Rio Tinto is jointly funding a A$28m "toad containment zoe" to protect the Pilbara region.

The 2027 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia is postponed because of a series of deadly attacks on the host country.

Western officials stress that any force sent to Ukraine would not take part in any offensive operations.

Officials say at least nine 3,000kg aerial bombs hit a southern Ukrainian village in what the president calls an "utterly horrific" attack.

Adam Robinson, Helen Sharp, and their two children - Emma, four, and Charlie, two - died after the plane nosedived.

The move comes barely a week after Rwanda's defence ministry was hit with sanctions by the US Treasury.