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Israel and Lebanon have signed a ceasefire. But this isn't a tidy end to a war and attention moves on quickly - Marika Sosnowski, The University of Melbourne

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Iran has a powerful new tool in the Strait of Hormuz that it can leverage long after the war

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Iran's military forces combine state-of-the-art drones and hackers with out-of-date conventional weapons

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US blockade of Strait of Hormuz ratchets up tensions with China ahead of Trump visit to Beijing

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Lebanon's political elites are using displacement and humanitarian crisis to delay elections again

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Rock art thousands of years old sheds new light on the mysterious Tasmanian tiger

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What Viktor Orbán's election loss means for Putin, Trump and the rise of right-wing populism -- Matthew Sussex, Australian National University

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