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Wait times in emergency departments for patients needing urgent care is worse in WA than any other State, new data has revealed.Only 29 per cent people who should be seen within 30 minutes were admitted within the clinically recommended time during 2024-25, according to the latest Report on Government Services.WA also languished compared to all other States in seeing semi-urgent patients, with fewer than half of WA’s patients seen to within the recommended 60-minute timeframe.WA fared better for people in vital need, seeing two out of three critical patients within 10 minutes of arrival and 100 per cent of patients…

SINGAPORE: The Philippines said on Friday (Feb 6) it will seek to accelerate long-running talks on a South China Sea code of conduct to a conclusion this year as chair of the ASEAN regional bloc.Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro told a forum in Singapore that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China will increase the pace of working group meetings to monthly gatherings from the current three-month intervals.The proposed code aims to guide conduct and prevent clashes over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.It has been under discussion for years, but the talks have stalled repeatedly over disagreements on…

Kolkata, India – Pankaj Chadha has been running a steel manufacturing unit in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, for the past four decades.The 65-year-old told Al Jazeera that his company exports products mostly to the United States and Mexico, where they are used in various industries.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe recent spike in tariffs in both countries, however, has come as a crushing blow for Chadha. Before the tariffs, he had sales of roughly $5m and $8m to the US and Mexico, respectively. But those have since been halved.“I have lost 50 percent of my business in Mexico…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is detailing cases in which anti-ICE agitators actively helped criminal illegal immigrants evade federal arrest, including suspects accused of child rape, domestic abuse and gang-related violence.The cases point to a growing pattern of organized interference with federal immigration enforcement during recent ICE operations. “These are the monsters that agitators and sanctuary politicians are protecting,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital. “We remind the public that obstructing law enforcement is a felony and a federal crime.”FROM PROTEST TO FELONY: THE LINES MINNESOTA ANTI-ICE AGITATORS MAY BE…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two California teens were arrested in an Arizona home invasion tied to an alleged $66 million cryptocurrency plot that happened the same day Nancy Guthrie was last seen before disappearing from her Tucson home about two hours away.Authorities have not said if the two cases are connected in any way, but the cases do share some bizarre similarities. The teens, who are not being identified by Fox News Digital because they are both under the age of 18, allegedly posed as delivery drivers to gain access to the Scottsdale home on Jan. 31,…

A decision on whether Allistair Chapman should be granted bail while he awaits extradition to the United States could come before the end of the month, according to his lawyers. Lawyers for the 33-year-old have been going back and forth with federal Crown attorneys in a Calgary courtroom over the past two days as to whether or not Chapman should be released from custody while the extradition process plays out.Chapman was among 10 people arrested by the FBI last year following an investigation into an international drug trafficking organization allegedly run by Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding.Wedding is accused of leading the…

Operations at Berlin’s international airport remain halted, with no aircraft able to depart or land due to black ice and persistent freezing rain.A spokeswoman for Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) said “because of black ice and ongoing freezing rain, no take-offs or landings are currently possible at BER” on FridayShe added airport ground crews had treated flight operations areas with de-icing agents throughout the night, but without success, leaving them extremely slippery.It remained unclear when flight operations could resume.”For the protection of passengers and staff, flight operations have been temporarily suspended. Passengers are advised to check the status of their flights…

The Board of Peace was initially established to ensure that post-conflict reconstruction in Gaza proceeds effectively. However, a draft of its founding charter suggests the council’s future role will not be limited to the territory. The White House had said there would be a main board, a Palestinian committee of technocrats meant to govern devastated Gaza and a second “executive board” that appears designed to have a more advisory role.Indonesia announced on Jan 22 it would accept an invitation to join the Board of Peace through a joint declaration by the foreign ministers of several Muslim-majority countries, namely Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan,…

PM calls for civil debate as government faces backlash over efforts to roll back policies to support Maori community.Published On 6 Feb 20266 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareNew Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour has rejected criticism of his claims that colonisation was positive for the country’s Indigenous Maori population.Dozens of people started booing and shouting when Seymour stood on Friday to offer a prayer during a dawn service at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, where New Zealand’s founding document was signed in 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and more than 500 Maori Indigenous chiefs, setting…

For the first time in more than 50 years, the world’s largest nuclear powers, the U.S. and Russia, do not have an agreement limiting their long-range nuclear arsenals. Margaret Brennan explains what this could mean in an already dangerous world.