The Philippines says Chinese coast guard ships blocked Philippine vessels from a disputed South China Sea shoal, causing a minor collision. A Philippine coast guard spokesperson said Tuesday that …
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By JIM GOMEZ
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3/4/24
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China is increasing its defense budget 7.2% this year in a similar increase to last year's. It's already the world's second-highest behind the United States at $222 billion. Tensions with the U.S., …
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3/4/24
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France has become the only country to explicitly guarantee the right to abortion in its constitution and other Europeans wonder whether a rollback of rights like the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision …
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3/4/24
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Thousands of Belarusians have been convicted on politically-driven charges over the last three years as part of the authorities' relentless crackdown on dissent. The Viasna human rights center said …
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By YURAS KARMANAU
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3/4/24
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The South African navy has been brought in to help with a search for a 6-year-old girl who has been missing for two weeks in a case that has captured national attention. Joslin Smith went missing on …
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By GERALD IMRAY
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3/4/24
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On the day that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was laid to rest in Moscow, Russian state media leaked an audio recording of German military officers discussing the hypothetical use of …
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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, VANESSA GERA and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN
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3/4/24
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Benny Gantz, who is in Washington this week for meetings with U.S. leaders, is a crucial member of Israel’s War Cabinet. He is also the top political rival to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …
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By TIA GOLDENBERG
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3/4/24
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Senior U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein, who is visiting Beirut, says if a truce is reached in the Gaza Strip, it will not automatically translate to calm along the volatile Lebanon-Israel border which has …
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By BASSEM MROUE
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3/4/24
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The UN atomic watchdog's director says he's heading to Moscow for talks on nuclear safety in Ukraine
The U.N. atomic watchdog agency’s director said that he’s due to depart for a trip to Moscow on Tuesday for high-level talks with Russian officials to discuss the issue of nuclear safety in …
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By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN
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3/4/24
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A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly $6.3 …
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By JAN M. OLSEN
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3/4/24
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British police have recovered a Ferrari stolen from Formula One driver Gerhard Berger in Italy almost three decades ago. The red Ferrari F512M was one of two sports cars taken while their drivers …
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3/4/24
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The U.N. human rights chief has called for a quick end to the “repression of independent voices” in Russia and expressed concerns about the “persecution” of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, …
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By JAMEY KEATEN
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3/4/24
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Iranian hard-line politicians dominated the country’s vote for parliament, according to results released Monday. Authorities still have not released turnout figures for Friday’s vote, nor gave …
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By The Associated Press
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3/4/24
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A Thai court on Monday dropped a charge against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, now living in exile, for mishandling government project expenditure in 2013. It is the latest favorable …
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3/4/24
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Mexico is almost certainly about to get its first woman president. Whoever wins, there’s a lot at stake: migration, anti-drug cooperation, the intertwined economies of the U.S. and Mexico, Latin …
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By MARK STEVENSON
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3/4/24
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NATO will kick off an exercise on Monday to defend its newly expanded Nordic territory when more than 20,000 soldiers from 13 nations take part in drills lasting for nearly two weeks in the northern …
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By JARI TANNER
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3/4/24
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Since Rio de Janeiro declared a public health emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever last month, the city has ramped up testing capacities, opened up a dozen of dengue health centers and trained …
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By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and DIANE JEANTET
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3/3/24
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A volcano on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos has begun erupting and lighting up the nighttime sky as lava tumbles down its sides toward the sea. The La Cumbre volcano on Fernandina island …
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3/3/24
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An increasingly assertive China and a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia for a rare summit this week. The …
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By ROD McGUIRK
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3/3/24
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South Korea and the United States have begun large military exercises to bolster their readiness against North Korean nuclear threats. The joint exercises that started Monday will last 11 days. They …
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM
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3/3/24
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