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JOHOR BAHRU: The Johor state government has proposed 12 “key” locations where Singapore cross-border taxis could drop off passengers, as authorities consider requiring these vehicles to be installed with a location tracking system. The proposed drop-off points include Senai International Airport, JB Sentral, Medini, Southkey, Mount Austin and Eco Botanic, according to Johor’s Works, Transportation and Infrastructure committee chairman and state executive councillor Mohamad Fazli Mohamad Salleh.Six shopping malls are also under consideration, including Johor Premium Outlets (JPO) near Kulai. The other five malls were not specified, and CNA has since reached out to Fazli for more information. “These drop-off points are locations the state government considers key destinations. When we…

Why is AI Infrastructure concentrated in South Africa – Not elsewhere?Submarine cable convergence: South Africa sits at the landing point of SEACOM, WACS, ACE and EASSY cables, giving it unmatched international bandwidth. Lagos and Mombasa have partial access; most of the continent routes traffic through South Africa anyway, adding latency.Hyperscaler bets: Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud all operate dedicated South Africa regions (Johannesburg/Cape Town). No other African country has more than one hyperscaler region. These decisions compound: once one commits, the others follow to avoid competitive disadvantage.Grid reliability: Loadshedding notwithstanding, South Africa’s power infrastructure remains more predictable than peers.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sports pundit Michelle Beadle ripped into San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet over his blog post calling for the Atlanta Hawks to end their “Magic City Night” promotion, touting the famed strip club Magic City.Kornet urged the Hawks to cancel the promotion and suggested NBA players and officials “promote an atmosphere that is protective and respectful of the daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, and partners that we know and love.” San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet (7) reacts during the second quarter against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on March…

Video released by the Iranian Red Crescent shows a body pulled from the rubble of a destroyed building in Tehran.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Pentagon on Sunday announced that U.S. forces have carried out a lethal strike on a vessel allegedly carrying suspected narco-traffickers in the Eastern Pacific, killing six people on board.The U.S. Southern Command said it conducted “a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations” at the direction of the new leader of the Southern Command, Gen. Francis L. Donovan of the Marine Corps, who took over in January.”Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” the…

A majority of Canadians say they want Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor removed from the line of succession to the British throne, a new poll shows. The poll, released Monday by Angus Reid Institute, shows an overwhelming 84 per cent of Canadians say they are in support of the move.The survey was conducted online from Feb. 24 to 26 among a randomized sample of 1,607 Canadian adults.It found 73 per cent were strongly in support of Mountbatten-Windsor being removed, while 11 per cent were moderately supportive. On the opposite end, four per cent said they were moderately opposed to the removal, while three…

Australia’s sharemarket tanked during Monday’s trading and oil prices soared as investors fear a prolonged US-Iran conflict.

SINGAPORE: Singapore firms with operations in the Middle East have reported little disruption to their business so far, with staff safe and contingency plans in place as the conflict continues.Companies told CNA they are maintaining regular contact with employees on the ground and have restricted business travel to and from the region.The war in the Middle East erupted on Feb 28, and Singapore has since facilitated flights to repatriate citizens from the region.Surbana Jurong, an engineering and urban infrastructure consultancy, said its offices in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have shifted to work-from-home arrangements, to be adjusted as the…

NewsFeedIran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has pledged allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei, the country’s newly-elected supreme leader. While some Iranians have celebrated, many are dismayed the 56-year-old cleric, accused of human rights abuses, has ascended to the country’s highest office.Published On 9 Mar 20269 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

The U.S. may be responsible for the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran that killed 168 people, many of them children, on Feb. 28, sources told CBS News.The preliminary U.S. assessment suggests that the United States is “likely” responsible for the deadly attack but did not intentionally target the school and may have hit it in error, possibly due to the use of dated intelligence which wrongly identified the area as still part of an Iranian military installation, a person briefed on the preliminary intelligence told CBS News.Israel’s military was also not operating in the area, two sources told…