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Warren Buffett will not commit to more donations to Gates Foundation
March 31 (Reuters) - Warren Buffett on Tuesday declined to commit to continuing his annual multibillion-dollar donations to the Gates Foundation, following the recent release of materials about late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with the nonprofit and its co-founder Bill Gates.
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Senegal president backs new anti-LGBT law banning 'promotion'
DAKAR, March 31 (Reuters) - Senegal's president has approved a bill doubling the maximum prison term for same-sex sexual acts to 10 years and criminalising any efforts to promote homosexuality, allowing it to take effect, according to an official statement.
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Spanish police bust underground hashish route from Morocco
MADRID, March 31 (Reuters) - Spanish police have discovered a drug-smuggling tunnel in the North African exclave of Ceuta, complete with a rail system and underground cranes to transport hashish from Morocco into Spain.
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Hijacked car driven to Northern Irish police station contained improvised bomb, police say
BELFAST, March 31 (Reuters) - Irish nationalist militants were likely behind the hijacking and placing of an improvised explosive device in a food delivery vehicle that was ordered to drive to a Northern Irish police station before the device was made safe, police said on Tuesday.
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Bangladesh considers partial online classes amid energy crisis
DHAKA, March 31 (Reuters) - Bangladesh is considering introducing partial online classes in schools as part of austerity measures to ease pressure from the global energy crisis and domestic constraints.
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Hegseth says next few days in Iran war will be decisive
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - The next few days in the Middle East conflict will be decisive, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a briefing on Tuesday, saying there had been major desertions from the Iranian armed forces.
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King Charles to pay state visit to US as UK seeks to mollify Trump
LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) - King Charles will make a state visit to the United States in late April, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday, a high-profile trip that the British government hopes will help to repair relations with Donald Trump, damaged by the Iran war.
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Trump urges countries to go to Strait of Hormuz and 'just take it'
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump urged countries who did not help the U.S. in its coordinated strikes against Iran and are now unable to get jet fuel to buy American oil and go to the Strait of Hormuz and "just TAKE it."
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Suspect in attack on Russia's Prague cultural centre turns himself in
PRAGUE, March 31 (Reuters) - A foreign national has turned himself in to Czech police, admitting that he threw petrol bombs at the building of a Russian culture centre in Prague last week, police said on Tuesday.
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Russian oil tanker enters anchorage of Cuba's Matanzas port
MATANZAS, Cuba, March 31 (Reuters) - A Russia-flagged tanker carrying some 700,000 barrels of crude arrived in Cuba's Matanzas Bay at daybreak on Tuesday, according to a Reuters witness and shipping data, marking the first significant oil delivery since the Trump administration cut off the island's fuel supply.
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French Senate debates social media ban for children under 15
PARIS, March 31 (Reuters) - French senators vote on Tuesday on a draft law that aims to ban social media access for children under the age of 15, joining countries around the world in considering a move unpopular with many teenagers but supported by some parents and teachers.
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Russia says it will respond if Ukraine uses foreign airspace to attack its Baltic ports
MOSCOW, March 31 (Reuters) - Russia will respond if other countries allow Ukraine to use their airspace to launch drone attacks on Russian Baltic ports, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
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Zelenskiy says he will ask US to relay Easter energy truce offer to Russia
KYIV/MOSCOW, March 31 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he would ask U.S. mediators to pass Kyiv's offer of an Easter ceasefire for strikes on energy infrastructure to Russia, after the Kremlin said it lacked any detailed proposals.
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LaGuardia controller staffing may have violated procedures on night of collision, document shows
NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - Air traffic controller staffing at LaGuardia airport on the night an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck may have violated the facility's procedures by combining roles before midnight, according to a document seen by Reuters.
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Ukrainian drones strike Russia's Ust-Luga port again, sources say oil terminal hit
MOSCOW, March 31 (Reuters) - Ukrainian drones on Tuesday struck Russia's Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga for the fifth time in 10 days, and industry sources told Reuters an oil loading terminal was hit, likely adding to Russia's difficulties in exporting crude.
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Russia goes after VPNs as 'great crackdown' gathers pace
MOSCOW, March 31 (Reuters) - Russia is going to further clamp down Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which are used by millions of Russians to get around internet controls and censorship, Russia's digital minister said.
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Myanmar's former spymaster Ye Win Oo rises to become military chief
March 31 (Reuters) - When Myanmar's military ousted a democratically elected government in a dawn coup on February 1, 2021, Ye Win Oo led the contingent of troops that arrested Nobel Peace Prize winner and the country's then leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Estonia and Latvia detect air threats overnight, their defence forces say
COPENHAGEN, March 31 (Reuters) - Estonia and Latvia both detected foreign drone activity near their borders with Russia overnight, their militaries said, in the latest such incidents to unsettle NATO's eastern flank.
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With US aid slashed, Nigerian HIV volunteers went door‑to‑door to keep patients alive
MAKURDI, Nigeria, March 31 (Reuters) - For several months last year, Josephine Angev walked the dusty village paths of Nigeria's Benue State with a mission - to help people living with HIV stay on their life-saving medication, after a U.S. aid freeze left thousands scrambling for supplies.
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U.S. conservatives watch nervously as Orban faces tough test in Hungary vote
BUDAPEST, March 31 (Reuters) - U.S. conservatives have long pointed to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as proof that a Western leader can crack down on immigration, defy global institutions and wage war on "woke" liberalism – and still win elections.
