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Australia's Albanese starts election campaign touting healthcare credentials
(Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touted his Labor party's credentials on affordable healthcare on Saturday, the first full day of campaigning for a general election expected to have cost of living as a central issue.
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Mexican president calls meeting with US head of security fruitful
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday that she had a "fruitful meeting" with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
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Trump says US will help after Myanmar quake
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday vowed the United States would assist Myanmar after it was hit by a huge earthquake, following a rare plea for aid by the South-East Asian nation's ruling junta.
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Trump says he is willing to make deals on tariffs
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was open to carving out deals with countries seeking to avoid U.S. tariffs but those agreements would have to be negotiated after his administration announces reciprocal tariffs on April 2.
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Number of active U.S. drilling down this week
HOUSTON, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The number of active drilling rigs in the United States stands at 592 this week, down by one from the previous week and by 29 from this time last year, according to the weekly data released by Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughes Friday.
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Elon Musk's xAI merges with X
SAN FRANCISCO, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Elon Musk said on Friday that his startup xAI has merged with his social media platform X in an all-stock transaction.
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U.S. stocks tank amid concerns over inflation, tariffs
NEW YORK, March 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks tumbled Friday as investors reacted to worsening consumer sentiment and inflation data, highlighting U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policy.
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Haitian ex-mayor guilty of US visa fraud linked to torture
BOSTON (Reuters) - A former Haitian mayor was convicted on Friday of U.S. charges that he had lied about having led a brutal campaign to kill and torture his political opponents in order to secure a green card allowing him to reside in the United States.
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Russian drone attack kills four, injures 19 in Ukraine's Dnipro
(Reuters) -A mass Russian drone attack killed four people, injured 19 and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex and other buildings late on Friday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor said.
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Chile meets ICC officials over Tren de Aragua-linked murder of Venezuelan dissident
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean officials met with International Criminal Court representatives on Friday to provide information about the murder of a Venezuelan dissident they claim is relevant to an ongoing ICC investigation into alleged human rights abuses by Venezuelan government officials.
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Venezuela's Maduro urges UN to back release of migrants
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro this week spoke to the United Nations' Secretary General Antonio Guterres and High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk to urge UN support for the release of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants deported by the United States to a notorious El Salvador prison, the Venezuelan government said on Friday.
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Greenlandic political leaders looks to enhance cooperation with China
NUUK, Greenland, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Greenland's political leaders on Friday expressed interest in deepening cooperation with China in areas such as trade, fisheries, and sustainable development while highlighting the potential for a free trade agreement between the two sides.
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Swedish journalist jailed in Turkey on terrorism, insult charges
ANKARA (Reuters) - Swedish journalist Kaj Joakim Medin, who was in Turkey to cover protests against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest, was jailed pending trial on terrorism charges, Turkey's Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office said on Friday.
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B-Travel Fair highlights growing interest in China, global tourism trends
BARCELONA, Spain, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The B-Travel Fair, the largest trade fair in Spain, kicked off here on Friday, highlighting key trends reshaping the global tourism industry, including sustainability, digitalization, and deseasonalization.
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Somalia offers US exclusive control of air bases, ports
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia is prepared to offer the United States exclusive control of strategic air bases and ports, its president said in a letter to President Donald Trump seen by Reuters on Friday.
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Roundup: Greenland announces new autonomous gov't, sending united rejection to U.S. pressure
NUUK, Greenland, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Greenland announced the formation of a new autonomous government on Friday amid heightened tensions with the United States.
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Brazil's top court tosses out probe into Bolsonaro's vaccine records
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Friday tossed out a probe into whether former President Jair Bolsonaro forged vaccine records, a court decision seen by Reuters showed.
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Roundup: U.S. reports nearly 500 measles cases as infections continue to surge
LOS ANGELES, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The United States has reported a total of 483 confirmed measles cases in just three months of 2025, surpassing the total number of infections for all of 2024, according to the latest data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday.
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UM consumer sentiment index falls to lowest level in over 2 years in March
CHICAGO, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The Consumer Sentiment Index released Friday by the University of Michigan (UM) Surveys of Consumers fell to 57.0 in the March 2025 survey, down from 64.7 in February and below last March's 79.4.
