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With its flattering rhetoric, leniency in responding to US trade threats and alignment with Washington this week at a summit on artificial intelligence, the United Kingdom has signalled a willingness to take President Donald Trump's side over Europe.London also sided against the EU on the crucial issue of artificial intelligence, teaming up with the United States in refusing to sign the final declaration of the AI summit in Paris on Tuesday.
AFP
DRC conflict overshadows African summit
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Truck cabin found in Japan sinkhole search for driver
A truck cabin swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan has been found in a sewer pipe and may contain the body of its missing driver, a fire department official said Wednesday."After experts analysed photos taken with a drone... they said there's a cabin of a truck in the photos and they can't rule out the possibility that what appears to be inside is a person," local fire department official Tomonori Nakazawa told AFP. But rescuers could not enter the sewer pipe where the truck cabin was spotted due to
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Trump fires USAID's inspector general after his office released a report critical of the administration
Paul Martin's office put out a report Monday detailing the negative impact of the Trump administration’s push for drastic cuts at the agency.
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Connecticut Rep. John Larson says a complex partial seizure caused him to stop speech on House floor
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Louisiana seeks to resume executions imminently after a 15-year pause
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India's Hindu mega-festival supercharges economy
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Stock market today: Asian shares mostly rise as region continues watching Trump's latest tariffs
Asian shares mostly rose Wednesday, as regional markets continued to watch President Donald Trump’s latest tariff escalation. The latest from Trump is his announcement of 25% tariffs on all foreign steel and aluminum coming into the U.S. Last month, Trump decided to impose 10% duties on all Chinese imports.
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$500 million in food at spoilage risk after USAID pause, report says
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Montana man linked to Alicia Navarro case sentenced to 100 years for child sex abuse
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Politico
DOGE order triggers firings at SBA of employees prematurely fired Friday
Federal workers who mistakenly got termination notices last week got real ones Tuesday just hours after the president’s executive order.
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Justice Sotomayor defends courts amid criticism from Trump and his allies
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Wrongfully detained American teacher Marc Fogel returns to US after being released from Russia in an ‘exchange’
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Appeals court rejects Trump administration bid to immediately reinstate funding freeze
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Winter storms threaten snow, extreme cold and travel warnings across the U.S.
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US aid freeze sets back fight against human trafficking in Cambodia
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'What would you have us do?': the plastic credits problem
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Asian stocks rise as Powell rate warning taken in stride
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