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A suspect in the Gerard Ross murder investigation has died before facing trial over dozens of historical child sex abuse charges, leaving alleged victims devastated and without their day in court.

FOOD AND ENERGY SECURITY GOALS DRIVING FOREST LOSSManurung identified President Prabowo Subianto’s food security programme as one of the main contributing factors. The programme aims to boost domestic output of key agricultural products like rice and reduce Indonesia’s dependence on imports.  The government allocated 20.6 million hectares of forest areas for food-, energy- and water-related programmes in 2025, 43 per cent of which was natural forest. More than 78,000 hectares of the “food reserve forest” were cleared last year, an area the size of New York City, according to Auriga calculations.As it cleared parts of the island of Borneo to make…

new video loaded: Cubans React to Arrival of Russian Oil TankertranscriptBacktranscriptCubans React to Arrival of Russian Oil TankerA Russian tanker full of crude oil arrived in Cuba, offering a slight reprieve to Cubans after regular blackouts amid a severe energy crisis. Some said it was not enough.“We allowed this ship to reach Cuba in order to provide humanitarian needs to the Cuban people.”A Russian tanker full of crude oil arrived in Cuba, offering a slight reprieve to Cubans after regular blackouts amid a severe energy crisis. Some said it was not enough.By Shawn PaikMarch 31, 2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine are holding a news conference on the war with Iran on Tuesday as an Iranian drone hit a Kuwaiti oil tanker off Dubai and the average gas price in the U.S. hit $4 a gallon. “The Kuwaiti giant crude oil tanker was subjected to a direct and malicious Iranian attack while in the anchorage area of Dubai Port in the UAE,” official news agency KUNA reported, citing Kuwait’s state-owned oil company. The Kuwaiti Very Large Crude Oil Carrier (VLCC) Al-Salmi was targeted, according to state media.In a post on social media…

The Russian authorities have deepened their crackdown on popular foreign apps and have begun periodically turning off mobile internet across the country, after spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build up censorship technology that they plan to expand.Here is how the government is going about its assault on internet freedom and what Russians are doing to evade the ever-expanding restrictions.Russia’s Methods of ControlA new law means that the authorities do not need to provide any justification when cutting off mobile data.They are making “white lists” of sites and apps that should remain available during an internet shutdown. There isn’t…

The passenger cabin on a Delta Boeing 737-900ER is shown while landing in Salt Lake City, Utah.Mike Blake | ReutersDelta Air Lines has tapped Amazon Leo to provide fast internet service on hundreds of jets starting in 2028, the latest salvo in airlines’ in-flight Wi-Fi and streaming wars.Amazon Leo, which stands for low Earth orbit, is offering satellite Wi-Fi, which Delta says will initially be available on 500 of its aircraft. Delta will start with domestic-focused, narrow-body planes from Boeing and Airbus. The airline also uses Hughes and Viasat for in-flight Wi-Fi. “People want faster speeds, they want more bandwidth,…

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s father was a baby when he and his mother left their home in Italy bound for New Jersey, where he later became a U.S. citizen.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ancestors’ passage remains unknown, but her relatives were enslaved in Georgia, becoming citizens only through the bloodshed of the Civil War.Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s great-grandparents emigrated in the late 1800s from a mining town in what is now Slovakia, bound for Pennsylvania coal country. In the United States, the couple had a son — the chief justice’s grandfather. Albert Podrasky was born before his parents…

The sod has this week turned on an apartment development where the minimum apartment price is close to $3 million.

Baby trafficking has made the news in Indonesia and Singapore in recent months.In Indonesia, many expectant mothers struggle to afford prenatal care and the costs associated with childbirth and raising a child.According to the World Bank, around 60 per cent of Indonesia’s population – or 171.9 million people – lived on less than US$6.85 a day in 2024, the World Bank’s poverty line for upper-middle income countries like Indonesia.Experts have told CNA that while poverty remains the biggest driver of the trade, the problem is compounded by deep social stigma surrounding abortion and widespread misunderstanding of how the legal adoption…

NewsFeedItalian press reports that the government has refuse to authorise US to land bombers at a base in Sicily for transit to the Middle East, where they could be used to strike Iran.Published On 31 Mar 202631 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2SharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo