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Freedom-of-information documents show the federal government didn’t act on department advice to revoke approvals for salmon farming in a remote harbour.

Separately, Muhyiddin also said he will oppose all efforts for former Bersatu deputy president, Hamzah Zainudin, who is opposition leader, to rejoin PN under a new party.“If he wants to enter PN, I will say no because once bitten, twice shy. After all that he has done, he wants to rejoin the coalition?” he said.Muhyiddin also expressed confidence that the majority of PN’s four components – Bersatu, PAS, Gerakan and the Malaysian Indian People’s Party – would not accept Hamzah joining the coalition under a new entity.Hamzah confirmed on Tuesday that discussions were underway for him to take over Parti Keluarga Malaysia, after…

Benchmark index plummets as much as 12.2 percent, eclipsing single-day plunge after 9/11 attacks in 2001.Listen to this article | 2 minsinfoPublished On 4 Mar 20264 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoSouth Korea’s stock market has suffered one of the steepest falls in history amid the widening fallout of the United States-Israeli war on Iran.The benchmark KOSPI index plummeted as much as 12.2 percent on Wednesday, eclipsing the 12.02 percent single-day plunge triggered by the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US and the 9.44 percent drop seen at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.Recommended…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York Attorney General Letitia James is instructing a Manhattan hospital to resume offering gender-transition treatment to transgender youth after it ended such treatments last month over funding threats from the Trump administration.NYU Langone’s decision to close its Transgender Youth Health Program violated the state’s anti-discrimination laws by “jeopardizing access to medically necessary healthcare for some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers,” James wrote in a Feb. 25 letter first made public this week.James’ office threatened “further action” if the hospital does not immediately resume offering hormone therapies, puberty blockers and other…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Police in Cleveland, Ohio, are asking the public for tips after two young Black girls were found dead inside separate suitcases buried in shallow graves on Monday.Cleveland Police Chief Dorothy Todd said during a news conference that the girls, believed to be between the ages of 8 and 13 and 10 and 14, were found Monday evening.The discovery was made Monday evening after a man walking his dog near East 162nd Street and Midland Avenue, in a field near Ginn Academy, found a partially buried suitcase and called police.Police responded and located…

Moreno Scatozza is taking matters into his own hands to try and reduce crime-related incidents in his Kelowna, B.C., neighbourhood. “I’m putting up posters to alert people,” Scatozza said. “To be aware, to have their surveillance cameras working, lock their doors, double-lock their bikes.”Scatozza lives in the downtown’s north end neighbourhood near the base of Knox Mountain, where he says break-ins and thefts have become rampant in recent months.“We find they’re going house to house in close area of where they stole before,” Scatozza said. “It feels like they’re not worried or scared to repeat the same area.”Last Thursday night,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Bruce Pearl said President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have his full unconditional support in their war against Iran. “They do have my support and my prayers, and I’m grateful for their courage,” the legendary former Auburn men’s basketball coach and Chair of the U.S. Israel Education Association told Fox News Digital. As the U.S. and Israeli continue to carry out a joint military operation against Iran after eliminating the ayatollah, Pearl admits he does have anxiety about what comes next, especially as it relates to potential American and Israeli causalities.  …

Indonesian police have arrested 15 people suspected of belonging to an organised poaching ring accused of killing endangered elephants and trafficking their ivory on Sumatra island.The arrests follow the discovery of several headless elephant carcasses in Pelalawan district in Riau province.”For the first time in Riau’s history, we have managed to dismantle the entire network from top to bottom,” Ade Kuncoro, director of special criminal investigations at the Riau police, said on Tuesday.”We have detained 15 suspects, and three others are still on the run,” he said.They could face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty under the…

NEW YORK: A member of Japan’s yakuza crime group was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York court on Tuesday (Mar 3) after being convicted of trafficking nuclear material as well as drugs and weapons.Takeshi Ebisawa, 61, has been jailed since April 2022 on drug and weapons charges, along with his Thai co-defendant Somphop Singhasiri, following years of investigations by the US Drug Enforcement Administration.In February 2024, he was also accused of trying to sell military-grade nuclear material, along with narcotics including heroin and methamphetamine, to buy weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, for armed groups in Myanmar.He pleaded…

NewsFeedDemocratic senators voiced alarm after a classified briefing on the US‑Israeli war with Iran, warning the Trump administration lacks clear objectives as lawmakers say they fear it could lead to a prolonged conflict and US ground troops.Published On 4 Mar 20264 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo