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JAKARTA: Activists have called for press freedom to be protected in Indonesia and demanded an investigation after a magazine critical of the government was sent a pig’s head and decapitated rats. Weekly magazine Tempo, a top Indonesian publication since the 1970s, has been critical of the policies of President Prabowo Subianto, an ex-general whom rights groups accuse of abuses under late dictator Suharto. Cleaners at Tempo’s office found a box of six rats with their heads cut off on Saturday (Mar 22), the magazine said in a statement. A pig’s head without its ears was also found there on Thursday, intended…

With a staccato burst, a horn sounded in the control room of the H.M.S. Vanguard, sending the crew of the nuclear-armed Royal Navy submarine to battle stations. The voice of the commanding officer crackled over the intercom. “Set condition 1SQ,” he said, ordering its battery of ballistic missiles to be readied for launch.It was just a drill, conducted last Monday for a visiting V.I.P., Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But Mr. Starmer had reason to pay close attention when he was shown where the submarine’s launch key is stored: The prime minister is the only person in the United Kingdom authorized…

American households are allocating so much money to U.S. stocks that the valuation of the whole market is now dependent on their appetite, according to JPMorgan. Individual investors have become the most important holder of U.S. equities, owning around 60% of the universe, the Wall Street firm said. This record level of ownership creates a lockstep movement between the price-earnings ratio of the S & P 500 and the retail flow into the market. “The higher the appetite by US households to hold equities in their portfolios, the more expensive the equity market becomes and vice versa,” strategists led by…

The first wave of NFL free agency is winding down, and there are now plenty of deals to assess.In the team free agency rankings we released ahead of the negotiation window earlier this month, we dove into the data from the previous four years, 2021 through 2024. We logged cash spent on each free agent during that span. We also logged the value produced — using Football Reference’s Approximate Value metric — by each player while he was on his free-agent contract. By comparing these two figures, we determined how much value each free agent produced per $1 million in…

First he was a “knucklehead” now he’s a “smarta–.” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, said Saturday that he was making a joke when he made a comment last week mocking Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk for the company’s recent downward trend in the stock market.Walz attempted to clarify his comments during a town hall in Rochester, Minnesota.”This guy bugs me in a way that’s probably unhealthy,” Walz said, referring to Musk. “I have to be careful about being a smarta–. I was making a joke. These people have no sense of humor. They are the most literal people.””But my…

West Coast co-captain Oscar Allen is weighing up what he wants out of the final years of his career and if he can achieve success at the Eagles, as much as the lofty contract figures in front of him. 

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Who: New Zealand vs PakistanWhat: Fourth T20I of five-match seriesWhere: Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui, New ZealandWhen: Sunday at 7:15pm (06:15 GMT) Pakistan has kept alive their hopes of winning the five-match T20 series in their tour of New Zealand with their stunning win in the third match on Thursday. It reduced New Zealand’s lead in the series to a 2-1 advantage and throws open the possibility of a dramatic turnaround after a tough opening to Pakistan’s tour. Al Jazeera looks at the series so far and to the fourth match. What happened in the first two matches of Pakistan’s tour?…

Washington — The Small Business Administration on Friday said it is cutting more than 40% of its staff as part of the Trump administration’s wider effort to shrink the federal bureaucracy.Roughly 6,500 people, or less than half-a-percent of the entire federal workforce, are employed at the SBA, according to the most recent data available. The agency said in a statement that it will “reduce its workforce by 43%” and said the cuts would save more than $435 million a year by next fiscal year.”The strategic reorganization will begin a turnaround for the agency by restoring the efficiency of the first Trump…

Air defence units have destroyed 59 Ukrainian drones that targeted Russia’s southwest regions and killed one person in Rostov, Moscow says.Twenty-nine of the drones were downed overnight over the Rostov region in Russia’s south, the Russian defence ministry said on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday.Another 20 were downed over the Astrakhan region on the Caspian Sea.The rest of the drones were downed over the Voronezh, Volgograd, Kursk and Saratov regions, as well as over Crimea, the ministry said.Yuri Slyusar, the acting governor of the Rostov region that borders Ukraine, said the attack killed one person.”A car caught fire due…