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Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell usually treats war analogies with scepticism, but he was happy to make an exception after pulling off a brutal Easter Monday heist.

SEOUL: South Korea will send five Korean-flagged ships to the Saudi Arabian Red Sea port of Yanbu to help establish alternative oil supply routes to avoid the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, a ruling MP said on Monday (Apr 6).Oil prices have surged amid the United States-Israeli war on Iran, raising growth and inflation risks for South Korea, which relies on Middle Eastern crude for around 70 per cent of its imports.Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a critical route for global crude oil and gas, in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes.The situation has prompted Seoul to prepare…

Pakistan has proposed a two-stage plan to end the US-Israeli war on Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with both sides now mulling the framework, a source has told Reuters news agency.Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, acknowledged diplomatic efforts by Pakistan, which has shared plan with Iran and the United States to end hostilities, according to the Reuters.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBaghaei added that Tehran is focussed on the security of its country amid intensified attacks from the US and Israel. A top university in Tehran and South Pars Petrochemical Plant in Asaluyeh have been…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump has endorsed Steve Hilton in the California gubernatorial race.”I have known and respected Steve Hilton, who is running for Governor of California, for many years. He is a truly fine man, one who has watched as this once great State has gone to Hell,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post about Hilton, a former Fox News host, on Monday.”Gavin Newscum and the Democrats have done an absolutely horrendous job. People are fleeing, crime is increasing, and Taxes are the highest of any State in the Country, maybe the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! UK Christians are shocked by King Charles opting to not give an Easter message, according to experts.Buckingham Palace previously confirmed that Charles would not be giving an Easter message. The palace told GB News that an Easter message from the monarch is not an annual statement, like the Christmas message.It is expected that Charles’s silence would upset some Christians as he wished Islamic practicing people a “blessed and happy Ramadan” on social media in February. King Charles III ascended to the throne upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on…

Artificial intelligence has been slowly infiltrating every facet of life, and now, even the humble Google search has fallen victim to “AI slop”.A user made a post to the r/australian subreddit drawing attention to the flood of AI generated images that pop up when you search for Bunnings stores on Google.“This has been happening a lot recently in the last few days, and it’s becoming more and more noticeable,” the user said.“As soon as you Google up your local Bunnings store, chances are, the first image displayed on the store you’re searching for is now in fact nothing more than…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament excitement isn’t limited to Division I schools.The University of Mary Washington and Emory University’s Division III national championship game came down to the wire. The Mary Washington Eagles had the ball in the final seconds and were scrambling to get last-second shot into the net against the Emory Eagles. The Mary Washington Eagles celebrate after defeating the Emory Eagles in the NCAA Division III men’s basketball championship game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on April 5, 2026. (Christine Tannous/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)Mary Washington guard…

INDONESIAAround 25 per cent of Indonesia’s oil imports come from the Middle East and pass through the Strait of Hormuz, according to Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Bahlil Lahadalia.In a press conference on Apr 6, Chief Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto said the government has increased aviation fuel surcharges by 28 percentage points to 38 per cent, up from the current 10 per cent.It is also allowing domestic airfare price hikes to around nine to 13 per cent, while reducing import duties on spare aircraft parts to 0 per cent to lower airline operating costs.The Indonesian government previously announced sweeping austerity measures on Mar…

Iraq’s head coach Graham Arnold couldn’t help but pause, smile and wave to the hundreds of Iraqi football fans gathered at Sydney airport to welcome back the Australian after he guided the Arab team to their first FIFA World Cup in 40 years.Arnold was given a rapturous welcome as the jubilant Iraqis sang, danced to the beat of drums and tambourines, held aloft placards proclaiming their love for the coach and chanted his name as the 62-year-old walked out of the airport on Sunday night.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listFans waved Iraqi and Australian flags as they chanted…

If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants nearly everyone could agree on.Maybe you read parts of it from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM for that social studies project due tomorrow. Or scanned its list of countries for Latvia, because that’s the country you’re representing next week in Model U.N. Even better, you wandered Earth in your imagination as you held the physical Factbook in your own hands, unfolding its maps and understanding, perhaps for the…