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Portugal's election winner Montenegro expects president to name him PM

The leader of Portugal’s centre-right Democratic Alliance, Luis Montenegro, said he expected the president to invite him to form a new government.

March 21, 2024 1:28 pm
 

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Germany seeks to appease farmers with tax relief plan

Germany’s finance minister wants to let farmers spread their earnings over several financial years to help reduce their taxes.

March 21, 2024 12:16 pm
 

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Trump campaign pleads for one million donations as cash crunch looms

Donald Trump’s campaign called for donations from one million of his backers, warning he could lose his New York properties, two days after the former president failed to secure a bond to cover a $454 million judgment in a civil fraud case.

March 21, 2024 11:40 am
 

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Israeli military says it killed 90 gunmen at Gaza's Al Shifa hospital

Israel’s military said it had killed around 90 gunmen and arrested 160 in a raid on Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, an allegation the Islamist Hamas group denied.

March 21, 2024 10:31 am
 

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Vietnam's president resigns, raising questions over stability

The Vietnamese Communist Party has accepted the resignation of President Vo Van Thuong, the government said on Wednesday, in a sign of political turmoil that could hurt foreign investors’ confidence in the country.

March 21, 2024 9:25 am
 

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Irish Prime Minister unexpectedly quits

Leo Varadkar said he would step down as Ireland’s prime minister in a surprise move, saying the country’s coalition government would stand a better chance of reelection under another leader.

March 21, 2024 8:07 am
 

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Scientists say they can cut HIV out of cells

Scientists say they have successfully eliminated HIV from infected cells, using Nobel Prize-winning Crispr gene-editing technology.

March 20, 2024 5:01 pm
 

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Exclusive: Boeing mulls shedding Airbus work in potential Spirit Aero deal

Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab is looking at how Spirit AeroSystems (SPR.N), opens new tab could shed or sharply reduce its ties to Airbus (AIR.PA), opens new tab, as the supply-chain giant’s work for the European planemaker poses complications in rival Boeing’s attempt to acquire its former subsidiary.

March 20, 2024 3:04 pm
 

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Appeals court freezes Texas’ new SB4 immigration law

A federal appeals court has frozen Texas’ controversial immigration law, one of the toughest laws of its kind enacted by a US state in modern times.

March 20, 2024 2:58 pm
 

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Ukraine's survival in danger, Pentagon chief warns

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday warned that Ukraine’s survival was in danger and sought to convince allies that the United States was committed to Kyiv, even as Washington has essentially run out of money to keep arming Ukrainian forces.

March 20, 2024 12:53 pm
 

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Gaza's entire population facing acute food insecurity, Blinken warns

Gaza’s two million people are experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.

March 20, 2024 10:00 am
 

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In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms

Six-year-old Fadi al-Zant is acutely malnourished, his ribs protruding under leathery skin, his eyes sunken as he lays in bed at the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, where famine is bearing down.

March 20, 2024 9:06 am

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