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When President Trump said last month that he wanted to move all of Gaza’s roughly two million residents out of the strip to Egypt and Jordan and transform the territory into a beachfront “Riviera” for tourism, Arab leaders rejected the idea and hurried to present their own grand plan.At an emergency Arab summit in Cairo on Tuesday, they laid out their vision: Rebuild Gaza without forcing out the Palestinians who live there. Sideline Hamas, the armed group that currently controls Gaza, and appoint a committee of skilled bureaucrats to initially run the strip before handing over to the internationally recognized…

Washington — The Trump administration signaled Tuesday it will move to let Idaho enforce its strict abortion ban, even in the treatment of pregnant women suffering medical emergencies, a dramatic reversal from the previous administration in a closely watched lawsuit.The state’s largest hospital system said it could be forced to airlift women out of state for care if the federal lawsuit is dismissed. That persuaded a judge to quickly grant a temporary order allowing doctors to keep providing abortions they deem necessary to treat emergencies. The move to dismiss the lawsuit originally filed by the Biden administration could come as…

The women’s basketball coach stood atop a ladder on Sunday night, carefully cutting down the last of the net after Haskell Indian Nations University won the league championship.The scene is a familiar one at this time of year in college basketball. But the celebration in Lawrence, Kan., where the man who invented the sport worked for decades, was nevertheless astonishing: Officially, Haskell’s coach, Adam Strom, was only a volunteer.He had been fired 16 days earlier, swept up in an executive order that led Haskell to oust about a quarter of its workers on a Friday in February.The only other federally…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 5, 2025 6:46 am Updated March 5, 2025 6:47 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area fell by more than one-quarter in February compared with a year ago despite buyers maintaining “substantial” negotiating power. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says 4,037 homes were sold last month, down 27.4 per cent compared with 5,562 in February 2024. Sales were down 28.5 per cent from January on a seasonally adjusted basis. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines,…

The situation gets even more complicated when considering the other activities the Fed undertakes, especially during times of crisis, that do not neatly fall into either the monetary or the regulatory bucket, Ms. Judge said. For example, during the Covid-induced economic shock in 2020, the central bank aggressively intervened in a range of debt markets in order to shore up the financial system, working closely with the Treasury Department.“The lines around what constitutes monetary policy have never been cleanly drawn,” she said.Jeremy Kress, a former Fed banking regulator who is now a faculty director of the University of Michigan’s Center…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.UK oil and gas drillers face a new tax that would see them pay more if global prices rise, under proposals to overhaul the North Sea duties regime in the wake of the energy crisis. The mechanism would replace the controversial “windfall tax”, under plans outlined in a consultation on the future of the North Sea to be published on Wednesday, according to people within the industry and government. The industry has called for greater predictability in the regime, in order…

Thirty years after the Labour party started pushing “commonhold” ownership in 1995, and two decades after the first legislation introducing it, Sir Keir Starmer’s government this week set out plans to revamp the tenure in hopes of actually getting the system off the ground.Fewer than 200 properties currently use commonhold. Its take-up has been hampered by scepticism from lenders and developers. In England and Wales, the vast majority of flats are leasehold, where people own their home on a long lease, with overall control of the building in the hands of a landlord called a freeholder. The government has promised…

China’s navy showed off its J-15T fighter jet at the 2024 Zhuhai Air Show on Nov. 12, 2024.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesChina on Wednesday increased its defense spending by 7.2% this year, the same growth rate as in the prior two years, as Beijing seeks to “firmly safeguard” its national security.In an official government report due to be released in parliament, China proposed a national defense budget of 1.78 trillion yuan ($244.99 billion) for the 2025 fiscal year.The increased defense budget, well above China’s economic growth target for this year of roughly 5%, comes as Western governments seek to…

An Albany man who used “emotional blackmail” to coerce a witness to drop domestic violence charges has been imprisoned in a case that “strikes at the heart of the criminal justice system”.

KUALA LUMPUR: Authorities in Malaysia are investigating three radio hosts who apparently mocked a Hindu ritual in a video clip. The trio’s actions were swiftly condemned by netizens and the country’s leaders, and Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain said 44 police reports have been filed against them as of Wednesday (Mar 5). The reports claim that the video touched on “racial sensitivities” and “mock the Hindu religion”, he said. The trio, from media company Astro’s Era FM channel, are to be questioned at the Bukit Aman police headquarters on Wednesday, reported the New Straits Times. The case is being investigated…