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Unemployment biggest worry in India, world's fastest growing economy: Reuters poll

The biggest economic challenge for the government after the ongoing election is unemployment, according to economists polled by Reuters who expected the world’s most populous country to grow a healthy 6.5% this fiscal year.

April 24, 2024 5:59 pm
 

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Musk targets Australian senator, gun laws in deepening dispute over X stabbing content

Elon Musk said an Australian senator should be jailed and suggested the country’s gun laws were meant to stop resistance against its “fascist government”, escalating his battle over a court order to remove video posts of a bishop being stabbed.

April 24, 2024 4:00 pm
 

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Solomon Islands' Sogavare says he runs security amid tense wait for new government

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manesseh Sogavare said he narrowly won his seat and still exercises power over security in the Pacific Islands nation, as he vies with opposition parties to form government after an election delivered no clear winner.

April 24, 2024 3:16 pm
 

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US reaches $138.7 million civil settlement with victims of Larry Nassar

The U.S. Justice Department has reached a $138.7 million civil settlement with hundreds of victims of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who is serving time in prison for sexually abusing athletes under his care, the agency said.

April 24, 2024 2:45 pm
 

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Argentina's Milei faces biggest protest yet as students march over budget cuts

Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities, the biggest protest yet against President Javier Milei’s painful austerity measures.

April 24, 2024 1:33 pm
 

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UN 'horrified' by Gaza hospital mass grave reports

U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday he was “horrified” by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, according to a spokesperson.

April 24, 2024 12:20 pm
 

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Israel steps up strikes across Gaza

Israeli strikes intensified across Gaza on Tuesday in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, residents said, and the army ordered fresh evacuations in the north of the enclave, warning civilians they were in a “dangerous combat zone”.

April 24, 2024 11:24 am
 

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Publisher testifies in Trump hush money trial

The first witness in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, testified on Tuesday that he used his supermarket tabloid to suppress stories that might have hurt Trump’s 2016 presidential bid.

April 24, 2024 9:34 am
 

Pacific Islands

Solomon Islands preps for tense government talks

Solomon Islands faces a nervous wait to establish a government as opposition parties vie with incumbent Prime Minister Manesseh Sogavare’s OUR party to form a coalition with independents after a national election failed to produce a clear winner.

April 24, 2024 7:20 am
 

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Modi calls rivals pro-Muslim

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party have begun attacking opposition rivals, saying they favour minority Muslims, in what analysts see as a bid to invigorate their hardline base after general elections began last week.

April 24, 2024 6:27 am
 

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Ten dead as Navy helicopters collide mid-air in Malaysia

Ten people have died after two navy helicopters collided in mid-air during a military rehearsal for a Royal Malaysian Navy parade.

April 23, 2024 4:56 pm
 

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Australia PM criticizes Musk after X post ruling

An Australian court has ordered X to hide some posts commenting on the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney, deepening a war of words between the social media platform’s owner Elon Musk and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

April 23, 2024 2:40 pm

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