The Biden administration is accusing Russia of moving to provide advanced military assistance to Iran, including air defence systems, helicopters and fighter jets, part of deepening cooperation between the two nations as Tehran provides drones to support Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has cited US intelligence assessments for the allegations, saying Russia was offering Iran "an unprecedented level of military and technical support that is transforming their relationship into a full-fledged defense partnership".

Kirby said Russia and Iran were considering standing up a drone assembly line in Russia for the Ukraine conflict, while Russia was training Iranian pilots on the Sukhoi Su-35 fighter and Iran could receive deliveries of the plane within the year.

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"These fighter planes will significantly strengthen Iran's air force relative to its regional neighbours," Kirby said.

The US allegations are part of a deliberate effort by the US to drive global isolation of Russia, in this case targeted at Arab nations who have looked to contain Iran's regional malevolence and who have not taken a strong stance against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Earlier this year, the Biden administration accused Saudi Arabia of siding with Russia in the conflict by shepherding cuts by the OPEC+ cartel to boost the price of oil, crucial to funding Moscow's war effort.

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Saudi Arabia and Iran have been on opposite sides of a years-long proxy war in Yemen.

Kirby said the arms transfers were in violation of UN Security Council resolutions and that the US would be "using the tools at our disposal to expose and disrupt these activities."

Concerns about the "deepening and a burgeoning defense partnership" between Russia and Iran come as the Biden administration has repeatedly accused Iran of assisting Russia with its invasion of Ukraine.

The administration says Iran sold hundreds of attack drones to Russian over the summer.

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Kirby on Friday reiterated the administration's belief that Iran is considering the sale of hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia, but acknowledged that the US doesn't have "perfect visibility into Iranian thinking on why" the deal hasn't been consummated.

The White House says Russia has also turned to North Korea for artillery as the nine-month war grinds on.

The White House has repeatedly sought to spotlight Russia's reliance on Iran and North Korea, another broadly isolated nation on the international stage, for support as it prosecutes its war against Ukraine.

UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly called the Iran-Russia collaboration a "desperate alliance."

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"Iran is now one of Russia's top military backers," he said.

"Their sordid deals have seen the Iranian regime send hundreds of drones to Moscow, which have been used to attack Ukraine's critical infrastructure and kill civilians.

"In return, Russia is offering military and technical support to the Iranian regime, which will increase the risk it poses to our partners in the Middle East and to international security."

The Biden administration recently unveiled sanctions against Iranian firms and entities involved in the transfer of Iranian drones to Russia for use in Ukraine.

It all comes as the administration has condemned the Islamic republic's violent squelching of protests that erupted throughout Iran after the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while she was held by the morality police.

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Even as the White House has accused Iran of backing Russia's war effort, the administration has not abandoned the possibility of reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, scuttled by the Trump administration in 2018.

The pact, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA, would provide Tehran with billions in sanctions relief in exchange for the country agreeing to roll back its nuclear program to the limits set by the 2015 deal.

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Australia's consumer watchdog will pay the legal costs for one of the world's biggest companies after a court dismissed a claim Google deceived or misled users about the use of their data.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleged the tech giant violated consumer law by not properly informing users their personal data could be used to track them across the internet and target ads.

However, the ACCC failed to establish Google contravened consumer law, Justice David Yates told the Federal Court on Friday.

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He said those who took the effort to read all of the information Google provided would have been properly informed.

He dismissed the application and ordered the ACCC to pay Google's legal costs.

A notification presented to Google account holders between 2016 and 2018 told users it would make it easier for them to control their data and information and make advertising "more relevant".

The commission contended Google had designed the notification in a way to maximise the number of account holders who consented, rather than maximise the number of users who understood what they were consenting to.

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However, Yates was not persuaded Google was acting untowardly by doing so.

"Account holders were given the choice as to whether they should give consent," Yates said.

Further information about the changes was available through links, and Google had to cater to people who were going to skip reading about the changes, those who would skim further information and those who would actually read it.

"Google's appreciation that its account holders comprised 'Skippers, Skimmers and Readers' explains why the notification was presented in a way that provided links to enable account holders to obtain more information in relation to Google's proposal, should that have been their desire," he said.

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Despite the time devoted to expert evidence from behavioural scientists at the hearing, Yates found it "strayed far from the case at hand" and was "of very limited assistance".

A Google spokesperson said the company was pleased with the decision, while the commission said it would "carefully consider" the judgment.

"We took this case because we were concerned that Google was not adequately providing consumers with clear and transparent information about how it collects and uses consumer data," ACCC acting chair Delia Rickard said.

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A Perth family grieving two losses after the death of a pregnant woman who was allegedly struck by a piece of concrete held a gender reveal for the unborn child they will never see grow up.

Diane Miller was five months pregnant when a 17-year-old boy allegedly threw a piece of concrete at her while she sat in her car outside Waterford Plaza Shopping Centre in Karawara last week.

The 30-year-old was knocked unconscious and went into cardiac arrest. She spent a few days in intensive care but did not survive.

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Her family held a gender reveal for the unborn child today, with blue glitter indicating Miller would have delivered a baby boy.

Miller's sister Alison told 9News she wants justice and is devastated by the loss of her sister who leaves behind a little boy.

"Words can't express how I feel about my sister. Knowing it would have been a boy. This little guy would have had a brother to grow up with," she said.

"This is proof there was a baby that was going to be born and it got taken away from us."

Alison said Miller's son is still wondering where his mum is.

"But now knowing there would have been two of them running around," she said.

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Miller's partner Philip Edmonds said he wants more justice.

The Perth dad said he's "trying to my best with my only baby boy".

WA law doesn't allow for separate punishment over the death of an unborn baby.

Yesterday, charges against a 17-year-old boy accused of throwing the piece of concrete that hit Miller were upgraded.

He was charged with one count of murder and will face Perth's Children's Court today.

An elderly Sydney divorcee who ran down his romantic rival before hacking him to death with an axe has been jailed for at least 15 years.

"One must infer that the final ordeal of the deceased must have been excruciatingly painful and terrifying, although mercifully short," Justice Robert Button said on Friday.

"And one can also infer that the loss to the former wife of the offender of the man with whom she was shortly to commence a new romantic life in such circumstances has been exceptionally distressing."

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Thanh Tran was found guilty in October of murdering 59-year-old Pok Min Fah on March 14, 2019, outside his ex-wife's Cabramatta West home.

The now 79-year-old, who had no criminal history, didn't deny repeatedly striking him with the axe after hitting him with his car.

But he unsuccessfully argued his judgment was substantially impaired due to a loss of control caused by trauma from his lived experience of Cambodian dictator Pol Pot's regime.

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In the NSW Supreme Court on Friday, Justice Button jailed him for 20 years with a non-parole period of 15 years, saying the sentence will almost certainly lead to him either dying in jail or being released in a state of enfeeblement.

"But that is the inevitable consequence of what Tran has done, and the stage of his life at which he has done it," he said.

Tran and his former wife had only recently divorced, but the intimate side of their marriage had ended two decades previously.

She was in a new relationship with Fah and they were to move in together days after he was killed.

Tran had moved out of the Cabramatta family home months earlier and was living in lonely and isolated circumstances in a nearby small apartment.

"He maintained a great fondness for his daughter, and had asked her to move in with him, an invitation that she had declined," the judge said.

Tran was sitting in his car outside the family home when he saw Fah walk out carrying a metal ladder Tran had not taken with him when he moved out.

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Tran drove his car directly at Fah, knocking him to the ground, before calmly stopping and obtaining the axe from the boot.

While his defenceless victim lay on the ground, he repeatedly hit his head with the axe.

"To express things plainly, the deceased was hacked to death where he lay."

The judge rejected claims Tran had binoculars in the car because he sometimes used them to watch soccer games from a distance and that he had the axe for self-protection.

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He set out Tran's terrible experiences in Cambodia and Vietnam, where he had endured a life that featured great deprivation on many occasions and for a time "gross inhumanity".

He accepted that Tran was suffering a mild version of major depression and that his life had been damaged by post-traumatic stress disorder, founded upon all of the grossly adverse experiences that he had endured.

"The loss of family life in late 2018 and early 2019 was, I accept, yet another loss, one which the offender by then was incapable of bearing.

"If he became eligible for release to parole, his prospects of rehabilitation would be excellent but the judge noted he had expressed no remorse whatsoever.

"It is noteworthy that he has not even seen fit to express remorse for the unquestionable suffering that he has visited upon his former wife, and also upon his beloved daughter, who was in the habit of referring to the deceased as 'uncle'."

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