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Bodies of four migrants found as boat sinks off Greek island of Lesbos
ATHENS (Reuters) - The bodies of four migrants - one boy, one girl and two women - have been recovered from a sinking boat off the Greek island of Lesbos while another 23 migrants were rescued, Greece's coastguard said on Thursday.
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EU's Kallas: EU countries already providing over 50% Ukraine's ammunition needs
WARSAW (Reuters) - European countries are already providing more than half of Ukraine's ammunition needs, recently put at two million rounds by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Thursday.
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Australia PM Albanese falls off stage during election campaign event
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appeared to fall off a stage on Thursday during a campaign event for May's national election, but quickly recovered and insisted he was "sweet" afterwards.
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Illegal luxury timber from Brazil's COP state makes its way to US and Europe, investigation finds
(Reuters) -Almost 2,000 container ships carrying illegally harvested timber from the Brazilian Amazonian state that will host this year's U.N. climate summit has reached Europe and the U.S. in recent years, showed an investigative report by an environmental NGO.
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EU plans countermeasures to new US tariffs, says EU chief
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described U.S. Donald Trump's universal tariffs as a major blow to the world economy and said the European Union was prepared to respond with countermeasures if talks with Washington failed.
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Tornadoes, heavy rains rip across central, southern US
(Reuters) - Tornadoes ripped across a wide swath of central and southern United States on Wednesday, destroying homes and businesses and bringing down power lines and trees.
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South Korea's acting president calls for talks with US over tariffs
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's acting President Han Duck-soo called on Thursday for talks with U.S. officials to shield the export-reliant economy from the impact of U.S. tariffs and ordered emergency support measures for businesses.
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Thousands of Haitians take to streets to protest surging gang violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Thousands of Haitians took to the streets in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday to express their anger against armed gangs that control nearly all of the capital and surrounding areas and the government's failure to hold them off.
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Eleven more Ukrainian children return home from Russia, Russian-held areas
(Reuters) - Eleven more Ukrainian children have been brought home from parts of Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine where they had been taken without permission, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said on Wednesday.
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Brazil announces auto industry executive as COP30 climate champion
(Reuters) -Brazil on Wednesday announced the nomination of auto industry executive Dan Ioschpe, who represented Brazil in business meetings at the G20 summit last year, as its "climate champion" for the 2025 United Nations climate summit, know as COP30, which the country will host in November.
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2nd LD Writethru: Trump signs executive order on "reciprocal tariffs" amid widespread opposition
WASHINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Amid widespread opposition, U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order on the so-called "reciprocal tariffs," imposing a 10-percent "minimum baseline tariff" and higher rates on certain trading partners.
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U.S. oil imports up, exports down last week
HOUSTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- U.S. crude oil imports increased while exports decreased during the week ending Mach 28, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Wednesday.
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U.S. crude oil production up last week
HOUSTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- U.S. crude oil production averaged 13.580 million barrels per day (b/d) during the week ending March 28, up by 6,000 b/d from the previous week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Wednesday.
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1st LD: Trump signs executive order on "reciprocal tariffs" amid widespread opposition
WASHINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Amid widespread opposition, U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order on the so-called "reciprocal tariffs," imposing a 10-percent "minimum baseline tariff" and higher rates on certain trading partners.
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Cote d'Ivoire raises purchase price of cocoa beans for farmers
ABIDJAN, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The purchase price of cocoa beans for farmers in Cote d'Ivoire will increase to 2,200 CFA francs (3.63 U.S. dollars) per kilogram for the mid-season this year which officially started nationwide on Wednesday, the government announced.
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WHO faces 2.5 bln USD funding gap as U.S. announcing withdrawal
GENEVA, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) is facing a budget gap of 1.9 billion U.S. dollars for 2026 and 2027, along with a 600-million-dollar deficit through 2025, according to media reports on Wednesday.
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Slovakia approves culling of 350 brown bears amid rising attacks
BRATISLAVA, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The Slovak government on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in several districts and approved the culling of 350 brown bears, citing the danger to humans after a spate of attacks.
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Urgent: Trump signs executive orders on "reciprocal tariffs" amid widespread opposition
WASHINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Amid widespread opposition, U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed two executive orders on the so-called "reciprocal tariffs," imposing a 10-percent "minimum baseline tariff" and higher rates on certain trading partners.
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23 U.S. states, D.C. sue Trump admin over health funding cuts
SACRAMENTO, the United States, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-three U.S. states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for abruptly cutting over 11 billion U.S. dollars in federal public health funding.
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