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The nation’s third-largest oil and gas producer saw a big fall in first-half earnings after flooding in South Australia impacted production at its main field.Beach Energy on Thursday posted a bottom-line net profit of $150 million, down 32 per cent on the previous corresponding period.Its underlying result, which adjusts for one-off items, fell eight per cent to $219 million in the six months ended December.Gas production dropped seven per cent after flooding last July in the Cooper Basin affected its wells and also left multiple communities cut off.However, chief executive Brett Woods said the interim results were still solid.”Onshore in…

CASH HANDOUTS VIA LOTTERIES: PLOY OR SOUND POLICY? Economic pledges by some political parties have made national headlines, including eye-catching promises of cash handouts, lotteries, subsidies and debt moratoriums.Parties are offering fiscal policies such as the second phase of Bhumjaithai’s co-payment subsidy scheme, that in stage one covered half of the cost of selected food and consumer goods, or Pheu Thai’s income top-up for those earning below 36,000 baht per year. The People’s Party has also pledged to provide a 1,000 baht co-payment top-up for 12 million people.Parties have also pledged monthly cash handouts for different groups – from mothers to…

Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – When Rotana al-Raqab learned that her name and her mother’s were included on the first list of Palestinians allowed to return to Gaza through the Rafah crossing, she felt, briefly, that the long months she had spent stranded in Egypt were finally coming to an end.But what she initially believed would be a path back to her five children instead turned into a gruelling ordeal of hours of waiting, body searches, interrogations, and humiliating treatment at the hands of Israeli forces.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listRotana, 31, left Gaza last March with her…

The four prosecutors who spearheaded a $250 million Minnesota fraud case will not be in court at the next trial because they’ve all left the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota in recent days, along with more than a dozen others in a growing wave of resignations.The departures have left the already-diminished office with as few as 17 assistant U.S. attorneys, according to sources inside the office — down from 70 during the Biden administration. Former prosecutors Joe Thompson, Harry Jacobs, Daniel Bobier and Matthew Ebert — the four attorneys who had been leading the $250 million Feeding Our…

Bitcoin signage in Times Square in New York, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBitcoin nearly touched the $72,000 mark on Wednesday, marking the second straight day of its massive retreat this week. The world’s oldest cryptocurrency sank as low as $72,096.20, plunging more than 5% on the day. It was last trading at $72,958.38, down about 4% on the day. Bitcoin is currently more than 40% off its record high of about $126,000 hit last October. Stock Chart IconStock chart iconBitcoin in the past day, per Coin MetricsBitcoin first broke below the $73,000 mark…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Missouri man who offered a ride to a woman who asked for help getting to a warm shelter was gunned down over the weekend, according to reports. William Palmer was found shot early Sunday and pronounced dead at the scene, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said. Brittany Rivoire, 36, is accused of fatally shooting Palmer and then stealing his truck after he stopped to offer her a ride, First Alert 4 reported. GEORGIA TEEN CHARGED WITH MURDERING UBER DRIVER IN SUBURBAN CARJACKING, LEAVING HIM TO DIE William Palmer, a dad, was allegedly murdered…

Days after he survived a review of his leadership, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre met Prime Minister Mark Carney for a discussion on the state of the Canadian economy. The Prime Minister’s Office did not provide a readout of the meeting. Prior to it, though, a government source speaking on background had told Global News that Carney planned to raise several measures from the Budget Implementation Act, including funding for dental care and childcare.He also planned to raise the government’s legislation to toughen bail and sentencing as well as legislation to protect places of worship from threats of violence and hate,…

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TOKYO: The gunman convicted of shooting dead former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 has appealed his life sentence, his lawyer told AFP on Wednesday (Feb 4).Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, was found guilty two weeks ago at the Nara District Court and jailed for life for using a homemade gun to assassinate Abe during an outdoor campaign event.”Today, I filed the motion to appeal,” court-appointed defence counsel Masaaki Furukawa told AFP.Furukawa said the move was “an opportunity to correct the unjust lower-court ruling”. The lawyer declined to discuss Yamagami’s intentions regarding the appeal, including whether he was seeking to fight…

As the prospect of a conflict between the United States and Iran looms, analysts within Israel have questioned the country’s capacity to determine the outcome of a confrontation in a region that, just months ago, it had regarded itself as on the brink of dominating.“The [Israeli] opposition are accusing [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu of giving in to [US President Donald] Trump and ending the war on Gaza too soon,” said Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg. “[Israel is] being hounded out of Lebanon, [its] freedom to operate within Syria has been halted. All that’s left to [Israel] is the freedom…