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The rise of a pro-business and mining-friendly party in Greenland’s election has sparked hope for a stalled Australian rare earth minerals project.

It’s hard to believe it’s only been 95 days since the last Formula One grand prix, but here we are again, with the 2025 F1 season upon us, the Australian Grand Prix set to kick off the action this weekend and with a (hopefully) remarkable season of close racing ahead. (Catch the schedule here.) After a whirlwind of team launches, Lewis Hamilton dominating headlines at Ferrari and three days of preseason testing, it’s time to go racing at the Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne.Our F1 team are ready to share their predictions for the season ahead. We have…

Finnish court sentences Russian fighter to life imprisonment for war crimes against Ukrainian soldiers in 2014.A Russian national has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Finland for war crimes committed in Ukraine. The district court of Finland’s capital, Helsinki, ruled on Friday that Voislav Torden, then a commander of the far-right Russian nationalist paramilitary group Rusich, was involved in four different war crimes against Ukrainian soldiers during battles in eastern Ukraine in 2014. A fifth charge was dismissed. Torden was arrested in the summer of 2023 in Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometre (832-mile) border with Russia. The case involves an…

EXCLUSIVE: A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to nix Chile’s status on the visa waiver program (VWP) amid a major gang burglary risk.Reps. Young Kim, Derek Tran, Dave Min and Mike Levin of California sent a letter to DHS asking that Chile be taken off the list, which allows citizens from certain countries to visit the U.S. for roughly three months without a visa, until steps are taken to ensure that people robbing homes and businesses after they come to the country are stopped. “We are concerned that the VWP continues to be exploited by…

Maybe the fifth time’s the charm. A Mexican woman who has been previously deported from the U.S. four times and has six convictions each for driving while intoxicated and theft was returned to her country again on Thursday. “I have served in law enforcement for more than 30 years and few things surprise me, but the level of disrespect that this criminal alien has shown for our system of laws and for the brave men and women who risk their lives every day to uphold those laws is shocking,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston Field Office Director Bret Bradford. NOEM ENDS…

An Alberta judge has ordered two Edmonton women captured in Syria during the defeat of the Islamic State to take part in a deradicalization program. At a court appearance on Friday, Helena Carson and Dina Kalouti were told they must undergo counselling with the Organization for the Prevention of Violence.Justice Suzanne Polkosnik approved an RCMP request to impose a terrorism peace bond on the sisters-in-law, who acknowledged living in ISIS territory for four years.“We’re happy with the court’s decision today and we believe that it shows that my clients are absolutely no concern to the Canadian public, as they’ve maintained…

At 31, Alex Grant admits his hopes of a Socceroos cap were evaporating until Australia endured a heavy hit to its defensive depth.

Until 2020, few Americans needed to think about how viruses spread or how the human immune system works. The pandemic offered a painful crash course. Sometimes, it seemed that the science was evolving as quickly as the virus itself.So The New York Times asked experts to revisit the nightmare. Of the most significant public health measures introduced during Covid, which have held up scientifically, and which turned out to be wrongheaded?The question is particularly important now, because pandemics that could upend American lives are inevitable. One candidate has already surfaced: bird flu.Perhaps the biggest lesson learned, several experts said, is…

Herman Graf, a major and intrepid figure in independent publishing who sold copies of Henry Miller’s novel “Tropic of Cancer” to bookstores after it was embroiled in a legal fight over whether it was obscene, died on Feb. 27 at his home in Flushing, Queens. He was 91.His nephew Paul Lichter said the cause was Parkinson’s disease.Among Mr. Graf’s many other accomplishments in publishing, he helped turn John Kennedy Toole’s satirical novel, “A Confederacy of Dunces,” into a best seller long after the author’s death.A raconteur with a booming voice, Mr. Graf was a bibliophile who loved the works of…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Financier Crispin Odey made an unexpected visit to the court where former Barclays boss Jes Staley is challenging the UK financial regulator over allegations he downplayed ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Odey, who faces his own enforcement action from the UK Financial Conduct Authority in a separate investigation, briefly entered the courtroom in London after the conclusion of proceedings on Thursday and spoke to a lawyer for Staley.Odey, who founded the hedge fund Odey Asset Management, stands accused by women…