Middle East travel warning amid concerns of serious escalation | ABC News

Here are the top stories from ABC News on Thursday August 1, 2024.

00:00 Penny Wong tells Australians in Lebanon they should leave following fears of a full scale war.
00:25 Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Iran, 24 hours after a senior Hezbollah commander was killed in Beirut.
01:44 Penny Wong says Beirut airport could close completely if the situation escalates.
02:22 Jade Macmillan on the US reaction to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran.
03:52 Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has delivered 'crushing blows' to Iranian proxies, including Hezbollah and Hamas.
05:16 US National Security spokesman John Kirby speaks on the situation in the Middle East.
05:55 Police find bodies of a man and woman on boat in Sydney's North.
06:15 New data shows 1 in 10 young people who responded to Mission Australia survey experienced homelessness.
06:30 Donald Trump draws criticism for questioning racial identity of Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris's father is of Jamaican heritage and her mother was born in India.
07:15 Whooping cough cases in WA more than triple from last year
07:35 A woman dies in a house fire in Melbourne's south east.

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