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This year marks a major milestone for Onslow — 100 years since the town was officially relocated from the mouth of the Ashburton River to its current site at Beadon Point.

The Dallas Mavericks made the shocking decision to trade Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers before the deadline earlier in the season – a move that will likely haunt the team’s fan base for years to come.Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison’s answers on the trade have not sat well with anyone who enjoys the NBA or are fans of the team. On Monday, Harrison addressed the trade once again after the team’s playoff hopes were dashed in the play-in tournament. Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison during the game against the Los Angeles Lakers at American Airlines Center in Dallas,…

No claim of responsibility but police call it ‘terror attack’ by rebels under intensifying military crackdown in region.Armed men opened fire on a group of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, with some of them feared killed. Police said multiple tourists received gunshot wounds in the “terror attack” on Tuesday while they were visiting Baisaran meadow, some 5km (3 miles) from the disputed region’s resort town of Pahalgam. “This attack is much larger than anything we’ve seen directed at civilians in recent years,” Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, the region’s top elected official, wrote on social media. “The death toll is still being ascertained…

Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to consider Maryland parents’ challenge to their local school board’s policy that denies them the ability to opt their elementary school-age children out of instruction featuring storybooks that address gender identity and sexual orientation.At issue in the court fight between a group of families and the Montgomery County Board of Education is whether public schools unconstitutionally infringe parents’ First Amendment right to exercise their religion freely when they require children to participate in instruction on gender and sexuality that violate the families’ religious beliefs.”What’s at stake is the long-recognized parental right…

Private security guards seen on video forcibly removing an activist from a February town hall meeting in Idaho have been criminally charged. On Monday, the Coeur d’Alene City Prosecutor’s office said that five men associated with a private security firm were facing a range of charges, including battery, false imprisonment and security agent duty violations, the Associated Press reported. Teresa Borrenpohl was dragged out of the meeting at Coeur d’Alene High School on Feb. 22.In video shared by meeting organizers, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, someone can be heard disrupting the meeting by shouting, “What? Are you serious right now?” about…

Australia will have close to the highest inflation in the developed world next year even as the global economy teeters on the brink amid a trade storm and surging public debt, the International Monetary Fund predicts.The IMF forecasts “a significant slowdown in global growth” through 2025 thanks to the chaos unleashed by US President Donald Trump’s tariff rollercoaster.The pain will be close to home for Mr Trump, with growth expectations this year in the United States slashed by a third to 1.8 per cent.It’s the fund’s first full analysis of the world’s outlook after his government dialled up the trade…

LAHORE: Pakistan is racing to address an air pollution crisis that is triggering fears of a nationwide health emergency.  In Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, more than 11 million children under the age of five are exposed to toxic air daily, according to United Nations estimates. Swiss air quality tracker IQAir frequently ranks Lahore, Punjab’s capital, among the world’s top three most polluted cities, with its air quality index often exceeding 100 – in the unhealthy levels.  In addition, the daily amount of PM2.5 – fine particulate air pollutants hazardous to health – recorded frequently surpasses the World Health Organization’s…

Tina Knowles, mother of Beyoncé and Solange, is opening up about her recent battle with breast cancer in a deeply personal interview with “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King.The 71-year-old said she was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer in her left breast after doctors discovered two tumors during a delayed mammogram appointment.”I’ve always tried to take care of myself. I just … was in disbelief,” she told King.The American Cancer Society recommends a mammogram every 1 to 2 years for women over 55. Knowles explained she missed her routine screening during the COVID-19 pandemic and didn’t reschedule until last year.…

CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai meets Polish Prime Minister at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022.Mateusz Wlodarczyk | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAs Google heads back to the courtroom Monday, the company is arguing that the U.S. needs the company in its full form to take on chief adversary China and uphold national security in the process. The remedies trial in Washington, D.C., follows a judge’s ruling in August that Google has held a monopoly in its core market of internet search, the most-significant antitrust ruling in the tech industry since the case against Microsoft more than 20 years ago.The…

Men work with a jet engine at General Electric (GE) Celma, GE’s aviation engine overhaul facility in Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.YASUYOSHI CHIBA | AFP | Getty ImagesRTX and GE Aerospace expect a more than $1 billion impact combined from President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported goods and materials, the latest sign of higher prices for major U.S. manufacturers that rely on a global supply chain.Neil Mitchill, chief financial officer of defense contractor and commercial aerospace supplier RTX, said on an earnings call on Tuesday that the company will likely take a $850 million hit this year from tariffs, including…