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JAKARTA: Indonesia has no plan to impose tolls on ships passing through the Malacca Strait, its finance minister said on Friday (Apr 24), after his comments about monetising the strategic sea route made waves earlier this week.Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa reiterated a clarification made by the country’s foreign minister on Thursday that Southeast Asia’s largest economy would not impose tariffs in the Malacca Strait.Purbaya told a press conference that Indonesia would abide by the UN Convention on the Law of the ​Seas, which ⁠outlines rules that govern waterways used for international ​navigation.On Wednesday, Purbaya caused a stir by openly musing about…

Attack in the village of Banjska led to a clash with police that left one police officer and three of the gunmen dead.Published On 24 Apr 202624 Apr 2026A court in Kosovo has convicted three ethnic Serbs on “terrorism” charges over their role in a deadly secession attempt near the country’s northern border in 2023.The Basic Court in Pristina sentenced Blagoje Spasojevic and Vladimir Tolic to life in prison and Dusan Maksimovic to a 30-year jail term on Friday over the attack in the village of Banjska, which led to a clash with police that left one police officer and…

The Justice Department announced on Friday that it would reimplement lethal injection and firing squads as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to “strengthen” the federal death penalty. “Among the actions taken are readopting the lethal injection protocol utilized during the first Trump Administration, expanding the protocol to include additional manners of execution such as the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases,” the Justice Department said in a press release. The department went on to say these measures would be “critical to deterring the most barbaric crimes, delivering justice for victims, and providing long-overdue closure to surviving…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A chef at the University of Massachusetts Amherst allegedly killed his wife in a room at a hotel on campus, according to police.Jeffrey C. MacDonald, 36, was charged with murdering his wife, 31-year-old Emma MacDonald, while they were in a room at Hotel UMass on Wednesday, the Boston Globe reported, citing a police report filed with the Eastern Hampshire District Court.After police arrived to the hotel following a 911 call, MacDonald was read his Miranda rights and admitted that he “had intentionally beaten his wife to death, using his hands, feet, as…

Canada’s position as an energy exporter is its “strongest card” in trade talks with the United States, energy and natural resources minister Tim Hodgson said Friday as the clock ticks down to the review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (CUSMA). Ensuring Canada uses its energy sector as leverage in trade talks is going to be priority going into his second year in office, Hodgson said at an event in Toronto.“I want our energy and natural resources sectors to play the strategically important role it should be playing – as Canada’s strongest cards in the CUSMA renegotiation,” Hodgson said.“I spent…

The world’s top soccer coach Pep Guardiola has thrown his weight behind the many critics who believe FIFA’s World Cup ticket prices are far too high.

BEIJING: Beijing on Friday (Apr 24) refuted accusations made by the White House that Chinese entities were involved in “industrial-scale” efforts to steal US artificial intelligence technology.The charges were made on Thursday in a post on X by White House science and technology chief Michael Kratsios, who also warned that Washington would “be taking action to protect American innovation”.Asked about the matter at a regular news conference in Beijing on Friday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said: “The US claims are entirely baseless.””They are a slanderous smear against the achievements of China’s artificial intelligence industry. China firmly opposes this,”…

The announcement on Friday is expected to clear the path for the confirmation of his successor, Kevin Warsh.Published On 24 Apr 202624 Apr 2026The United States Department of Justice has ended its probe into US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, clearing a major roadblock to the confirmation of his successor, Kevin Warsh.US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeannine Pirro said on X on Friday that her office was ending its probe into the Fed’s extensive building renovations because the Fed’s inspector general would scrutinise them instead.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listPirro, a Trump ally and the top…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: A new Pentagon review of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is set to declassify previously restricted materials from earlier investigations, reopening scrutiny of key decisions made during the Biden administration’s botched 2021 exit from the country. The review will include interview transcripts, internal documents and prior findings that officials say were overclassified, according to Pentagon adviser Stu Scheller.”We plan to declassify all of the documents that we source in this investigation — all the interview transcripts, all the previous investigations that the Biden administration did that have been overclassified,” Scheller told Fox…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Friday morning bus crash near the Pentagon injured 23 people, including 10 Department of War personnel, according to a statement from the Pentagon Force Protection Agency Corporate Communications Office.”At approximately 7:20 a.m. today, an Omni Ride and a Fairfax Connector transit bus collided on the Metro Access Road. Twenty-three passengers were injured. Ten of the twenty-three injured passengers are Department of War personnel. First responders transported 18 individuals to local hospitals for further medical evaluation and treatment. Five passengers were treated on site and released on the own recognizance,” the statement…