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Indonesia has set a 5.2 per cent GDP growth target this year versus 5.03 per cent achieved last year. President Prabowo Subianto, however, wants to jack up the growth to 8 per cent by 2029. Indonesia’s authorities have said the US tariffs would have a limited impact on the economy, which relies more on the domestic market. The US was Indonesia’s third-biggest export destination as of last year, receiving shipments worth US$26.3 billion, according to Indonesian government data. Sri Mulyani said Indonesia would use the 90-day tariff pause to come up with a framework of cooperation that was “mutually respected”…

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Video shows more than a dozen Israeli soldiers arresting well-known Palestinian journalist Samer Khuwaira at his home

As attorney general of Oklahoma, Gentner Drummond has personally attended nine executions. Since taking office in 2023, he’s approved of every death row case in the state — except one.”I believed it my duty to look at…every person on death row,” he told CBS News. “When I stumbled across Richard Glossip, it was different. This is an individual who didn’t murder the victim.”  Glossip was convicted in the 1997 murder of a man who had been beaten to death. When Drummond examined the case, he learned the state knew its key witness lied during Glossip’s trial. “I think by Mr. Glossip’s…

I’m doing something a little different with the newsletter today: delving into some reporting left over in my notebook that shows how Elon Musk — and the strong feelings that working for him can engender — can come between even the closest of friends.Last month, my colleagues and I published a story about Steve Davis, a longtime Musk lieutenant who has worked for the billionaire for more than two decades, at three different companies, and is now one of the most powerful people leading his cost-cutting effort in Washington.When Davis moved to Washington as a SpaceX employee more than 15…

With costs rising and their retirement incomes not what they used to be, many Ontario seniors are struggling. Following the relaunch of Global News’ On the Brink series, we received multiple replies from people who said they are in a similar situation to that of the couple featured.Sharon McArthur, 74. and her 73-year-old husband, Wayne Gattinger, from Brooke-Alvinston, Ont., talked about how the cost of living has led them to have to stop having family dinners because.Wendy Colman, 69, from Cornwall, Ont., lives with her daughter and granddaughter and said it is sad that things have reached this point.She said…

Richmond has officially resisted bringing Noah Balta straight back into their AFL side as he awaits sentencing over a serious assault charge. 

KUALA LUMPUR: Southeast Asian countries are pressing for dialogue with the United States on trade tariffs and will not impose retaliatory measures, economic ministers of the regional bloc ASEAN said on Thursday (Apr 10).  Before a 90-day pause was announced by US President Donald Trump on the implementation of US tariffs, six of nine Southeast Asian countries targeted by the US administration were slapped with much bigger-than-expected tariffs of between 32 per cent and 49 per cent.  By comparison, the level for the European Union was 20 per cent, Japan’s was 24 per cent and India’s 27 per cent. “We…

During a recent five-year period, a substantial portion of maternal deaths in America — almost one-third — took place more than six weeks after childbirth, at a time when most new mothers think they are in the clear, researchers reported on Wednesday.The study, published in JAMA Network Open, is one of the first to track maternal health complications during pregnancy and in the year after delivery.Pregnancy-related death rates in the United States rose almost 28 percent from 2018 to 2022, the researchers found, surging at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 before subsiding somewhat.“Our study illustrates why we…

The authorities in Los Angeles said on Wednesday that they had arrested a woman and charged her with attempted murder after she pointed a gun at officers who were on an unrelated manhunt.Police officers were pursuing the suspects in a hit-and-run case who had fled into the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday. When they arrived at the back of a house where one of the suspects had last been seen, they saw a woman armed with a handgun in the yard of a neighboring house, the police said.They later identified her as Jillian Lauren Shriner, 51. Ms.…