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  1. Biden says US has offered North Korea Covid vaccines but 'got no response'

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    US Pentagon press secretary John Kirby will join the National Security Council as coordinator for strategic communications His new job will see him "coordinate interagency efforts to explain United States policy," the White House said

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    Russian supply of natural gas to Finland was halted Saturday, Finnish energy company Gasum said, after the Nordic country refused to pay in rubles Gasum said that gas would instead be supplied through the Balticconnector pipeline, which connects Finland to Estonia

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  4. 3 hours ago

    Russian gas to Finland has been halted: Finnish company

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  5. 4 hours ago

    President Joe Biden and South Korea's newly sworn-in leader Yoon Suk-yeol are set to meet Saturday in Seoul to discuss fears of a nuclear weapon test by North Korea, even as the secretive dictatorship battles a raging Covid outbreak

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    Film-makers are holding up a mirror to France over its colonial past at the Cannes festival, helped by star power and a growing French readiness to face up to injustices committed in Africa "If we deny the facts we can never move on"

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    Jerry Huang, maker and fish enthusiast, poses with his fish tank trolley in Taichung 📷

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  8. 5 hours ago

    Protests bubbling in big cities, dismal economic indicators and rampant discontent online -- China's zero-Covid policy is morphing from a propaganda victory to a political liability for President Xi Jinping

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  9. 6 hours ago

    Anthony Albanese, the Labor Party leader, has urged people to turn away from "divisive" Prime Minister Scott Morrison Voting is compulsory, enforced with a fine, but also rewarded at booths that fired up barbecues to offer people a "democracy sausage"

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  10. 7 hours ago

    The move is a milestone in a high-stakes uncrewed test flight as the aerospace giant seeks to restore its reputation The spaceship made contact at 8:28 pm EST, a little over 24 hours after it blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

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  11. 7 hours ago

    A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces early Saturday during a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said "A 17-year-old boy was killed, and an 18-year-old was critically wounded," the health ministry said

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  12. 7 hours ago

    Boeing's Starliner spaceship docked with the International Station during a critical uncrewed test mission, a live feed showed An announcer said it's a "historic first... opening a new avenue of access for crews to the orbiting laboratory"

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  13. 7 hours ago

    Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian teenager in West Bank clashes: Palestinian ministry

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  14. 7 hours ago

    Boeing's Starliner spaceship docks with ISS in key test mission: live feed

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  15. 8 hours ago

    Polls opened in Australia's federal election Saturday, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison fighting for another three-year term that would extend a decade of conservative rule

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  16. 8 hours ago

    VIDEO: Follow along behind the scenes as Indian star Pooja Hegde prepares for her first Cannes Film Festival red carpet

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  17. 8 hours ago

    More than 50 US lawmakers on Friday called on the FBI to investigate the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, despite Israeli promises of a probe

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  18. 9 hours ago

    The archbishop of San Francisco on Friday told Nancy Pelosi -- the lead Democrat in the House of Representatives -- that she is barred from receiving communion until she repudiates her "advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion"

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  19. 9 hours ago

    Title 42, the colloquial name for an order that can effectively block anyone without a visa from entering the United States, even to claim asylum, was due to expire on Monday

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  20. 9 hours ago

    Almost 40 people were injured, several seriously, when a tornado struck the western German city of Paderborn on Friday Authorities in the city, located in the North Rhine-Westphalia state, estimated the damage caused by the tornado at "several million" euros

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