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Ontario Premier Doug Ford will hold his first news conference in two weeks on Monday morning, as his government looks to try and change the channel after weeks of questions about transparency and its brief private jet purchase. In mid-April, the government confirmed it had bought a second-hand Challenger 650, citing the premier’s travel across the country into the United States and across the country as the reason.But only two days later, in the face of massive backlash, Ontario sold the $28.9 million plane back to Bombardier.The day after confirming the plane had been resold, Ford appeared at a news…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Highlight reel plays have been few and far between for the slumping New York Mets this season, but rookie right fielder Carson Benge had one of the best catches of the year on Sunday night.Los Angeles Angels second baseman Vaughn Grissom hit a line drive down the first base side in the bottom of the ninth inning with one out and a runner on first. Benge then laid out for a spectacular diving catch, likely saving a run and destroying the Angels’ chances of building momentum for a potential comeback.ZERO BS. JUST…

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EXPANDING INFRASTRUCTUREExperts say improvements in retail infrastructure are also enabling growth.“We are adding a lot of real estate to retail and luxury real estate which used to be a big bottleneck for brand boutiques to start,” noted Mitrajit Bhattacharya, founder of Mumbai-based watch business consulting firm The Horologists.“Most of the big brands are here, and even brands like Van Cleef are going to come in this year,” he added, referring to the French luxury jewellery company.The premiumisation trend is evident in sales data.The share of premium-and-above watches in India’s total watch sales surged from 48 per cent in 2020 to…

In this web exclusive, the rock musician Sting talks with Mark Phillips about his stage musical, “The Last Ship,” in which he stars, and which is being performed on a global tour. He calls the show an elegy for what Newcastle and its people represented to him growing up. He also discusses why, for him, uncertainty is a key component of art; why performing “Roxanne” today is never tiresome; and why, for him, music is a church.

Inside this old skydiving plane, a crew of Ukrainian volunteers is hunting down Russian drones. Russia is sending thousands of its one-way attack drones into Ukraine every month. Many are shot down, but the country’s air defenses can’t stop them all. On the side of the fuselage here, they’ve mounted this American-made machine gun that’s capable of firing up to 3,000 rounds per minute, or 50 rounds per second. And they’re picking off drones one by one. It takes about $500 of ammunition per drone kill — a bargain considering that the Iranian-designed Shahed drones are mass-produced for tens of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A trucking industry insider is warning about a deadly danger rampant on U.S. highways: unqualified, under-trained commercial truckers, many of whom are illegal immigrants and cannot read basic road signage.In an interview with Fox News Digital, Mike Kucharski, co-owner and vice president of Illinois-based JKC Trucking, issued an impassioned appeal for more investigations into the problem, saying, “This is just madness.””You wouldn’t put someone in a cockpit of a Boeing 737 flying from New York to California if they weren’t properly trained or couldn’t communicate clearly or speak English. The same standard…

Chinese consular officials met with a Vancouver city hall employee last month and urged her to cancel an arts event that highlighted communist party repression, sources told Global News.At the meeting, representatives of China’s consulate told a staff member of the city’s civic theatres branch that they wanted a series of performances by the Shen Yun dance group to be stopped, the sources said.The event, a celebration of Chinese cultural traditions lost under Communist rule, also received bomb threats, but went ahead anyway April 8-12 at the city-owned Queen Elizabeth Theatre.But the incident suggests that China continues to use its diplomatic missions…

Dennis Cometti has been remembered as the “Shakespeare of Australian rules commentary” at a state memorial service held at Optus Stadium on Monday.More than 1000 dignitaries including the Premier Roger Cook, WA Governor Chris Dawson and AFL luminaries Eddie McGuire, Tom Harley, Matthew Pavlich and Ross Glendinning attended the service at the Riverview Room along with Cometti’s wife Velia, and their two children, daughter Ricki and son Mark.The service, which was also broadcast live on Channel 7, struck a respectful balance of solemnity, reverence, humour and celebration of a West Australian icon.Bruce McAvaney, his Channel 7 on-air partner for more…

BLOW TO OPPOSITION ALLIANCEIn the southern state of Tamil Nadu, a major hub for electronics and automobiles, popular movie star Joseph Vijay, a first-time entrant into politics who launched his party only two years ago, looked on course to oust the ruling DMK party.The actor, who goes by the single name Vijay, has a frenzied fan following in the state, which has a history of electing film stars to the top office.In the other southern state of Kerala, an alliance led by the Congress party looked set to defeat the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist).The DMK is also a…