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  • NewsThe Independent

    Russia-Ukraine war – live: Putin threatens Nato with World War 3 as nuclear risk at ‘highest point in decades’

    Vladimir Putin has made at least 11 threats of nuclear war against the West since he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

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  • NewsAFP

    Photo of newly hired S. Korea doctors misrepresented in posts about medics walkout

    Professors from nearly 20 medical schools in South Korea pledged to resign on March 25, 2024 to protest against the government's plan to increase medical school admissions the following year. But social media posts -- which speculated about the resignations before they were officially announced -- misleadingly shared a photo that actually shows some fresh recruits.

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  • NewsReuters

    Taiwan's vice president-elect makes Czech visit after US trip

    Taiwan's vice president-elect and former de facto ambassador to Washington, Hsiao Bi-khim, is on a visit to the Czech Republic following a low-key trip to the United States, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Hsiao, who takes office with president-elect Lai Ching-te in May, is detested by China which calls her a "diehard Taiwan independence separatist" and has placed sanctions on her. China claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, a view the government in Taipei strongly

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  • PoliticsAFP

    Trump unable to post $464mn bond in New York civil case: lawyers

    Donald Trump faced having assets seized in a humiliating blow to his carefully cultivated image as a self-made tycoon as his lawyers acknowledged Monday he doesn't have the cash to appeal a $464 million fine for fraudulently inflating his wealth."Defendants have faced what have proven to be insurmountable difficulties in obtaining an appeal bond for the full $464 million," Trump Organization general counsel Alan Garten said in a filing to the court.

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  • NewsAFP

    N. Korea's Kim oversees 'super-large' rocket launcher drills

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw firing drills involving "newly-equipped super-large" multiple rocket launchers, state media said Tuesday, a day after Seoul said Pyongyang had fired several short-range ballistic missiles.The super-large multiple rocket launcher, referred to as KN-25 by the Seoul-Washington military, is a short-range ballistic missile, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

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  • NewsThe Guardian

    Queensland passes new forensic laws after thousands of DNA samples forced to be re-tested

    Government declared last year that more than 100,000 samples may need to be re-tested

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  • NewsStoryful

    Icicles Form Along the Shore of Lake Traverse

    Stunning icicles formed along the shore of Lake Traverse on Monday, March 18, as cold weather gripped Wheaton, Minnesota.Carol Bauer, who filmed this footage, told Storyful she came across some “pretty ice formations along the shores of Lake Traverse even though the ice is completely melted in the lake”.Icy weather was forecast for the region on Sunday, with the National Weather Service adding that warmer air and gusty winds would pass through on Monday. Credit: Carol Bauer via Storyful

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