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Darrajayin on Malarngowem country in the East Kimberley has been declared the first Aboriginal heritage protected area in almost 30 years, granting the site the State’s highest cultural protections.

The United States Department of Energy said Wednesday it will release 172 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve “beginning next week”.The release would “take approximately 120 days to deliver based on planned discharge rates”, the agency said in a post to X.On Wednesday, the International Energy Agency announced that its members had agreed to unlock 400 million barrels of oil from their reserves – their largest release ever.Japan said it would release oil reserves as early as Monday, while Germany said it planned to do the same, without specifying a date.

A technician gets cabling out of his truck to install Google Fiber.George Frey | ReutersGoogle said its fiber internet unit called GFiber is combining with Astound Broadband and forming an independent provider, with Google remaining as a minority shareholder. The new company will be majority owned by investment firm Stonepeak and led by the existing GFiber executive team, “utilizing their expertise in high-speed fiber innovation to manage the combined network footprint,” Google said in a press release on Wednesday. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter. Google Fiber, launched in 2010, was an early effort by Google…

NewsFeedAt least six people are dead from an Israeli strike on Beirut’s Ramlet al-Baida seafront. Al Jazeera’s Heidi Pett reports the area is a popular spot for people displaced by Israeli bombardment to set up tents to live in.Published On 12 Mar 202612 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

President Trump ordered the release of 172 million barrels of oil from the United States’ Strategic Petroleum Reserve on Wednesday, after oil prices rocketed to their highest levels in years amid the U.S.’s war with Iran.The releases will start next week and take about 120 days, Energy Secretary Christopher Wright said Wednesday in a statement. The move is part of a coordinated release by the International Energy Agency, whose 32 member countries — mostly U.S. allies — announced earlier Wednesday they would let 400 million barrels of oil flow out of their emergency reserves. Wright said the U.S. plans to replenish…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Democratic Maryland state lawmaker is disputing reports that he said he was “on top” of the law during a contentious police encounter amid a custody dispute, saying he said he was “on time” to drop off his child instead. The footage of Maryland Delegate Caylin Young was captured on New Year’s Eve after officers responded to a Baltimore home during a dispute between the lawmaker and the mother of his child, which was first reported by Fox 45. “This is the second time we have met before, Mr. Diaz. How are you today?”…

On any given day, a number of people can bee seen in varied conditions loitering outside eRx Pharmacy in the southwest neighbourhood of Sunalta. According to Mark Wang, who owns the YYC Botox next door, the situation has been getting worse recently. “They have been doing ‘OAT’, opioid agonist therapy for the last four or five years,” explained Wang. “In the last year it has significantly picked up in terms of their proportion patient base.”OAT involves prescribing methadone or another synthetic opioid to help people suffering from addiction by reducing cravings and withdrawal symptoms, and for anyone who is unhoused…

All four of the big four banks have announced a grim forecast for next Tuesday’s Reserve Bank meeting, as rising oil smashes household budgets.

The Kim family has ruled North Korea with an iron grip for decades, and a cult of personality surrounding their “Paektu bloodline” dominates daily life in the isolated country.Despite her young age, “it appears the regime is trying to cultivate the image of a strong and formidable woman”,  Lim Eul-chul, a North Korea expert at South Korea’s Kyungnam University, told AFP.”The pistol-shooting scene clearly serves to signal that she is cultivating the attributes of a military leader.”Ju Ae was publicly introduced to the world in 2022 when she accompanied her father to an intercontinental ballistic missile launch.Before then, the only…

new video loaded: Preliminary Inquiry Finds U.S. Responsible for Iran School AttacktranscriptBacktranscriptPreliminary Inquiry Finds U.S. Responsible for Iran School AttackAn ongoing report determined that the United States was responsible for a Tomahawk missile strike that killed at least 175, most of them children, according to the preliminary findings of a Pentagon investigation.You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war. But you’re the only person in your government saying this. Even your defense secretary wouldn’t say that when he was asked, standing over your…