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Teen kills 12-year-old, shows acquaintance her body on Instagram video chat, US cops say
An 18-year-old will go to prison after being accused of fatally shooting a girl with her father’s gun in 2022, Pennsylvania officials said and news outlets reported.
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Myanmar's next election may not be nationwide, junta chief says
(Reuters) -Military-ruled Myanmar plans to have an election if there is peace and stability in the country but may not be able to hold it nationwide, its top general said, as the junta battles to contain a rebellion on multiple fronts.
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Ahead of EU election, rights groups urge equality drive to counter populists
(Reuters) - Anticipating a populist surge when Europeans go to the polls in June, anti-discrimination organisations on Monday urged the bloc's institutions to put equality policies at the top of their agenda once a new parliament is elected.
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AI chatbots are here to help with your mental health, despite limited evidence they work
Download the mental health chatbot Earkick and you’re greeted by a bandana-wearing panda who could easily fit into a kids’ cartoon.
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Suspended Australian judge facing deportation from Kiribati in court on Tuesday
(Reuters) - An Australian-born High Court judge whose aborted deportation two years ago from Kiribati sparked a judicial crisis in the Pacific Islands nation will appear in court on Tuesday, in a case closely watched by the United Nations and international legal groups.
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North Korea says Japan's Kishida wants to meet Kim Jong Un
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) -North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Monday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had conveyed his intention to meet the North Korean leader, state media reported.
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AI
Microsoft deal, Apple-Google talks show tech giants need AI help
Earlier last week, Microsoft Corp named artificial intelligence pioneer Mustafa Suleyman chief of its consumer AI business and hired most of the staff from his Inflection AI startup. A day before, Bloomberg reported that Alphabet Inc’s Google was in talks to license its Gemini AI engine to Apple Inc.
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South Korea's medical professors join protests, reduce hours in practice
SEOUL (Reuters) - Medical professors in South Korea said they will cut back on the hours they spend in practice starting on Monday to support trainee doctors on strike for more than a month over a government plan to boost medical school admissions.
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Singapore ex-Transport Minister faces 8 new charges in graft case
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's former Transport Minister S. Iswaran was handed eight more charges in a corruption case on Monday, the anti-graft body said, in one of the city-state's highest-profile corruption scandals.
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Kate Middleton conspiracies linger after cancer revelation
The revelation that Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales, has cancer prompted a swift backlash over a torrent of lurid social media speculation around her health, including by those positing she was secretly dead. But the somber news has not stopped the seemingly endless churn of conspiracy theories.
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Argentines commemorate coup as Milei sows doubt about dictatorship past
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Thousands of Argentines took to the streets around the country on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of the 1976 military coup that lasted eight years and led to widespread repression, torture and disappearances.
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Britain plans to boost nuclear workforce
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will set out plans to boost Britain's nuclear workforce on Monday, as increased submarine building and the growing needs of the nuclear energy industry are forecast to create 40,000 new jobs by 2030.
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North Korea's Kim visits tank unit, calls for airtight combat readiness
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a tank unit and called for stepping up its combat readiness including greater "ideological and mental power," state media KCNA said on Monday.
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France raises terror alert warning to highest level
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is raising its terror alert warning to its highest level following the shootings on Moscow, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Sunday after a meeting with senior security and defence officials with President Emmanuel Macron.
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Moscow court puts first suspect in concert hall attack under pre-trial custody for two months
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow's Basmanny district court ruled on Sunday that the first suspect in Friday's deadly concert hall attack in which at 137 people were killed should be put into custody for two months pending trial, Interfax news agency reported citing the court.
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Israel announces reform on public transport fares
JERUSALEM, March 24 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli Transport Ministry announced Sunday a nationwide reform of public transport fares, which will take effect as of Monday.
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US and Japan plan biggest upgrade to security pact in more than 60 years, FT reports
(Reuters) - The U.S. and Japan are planning the biggest upgrade to their security alliance since the two countries signed a mutual defense treaty in 1960, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
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Centre-left candidate beats Communist in Salzburg mayoral run-off
VIENNA (Reuters) - The centre-left deputy mayor of Salzburg, Bernhard Auinger, beat his Communist rival Kay-Michael Dankl in a run-off vote for mayor on Sunday and pledged to work with him after Dankl focused on high housing costs in one of Austria's hardest-hit cities.
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France charters evacuation flights from Haiti
PARIS (Reuters) - France is organising government-chartered flights from Haiti to help its nationals seeking to leave the Caribbean country, which has been gripped by gang violence, the French foreign ministry said on Sunday.
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South Sudan looks to exploit Gum Arabic amid slump in oil export
JUBA, March 24 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan is looking towards shoring up non-oil revenues by diversifying its economy to hitherto unexploited natural resources such as the coveted Gum Arabic, fruit and vegetable sectors, a government official said.