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Iran Says Deal Can Be Reached If US Shows Goodwill

Iran's top diplomat said Tuesday he believed a new nuclear deal could be agreed with the United States provided Tehran's longtime foe shows sufficient...

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Major Trade Wars Since The 19th Century

As the world reels from US President Donald Trump's tariffs onslaught, here is a look back at some major trade wars since the 19th century: In the...

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US Giant To Buy Stake In Cash-short Australian Casino Group

Troubled Australian casino operator Star Entertainment says it has been thrown an 11th hour multi-million dollar lifeline by US-based casino giant...

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Netanyahu And Trump To Talk Tariffs, Iran And Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington on Monday to meet Donald Trump, whom he will likely ask for a reprieve from US tariffs...

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China Vows To Stay 'Safe And Promising Land' For Foreign Investment

A top Chinese official has vowed to protect US firms and pledged his country will remain a "promising land" for foreign investment, Beijing said...

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Asian Markets Stage Mild Rebound But Trump Tariff Uncertainty Reigns

Asian markets battled Tuesday to recover from the previous day's tariff-fuelled collapse, though Donald Trump's warning of more measures against China...

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Australian Prime Minister Tells Voters He's Ready For Trump Tariffs

Australia is ready for the impact of Donald Trump's trade tariffs, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday in a first television debate before...

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Israel Targets Hezbollah In South Lebanon As US Envoy Visits

Israel staged a strike in south Lebanon on Sunday that it said had targeted Hezbollah, and authorities said killed two people, as a US envoy visited...

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The Worst Market Crashes Since 1929

Monday's stock market collapses in Asia and Europe after China retaliated to steep US tariffs revived memories of similar market turmoil after the...

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China Would Have Agreed TikTok Deal If Not For US Tariffs: Trump

US President Donald Trump said Sunday that China would have agreed to a deal on the sale of TikTok if it were not for the tariffs imposed by...

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Zelensky Slams 'Weak' US Reply To Russian Strike On His Hometown

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday slammed the US embassy for what he called a "weak" statement that did not blame Russia for a...

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Gaza Rescuers Say Israeli Strikes Kill 44

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 44 people on Sunday as Israel's prime minister vowed a "strong response" to a rare...

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World Scrambles To Temper Trump Tariffs As Market Fears Mount

More than 50 countries have sought talks with President Donald Trump in a scramble to ease punishing tariffs on exports to the United States, the...

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Recovering Pope Surprises Crowd At Vatican Square

Pope Francis made a surprise public appearance on Sunday as he mingled with crowds at the Vatican just two weeks after leaving hospital for a serious...

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Video Shows Last Minutes Before Gaza Aid Workers' Deaths, Red Crescent Says

A video recovered from the cellphone of an aid worker killed in Gaza alongside other rescuers shows their final moments, according to the Palestinian...

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Trump Unveils First $5 Million 'Gold Card' Visa

US President Donald Trump unveiled the first "gold card", a residency permit sold for $5 million each, aboard Air Force One on Thursday. Holding a...

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TikTok Must Find Non-Chinese Owner By Saturday To Avert US Ban

TikTok on Friday was hours from a deadline to find a non-Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States. The hugely popular video-sharing app, which...

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EU Announces 'New Era' In Relations With Central Asia

The EU announced a "new era" in ties with Central Asia on Friday at a major summit in Uzbekistan, as Brussels presses its influence in the region in...

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Five Potential Grand National Fairytale Endings

The winner of the Grand National, the world's most famous steeplechase, has a habit of providing a fairytale storyline and Saturday's renewal has the...

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Stocks Extend Global Rout After Trump's Shock Tariff Blitz

Equities widened losses in Asia and Europe on Friday, extending a global rout inflicted by Donald Trump's tariff blitz that has inflamed a trade war...

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France Says EU To Target US Online Services After Trump Tariffs

The European Union is "ready for a trade war" with the United States and plans to "attack online services" in response to Donald Trump's new tariffs,...

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Stocks Tank, Havens Rally As Trump Tariffs Fan Trade War

Equity markets suffered a bloodbath Thursday after Donald Trump delivered a "haymaker" blow with sweeping tariffs against US partners and rivals,...

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Syria Accuses Israel Of Deadly Destabilisation Campaign

Syria accused Israel on Thursday of mounting a deadly destabilisation campaign after a wave of strikes on military targets, including an airport, and...

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Israeli Strikes Hit Damascus, Central Syria; Monitor Says 4 Dead

Syrian state media said Israel struck near a defence research centre in Damascus and hit central Syria on Wednesday, as Israel said it struck...

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Athletics World Watching As 'Grand Slam Track' Prepares For Launch

What is being billed as a "revolution" for the sport of athletics gets under way in Kingston on Friday with the opening meeting of US sprinting legend...

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Trump Tariffs Spark Fears For Asian Jobs, Exporting Sectors

Across Asia, factory workers, directors, trade associations and analysts voiced concern Thursday that US President Donald Trump's stinging tariffs...

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Australia Sweats Through Hottest 12 Months On Record: Official Data

Australia has just sweltered through its hottest 12 months on record, a weather official said Thursday, a period of drenching floods, tropical...

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WHO Facing $2.5-bn Gap Even After Slashing Budget: Report

The World Health Organization is facing a gaping deficit this year and through 2027 following the US decision to withdraw, even after dramatically...

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Myanmar Quake Victim Rescued After 5 Days As Aid Calls Grow

Rescuers on Wednesday pulled a man alive from the rubble five days after Myanmar's devastating earthquake, as calls grew for the junta to allow more...

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El Salvador's Bukele Flaunts 'Iron Fist' Alliance With Trump

El Salvador's pugilistic president has become a key partner for US President Donald Trump's in-your-face campaign to deport migrants, with both men...

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'Top Gun' And Batman Star Val Kilmer Dies Aged 65

Val Kilmer, one of the biggest Hollywood actors of the 1990s who shot to fame playing Iceman in the original "Top Gun", has died aged 65 after a...

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US Approves $5.58 Bn Fighter Jet Sale To Philippines

The United States said Tuesday it has approved the possible sale of $5.58 billion in F-16 fighter jets to the Philippines, as Washington backs its...

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Stock Markets Mixed As Uncertainty Rules Ahead Of Trump Tariffs

Stock markets diverged Wednesday as investors fretted over what shape US President Donald Trump's fresh wave of tariffs would take later in the day....

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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 help...

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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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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 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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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 sell...

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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 week...

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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, during...

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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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Latina Star Selena's Killer Denied Parole 30 Years After Murder

A woman sentenced to life in prison for murdering a Mexican-American pop star in a Texas motel was denied parole on Thursday, almost three decades...

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Asian Markets Sink As Autos Suffer More Tariff-fuelled Losses

Auto companies once again took the brunt of the selling on another tough day for markets on Friday after President Donald Trump announced steep...

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Trump Order Targets 'Improper Ideology' At Famed US Museums

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to remove "improper ideology" from the famed Smithsonian Museums -- and the National Zoo...

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Australian Cop Spared Prison After Fatal Tasering Of 95-year-old

An Australian judge sentenced a policeman who fatally tasered a "frail and confused" 95-year-old woman to do community service rather than jail time....

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Regulator Clears Qatar Airways-Virgin Australia Alliance

Australia's competition regulator gave the go-ahead Friday for Qatar Airways to launch an alliance with Virgin Australia. The decision clears Qatar...

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Sudan's Booming Wartime Gold Trade Flows Through The UAE

Sudan's gold industry has become the lifeblood of its war, with nearly all of the trade channelled through the United Arab Emirates, enriching both...

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Putin Calls To Remove Zelensky, 'Finish Off' Ukrainian Troops

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Friday for a "transitional administration" to be put in place in Ukraine and vowed his army would "finish off"...

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At El Salvador Mega-jail, Trump Official Tells Migrants 'Do Not Come'

US President Donald Trump's homeland security chief on Wednesday visited the mega-prison in El Salvador where hundreds of Venezuelan migrants have...

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