As it happened: Australia rules out sending warship; Iran denies Israel says it hit 200 targets in single day; More Iranian women footballers ditch asylum bids

That's it for today's live coverage.

Here's what happened:

• A senior federal government minister said Australia will not be sending a warship to the Middle East after US President Donald Trump called for a multi-national naval force to protect oil tankers.
• Dubai airport closed again after a drone strike.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to rumours he is dead, posting a video of himself buying a coffee and saying he is "dead crazy" for "coffee".
• Five members of the Iranian women's football team have now scrapped their asylum applications to remain in Australia.

We'll return with the latest tomorrow.

Donald Trump is suggesting he may delay his much-anticipated visit to China at the end of the month as he seeks to ramp up the pressure on Beijing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and calm oil prices.

In an interview yesterday with the Financial Times, Trump said China's reliance on oil from the Middle East means it ought to help with a new coalition he is trying to put together to get oil tanker traffic moving through the strait after Iran's threats have throttled global flows of oil.

Trump said he'd "like to know" whether Beijing will help before the trip.

"We may delay," Trump said in the interview.

Trump's new comments came as US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng today in Paris for a new round of trade talks that were meant to pave the way for Trump's Beijing trip.

Passengers who were at Dubai Airport when a fuel tanker was hit by a drone have described hundreds of people being evacuated.

Raj Dholakia told CNN he was at the airport waiting to board a flight home to Toronto, via New York, when authorities evacuated the entire floor covering three gates.

"There were hundreds of people – resting, sleeping or walking – everyone was told to go to the nearest staircase and go down," Dholakia said.

"The escalator was full and even lifts were being used," he added, speaking from the assembly point, where he estimated up to 1000 passengers had gathered.

With seating scarce, some people sat on the floor, Dholakia said.

He added that many passengers may have been waiting in planes on the runway, as departure boards still listed a dozen flights as "gate closed," "final call," or "boarding".The airport is the world's busiest.

Back to how the war is affecting Australia, and NSW has held a meeting on fuel amid price hikes and panic buying.

More than 50 industry and government leaders met this morning at the state government's fuel security roundtable to "share expertise and discuss fuel security challenges arising from the conflict in the Middle East," the government said

It says it agreed to measures including:

• Fuel retailers using the FuelCheck app to notify when fuel is unavailable.

• The fuel industry prioritising supply to areas of NSW with limited access to fuel

• Bulk customers, government agencies and other stakeholders coordinating information requests through the NSW government's energy and utilities crisis team, allowing industry to focus on delivering fuel where it is most needed.

Japan is not planning to send ships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said, according to CNN, after US President Donald Trump requested help from allies.

Trump has ramped up pressure on Asian and European nations to help him secure the key route.

More on that strike on Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest.

Emirates is telling passengers to avoid going to the airport after flights were temporarily suspended.The Middle East's largest airline sent the update on X.

Dubai authorities earlier said flights at the hub were halted after a drone struck a fuel tank and started a fire.

The Dubai Media Office said some flights are being diverted to Dubai World Central – Al Maktoum International.DWC sits on the southern end of Dubai and typically handles cargo, charter and seasonal flights.

It handles a small fraction of the traffic at Dubai's main airport, the world's busiest hub for international travel.

One strike in southern Lebanon has killed three people and wounded three others, according to the country's health ministry.

Another killed two people and wounded four others.

Israeli strikes have killed 850 people in Lebanon, including 107 children and 66 women, since the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel reignited on March 2 after Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets toward northern Israel, the ministry said.

It added 2026 people have been wounded.

The United States' war with Iran is entering its third week, but Congress in the nation has yet to publicly test the Trump administration's case for the conflict, AP reports.

Republicans in Congress have so far side-stepped public debate over the war, even as Senate Democrats reach for every tool at their disposal to demand hearings with Trump administration officials.

Increasingly frustrated, Democrats are threatening this week to force a series of votes on the war, hoping that the effort to gum up the Senate's voting schedule will prod Republicans to action.

"We've had no oversight whatsoever over what the executive is doing as we're spending a billion dollars a day, and we have failed to have any real substantive debate or discussion," said Senator Cory Booker.

The role of Congress in the deliberations is an unsettled question with enormous stakes, given that lawmakers have the power to shape the trajectory of the conflict as it grows in cost and casualties.

So far, 13 military members have been killed and billions of dollars have been spent, but President Donald Trump has not sought congressional approval for attacking Iran.

US President Donald Trump claims Iran is using AI to spread disinformation surrounding the conflict in the Middle East.

"AI can be very dangerous, we have to be very careful with it," he told reporters on Air Force One.

He continued his attack on Truth Social, where he claimed the country has "long been known as a Master of Media Manipulation and Public Relations", in a post published earlier today.

However, he also took aim at some American coverage of the conflict, referencing the Wall Street Journal's coverage of an attack on five US warships in the Strait of Hormuz last week.

He accused some media outlets of "working in close coordination" with Iran, and claimed punishments should follow.

"The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information!" he said.

"We're talking to Cuba, but we're going to do Iran before Cuba," Trump told reporters on Air Force One, AP said.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed talks on Friday.

Trump said his supporters in Florida are eager to see change after decades of animosity.

He has been talking about the island since January, when the US military ousted former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the US to face drug charges.

Before that, Venezuela had long supported Cuba financially.

"I think we will pretty soon either make a deal, or do whatever we have to do," Trump said.