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AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw warned politicians to think carefully about their plans during the campaign as he shared ‘sobering information’ about what they collectively had been facing.

SINGAPORE: Several everyday expressions used in Singapore and Malaysia were on Wednesday (Mar 26) added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its quarterly update for March 2025. Popular food items also featured heavily in the update, with a number of dishes familiar on both sides of the Causeway – and in Indonesia – now defined in the dictionary. Commenting on the additions, Oxford mused over the value of what it described as “untranslatable words” and how they expand the vocabularies of different forms of English. Among the added words was “alamak”, which the dictionary defined as an interjection expressing “surprise,…

South Sudan’s Vice President Riek Machar has been placed under house arrest, according to his party, amid escalating tensions in the world’s youngest country that the United Nations has warned have pushed the country to the brink of civil war.Mr. Machar was detained late on Wednesday by the National Security Service, his acting press secretary, Puok Both Baluang, said. The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement In Opposition, Mr. Machar’s political party, said the country’s defense minister and the chief of national security “forcefully entered” Mr. Machar’s residence alongside an armed convoy, disarmed his bodyguards and “delivered an arrest warrant to him…

The Trump administration plans to cut about 10,000 full-time employees from the Department of Health and Human Services, the department announced Thursday, cutting around a tenth of the staff at the nation’s federal health agencies.”When combined with HHS’ other efforts, including early retirement and Fork in the Road, the restructuring results in a total downsizing from 82,000 to 62,000 full-time employees,” the department said in a release, estimating that taxpayers would save $1.8 billion from the changes.The Wall Street Journal first reported the news. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy will cut 3,500 jobs from the Food and Drug Administration…

A post from Elon Musk last month trumpeted a supposedly startling discovery by his team of government cost-cutters: The Federal Emergency Management Agency had provided $59 million to house undocumented immigrants in New York City. The money, he declared, was “meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals!”But if Mr. Musk’s goal was to funnel more FEMA money to disaster aid, the fallout from his declaration had the opposite effect.A pair of Trump administration orders, issued soon after the Feb. 10 social media post, aimed to block any agency money from helping…

Lottery players in New Brunswick are going to want to check their tickets. Atlantic Lottery says a winning $5 million Lotto 6/49 was sold on the the http://www.alc.ca, N.B. for the March 26 draw.Who the prize winner or winners are is not know, but at least one person in the province appears to be $5 million richer. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Details on the prize winner or winners will be released as soon as they come forward, the lottery…

When beloved former Perth Zoo elephant Permai met her new friend Burma earlier this year, they appeared to be the picture-perfect pair as they locked trunks after a marathon relocation across the Nullarbor.But two months in, it can now be revealed Permai is struggling to settle into her new home at Montaro Park in South Australia — so much so, the pair still cannot be trusted to be alone together.Zookeepers say Permai is still struggling to build a relationship with her new enclosure mate — a female Asian elephant who moved to the Park from Auckland in November — and…

“The card looked perfect.”Nick Bruce and his son “freaked out” when they pulled an autographed Lionel Messi card from a pack around the Christmas holidays at their Ferndale, Mich., home. It was a normal reaction for sports card enthusiasts discovering a rare autographed card of a superstar athlete.“Perfect” for Bruce meant sharp edges and corners, a clean surface and proper centering that would garner gem mint status from a third-party grader and boost its value even further. The authenticity of the autographed sticker on the card never crossed Bruce’s mind.Why would it?The fine print on the front of the 2021-22…

“DIFFERENCES” China says it is a neutral party in the Ukraine conflict. But it is a close political and economic ally of Russia and NATO members have branded Beijing a “decisive enabler” of the war, which it has never condemned. Barrot earlier acknowledged “differences” between Beijing and Paris on that issue and others. But, he said, “our two countries must therefore work together to foster… dialogue”. “Faced with political, economic, and security challenges, a new Europe is rapidly emerging. Its sole compass is strategic autonomy,” he told Wang. “It will be particularly vigilant in defending its interests and its values,”…

US officials accidentally leaked Yemen attack plans in Signal chat shared with The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.The Atlantic magazine has published US attack plans against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, mistakenly shared in a group chat that included its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. The release on Wednesday came after US President Donald Trump sought to downplay the significance of the texts shared on the Signal messaging app, calling them “not a big deal”. Some of the most crucial of the published messages appear to have been sent on March 15 by an account seeming to belong to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as…