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New Dolphins coach Kristian Woolf has been backed to cast his own spell on the post-Wayne Bennett “curse”, despite head coaches who succeeded him in the NRL previously encountering all kinds of doom and gloom.Coaches who have followed new South Sydney mentor Bennett the five times he has left NRL clubs previously have been sacked after their first, second or third year following total implosions.Before they took over, however, none of them had the resume of Woolf, who won three Super League titles at St Helens and turned Tonga into a global powerhouse during his decade as head coach.It is…

“(China) is probably thinking, we don’t want to be seen as siding with Putin … (and) openly going against international law. So it is saying: ‘We’re the grown-ups. Let’s take it through the proper channels.’ And I think that’s a very subtle message,” he said. Experts say China is also wary about the optics. “The Chinese are not just thinking about their relationship with Moscow or their relationship with Washington. They also want to be careful about how other countries, especially those in the Indo-Pacific and Global South, receive China, and abstaining helps it (achieve) that,” said Muraviev from Curtin…

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The ceasefire in Gaza hangs in the balance as Israel insists on extending phase one.Palestinians in Gaza were planning to enter the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as the second phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas got under way. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government now wants to renegotiate the terms. Israel is pressuring Hamas to extend the first phase of the ceasefire, in exchange for releasing half of the remaining 59 captives. And it has again cut off aid and supplies to Gaza. Hamas is accusing Israel of reneging on the existing deal and is urging…

There’s at least one thing Americans widely agree on about President Donald Trump: they think he’s changing the way the government works. But they’re more split on whether that’s for the better or worse. His approach to immigration and deportation continues to receive positive marks, and his border policies are seen as effective. A large majority agree there is some waste in the federal government. DOGE and Elon Musk’s efforts divide the nation, though, as Americans foresee an impact from dismissing federal workers. Half the country thinks this will cut their services and remove essential people. Half think it’ll save money.Either way, it…

Two men have been charged with the murder of Brianna Long, more than a year after the 21-year-old Georgia college student was killed while at work.She was hit by a stray bullet as she worked as a bartender at The Pier Bar near Valdosta State University (VSU), where she was a student, on October 29, 2023. A co-worker at the bar was also hit by a bullet and later recovered from his injuries.On Tuesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) charged Tsion Clayton, 23, and Kimone Green, 21, with one count of malice murder in connection to Long’s death. Both men…

Robert Mailman turns 77 later this month, and as a birthday gift there is nothing he would like more than answers about what led to him spending 18 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. The New Brunswick man is hoping to get his hands on a copy of the external review commissioned by the Saint John, N.B., police chief into the force’s handling of his case. Mailman and his friend Walter Gillespie served lengthy prison sentences after being convicted of a 1983 murder, and it was only in January 2024 that a court ruled they had been…

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Every once in a while, Derek Bender will send a text to one of his former teammates. Or he’ll call, and leave a voicemail.But, after what happened on Sept. 6, he has not received one text back. Not one call. He’s been left on read, a ghosted pariah to a team that has nothing left to do with him.More than five months have passed since the day the former Minnesota Twins minor league catcher was accused of giving away pitches to opposing batters on the Lakeland Flying Tigers, trying to ensure his team would miss the playoffs…

A number of countries have indicated they wanted to be part of Europe’s planned “coalition of the willing” to help Ukraine, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says, without naming those countries.”On the coalition of the willing, yes, a number of countries indicated today that they want to be part of the plan that we are developing,” Starmer told a news conference following a meeting of European leaders in London.”I’ll leave them to make their own statements about exactly how they want to make that contribution but we’ve been able to move that forward,” he said.”I accept, without criticism and with…

“The situation is urgent,” said Muthukumara Mani, World Bank lead environmental economist, based in Hanoi.Even state media, after years of near silence on air quality, has become noticeably vocal in Vietnam, a one-party state.VietnamNet, the official news site of the ministry of information and communications, published a rare call for action in January, warning air pollution was “a crisis demanding immediate attention”.Authorities declined to talk to AFP but Mani said there was recognition of the problem “at the highest level in the country”, citing a trip to China made by senior Hanoi officials to learn how Beijing fixed its once-awful…