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Australia’s markets regulator and the Reserve Bank have identified serious issues at exchange operator ASX Ltd related to trade settlement that they say needs immediate action to resolve. 

One day, a friend reached out to Miranda, offering her to come to a sharing session organised by a group of former migrant workers.  “Sharing my story with people who understand or have similar experiences helped me cope with the pain I feel inside,” Miranda said, adding that ever since she has been attending similar sessions and workshops organised by the group: Sandigan.  The group was founded in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, when the Philippines saw an influx of returning migrant workers because they either lost their jobs or feared that they would not be able to…

China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.Even as President Trump was dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, he said that American help was on its way to Myanmar, where a 7.7-magnitude earthquake ripped through the country’s heavily populated center on Friday. More than 1,700 people were killed, according to Myanmar’s military government, with the death toll expected to climb steeply as more bodies are uncovered in the…

The headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico in Albuquerque was damaged early Sunday morning in what the party described as a “deliberate act of arson.”Albuquerque Fire Rescue confirmed that it had been dispatched to the party’s headquarters just before 6 a.m. for a report of a structure fire, which was brought under control within five minutes. No injuries to civilians or firefighters were reported.The fire burned the entryway of the headquarters and left smoke damage throughout the building, Lt. Jason Fejer, a spokesman for the fire department, said on Sunday.He confirmed that the department, the Federal Bureau of…

When mini-series ruled prime time, their maxi-est star was Richard Chamberlain.Today we call them “limited series.” But in their 20th-century heyday, under another inapt diminutive, mini-series were the megafauna of TV, lavish events that achieved the kind of cinematic spectacle that was otherwise rare in living-room entertainment of the time. They were TV specials that made TV special.In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of mini-series — “Roots,” “The Winds of War,” “Lonesome Dove” — dominated the conversation and minted stars. But perhaps no other actor is more closely associated with the genre than Chamberlain, who died on Saturday at…

Actress Kim Delaney, was arrested on felony assault charges, Fox News Digital confirmed.According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, deputies from the Marina Del Rey Station responded to a domestic disturbance at Delaney’s residence on Saturday at approximately 9:45 a.m.After an investigation by deputies, Delaney was arrested for an assault with a deadly weapon and her partner, James Morgan, was arrested for battery. Delaney was booked into the Marina del Rey Sheriff’s Station at 10:15 a.m. and charged with assault, likely to produce gross bodily injury.The “NYPD Blue” actress was assigned to the station at 11:30 a.m., and is still…

Shares of CoreWeave, the first artificial intelligence start-up to go public, finished its first day of trading at $40.01 a share, one penny above the disappointing initial public offering price the company had set a day earlier.The company’s share price, trading under the ticker symbol CRWV, signaled concern among Wall Street investors about the economy and CoreWeave’s business model.The faltering day of trading came amid a slumping stock market and uncertainty around inflation and President Trump’s tariffs. The S&P 500 dropped 2 percent on Friday, one of its worst days since Mr. Trump’s election.The listing’s reduced price — CoreWeave estimated…

The police confiscated a kite on Saturday after it was flown near airplanes landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport, according to the airport police, and after a witness said he saw it make contact with a landing plane.United Airlines said that it “was aware of reports” that a kite had been in the path of Flight 654 from Houston.“The aircraft landed safely, customers deplaned normally and upon inspection there was no damage to the aircraft,” United said.Officers with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department received reports on Saturday of a kite flying at Gravelly Point, a park just north…

President Trump has said that “tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented.” For someone who once called himself a “tariff man,” tariffs are the solutions to many economic problems.He has argued that imposing tariffs would protect American factories, spur manufacturing, create new jobs and bend uncooperative governments to his will. Since his inauguration, while imposing and then suspending and then imposing tariffs again, Mr. Trump has upended the global trading system.But over that time Mr. Trump has also begun conceding that tariffs could cause financial discomfort for Americans. That possibility came up in stark terms in an interview with NBC’s…

A 10-year-old, two other children and a woman have been taken to hospital with stab wounds after being attacked in a suburban home.