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West Coast are looking to make a major play for Bulldogs megastar and skipper Marcus Bontempelli, club insiders have told The West Australian.

BANGKOK: Thai authorities said they have arrested a Chinese executive at a company that was building a Bangkok skyscraper, which collapsed in a major earthquake, leaving dozens dead. The 30-storey tower was reduced to an immense pile of rubble when a 7.7-magnitude quake struck neighbouring Myanmar last month, killing 47 people at the construction site and leaving another 47 missing. Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong told a news conference on Saturday (Apr 20) that a Thai court had issued arrest warrants for four individuals, including three Thai nationals, at China Railway No.10 for breaching the Foreign Business Act. The Department of Special…

Landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan coincides with US astronaut Donald Pettit’s 70th birthday.Russian astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner have returned to Earth along with American Donald Pettit after a seven-month science mission on board the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying the trio touched down southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 6:20am (01:20 GMT) on Sunday, the landing confirmed by the United States’s NASA and Russia’s Roscosmos space agency. The timing of their parachute-assisted return to Earth coincided with the US astronaut’s 70th birthday, NASA said on the social media platform X.…

A Democratic congresswoman from Oregon is the latest lawmaker to announce she will travel to El Salvador to advocate for the release of deported illegal migrant Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.Rep. Maxine Dexter, said late Friday she would jet to the Central American country following Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s, D-Md., highly publicized visit there this week when he met with Abrego Garcia, who was deported to the country’s “Terrorism Confinement Center” (CECOT) megaprison with other suspected illegal migrant gang members last month.”A legal U.S. resident has had his due process rights ripped away and is now being held indefinitely in a foreign prison,” Dexter said…

Headline acts Lachlan Kennedy and Gout Gout will both have to navigate tough paths through the semi-finals if they are to keep their Stawell Gift dreams alive.Only the winners of the six semi-finals on Easter Monday advance to the final later in the day at Central Park, where the eventual victor of the 120m handicap race will pocket $40,000.Backmarker Kennedy (0.25m) has been drawn in the first semi, where his biggest challenges are likely to come from 17-year-old flyer Dash Muir (7.75m) and Jacob Despard (1.75m).Kennedy shot to international prominence when he won silver in the 60m at the world…

On the morning of September 17, 1859, a “well-dressed and serious-looking man” walked into the offices of The San Francisco Evening Bulletin and – without explanation – handed over a document that he wished to see published. Intrigued, the paper’s editors carried a proclamation in that evening’s edition on page 3: “At the peremptory request and desire of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the last 9 years and 10 months past of San Francisco, California, declare and proclaim myself Emperor of these…

Supreme Court blocks Trump from deporting alleged gang members, migrants from Texas facility – CBS News Watch CBS News The U.S. Supreme Court made a rare overnight ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan men held by immigration officials in North Texas. Willie James Inman has the latest. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

LAS VEGAS – WrestleMania 41 Night 1 proved to bring a lot of fire and emotion to Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Saturday night and was the perfect preview of how intense Night 2 will be.The first night crowned three new champions and saw only one competitor retain their title.Paul Heyman also blew everyone away with an epic turn against the two people who he claimed to have loved the most.COMPLETE WRESTLEMANIA 41 COVERAGERead below for the quick results for the night that was.Jey Uso def. Gunther for World Heavyweight Championship Jey Uso celebrates his win during WrestleMania 41…

Canberra’s wrecking ball second-rower Hudson Young has scored his third double in a row to sink a brave Gold Coast in a stunning comeback 30-20 win.Young, with seven tries this season, is in sensational form. From a standing start his barnstorming charge in the second half for a try turned the game when it was in the balance.The 26-year-old was a clear player of the match to take his side to third on the NRL ladder.Young, who played game one for NSW in last year’s State of Origin series, has put himself right in the frame for a Blues recall.It…

SEOUL: South Korea and the United States will hold trade consultations this week in Washington at the suggestion of the US, Seoul’s trade ministry said on Sunday (Apr 20). Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok and Trade Minister Ahn Duk-geun will meet with Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the sidelines of the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, the ministry said in a statement. South Korea hopes to lower the 25 per cent “reciprocal” tariff that President Donald Trump has announced for the country, which he has since paused along with high tariffs…