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The mayor of an Ontario town, which once hosted a Crown Royal bottling plant, says international drinks maker Diageo appeared to lose any urgency trying to sell the facility after Premier Doug Ford ended his threat to ban its whisky. Ford threatened for months to remove Crown Royal from the shelves of the LCBO if Diageo didn’t find a way to save some 160 jobs in Amherstburg, Ont.But at the 11th hour, as pressure from other provinces mounted, he backed down in exchange for $23 million in spending commitments from Diageo for other parts of Ontario.Amherstburg Mayor Michael Prue said…

A South Australian One Nation candidate is wanted by police for failing to appear in court over an outstanding criminal charge in the UK.Aoi Baxter was running for the seat of Adelaide but has been pulled from One Nation’s website on the eve of the election after it was alleged he failed to appear in court over allegations he inappropriately touched a woman in the UK.The ABC reports Mr Baxter, also known as Trent Baxter, was charged with sexually touching a woman without consent over an alleged incident that occurred in September 2023.Camera IconOne Nation candidate Aoi Baxter is wanted…

More than 500 firefighters, police and other emergency personnel were deployed, along with about 120 vehicles, evacuation aircraft and equipment, including an unmanned water cannon vehicle and two firefighting robots used in areas difficult for crews to access.President Lee Jae Myung called for the full mobilisation of personnel and equipment to contain the fire and support rescue operations.The National Fire Agency issued an order typically reserved for blazes that exceed the firefighting capacity of local governments, according to Seoul’s Yonhap news agency.Fire officials said the supplier is Anjun Industrial, which said on its website that it makes engine parts and…

Beirut, Lebanon and Gaza City, Palestine – Along Beirut’s downtown waterfront, Alaa is looking for somewhere to rest his head.The Syrian refugee, originally from the occupied Golan Heights, is now homeless. He explained that he had already spent the day wandering around the Lebanese capital trying to find shelter.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listHe used to live in Dahiyeh – the southern suburbs of Beirut that have been pummelled by Israeli attacks, which have now killed more than 1,000 across Lebanon.Now, he’s just looking for somewhere he can be safe. And in that context, Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democrats have been stockpiling ideas for months on how to retaliate against companies and figures that have aligned themselves closely to President Donald Trump’s political agenda, telegraphing that merger breakups and committee investigations will play a central role in their efforts to push back against the administration should they regain power.Most recently, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., took to social media to highlight his most recent entry on that list.”Brendan Carr is a corrupt political hack and fake chair of the FCC,” Jeffries said in a post to X. “This guy…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Fox News’ “Antisemitism Exposed” newsletter brings you stories on the rising anti-Jewish prejudice across the U.S. and the world.IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER:- Support for Israel drops as Democrats turn against key US ally: poll- New terror group with reported Iran ties claims 4 attacks across Europe- Michigan synagogue security ‘heroes’ ‘saved lives’ in Temple Israel attack, gov says Democratic New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is once again raising eyebrows, this time over a resurfaced clip in which he says, “Israel is not a place, it is not a country.” (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon and iStock)TOP STORY:…

Footage has emerged of the rescue effort involved in winching the victims of the Broome plane crash to safety.

The Bill’s passage caps a decades-long fight in South Korean politics to break up the prosecution service. Reform calls mounted as prosecutors were accused of targeting political enemies while protecting insiders, with liberals arguing that such concentrated power invited abuse and weakened democratic accountability.Park Eun-jung, a former prosecutor and lawmaker from the liberal Rebuilding Korea Party, said the point of the reform was to correct “a shameful history of prosecutors changing the standard of the law to suit their political advantage”.But critics, including the conservative opposition, who had sought to block the vote with a filibuster, say the overhaul risks…

Health and environment advocacy groups in the United States are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw a key 2009 climate change ruling known as the “endangerment finding”.That finding had established that greenhouse gases are a risk to public health and environmental safety, given that they are the primary drivers of climate change. It formed the legal basis for many regulatory policies aimed at curbing climate change.When US President Donald Trump, who has called climate change a “hoax” and a “con job”, rescinded the declaration in February this year, the EPA supported the move,…

The Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday evening that it had approved the $6.2 billion merger of major broadcast station owners Nexstar and Tegna. The move came on the same day that attorneys general in eight states and DirecTV filed separate lawsuits seeking to block the deal, arguing that it will lead to higher prices for consumers and stifle local journalism.The FCC said in a statement announcing its approval that Nexstar’s acquisition of Tegna will “enable these broadcast TV stations to counter the growing power that national programmers have amassed in recent years.”   With the deal, Nexstar will still own less than 15%…