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A slump in the price of iron ore and gold sent the ASX200 down on Wednesday, despite eight of the 11 sectors trading higher.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian capital is still safe despite two fatal shootings in Kuala Lumpur over four days, said the city’s police chief Rusdi Isa.   He assured the public that the recent shootings in Cheras and Brickfields should not be used as evidence to suggest unsafe conditions in Kuala Lumpur.  “These shooting cases are all the result of problems that occurred outside the Kuala Lumpur contingent, and were brought here,” Rusdi said in a statement on Tuesday (Jun 17) afternoon, as cited in local news platform Berita Harian.   He added that the motives for both cases involved internal…

The women’s world number one tennis player says she was ‘super emotional’ and ‘completely unprofessional’ after losing the French Open final to the American.Aryna Sabalenka says she has written to Coco Gauff to apologise for the “unprofessional” comments she made following her loss to her American rival in the final of the French Open. The top-ranked Sabalenka said on Tuesday that her remarks after her loss to Gauff at Roland-Garros were a mistake. In her post-match media address in Paris, the Belarusian had suggested that the American’s win was more due to her own errors than Gauff’s performance. Sabalenka had…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a Democrat, has been released after being held for only a few hours for allegedly assaulting an immigration official on Tuesday. While Lander, who is running for mayor of New York City, is now being held up as a hero by many progressives, some say his arrest was more political theater than activism.Joe Borelli, a former New York City councilman and GOP political operative, told Fox News Digital that he believes Lander’s arrest was a “staged event.””Election day is a week from today, and early voting has…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An Idaho-based lawyer says the judge overseeing the Bryan Kohberger quadruple murder case could sanction the prosecution or defense team for contempt of court after new information was leaked to a media outlet.A TV episode about the Bryan Kohberger investigation aired on May 9, and featured new search records, surveillance video and cellphone records. Kohberger is accused of killing Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20.Information shared during the “Dateline” episode included surveillance video from a neighboring house, which showed a car similar to Kohberger’s in…

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on Wednesday invited submissions from interested parties on how the sale to IAG would impact competition in WA’s general insurance market.

Indonesian authorities previously said they had arrested two people for the shooting, one at Soekarno-Hatta airport near the capital, Jakarta, as he prepared to leave the country. “We arrested him just before he managed to leave,” Adityajaya said. The other two were detained abroad, after police sought the cooperation of Interpol in Southeast Asia, they said, but declined to say where the arrests were made. They also seized items such as a 9mm gun, a motorcycle and two cars the suspects had used to flee the scene of the crime, Adityajaya said. Police have not given a motive for the…

DigiDocsIt’s a recurring nightmare likely shared by many Syrians who fled their homeland during the war – a mirage of home and hope, slipping away. Directed by Yazan Rabee, BACK is a short documentary that follows those who return in their sleep to ghostly hometowns, hunted down by menacing forces. Blending intimate testimony with striking visuals, BACK explores how political violence becomes embedded in the subconscious, especially for those who long for home from life in exile. But as Rabee asks, did the nightmare really begin in 2012, with the uprising against president Bashar al-Assad? Or did…

Noem hospitalized after allergic reaction Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem hospitalized after allergic reaction 00:24 Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was transported to a hospital on Tuesday due to an allergic reaction, the Department of Homeland Security said.Noem is “alert and recovering,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News. She was brought to a hospital “out of an abundance of caution.”The secretary was transported to George Washington University Hospital, sources told CBS News. She is accompanied by her security detail.A former South Dakota governor and U.S. representative, Noem, 53, leads an agency with over 260,000…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An armed crew of nine suspected Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members were caught on camera wreaking havoc at a Colorado apartment complex earlier this month, in an incident Aurora police are calling “very reminiscent” of the violence previously incited in the area by the Venezuelan gang.Doorbell video shows the group pointing guns and repeatedly knocking on an apartment door in a building near 6th Avenue and Potomac Street in Aurora, Colorado, on June 9, Police Chief Todd Chamberlain said during a press conference on Tuesday.”This might sound like déjà vu,” Chamberlain…