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Australia has just five week’s supply of fuel in its reserves. The government says it's more than enough, but with Iran threatening to set any tanker in the Hormuz Strait on fire there’s growing anxiety about energy supply and petrol prices.

First they were now they're not. The US has backed away from earlier reports that they've been arming Kurdish fighters in western Iran and Iraq with the hope that they will take up the fight against the Islamic Republic on the ground. Analysts say it would be a risky move given the long and chequered history of their colabs in other middle-eastern conflicts. 

North Korean women’s football team is back on the international stage after 15 years in the wilderness following a doping scandal. Despite this they're one of the hot favourites to take home the Asian cup in Australia this month. So how did this global pariah become a football powerhouse and can they return to their former glory? Football writer and host of The Far Post pod Samantha Lewis has been following their rise and fall for years and says we could be witnessing another dramatic assent to the top of the world's game.