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The trip, which is being billed by DeSantis' office as a trade mission, follows a longstanding tradition for Republicans seeking the White House but comes at a particularly volatile moment.

Reuters Mar 29, 2023

"Like many strong supporters of Israel I'm very concerned.... They cannot continue down this road, and I've sort of made that clear," Biden told reporters during a visit to North Carolina.

AFP news Mar 29, 2023

Some 859 health facilities in Ukraine have been attacked since the Russian invasion, according to the World Health Organization.

AFP news Mar 29, 2023

Seven-time Ballon d'Or winner Messi opened the scoring against the Caribbean island minnows on 20 minutes in Santiago del Estero.

AFP news Mar 29, 2023

This month Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, unveiled Riyadh Air, the new airline which is intended to transform the capital into "a gateway to the world", according to state media.

AFP news Mar 29, 2023

The little girl, now believed to be about 21 months old and given the name Maryam by the orphanage, saw her uncle Yaar Mohammad Niazi and her brother and two sisters again for the first time.

AFP news Mar 28, 2023

The Taliban government last year barred girls from attending secondary school and later university, making Afghanistan the only country in the world to issue such restrictions on education.

AFP news Mar 28, 2023

Japanese banks' holdings of Additional Tier-1 (AT1) bonds issued by Credit Suisse are small so the direct hit from them being written down to zero will be limited, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday.

Reuters Mar 28, 2023

The battle for Bakhmut, which Russia calls by its Soviet-era name of Artyomovsk, has for months been the grinding and bloody focal point of Moscow's war on Ukraine, which it calls a "special military operation".

Reuters Mar 28, 2023

The Glasgow-born Yousaf took his oath in English and Urdu when he was first elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2011, before progressing to become the first Muslim to serve in the devolved government's cabinet.

AFP news Mar 28, 2023

A one-way attack drone struck a U.S. base in Syria on March 23, killing an American contractor, injuring another and wounding five U.S. troops.

Reuters Mar 28, 2023

The 68-year-old, whose 25-year jail term was commuted by President Paul Kagame, was to undergo medical checks and rest before flying to the United States on Wednesday, the diplomats told AFP.

AFP news Mar 28, 2023

Beijing brokered an agreement between Tehran and Riyadh on March 10 to restore diplomatic ties following a seven-year freeze.

AFP news Mar 28, 2023

The tanks -- long an item on Ukraine's military equipment wish list -- were promised to Kyiv earlier this year and have arrived in time for an expected spring offensive by Ukraine's forces.

AFP news Mar 28, 2023

The plans by his nationalist religious coalition to hand control over judicial appointments to the executive while giving parliament the power to overturn Supreme Court rulings has ignited one of the biggest internal crises in Israeli history.

Reuters Mar 28, 2023

Ukraine's president said Russian troops were holding the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant "hostage" and its safety could not be guaranteed until they left it, while his forces shut the frontline town of Avdiivka as they planned their next move.

Reuters Mar 28, 2023

Some Arabs said they hoped the crisis would lead to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political demise.

Reuters Mar 28, 2023

Kim's latest threat, a doubling-down on an earlier promise to "exponentially" ramp up nuke production, came as a US Navy carrier strike group arrived in South Korea on Tuesday.

AFP news Mar 28, 2023

European stocks had rallied and two of the three main Wall Street indexes advanced the previous day on news that North Carolina-based First Citizens Bank had agreed to take over most of SVB.

AFP news Mar 28, 2023

Chief of Police John Drake named the suspect as Audrey Hale, 28, who the officer later said identified as transgender.

AFP news Mar 28, 2023

"Though risks remain in the banking system amid the recent event, dip-buys in crude oil could be the prevailing trend in the near term," said Tina Teng, an analyst at CMC Markets.

Reuters Mar 28, 2023

Switzerland's government said this month it would not change its long-standing policy of banning any country that buys Swiss arms from sending them to the party of a conflict.

Reuters Mar 28, 2023

Ukraine is trying to give hydropower facilities "maximum protection" by hiding equipment underground as it repairs an estimated $1 billion in damage from Russian air strikes, a senior industry official said.

Reuters Mar 28, 2023

"Last year, we were giving out 360 iftar meals every day -- this year, I'm not sure we'll make it to 200," said the founder of a small charity in the working-class Cairo district of al-Marg.

AFP news Mar 28, 2023

A far-right group in Denmark had burned a copy of the Quran and a Turkish flag in front of the Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen on Friday.

Vianne Burog Mar 27, 2023

As President Volodymyr Zelensky pushes Western allies for modern weapons, pilots in eastern Ukraine admit their ancient Soviet-made helicopters are outplayed technologically by Russia.

AFP news Mar 27, 2023

Lebanon woke up in two time zones on Sunday amid an escalating dispute between political and religious authorities over a decision to delay the clock change by a month.

Reuters Mar 27, 2023

West Bank tensions have been running high as Palestinians mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid a surge of violence, including a gun attack on Saturday in which two Israeli soldiers were wounded and almost nightly arrest raids by the Israeli army.

Reuters Mar 27, 2023

Omar Mohammed, founder of the Mosul Eye project, rose to prominence during the IS reign by bravely sharing news via Twitter from inside the city under jihadist rule.

AFP news Mar 27, 2023