a speech earlier today, and said the U-S would release documents showing China hacked 220-million voter files.

He didn't say how the hacked information may have been used against the US, but also repeated his debunked claim that the 2020 presidential election he lost to Joe Biden was rigged.And for more news at any time you can follow the ABC Top Stories podcast.