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  • BusinessReuters

    China's Longi says it will lay off about 5% of employees

    BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Longi Green Technology Energy, the world's largest solar manufacturer, said in a statement on Tuesday that it will lay off about 5% of its employees. It added that online information about the company's plans to lay off 30% of its employees is false. Longi's website says the company had 60,601 employees as of April 2023.

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  • WorldHuffPost

    Gaza Reporter Says Israel Stripped, Blindfolded Journalists During Al-Shifa Raid

    Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul recalled his arrest by Israeli forces while covering the attack inside Gaza's largest hospital.

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  • WorldReuters

    Israeli airstrikes kill 20 in Gaza, Palestinian officials say

    Twenty Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Tuesday in Israeli air strikes on Rafah and central parts of the Gaza Strip, Gaza health officials said. In the southern Gaza city of Rafah near the Egyptian border, where over 1 million Palestinians have sought shelter, 14 people were killed and dozens others wounded in strikes that hit several houses and apartments, Gaza medical officials said.

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  • WorldNextShark

    Thailand to ban recreational marijuana by end of 2024

    Thailand, which decriminalized cannabis in 2022, is poised to reverse course and snuff out the recreational market by the end of the year. Draft legislation banning recreational cannabis use is already up for cabinet approval, aiming for full implementation by the end of 2024, reported Reuters. Under the new measures, medical marijuana would remain legal.

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  • Worlddpa international

    West slams fraught Russian election as China's Xi congratulates Putin

    Western governments came out on Monday to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin's landslide win in a vote they say was neither free nor fair, while China, Moscow's main ally amid increased international isolation, sent congratulations. With all of the ballots counted, the electoral commission awarded Putin a landslide win of 87.28% of votes on Monday afternoon, a record result that observers say was only possible through force, repression and fraud. Voter turnout was officially put at 77.44%.

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  • USWBRE

    Vietnam veteran from Jessup needs kidney donor

    JESSUP, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Lackawanna County Vietnam veteran who was exposed to the chemical known as Agent Orange during the Vietnam War is trying to get medical attention. He is suffering from kidney failure due to the chemical and is in desperate need of a kidney donor. 28/22 Reporter Jason LiVecchi met with […]

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  • WorldAssociated Press

    Tropical Cyclone Megan is crossing Australia's northern coast with strong winds, rain

    Tropical Cyclone Megan has made landfall along the coast of Australia’s Northern Territory bringing wind gusts of up to 200 kilometers per hour (124 mph), heavy rain and storm surges in the sparsely populated region. The cyclone crossed on to Australia's mainland late Monday near the remote town of Borroloola on the southwestern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, where it had been lashing island communities for several days.

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  • Worlddpa international

    In Argentina, police confront demonstrators protesting social cuts

    Police and demonstrators on Monday clashed violently during protests against social cuts by the ultra-liberal government in Argentina. Officers used water cannon, batons and tear gas against supporters of social movements who were blocking access roads to the capital Buenos Aires. The demonstrators hurled stones at the police. Two officers and a journalist were injured in the riots, according to a report by TV station TN. The blockade of streets in protest against the government has a long tradi

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  • ScienceCNN

    4,000-year-old vial contains ancient red lipstick, archaeologists say

    A small stone vial found in southeastern Iran contained a red cosmetic that was likely used as a lip coloring thousands of years ago, according to archaeologists.

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  • Worlddpa international

    EU ministers agree new Russia sanctions over Navalny death

    European Union foreign ministers on Monday agreed new sanctions on Russia in response to the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, EU diplomats told dpa. The sanctions concern people from the Russian judicial system, officials said. More details are expected to be announced in the coming days, and while ministers have endorsed the sanctions in principle, a binding legal decision is still to be made. In a press conference after the foreign ministers' meeting, EU foreign affairs chief Jos

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  • BusinessRoad & Track

    Here's Mercedes-AMG Sliding Its EV Prototype on a Frozen Lake

    The mule endured some gnarly winter testing that included ice drifting near the Arctic Circle.

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  • WorldBBC

    Shamiso Mosaka: South African TV star removed from CemAir plane for 'unruly' behaviour

    Shamiso Mosaka was removed from a flight by police officers after crew said she was being "abusive".

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  • WorldAssociated Press

    Takeaways from the predictable Russian election that gave Putin another 6 years in power

    To no one's surprise, President Vladimir Putin secured another six years in power in a preordained election landslide that comes amid the harshest crackdown on the opposition and free speech since Soviet times. The three days of balloting, in which Putin faced three token contenders but none offering voters any real choice, went ahead with barely any independent monitoring and were marked by a level of pressure unseen in previous Russian elections. The Central Election Commission said Putin re

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  • ScienceMiami Herald

    Pregnant creature — with hairy lips and yellow ears — discovered as new species

    Scientists found the flying animal in a forest of southern Mexico.

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  • WorldAssociated Press

    At least 100 villagers are kidnapped in the latest mass abduction in northern Nigeria

    Armed gangs attacked two villages in Nigeria's northwest over the weekend and seized at least 100 people from their homes, residents and a state official told The Associated Press on Monday, in the latest mass abduction in the region. The gunmen attacked communities in Kaduna state’s Kajuru council area on Saturday and Sunday, said Usman Dallami Stingo, who represents Kajuru in the state legislature. Kaduna state is where nearly 300 schoolchildren were abducted less than two weeks ago.

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  • USAssociated Press

    3 police officers killed in an attack on western Mexico highway

    A state police officer and her two bodyguards were killed in a highway attack in Mexico’s violent western state of Michoacan, security officials said Monday. Michoacan’s state security agency said on X, formerly Twitter, that three members of the state Civil Guard had died in the line of duty Sunday night. One of them, Cristal García Hurtado, was a regional police commander.

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  • BusinessWJZY

    Boeing: Airlines should inspect pilot seats

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – It’s a public relations nightmare Boeing can’t seem to wake up from. Yet another mid-air scare. This time a horrifying scene on a LATAM Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner when the plane plunged mid-flight on its way from Australia to New Zealand. It turns out it may have been a […]

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  • BusinessAutoweek

    Mitsubishi’s Latest EV Is Not Very Futuristic

    The Mitsubishi Minicab EV is now on sale in Japan and elsewhere with a 20-kWh battery, giving it a range of 111 miles. But it doesn't look very modern.

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  • WorldAssociated Press

    An abandoned, burned boat and 2 missing men: South African authorities investigate maritime mystery

    South African authorities searching for a missing charter boat captain are concerned about possible foul play after they discovered his vessel burned and abandoned on a beach in neighboring Mozambique, but no sign of him or the unknown man who hired him. The National Sea Rescue Institute raised the alarm over captain John Matambu and his passenger after they didn't return to Sodwana Bay on South Africa's northeastern coast on Saturday evening having gone out early that morning. The charred wre

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  • WorldAFP

    Photo shows dam in India, not Ethiopia

    The office coordinating the construction of a mega hydropower project called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) recently announced that the construction had reached 95 percent. Soon after the statement, Facebook users shared a photo purported to show the finished dam. However, this is false: the image features the multi-purpose Tungabhadra dam in Karnataka, a state in southwest India.

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  • WorldNBC News

    In the room with Putin as the Russian leader basked in his stage-managed victory

    NBC News was in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin as he claimed a landslide victory in Russia's presidential election with no true opposition.

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  • WorldSemafor

    Damaged undersea cables disrupting Africa’s internet will take weeks to repair

    Undersea cable companies that extend internet services to West and Central Africa estimate that it could take five weeks to repair.

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  • Worlddpa international

    Germany and Canada to intensify cooperation on hydrogen energy

    Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck and Canadian Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson have emphasized the importance of energy security in the face of Russia's war in Ukraine and other global conflicts. During the first German-Canadian hydrogen conference in Hamburg on Monday, Habeck said that industry and companies are dependent on a reliable energy supply on the road to climate neutrality. Wilkinson also emphasized that a secure supply of green energy must be guaranteed in order to limit gl

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  • WorldThe Week

    Can the EU 'stop the boats'?

    Aid and migration deal with Egypt part of controversial 'cash-for-migration-control approach'

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  • WorldBBC

    Ukraine war: No choice for Ukrainians - more Putin means more war

    Russia's leader is "sick with power", says Ukraine's president, whose country faces continued war.

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  • WorldBBC

    Pakistan accused of killing eight women and children in Afghanistan air strikes

    The Taliban accuses Pakistan of killing eight women and children after an attack killed Pakistani troops.

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  • WorldBusiness Insider

    Ukraine launched a wave of drone attacks on Russia as voting for Putin was underway

    Russia's defense ministry said on Sunday that 35 Ukrainian drones were downed overnight. Voting in Russia's presidential election finished on Sunday.

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  • Worlddpa international

    IDF orders evacuation of Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital and surroundings

    The Israeli military on Monday urged Palestinians sheltering in Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in the embattled coastal area, and its environs to leave the conflict zone as Israeli troops move in once again. "You should leave the area to the west immediately to ensure your safety and then ... to the humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi," a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) wrote in Arabic on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday morning. He was referring to a town on the coast of the

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  • WorldSemafor

    West slams Putin’s rigged election win as China, India send congratulations

    Vladimir Putin's reelection as Russian president was guaranteed, but ushers in a new era of the country's politics.

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  • Worlddpa international

    War in Gaza a graveyard for humanitarian law, top EU diplomat says

    The war in Gaza has become a "graveyard for many of the most important principles of humanitarian law," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday. The European Union's top diplomat described the conflict in the Gaza strip as "the greatest open air graveyard" in reference to civilian casualties among the Palestinian population. EU foreign ministers are in Brussels to discuss the Israel-Hamas war with sanctions on Israeli settlers in the West Bank to be decided after the increased viole

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  • Worlddpa international

    Works council election starts at Tesla factory outside Berlin

    Employees at US electric car manufacturer Tesla's factory outside of Berlin on Monday began electing a works council for the second time as Germany's largest union demands better working conditions. A total of 234 candidates are running in the election at Tesla's only European car plant, including the council's current chairwoman, Michaela Schmitz. The IG Metall union said it has 106 candidates on the ballot. The union is demanding better working conditions and a commitment to a collective labou

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  • Worlddpa international

    EU ministers hope to agree new Russia sanctions on Monday

    European Union foreign ministers hope to agree new sanctions on Russia at a meeting in Brussels on Monday, following the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in February and the re-election of Vladimir Putin over the weekend. "Russia was an election without a choice," German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told reporters ahead of the meeting. "We will introduce sanctions today in view of the death of Alexei Navalny." Russia's Election Commission on Sunday declared a landslide victory

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  • WorldAssociated Press

    South Korea suspends the licenses of 2 senior doctors in first punitive steps over doctors' walkouts

    South Korean authorities have suspended the licenses of two senior doctors for allegedly inciting the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations, one of the doctors said Monday. The suspensions are the government’s first punitive steps against physicians after doctors-in-training walked off the job last month to protest the government’s plan to sharply increase medical school admissions. Officials say the recruitment plan is aimed a

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  • Worlddpa international

    EU condemns 'so-called' Russian election in occupied Ukraine

    The European Union on Monday condemned Russia's holding of "so-called 'elections'" in occupied territories in Ukraine, following Moscow's announcement that Russian President Vladimir Putin had won a landslide victory. "The European Union strongly condemns the illegal holding of so-called 'elections' in the territories of Ukraine that Russia has temporarily occupied," the statement said, referring to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Moscow in violation of international law back in 20

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  • WorldAssociated Press

    Spanish police arrest 3 people over the deaths of 5 migrants forced out of a smugglers' boat

    Spanish police have arrested three people for the deaths last November of five migrants who were threatened with a machete and forced to jump off the boat they were traveling in with dozens of other migrants, authorities said Monday. Thirty-seven migrants had traveled in the boat from Kenitra, Morocco. Video images in November showed many of the other migrants being forced out of the vessel closer to land, before the smugglers sped off in the powerful boat.

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  • WorldReuters

    Mahsa Amini's death in Iran custody was 'unlawful', says UN mission

    GENEVA (Reuters) -A fact-finding mission mandated by the United Nations said on Monday the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran's morality police was unlawful and caused by violence and that Iranian women still suffer systematic discrimination. The death of 22-year-old Amini, a Kurdish Iranian woman, in September 2022 while in custody for allegedly flouting Iran's Islamic dress code unleashed months of protests and the biggest challenge to the Islamic Republic's clerical leaders in decad

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  • Worlddpa international

    IDF calls on Palestinians in al-Shifa Hospital to evacuate to south

    The Israeli military has urged Palestinians sheltering in the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and its environs to leave the conflict zone as Israeli troops move in. "You should leave the area to the west immediately to ensure your safety and then … to the humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi," a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) posted Monday morning in Arabic on X, formerly Twitter. He was referring to a town on the coast of the Gaza Strip in the far south. The call was directed at everyon

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  • Worlddpa international

    France slams Russian vote as yet another that wasn't free nor fair

    The French government has criticized Russia's presidential elections which saw President Vladimir Putin emerge as the overwhelming winner, labelling the vote as yet another in the country held under fraught conditions. "The conditions for a free, pluralistic and democratic election have once again not been met," the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday. The Russian elections, held from Friday to Sunday, had taken place in the context of increased oppression of civilian society a

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  • Worlddpa international

    Traffic at German border disrupted as Polish farmers continue protest

    Polish farmers continued to block two border crossings to Germany on Monday, leading to significant disruptions to cross-border traffic. The border crossings in Frankfurt Oder and Guben remain closed, a police spokeswoman said on Monday morning. Traffic was being rerouted, but that was leading to long traffic jams in Frankfurt, she added. Polish farmers, like many farmers across the European Union, have been protesting for weeks against EU agricultural policies. They are also complaining about c

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  • WorldBusiness Insider

    Russia ordered new defenses meant to stop its navy getting humiliated by Ukrainian drones

    The Kremlin appears desperate to stop the Ukrainian drone attacks that Kyiv says have helped disable a third of Russia's Black Sea fleet.

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  • WorldReuters

    Famine imminent in northern Gaza, says U.N.-backed report

    (Reuters) -Famine is imminent and likely to occur by May in northern Gaza and could spread across the enclave by July, a U.N.-backed report said on Monday, after more than five months of war which have shattered the Palestinian territory and cut off supplies. Malnutrition and food insecurity have probably exceeded famine levels in Gaza's north, and hunger-linked death rates were likely to do so soon, the report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said. The assessment - a

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  • WorldReuters

    Thailand's Thaksin projects power as loyalists cosy up

    With politicians pouring in to greet him, a dinner with Thailand's prime minister and a police escort to places he went, billionaire former premier Thaksin Shinawatra looked more like a statesman this weekend than a convicted criminal on parole. Loyalists, cabinet ministers and lawmakers flew to his hometown of Chiang Mai to visit and consult Thaksin, projecting an image of power for a tycoon who loomed large over politics throughout his 15 years in self-exile to skip jail for abuse of power an

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  • WorldAFP

    Deadly explosion filmed in Mongolia, not South Korea

    Dramatic footage of an explosion in Mongolia that circulated online since January 2024 resurfaced in social media posts that falsely linked it to a gas station fire in South Korea. The video corresponds to Google satellite imagery of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar and other media images of the deadly blast.

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  • Worlddpa international

    China congratulates Putin after landslide win in fraught elections

    China, which continues to stand by Moscow while other countries have turned their backs on Russia following the attack on Ukraine, has congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his election landslide in a vote considered neither free nor fair. Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday congratulated Putin on the phone, telling him that he trusts that Russia will be able to achieve even greater success in the development and construction of the country under Putin's leadership, acccordig to s

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  • Worlddpa international

    Chechnya boosts Putin re-election with almost 100% of the votes

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was re-elected for a fifth time in elections that were considered neither free nor fair, received 98.99% of the votes in the republic of Chechnya in the northern Caucasus, his best result nationwide. According to the electoral commission on Monday, voter turnout stood at 97% in the Russian republic, even higher than the 91.44% seen in 2018 and the highest figure in this year's elections. Chechnya, which is led by Ramzan Kadyrov, has traditionally been report

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  • Worlddpa international

    Putin says total war with NATO can't be ruled out

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that a full-scale conflict with NATO cannot be ruled out at a press conference in Moscow to mark his victory in presidential elections accompanied by allegations of manipulation. In case of a full-scale conflict with NATO, the world would be just one step away from a third world war, Putin was quoted as saying by the state agency TASS on Sunday evening. "I think it is unlikely that anyone is interested in this." According to Putin, numerous soldiers from

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  • WorldReuters

    Pressure builds for charge on global shipping sector's CO2 emissions

    The European Union, Canada, Japan and climate-vulnerable Pacific Island states are among 47 countries rallying support for a charge on the international shipping sector's greenhouse gas emissions, documents reviewed by Reuters showed. The documents, being discussed at an International Maritime Organization (IMO) meeting now entering a second week, outline four proposals with a combined 47 backers for imposing a fee on each tonne of greenhouse gas the industry produces. "I'm very confident that

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  • WorldReuters

    Israeli forces kill 20 gunmen in raid at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, army says

    JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli troops raided the compound of Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital early on Monday, saying they killed over 20 gunmen, in an operation Palestinian health authorities said caused multiple casualties and set off a fierce fire in one of the buildings. Special forces, supported by infantry and tanks, conducted a "precise operation" based on intelligence that the hospital was again being used by Hamas leaders, and were fired upon when they entered the compound, the military sa

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  • WorldBBC

    Israel launches night raid on Gaza al-Shifa hospital

    Eye witnesses described panic and gunfire around the hospital in Gaza City after IDF troops moved in.

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  • WorldAssociated Press

    China's foreign minister meets New Zealand counterpart, beginning trip that also includes Australia

    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday that his country is ready to work with New Zealand to deepen trade and economic ties and address climate change. Wang met his New Zealand counterpart, Winston Peters, at the start of a tour that will also include Australia. China is willing to hold talks on reducing barriers to investment in the service sector “at an early time” and build new drivers of economic growth with New Zealand in the digital economy and through technological innovation, Wan

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