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A UNIFIL vehicle drives through Beirut as part of a UN peacekeeping convoy. Photo: AFP / PATRICK BAZ Four UN peacekeepers from Italy were wounded by rockets in Lebanon fired by Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, Italian officials said. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed "deep indignation and concern" over "new attacks suffered by the Italian headquarters of UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) in southern Lebanon" on Friday. "These attacks are unacceptable," she said in a statement, calling on "the parties on the ground to guarantee, at all times, the safety of UNIFIL soldiers and to collaborate to quickly identify those responsible". Meloni did not attribute blame but Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said the rockets were "fired by Hezbollah" and called on bo...

By Lauren Day in Bangkok Australians Holly Bowles and her friend Bianca Jones have died in a suspected mass methanol poisoning. Photo: Facebook While paying tribute to Melbourne teenager Bianca Jones, who died of methanol poisoning on a holiday in Laos earlier this week, the prime minister called it "every parent's worst fear". But really, it is every Australians'. A fear and a realisation that it could have been any one of us. A nation of travellers, a nation of drinkers, a nation in a neighbourhood of lax alcohol regulation. No-one felt this more than those who have survived methanol poisoning before, those lucky few who lived to tell just how terrifying it is. 'I feel guilty that I got off so lucky' Perth man Bailey Chalmers has been watching with a heavy heart the news of the mas...