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Ethiopia's export revenue hits record 6.7 bln USD in 8 months
ADDIS ABABA, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia has generated a record 6.76 billion U.S. dollars in export revenue over the past eight months, driven by strong performance across key export sectors, the government announced on Wednesday.
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Pakistan's economy grows 3.89 pct in Q2 of FY2025-26
ISLAMABAD, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's economy expanded by 3.89 percent in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025-26, driven mainly by strong industrial performance, official data showed on Thursday.
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Russian court convicts German sculptor in absentia for depicting Putin and patriarch in sex act
April 2 (Reuters) - German sculptor Jacques Tilly, the creator of a carnival float showing Russian President Vladimir Putin and Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill engaging in a sex act, was sentenced in absentia by a Moscow court on Thursday to eight years and six months in prison.
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Artemis II's moonbound toilet is working again to astronauts' relief after overnight fix
CAPE CANAVERAL (AP): NASA's moonbound astronauts have reason to celebrate – and not just because their launch went so well. Their toilet is now working.
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Polish prosecutors to investigate attack on Polish UN soldiers in Lebanon
WARSAW, April 2 (Reuters) - Polish prosecutors have opened an investigation into a bomb attack that wounded a Polish soldier who was part of a U.N. peacekeeping patrol in Lebanon, the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw said on Thursday.
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Argentina expels Iran's charge d'affaires
BUENOS AIRES, April 2 (Reuters) - Argentina's government declared Iran's charge d'affaires, Mohsen Tehrani, "persona non grata" and expelled him from the country, Argentina's Foreign Minister said in a statement on Thursday.
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Reactions as Artemis II astronauts lift off on historic lunar mission
April 1 (Reuters) - Four astronauts blasted off from Florida on Wednesday on NASA's Artemis II mission, a 10-day trip around the moon that would be the farthest humans have ever traveled and a major step toward returning people to the lunar surface this decade.
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Uganda police say four pupils killed in Kampala school stabbing
KAMPALA, April 2 (Reuters) - Four pupils were killed in a school stabbing in Uganda's capital, Kampala, police said on Thursday, adding that a suspect was in custody.
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Macron says it is unrealistic to open Hormuz Strait by force
PARIS, April 2 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday it would be unrealistic to launch a military operation to force open the Strait of Hormuz, after U.S. President Donald Trump challenged U.S. allies to work towards reopening it.
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On birthright citizenship, Trump's restrictive immigration agenda hits a rare roadblock
WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump took the short trip from the White House to the U.S. Supreme Court with his signature priority of cracking down on immigration largely intact, given repeated interventions by the nation's highest judicial body in his favor. By the time he left, his luck may have run out.
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China points finger at US, says it's responsible for Hormuz chaos
BEIJING (dpa): China has blamed the United States and Israel for the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which has disrupted global oil and gas exports through the key waterway.
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Russia says it's ready to help resolve Iran conflict
MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) - Russia is ready to contribute to resolving the Iran conflict and President Vladimir Putin is continuing to talk with regional leaders, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
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Lithuania to seek US help in Epstein-linked trafficking probe
VILNIUS, April 2 (Reuters) - Lithuania is preparing a request to the United States for cooperation in its investigation into potential human trafficking with links to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Baltic country's Prosecutor General Vita Grunskiene said on Thursday.
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Russian nuclear missile forces hold drills in Siberia
MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) - Russian strategic missile forces have conducted drills in Siberia involving camouflaged movements of Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles that are capable of delivering nuclear warheads, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday.
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At village pub in Orban's heartland, Hungary's vote plays out over pints
MALYINKA, Hungary, April 2 (Reuters) - Sandor Toth has been running his pub in a small village in the hilly northeast of Hungary for 43 years, witnessing the collapse of communism and since 2010 four victories by the lawmaker for Viktor Orban's Fidesz party in his constituency.
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Burkina, Mali troops kill more civilians than jihadists do, data shows
DAKAR, April 2 (Reuters) - Government and allied forces in Burkina Faso have killed more than twice as many civilians as Islamist militants have since 2023, according to a tally of incidents documented in a report published on Thursday by Human Rights Watch.
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Russia woos students for its drone forces in Ukraine with large financial packages
MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) - Students across Russia are being offered large financial incentives to join drone units fighting in Ukraine as operators and engineers, while companies in Russia's central Ryazan region have been given quotas to sign up workers for the army, documents show.
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US man arrested over Facebook posts threatening to kill Trump
NEW YORK: An American man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Donald Trump, federal officials said Wednesday, outlining a series of Facebook posts targeting the US president.
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Australia hits gambling advertising, advocates say not hard enough
SYDNEY, April 2 (Reuters) - Australia said it would ban gambling advertisements featuring celebrities and limit online gambling advertisements to internet users over 18 from next year, an attempt to appease public health concerns but falling short of measures recommended by its own inquiry.
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Fire hits LPG station near residential area of Indonesia's Bekasi regency, 12 injured, agency says
JAKARTA, April 2 (Reuters) - A fire broke out at a liquefied petroleum gas filling station near a residential area in Indonesia's Bekasi regency, east of the capital Jakarta, injuring at least 12, state news agency Antara said on Thursday, citing the local disaster mitigation agency.
