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Time is running out for the Iranian women’s football team as fears for their safety grow | Jack Snape

There are urgent calls for Australia to take action before the team return to Iran but with no word from the players themselves the situation is fraught and uncertain

Their forward was once suspended when her head scarf slipped off during a goal celebration. Their youngest player is just 18. Another once worked as a personal trainer overseas. These are the women of the Iran football team, who are at the centre of an international diplomatic incident, even as the US and Israel rain missiles down on their family back home.

The team remains in a hotel on the Gold Coast, where they played their third and final match of the Women’s Asian Cup on Sunday. Their departure from Australia is imminent, even if it’s not clear whether they want to go.

2026-03-09 04:08:15

Shots fired at Rihanna’s house in Beverly Hills and woman arrested – reports

Local news outlets report the pop star is unharmed after ‘approximately 10 shots’ were fired from a vehicle across the street

A woman allegedly fired numerous shots into the Beverly Hills home of Rihanna on Sunday, and a round went through a wall of the house, local news outlets reported.

The Los Angeles Times ⁠and NBC4, citing a Los Angeles police spokesperson, reported that authorities responded to the shooting at 1.21pm on Sunday and detained a 30-year-old female suspect.

2026-03-09 04:03:39

Middle East crisis live: Mojtaba Khamenei chosen as Iran’s new supreme leader; oil prices soar past $100 a barrel

Iran has named hardliner Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader; Donald Trump says oil price spike ‘a small price to pay’ as markets tumble

Donald Trump has said a decision on when to end the war with Iran will be a “mutual” one he’ll make together with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Times of Israel has reported.

It said Trump also claimed in a brief telephone interview on Sunday that Iran would have destroyed Israel if he and Netanyahu had not been around. The US president said:

Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it … We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.

I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account.

2026-03-09 03:55:35

US military kills six in strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific

Sunday’s attack brought death toll to at least 157 people since the Trump administration began targeting alleged ‘narco-terrorists’

The US military said it killed six men on Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers.

Sunday’s attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the administration began targeting “narco-terrorists” in small vessels in September.

2026-03-09 03:09:50