Australia news LIVE: IS-linked families to return to Australia tonight; US fires on Iranian tanker as Tehran considers new proposal to end war; Israel strikes Beirut

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Police are ready to arrest multiple women with links to Islamic State when they arrive in Australia tonight. Four women and nine children are expected to touch down in Sydney and Melbourne.
Iran said it was reviewing a new US proposal, after sources said Washington and Tehran were closing in on a one-page memorandum to end the war. President Donald Trump said the US has had “very good talks” with Iran in the past 24 hours, and “it’s very possible that we’ll make a deal”, hours after threatening to resume bombing Iran if it did not agree.
An American fighter jet shot the rudder of an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman as it tried to breach a blockade, US Central Command said.
Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time since a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group was announced on April 17. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the strike targeted a commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force.
Australia’s reserves of diesel and jet fuel will be boosted to 50 days of average use under a $10 billion funding package.
Nationals leader Matt Canavan has vowed to run the “mother of all campaigns” against the cancellation of the final stages of the Inland Rail project.