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Opposition MPs appeared rejuvenated on Monday as Angus Taylor took the leader’s chair for his first Question Time since taking over the Liberal party’s top job.However, the legacy of his predecessors loomed large inside Parliament.Weeks after ousting the party’s first female leader Sussan Ley, Mr Taylor also appeared in good spirits in the chamber as he regularly interacted with his reshuffled frontbench.Unlike the final difficult days for his immediate predecessor, the new opposition leader regularly interacted with the parliamentary team around him, including leadership rival Andrew Hastie.His relationship with Nationals leader David Littleproud also seemed warmer, suggesting a more unified…

Listen to this article | 5 minsinfoOil prices have risen sharply, and stocks have slid as United States and Israeli attacks on Iran and retaliatory strikes against Israeli and US military installations in the Middle East have disrupted the global energy supply chain.West Texas intermediate, the light, sweet crude oil produced in the US, was selling at $72.79 a barrel early on Monday, up 8.6 percent from its trading price of about $67 on Friday, according to data from the CME Group.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listA barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, was trading at $79.41 per barrel…

The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen. Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on March 1, 2026.MARGARET BRENNAN: Joining us now is Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, good morning. SEN. CHRIS MURPHY: Good morning. MARGARET BRENNAN: You have called for Congress to return to Washington and to vote on whether to try to essentially halt this military action. No War Powers Resolution has ever overcome a presidential veto. Why do you think you need to take one?SEN. MURPHY: Well, nobody in this country is asking for war with Iran. Just like…

Disturbing dashcam footage has captured a man kick a dog in the head at a Bunnings Warehouse car park.The incident happened on Sunday afternoon outside the Parafield store, in Adelaide’s north.The dog’s owner Hayden Palkovics claims the man kicked his dog twice during a random attack.Mr Palkovics said he was inside the Bunnings store for about 35 minutes when a “low life stranger” went up to his rescue dog and booted it twice in the head.“I now understand why my dog was skittish when we got home and she now has a sore eye,” he said.WA’s biggest courts and crime…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A massive brawl involving a top UFC contender broke out Saturday after a wrestling event went off the rails. Arman Tsarukyan, ranked second in the lightweight division of UFC, participated in a Real American Freestyle wrestling match against Georgio Poullas when tensions boiled over at the end of their bout. Tsarukyan was seen shoving Poullas when the match ended, and it immediately led to him throwing punches as the brawl ensued. Both teams for Tsarukyan and Poullas stormed the wrestling mat and started to tee off on one another, as officials and others tried to…

Deir el-Balah/Gaza City – When Hani Abu Issa headed to the Deir el-Balah market on Saturday morning, he was not carrying a long shopping list. He had only intended to buy ingredients for his family’s Ramadan iftar meal, nothing more.But the sight of crowds gathered in front of grocery shops caught him by surprise and prompted him to ask what was happening.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listA passer-by told him that Israel had struck Iran and war had broken out.Hani was shocked as he watched people around him leaving one after another, carrying sacks of flour on their…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both progressive “Squad” members, lashed out at President Donald Trump on Saturday in response to his decision to strike Iran. “Trump has launched an illegal regime change war,” Omar posted on X. “As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos.”Omar, who fled Somalia as a refugee as a young child, added, “When we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction.”Tlaib reacted on social media to a clip of…

There is no sign former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is among the 10,000 prisoners Myanmar’s military government has released as part of an amnesty.

UNREALISTIC, JUST A GIMMICK?Akbar said that Southeast Asia’s largest economy has a “track record” of offering to mediate global conflicts.He highlighted that during a trip to Moscow in 2022, then-president Joko Widodo proposed taking on a mediator role in the Russia–Ukraine war, conveying the offer to President Vladimir Putin. The move ultimately did not lead to any official mediation mandate.“Prabowo’s current offer, in my view, is a continuation of Indonesia’s long-standing diplomatic tradition,” Akbar said.But Dino argued that the US rarely agrees to third-party mediation in its conflicts, which in his view makes the proposal unrealistic.“The US’ ego as a…

Israeli strikes hit a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday in retaliation for attacks from Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group.