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China’s Xi Jinping urges greater self-reliance amid trade, military tensions with US
Mar 13, 2023 12:08Chinese president has called for speeding up science and technology development to ensure greater self-reliance and strengthening the country's military amid rising tensions with the US.
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US govt. rules out SVB bailout, wants to avoid 'contagion': Yellen
Mar 13, 2023 12:05US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday said the government wanted to avoid financial "contagion" from the implosion of the Silicon Valley Bank but ruled out a bailout of the institution.
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Faced with ‘mutiny', BBC forced to reinstate sports presenter Lineker
Mar 13, 2023 11:59The BBC has been forced to reinstate Gary Lineker after facing a full-on sports mutiny in the wake of his suspension due to criticizing the government’s new asylum policy.
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One in five students at top UK universities consider dropping out, feel suicidal, over cost-of-living crisis, survey reveals
Mar 13, 2023 11:56One in five students at UK top universities are considering dropping out due to the worsening cost-of-living crisis across the country, and a quarter are regularly going without food and other essentials, a new survey has revealed.
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Film unveiling misinformation campaign against Iran screened in Rome
Mar 13, 2023 10:12On Saturday, a film called Target Iran was screened at a cinema in the Italian capital, not far from the iconic Coliseum.
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North Korea test-fires submarine-launched 'strategic' cruise missiles ahead of US-South Korea drills
Mar 13, 2023 07:02North Korea has fired a short-range ballistic missile toward the Yellow Sea, the South Korean military says, after warning the United States on its joint military drills with the South scheduled to be conducted next week.
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US Silicon Valley Bank collapse could wipe out 'a generation of startups'
Mar 13, 2023 06:52The collapse of the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), said to be the largest bank failure since the 2008 Washington Mutual financial crisis, has left startups re-questioning their future as the crash sends jolts across the global financial markets.
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UK junior doctors launch three-day strike amid worsening cost-of-living crisis
Mar 13, 2023 06:24Tens of thousands of members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are walking out of their jobs in England in the longest-ever period of industrial action by junior doctors as the cost-of-living crisis weighs on Britons’ lives.
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Protesters in London back health staff as doctors prepare to strike
Mar 13, 2023 06:21Thousands of protesters marched through London to the British prime minister’s residence to demand a better healthcare system in the UK.
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'More than 200 Russians' killed in Ukraine's Bakhmut as battle rages on
Mar 13, 2023 12:13Russia and Ukraine both have claimed that hundreds of each other’s troops have been killed over the past 24 hours in the front line, admitting significant losses in Bakhmut. The exact number of casualties is difficult to verify.