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Health officials in both Canadian cities hosting World Cup matches are warning visitors about the potential risk of the toxic illicit drug supply that could be very different from what they are used to at home. Organizers of the seven games in Vancouver released a “know before you go” document in advance of kickoff, which in part warns visitors about B.C.’s illicit drug supply which has killed more than 16,000 people since a public health emergency was declared in 2016.“The unregulated drug supply in Vancouver is unpredictable and may be more dangerous than what visitors are used to in other countries…

Fremantle legend Matthew Pavlich admits he still loses sleep over the 2013 grand final while also giving insight into how his Wharfie Time speech has evolved.Pavlich was a special guest on Channel Seven’s The Front Bar on Wednesday night, with the Dockers’ all-time leading goalkicker recounting how his own family tried to prevent his drafting away from his native South Australia.“Every time a club, and particularly when Fremantle, came over, mum would have a list of the players in the national carnival and say, ‘Why don’t you pick up Darren Glass or other WA boys?’ but obviously it didn’t work,”…

THE RISING PRICE OF BABIESAfter her contact with these adoption agents, Lily purportedly looked for more babies to be adopted, enlisting the help of other defendants who allegedly acted as recruiters, caretakers as well as document forgers to obscure the babies’ origins.  The suspected syndicate members trawled through social media and joined several online adoption groups looking for parents hoping to give up their newborns, the majority of whom were from the Bandung area of West Java.To sweeten the deal, the recruiters allegedly provided between 9 million rupiah and 15 million rupiah to parents. “The birth parents were under the impression that their…

The ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran that began on April 8 is balanced, by all accounts, on a knife’s edge.Over the weekend, Iran and Israel both exchanged fire, only halting after the intervention of US President Donald Trump on Monday. However, while that round of violence may have paused after Trump called on both sides to “stop shooting”, Israel’s strikes on southern Lebanon –  whose cessation is one of Iran’s key conditions for any agreement –  continue. And Iran and the US have also exchanged attacks, with Trump threatening to restart full-scale conflict.Recommended Stories list of 4…

Republican Rep. David Valadao will run against progressive Randy Villegas in the general election in California’s 22nd Congressional District, CBS News projects.Last week’s primary pitted the Republican incumbent against two Democrats, with the top two vote-getters advancing to November. Villegas was projected as the second candidate to advance on Tuesday, a week after the election, after a close contest.Moderate Democrat Jasmeet Bains did not advance, in an embarrassing defeat for establishment Democrats amid an intraparty feud about the party’s future.The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss up after California voters approved a new congressional map last…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has allegedly used the country’s soccer system to spy on citizens, potentially violating FIFA bylaws, according to a new report from a major opposition party.The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)’s U.S. office provided the report to Fox News Digital. It outlines an alleged plot for Iran’s soccer federation and top clubs to be drawn into a broader state security apparatus, and that at least 15 IRGC commanders have been formally documented and identified in soccer club management.The NCRI, citing alleged official IRGC documents,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Kansas boy searching for fossils during a geology club field trip stumbled onto something far bigger than expected: the remains of a 15-foot-long marine reptile that swam an ancient sea 85 million years ago.Corbin Bullard was just 11 years old when he spotted several large vertebrae protruding from rock at a quarry near his hometown of Clearwater, Kansas, during a September 2025 outing with the Sedgwick County 4-H Geology Club.”I didn’t know what it was, but I knew that it was something big,” Bullard told FOX Local.Over the course of three…

David Hartleib treasures photos and memories of his daughter, Avontai, keeping them tucked away in a box. “She was so beautiful,” David said, while going through photos of his daughter.He remembers her as a loving, smart and artistic young woman who was a member of Sachigo Lake First Nation in Ontario.“She was always such a happy child; there was not one day where she didn’t have smiles,” he said.“She always loved her sisters, her siblings, she would always pick them up and was just in awe of them.”After spending time in the child welfare system, David says his daughter, 18,…

Senator Pauline Hanson arrived in Perth flush with cash, having raised close to $1 million in her Fire the Liar campaign. 

WHAT ABOUT BERSATU? Analysts told CNA that Bersatu faces the most significant fallout from PAS’ decision, warning that the party now faces a daunting challenge to maintain its political relevance without the support of the Islamist party’s formidable grassroots machinery.Ahmad Fauzi said that if Bersatu fail to forge a new relationship with one of the stronger axes in Malaysian politics – whether it be PH or BN –  then the party will “slowly but surely” fade away from mainstream politics, eventually into oblivion. “With PAS out of the picture, and the former Bersatu number two bringing with him a majority of Bersatu’s elected representatives and…