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Myanmar Quake: A Nation Unprepared For Disaster

Ravaged by four years of civil war, Myanmar is ill-prepared to cope with the destruction brought by Friday's massive earthquake.

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In Turkey, New Technologies Reinforce Repression

With anti-government protests sweeping across Turkey, the authorities have used all technological means to try to curb them, from restricting internet access to using facial recognition to identify protesters, who have been forced to adapt.

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Ukraine Accuses Russia Of 'War Crime' With Military Hospital Strike

Ukraine accused Russia of committing a "war crime" during its weekend attack on the city of Kharkiv, as the US-backed ceasefire efforts continue to prove elusive.

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Hudson's Bay Company: From Fur Trade To Department Store Downfall

From the 17th century fur trade that birthed a nation to the last major department store in Canada, The Hudson's Bay Company has left an indelible mark, but its storied 354 years are crashing to an end.

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'Something Is Rotten': Apple's AI Strategy Faces Doubts

Has Apple, the biggest company in the world, bungled its generative artificial intelligence strategy?

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Orban's Food Price Cap Takes Aim At Foreign Retailers In Hungary

Seeking to tame public anger over soaring inflation, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has imposed price controls on basic food items sold in supermarkets, renewing his fight against multinational companies.

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US, China Raise The Stakes In Panama Canal Ports Row

China's fury at the sale of Panama Canal ports to a US-led consortium reflects how container hubs have become prized currency as Beijing and Washington vie for global influence, analysts say.

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Aftershocks Rattle Mandalay As Rescuers Search For Survivors In Myanmar Quake

Residents scrambled desperately through collapsed buildings Sunday searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated city of Mandalay, two days after a massive earthquake killed more than 1,600 people in Myanmar and at least 11 in neighbouring Thailand.

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Australian Black Market Tobacco Sparks Firebombings, Budget Hole

Sky-high tobacco prices in Australia have created a lucrative black market, analysts say, sparking a violent "tobacco war" and syphoning away billions in potential tax revenue.

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Australian PM Lures Voters With Supermarket Crackdown

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised Sunday to outlaw supermarket price gouging with the threat of heavy fines, ahead of a tightly fought May 3 general election.

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They Work, Pay Taxes And Call US Home -- But Risk Deportation

As he has done for years, Erik Payan had just opened up his tire repair shop in the small Texas town of Cleveland on February 24 and was getting to work when armed and masked US immigration agents swooped in to arrest him and take him away.

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Protesters Denounce Musk At Tesla Dealerships In US, Europe

Demonstrators descended on Tesla dealerships across the United States and Europe on Saturday to protest company chief Elon Musk, who has amassed extraordinary power as a top advisor to US President Donald Trump.

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Sudan Army Chief Says War Will Not End Until RSF Lays Down Its Arms

Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan vowed Saturday that his troops will fight on until the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) lays down its weapons.

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Are Women Allowed Their Own Dreams, Wonders Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Twelve years after her last novel, best-selling Nigerian author and feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is making a highly anticipated return with "Dream Count".

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US Woman Released By Taliban In Afghanistan

An American woman has been freed by the Taliban in Afghanistan after she, two Britons and their Afghan translator were detained earlier this year, Washington's former envoy to Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad, said Saturday.

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WHO Must Cut Budget By Fifth After US Pullout: Email

The World Health Organization has proposed slashing a fifth of its budget following the US decision to withdraw, and must now reduce its reach and workforce, its chief said in an internal email seen by AFP on Saturday.

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Fears And Hopes At Collapsed Mandalay School

Rescuers clambered into the wreckage of the Wisdom Villa Private High School on the outskirts of Mandalay on Saturday until a jammed door blocked their passage.

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Trump Claims He's Breaking 'All Modern Presidential Staffing Records' as DOGE Continues to Gut Government Personnel

President Trump boasted his administration is "breaking all modern Presidential Staffing Records," even as DOGE slashes federal jobs at historic levels.

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'We Need Aid': Rescuers In Quake-hit Myanmar City Plead For Help

Exhausted, overwhelmed rescuers in Myanmar's second-biggest city pleaded for help Saturday as they struggled to free hundreds of people trapped in buildings destroyed by a devastating earthquake.

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Denmark Criticises 'Tone' Of Vance's Greenland Comments

Denmark on Saturday said it did not like the "tone" of US Vice President JD Vance comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland during a visit to the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.

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Deadly Earthquake Forces Thai Patients Into Sports Hall

Beneath basketball hoops and beside football goals, hospital beds line a sports hall -- patients evacuated from a hospital in the Thai capital for fear of damage by a devastating earthquake.

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'Everyone Was Screaming': Quake Shocks Thailand Tourists

French tourist Augustin Gus was shopping for a t-shirt in one of Bangkok's many malls when a massive quake began shaking the building in the Thai capital.

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Rallies Grow In South Korea As Court Weighs President's Fate

Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans rallied for and against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday as protests grow while the country's Constitutional Court weighs whether to dismiss him.

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Scientists Explain Why Myanmar Quake Was So Deadly

Experts say that the devastating earthquake in Myanmar on Friday was likely the strongest to hit the country in decades, with disaster modelling suggesting thousands could be dead.

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Turkey Opposition Calls Mass Rally In Istanbul

Protesters were to join a mass rally in Istanbul Saturday at the call of Turkey's main opposition CHP over the jailing of the city's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a top figure in the party whose arrest has sparked 10 days of the country's biggest street demonstrations in a decade.

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