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The federal government has been grilled over fears tech billionaire Elon Musk might use his platform X, formerly Twitter, to “agitate for far-right politics in Australia”.Greens senator David Shoebridge aired fears about the Tesla CEO’s influence in the upcoming election following his support for the far-right AfD party in Germany.Musk has been vocal in his support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), despite the party being monitored over suspicions of extremism in some German states.“Elon Musk is actively using his platform X to exercise foreign interference in the German election campaign,” Mr Shoebridge told Home Affairs Minister Murray Watt.“And, we’re…

TOKYO: Shares in Japan’s biggest car companies fell on Thursday (Mar 27) after US President Donald Trump announced a 25 per cent tariff on auto imports to take effect next week. The world’s top-selling automaker Toyota dropped 3.7 per cent as the Tokyo market opened, while Nissan shed 3.2 per cent and Honda fell as much as 3.1 per cent. Mitsubishi Motors was down 3.7 per cent, and in South Korea, Hyundai shares dipped 3.4 per cent. The auto industry is a huge pillar of the Japanese economy, with about 10 per cent of jobs there connected to the sector. Vehicles…

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, will face trial on charges that he oversaw a vast scheme to cling to power after losing the 2022 elections, including an attempt to overturn the vote and a plot to assassinate the nation’s president-elect, the country’s Supreme Court decided on Wednesday.The ruling marks a significant effort to hold Mr. Bolsonaro accountable for accusations that he sought to effectively dismantle Brazil’s democracy by orchestrating a broad plan to stage a coup.Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is overseeing the case, said in explaining his decision that there was no doubt Mr. Bolsonaro “knew, handled…

Federal health officials said they are cutting $11.4 billion in COVID-19-related funds for state and local public health departments — money that was largely used for COVID-19 testing, virus research and community health jobs.”The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement Tuesday.The statement said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects to recover the money beginning 30 days after termination notices, which began being sent out on Monday. The…

A doctoral student at the University of Alabama was detained by federal immigration authorities, the university said in a statement on Wednesday, one of more than half a dozen students who have been targeted by the Trump administration in recent weeks.The student was not named by the school, but online records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement indicate that Alireza Doroudi, an Iranian citizen, was detained by the agency. Alex House, a spokeswoman with the University of Alabama, which is in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said that the student was detained off campus. It was not clear why the student was targeted, and…

It’s an annual tradition: My column explaining why I think your favorite team isn’t going to win as many games as you think they are.These predictions are for fun, not a demonstration of my deep-seated loathing for your favorite team, and not the product of a sophisticated machine-learning algorithm to produce impeccable forecasts. I make it all up, and then I talk about it. (I do, however, rely on FanGraphs’ projections as a starting point for several things here, especially some individual player projections, and this piece would be far harder without them.)I’ve done this for at least 15 years…

There was a heavy RCMP and city bylaw presence at Kelowna, B.C.’s tent city Wednesday morning as residents sheltering on site woke up to some major changes. “We woke up and the fence was around us, all the way around the entirety of this place,” said tent city resident Blake Mercury.The city conducts a deep clean of the encampment every spring, but this operation is unlike any other  and it caught the roughly 90 people there off guard.“We were literally given no notice,” said Mercury.In addition to the fencing, the changes also include 24-7 on-site security and a stamp system,…

The West Kimberley Junior Football League and other Broome sporting clubs are set to benefit from a $300,000 funding injection into the Broome Recreation and Aquatic Centre if the Liberals are re-elected. 

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of suicide drones with artificial intelligence (AI) technology and said unmanned control and AI capability must be the top priorities in modern arms development, state media reported on Thursday (Mar 27). Kim also inspected new upgraded reconnaissance drones that are capable of detecting various tactical targets and enemy activities on land and at sea, KCNA state news agency said. “The field of unmanned equipment and artificial intelligence should be top-prioritised and developed in modernising the armed forces,” KCNA quoted Kim as saying. He stressed the importance of promoting a concerted longer-term…

NewsFeedA journalist who was accidentally added to a group chat with top US security officials has shared more screen shots. They show that details on the timing and weapons to be used in a strike on Yemen were discussed, despite members of the group denying this.Published On 26 Mar 202526 Mar 2025