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Musk Deploys Wealth In Bid To Swing Wisconsin Court Vote

The world's richest man took to the stage in the US state of Wisconsin on Sunday in a bid to swing the local supreme court to the right, with the...

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Albanese Refuses To Budge On Key Trade Issues Ahead Of US Tariff Announcement

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made it clear that the country will not back down on several key issues, such as biosecurity...

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Vidhya Ck

OpenAI Says It Raised $40 Bn At Valuation Of $300 Bn

OpenAI on Monday said it raised $40 billion in a new funding round that valued the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, the biggest capital-raising...

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Glenn Chapman

Eurozone Inflation Eases In March As Tariff Threat Looms

Inflation in the eurozone slowed further in March, official data showed on Tuesday, indicating possible breathing room for policymakers despite the...

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Daniel Aronssohn

Hezbollah Official Targeted In Deadly Israeli Strike On Beirut

An Israeli strike Tuesday killed three people, Lebanon said, as a source close to Hezbollah said one of the group's officials was targeted in the...

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Jonathan Sawaya

Trump Says Will Be 'Kind' With Tariffs As Deadline Looms

US trading partners were bracing Tuesday for an expected fresh raft of Donald Trump tariffs, while the US president promised to be "very kind" in...

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Beiyi Seow

Five Takeaways From Marine Le Pen Verdict

The conviction of French far right leader Marine Le Pen and immediate ban on standing for political office has stunned her movement, sparked...

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Stuart Williams

UK PM Urges Nations To Smash Migrant Smuggling Gangs 'Once And For All'

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged dozens of countries to collaborate to dismantle migrant smuggling gangs "once and for all" when he opened an...

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Peter Hutchison

Should Australians Be Able To Access Superannuation Before Retirement? Social Media Divided

Former Big Brother star Estelle Landy has sparked a heated debate on social media after claiming that Australia's superannuation system is a scam....

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Sana Khan Sanakhangeek

Undocumented Migrants Turn To Whatsapp To Stay Ahead Of US Raids

Fearing a US immigration raid will separate her from her children, an undocumented Honduran immigrant hunkers down in her Washington home,...

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Anuj Chopra

'Heartbreaking' Floods Swamp Australia's Cattle Country

Whole herds of cattle have drowned in vast inland floods sweeping across the Australian outback, officials said Tuesday, as the muddy tide drenched...

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Steven Trask

Khamenei Warns Of 'Strong' Response If Iran Attacked

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Monday of a forceful retaliation if the United States or its allies bomb the Islamic republic,...

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Payam Doost Mohamadi

Rescue Hopes Fading Three Days After Deadly Myanmar Quake

Hopes faded Monday of finding more survivors in the rubble of Mandalay, where some residents spent a third night sleeping in the open after a...

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Sebastien Berger And Hla-Hla Htay

France's Le Pen Seeks To Keep Presidency Hopes Alive After Election Ban

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen fought Tuesday to keep alive her dream of winning the French presidency after a court handed her a five-year ban on...

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Stuart Williams

Sam Mendes To Launch Four 'Beatles' Movies In Same Month

Sam Mendes will release four movies about The Beatles in the same month, the director announced Monday, with Paul Mescal playing Paul McCartney and...

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Andrew Marszal

Political Support Leading To Increasing Fallout For Crypto

Support for cryptocurrencies from US President Donald Trump or Argentine leader Javier Milei has seen investors lose billions of dollars and is...

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Lucie Lequier

Carmakers Face Doubts And Jolts Over US Tariffs

Raise prices or cut into their margins, open or close factories: carmakers must soon make major decisions as the United States imposes stiff...

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Taimaz Szirniks

China Launches Military Drills Around Taiwan

China on Tuesday sent its army, navy, air and rocket forces to surround Taiwan for drills Beijing said were aimed at practising a blockade of the...

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Joy Chiang With Mary Yang In Beijing

SpaceX To Launch Private Astronauts On First Crewed Polar Orbit

SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions on Monday -- a days-long, privately funded orbital mission...

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Trump Says Confident Of TikTok Deal Before Deadline

President Donald Trump said Sunday he was confident of reaching a deal on TikTok ahead of the April 5 deadline for its Chinese owner ByteDance to...

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Trump Says US Tariffs To Hit 'All Countries'

President Donald Trump said Sunday the tariffs he plans to impose in the coming days would include "all countries", not just those with the largest...

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Venezuela Says US Revoked Transnational Oil, Gas Company Licenses

The United States has revoked several transnational oil and gas companies' licenses to operate in Venezuela, Caracas said on Sunday, which had been...

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Japan's Nikkei Leads Hefty Equity Market Losses; Gold Hits Record

Tokyo led another plunge across Asian markets on Monday while gold hit a record high as investors steel themselves for a wave of US tariffs this...

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Australia's Financial Watchdog Warns Crypto ATM Operators Over Inadequate Anti-Money Laundering Measures

Australia's financial crimes regulator has issued a stern warning to crypto ATM operators, signaling that they may not have sufficient anti-money...

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Vidhya Ck

Computer Pioneer Microsoft Turns 50 In The Age Of AI

Microsoft has been at the heart of computing for half a century, becoming a tech stalwart almost taken for granted as lifestyles embraced the...

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Julie Jammot

Four Men Loom Large In Microsoft History

Microsoft was shaped by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella over the course of the last half-century in the male-dominated tech...

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Glenn Chapman

Turkey Opposition Presses Protests As Swedish Reporter Jailed

Turkey's opposition on Sunday worked to keep up the momentum of the protest movement triggered by the arrest of Istanbul's mayor after a giant...

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Fulya Ozerkan

France Fines Apple 150 Million Euros Over Privacy Feature

French antitrust authorities handed Apple a 150-million-euro ($162-million) fine on Monday over its app tracking privacy feature, which is also...

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Kilian Fichou

Hamas Issues Call To Arms Against Displacement As Israel Orders New Evacuations

A senior Hamas official urged supporters worldwide on Monday to take up weapons and fight plans to displace Gaza's people, as Israel issued a...

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Adel Zaanoun

Chinese Tech Giant Huawei Says Profits Fell 28% Last Year

Chinese smartphone maker giant Huawei said Monday that profits fell 28 percent last year as it faced international economic uncertainty and weak...

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Mary Yang

'Something Is Rotten': Apple's AI Strategy Faces Doubts

Has Apple, the biggest company in the world, bungled its generative artificial intelligence strategy? Doubts blew out into the open when one of the...

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Thomas Urbain With Alex Pigman In Washington

Clock Ticks On Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs As Countries Seek Reprieve

The clock is ticking down to Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" when the US president has threatened to unleash a wide range of tariffs against...

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Beiyi Seow

Israel's Netanyahu Picks New Security Chief, Defying Legal Challenge

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu picked former navy commander Eli Sharvit to head the domestic security agency, his office said Monday,...

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Delphine Matthieussent

They Work, Pay Taxes And Call US Home -- But Risk Deportation

As he has done for years, Erik Payan had just opened up his tire repair shop in the small Texas town of Cleveland on February 24 and was getting to...

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Moises Avila

'Waited For Death': Ex-detainees Recount Horrors Of Sudan's RSF Prisons

For almost two years, Emad Mouawad had been repeatedly shuttled from one Sudanese paramilitary-run detention centre to another, terrified each day...

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Menna Farouk

Australian Black Market Tobacco Sparks Firebombings, Budget Hole

Sky-high tobacco prices in Australia have created a lucrative black market, analysts say, sparking a violent "tobacco war" and syphoning away...

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David Williams

Trump Calls Out Both Putin And Zelensky Over Ceasefire Talks

US President Donald Trump lashed out Sunday at the leaders of both warring parties in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, expressing frustration as...

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Ben Sheppard

Aftershocks Rattle Myanmar As Rescuers Search For Survivors

Rescuers braved aftershocks to scour the devastated city of Mandalay for survivors on Monday, after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,700...

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Hla-Hla Htay

Japan-Australia Flagship Hydrogen Project Stumbles

Japan wants to become a hydrogen fuel leader to meet its net-zero goals, but one blockbuster project is hanging in the balance over questions about...

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Katie Forster And Kyoko Hasegawa

Denmark Criticises 'Tone' Of Vance's Greenland Comments

Denmark on Saturday said it did not like the "tone" of US Vice President JD Vance's comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland,...

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Orban's Food Price Cap Takes Aim At Foreign Retailers In Hungary

Seeking to tame public anger over soaring inflation, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has imposed price controls on basic food items sold in...

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Andras Rostovanyi

Are Women Allowed Their Own Dreams, Wonders Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Twelve years after her last novel, best-selling Nigerian author and feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is making a highly anticipated return...

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Celia Lebur

US, China Raise The Stakes In Panama Canal Ports Row

China's fury at the sale of Panama Canal ports to a US-led consortium reflects how container hubs have become prized currency as Beijing and...

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Holmes Chan

Prince Harry Charity Rift Blows Up As Chair Makes Fresh Allegations

A bitter boardroom row at an African charity Prince Harry founded and then quit escalated Sunday after its chairperson accused the prince of...

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Akshata Kapoor

Netanyahu Offers Hamas Leaders Gaza Exit But Demands Group Disarm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday offered to let Hamas leaders leave Gaza but demanded the group abandon its arms, as his country...

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Jay Deshmukh

Aftershocks Rattle Mandalay As Rescuers Search For Survivors In Myanmar Quake

Residents scoured collapsed buildings Sunday searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated city of Mandalay, two days after a...

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Hla-Hla Htay

S.Sudan Govt Says Vice President Machar 'Under House Arrest'

The South Sudan government said on Friday First Vice President Riek Machar was "under house arrest," two days after he was detained, as a former...

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Scientists Explain Why Myanmar Quake Was So Deadly

Experts say that the devastating earthquake in Myanmar on Friday was likely the strongest to hit the country in decades, with disaster modelling...

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South Korea's Life Game 'InZOI' Challenges 'The Sims'

South Korean game publisher Krafton released early access to its life simulation game "InZOI" Friday, hoping its powerful lifelike graphics will...

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Hieun Shin

Performance, Museums, History: Trump's Cultural Power Grab

Washington's Smithsonian is a sprawling chain of museums dedicated to both celebrating and scrutinizing the American story -- and the latest...

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Maggy Donaldson