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West Australian quick Jason Behrendorff’s life as a short-form specialist will begin with a rich pay day in The Hundred later this year.David Warner has been picked up by Justin Langer’s London Spirit and will return to Lord’s for the first time since he clashed with members during the fiery 2023 Ashes, while Glenn Maxwell and Australian women’s captain Alyssa Healy went undrafted.Langer will work closely again with Perth Scorchers captain Ashton Turner, who also landed at the Spirit.Behrendorff will play for Oval Invincibles as part of a stacked pace attack that includes Ashes-bound English quick Gus Atkinson, both Sam…

ARE XI’S ASSURANCES ENOUGH? According to Xinhua, Mr Xi reportedly told entrepreneurs, also including Mr Ma, Ren Zhengfei of Huawei and Wang Chuanfu of BYD, that it was “prime time for private enterprises and entrepreneurs to give full play to their capabilities”. He assured them that the current difficulties and challenges facing the private sector could be overcome and called for renewed confidence in the future. Mr Xi also vowed to create equal treatment for the private sector and pledged to ensure access to bank loans while addressing widespread illicit law enforcement and administrative actions, including arbitrary fees, fines, inspections…

A customer shops for eggs at an H-E-B grocery store on Feb. 12, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesInflation receded in February on the back of easing price pressures for consumer staples like gasoline, groceries and housing, amid worries that President Donald Trump’s tariff policies could stall progress.The consumer price index rose 2.8% for the 12 months ended in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. That’s down from 3% in January.The deceleration is encouraging after fears in recent months that inflation had become entrenched and wasn’t falling back to target.”Progress is bumpy,” said Michael Pugliese,…

Rodrigo Duterte carried out a war on drugs in the Philippines that rights groups say killed 30,000 people. Sui-Lee Wee, the Southeast Asia bureau chief of The New York Times, explains how Duterte came to be arrested by Philippine police and put on a plane to the Netherlands to face charges of crimes against humanity.

Trump critic wins Greenland election – CBS News Watch CBS News The center-right Demokraatit Party won the most votes in Greenland’s parliamentary elections, a surprise result as the territory went to the polls in the shadow of President Trump’s stated goal of taking control of the island one way or another. “CBS Evening News” co-anchors John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois have more. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

It wasn’t so long ago that Elon Musk couldn’t even get an invitation to the White House.The year was 2021, and President Joe Biden was announcing tighter pollution rules and promoting his electric vehicle policies.Behind him on the lawn were gleaming examples — a Ford F-150 Lightning, a Chevrolet Bolt EV, a Jeep Wrangler — as well as the chief executives of the companies that made them. But the nation’s biggest electric vehicle producer was nowhere to be seen.“Seems odd that Tesla wasn’t invited,” Musk tweeted before the event.The Biden White House explained the snub by noting that the automakers…

The outlook for Canada’s housing market remains uncertain after the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate on Wednesday amid what it calls “pervasive uncertainty” around the trade war imposed by the U.S. The central bank cut its benchmark rate by 25 basis points, bringing it down to 2.75 per cent.This was the bank’s seventh consecutive interest rate cut.While announcing the rate cut, Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem said the uncertainty around tariffs was forcing Canadians to cut back on spending.“In recent months, the pervasive uncertainty created by continuously changing U.S. tariff threats has shaken business and consumer…

The Geely brand has returned Down Under with the mid-sized EX5 electric SUV, which it claims has been localised to meet the needs and requirements of our market.The Chinese carmaker’s namesake brand conducted local testing of the suspension and advanced driver assist systems (ADAS) with a third party more than 12 months ago.As a part of the local testing, Geely executives confirmed the BYD Atto 3 small electric SUV and the Tesla Model 3 electric sedan were used as benchmarks for the EX5 – despite neither of these vehicles receiving any local suspension tuning.Hundreds of new car deals are available…

Manchester City are having a bad season, there is no doubt about that. But there is a difference of opinion when it comes to deciding why this is the case.Your more casual observer might put it down to Rodri’s absence with a long-term knee injury, and of course there is a lot of truth in that.Perhaps you are pitching it somewhere in the middle, nodding sagely about several factors. Yes, Rodri’s injury was the first domino to fall but it exposed an “old” midfield — in Pep Guardiola’s words — and a defence completely blighted by injuries.But there is another…

AN ASIAN MODEL OF DEALING WITH DONALD TRUMP Asia states will watch, with interest, India’s approach to managing the challenges posed by a second Trump administration. The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) could be one area where India could possibly be asked to do more in the security domain, as a key initiative to counter China. While Southeast Asia had been lukewarm to this four-power platform (which also includes US, Australia and Japan), a reinvigorated Quad could be seen as a positive development, contributing to a stable balance of power within East Asia. Southeast Asia could possibly expect a more visible…