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Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the department secured her release through diplomatic engagement.
The outgoing president is purging agencies to expand his influence, and Biden's team can do little to limit Trump's behaviour toward Iran, Afghanistan and more.
Kylie Moore-Gilbert has reportedly been moved to Qarchak prison in the desert for "punishment"
About 81,000 people around the globe have been sickened by the coronavirus that kept finding new targets.
The plane crash killed all 176 people on board, mostly Iranians and Iranian-Canadians.
The Ukraine International Airlines plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran's airport on Wednesday morning.
The US president addressed the nation for the first time since ordering the killing of Iran's top general last week.
A Ukrainian airliner crashed on Wednesday due to technical problems after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport.
The strike on the al-Asad and Erbil bases represent the first known retaliation to Trump's killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani.
Destroying cultural property during armed conflict is considered a war crime under international law, one the U.S. has decried in the past.