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Budget readies US for possible China confrontation: Pentagon 23 Mar 2023 - 08:52 pm
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Autism now more common among Black, Hispanic kids in US 23 Mar 2023 - 08:17 pm
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Russia's only female cosmonaut praises ISS mission 23 Mar 2023 - 08:00 pm
Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 member who recently returned to Earth after a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), gives a press conference at the Gagarin cosmonauts' Training Centre in Star City outside Moscow on March 23, 2023. (Photo by Andrey Shelepin / Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center / AFP) 
Russia hopes to sign major pipeline deal with China this year 23 Mar 2023 - 07:44 pm
Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.  File photo / AFP
IMF warns without reforms, Lebanon could see hyperinflation 23 Mar 2023 - 07:14 pm
A handout picture provided by the Lebanese photo agency Dalati and Nohra on March 23, 2023 shows Lebanese caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati meeting with a delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the governmental palace in Beirut on March 23, 2023. (Photo by DALATI AND NOHRA / AFP)
Ukraine children held by Russia reunited with parents 23 Mar 2023 - 06:58 pm
Denys Zaporozhchenko (left) meets his children Nikita, Yana and Dayana (right) after the bus delivering them and more than a dozen other children back from Russian-held territory arrived in Kyiv on March 22, 2023.  (Photo by SERGEI CHUZAVKOV / AFP)
Uganda orders Marburg screening after Tanzania outbreak 23 Mar 2023 - 06:35 pm
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Nigerian politician found guilty in UK organ harvesting plot 23 Mar 2023 - 06:34 pm
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Hungary would not arrest Putin over ICC warrant: govt official 23 Mar 2023 - 06:17 pm
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives to attend a EU Summit, at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on March 23, 2023. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
Death toll from Pakistan, Afghanistan quake rises to 21 23 Mar 2023 - 05:50 pm
Residents remove debris from the rooftop of damaged a house at Sooch village in Jurm district of Badakhshan Province on March 22, 2023, following an overnight earthquake. (Photo by Omer Abrar / AFP)
TikTok chief faces grilling in US Congress as ban looms 23 Mar 2023 - 05:12 pm
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew speaks to the press before testifying at the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on
Chinese diplomats oppose US military presence in Philippines 23 Mar 2023 - 04:53 pm
Theresa Lazaro (left), Philippines' Undersecretary for Bilateral Relations and Asian Affairs of the Department of Foreign Affairs, shakes hands with China's Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong prior to the start of the Philippines-China Foreign Ministry consultation meeting in Manila on March 23, 2023. (Photo by Ted Aljibe / AFP)
Even free transport can't shake Luxembourg's love of the car 23 Mar 2023 - 02:58 pm
Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel arrives for a EU Summit, at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on March 23, 2023. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)
Taiwan recalls ambassador as Honduras switches ties to China 23 Mar 2023 - 01:47 pm
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 15, 2023, a municipal worker cleans the bust of Sun Yat-sen, founder and first provisional president of the Republic of China, beneath the flags of Honduras (L) and Taiwan at a square in Tegucigalpa. (Photo by Stringer / AFP)
Equatorial Guinea confirms 8 new cases of Marburg virus 23 Mar 2023 - 01:45 pm
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Rahul Gandhi gets 2 years for defamation of Indian PM Modi 23 Mar 2023 - 01:28 pm
Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India's main opposition Congress party, addresses the crowd at a public rally held during the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March), in Panipat, India, January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
World Bank puts cost of rebuilding Ukraine at $411 billion 22 Mar 2023 - 11:52 pm
The World Bank building. File photo / AFP
US prisoners use toothbrush to dig hole, go for pancakes 22 Mar 2023 - 10:49 pm
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