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COLOMBO - India and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to develop an energy hub in Sri Lanka, the Indian foreign ministry said on Saturday, as New Delhi's competition with China grows in the Indian Ocean island nation.

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Hungarian parliament passes ban on LGBTQ+ public gatherings

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Kremlin says hard line from Germany's Merz on Ukraine risks escalating war

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Malaysian PM says to meet Myanmar junta head in Bangkok

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Hungarian parliament to vote on modification to prohibit Pride occasions

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Guy charged over hazards to eliminate Donald Trump

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China hikes its tariffs on US imports to 125pc in retaliation to Donald Trumps climbing rates

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Death toll in Dominican club disaster increases to 218

Hong Kong police take away US-based activist's parents for questioning

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Rebels in Indonesia's Papua say they killed 17 people this week

Turkey detains popular journalists in raids

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Hezbollah says it is ready to disarm ifIsrael withdraws from south Lebanon

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Prince Harrys safety and life are at stake, appeal case over his protection is told

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At least 23 killed after Israel strikes four-storey residential block in Gaza

Irishman is jailed in United States and implicated over $1m repair work rip-off targeting elderly house owners

Donald Trump blames his 90-day tariffs pause on people getting afraid

Germanys chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz clinches coalition deal with centre-left SPD

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Male detained over death threat to judge who founded guilty France's Marine Le Pen

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Pilgrims in Italy flock to tomb of first millennial saint

US House votes to limit judges' injunction power

King Charles addresses Italian parliament, welcomes pope

Animal puppets travel from Africa to Europe in environment action

Turkey opposition to combat Erdogan 'up until the end': leader tells AFP

China hawk Peter Navarro has Trumps ear

Preservationists race to save 17th century Swedish warship

Trump administration to accelerate building and construction of California-Mexico border wall

Mexico cautions against potential U.S. drone strikes on cartels

Extreme trade retaliation from Canada, China reveal challenge ahead for Trump group

Supreme Court OKs Trump's mass firing of brand-new federal workers, blocking S.F. judge's rehire order

Californians see undocumented immigrants as essential to economy, poll finds

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Sixty Years in Canberra: NASAs Deep Space Network

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World leaders lining up to kiss my ass, Donald Trump boasts

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Statements outside court after a boy and girl found guilty of killing 80-year-old pet dog walker

Europe's first Universal amusement park set to open in UK after federal government backs deal

Virginia Giuffre's alleged limiting order breach lawsuit adjourned until June

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Italy's state train prepares high-speed service to London and Paris in difficulty to Eurostar

Researchers recognize most bitter compound known to humanity

UN declines Israeli plan to control all aid streaming into Gaza

Prince Harry back in London court over 'inferior treatment' in his royal security plans

South Korea fires alerting shots after North's soldiers cross border

Uproar at court hearing over Benjamin Netanyahus bid to sack Israeli intelligence boss

Woman (13) and kid (15) condemned of killing 80-year-old dog-walker near Leicester, UK

Tape increase in renewables suggests green energy now produces 40pc of global electricity

Iran sceptical of US intentions ahead of talks on nuclear deal

At least 28 killed in Dominican Republic as nightclub roof collapses

Elon Musk calls Trump trade consultant 'dumber than a sack of bricks' in most current tariffs spat

Chinese nationals caught fighting for the Russians in Ukraine, Zelensky says

Protesters rally for fourth week against Hungarys law banning Pride events

Having a cat or pet dog is as good for your wellbeing as having a hubby or partner, research study finds

Tariffs war: Only concern is how bad does it have to get

Beijing calls US Vice President 'ignorant' and 'disrespectful' over 'Chinese peasants' remark

Author of explosive Meta memoir to star at US Senate hearing

Musk brand names Trump aide 'dumber than a sack of bricks' in tariff spat

Roof collapse in Dominican Republic kills at least 67

UK to host Europe's first Universal theme park

Judge orders White House to raise constraints on AP access

Markets increase regardless of China-US tariff clash

Ukraine captures two Chinese fighting for Russia

Iran says US goodwill required for nuclear deal

Paris retrospective celebrates frail David Hockney

World's 'remarkable' heat streak continues

South Korean governmental survey to be held June 3

Major brain drain: Researchers eye exit from Trumps America

Supreme Court supports Trump's war power to deport Venezuelan gang members

Amid economic chaos, some Republicans want control of tariffs back in Congress

Trump digs in on tariff plan and threatens stiffer China levies as trade crisis deepens

Supreme Court pauses wrongful deportation case at behest of Trump lawyers

Their hopes for asylum in U.S. dashed, migrants in Tijuana ponder next moves

Trump administration orders national parks to remain open amid staffing shortages

He fought racism and fascism: 108-year-old WWII paratrooper who paved course for Black soldiers dies

Trump is cutting the nation's environmental programs. Here are the health risks to Americans

Gateways First Habitation Module Arrives Stateside

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How North Korea's 'Lazarus Group' made hermit kingdom a worldwide hacking superpower

10 Britons implicated of war crimes against Palestinians as dossier handed to Met authorities

Efforts to discover quake survivors end as death toll passes 3,600

Lady (84) from Netflix documentary 'Con Mum' is charged with scams

Iran in 'fantastic risk' if it does not concur nuclear offer, warns Donald Trump

RFK Jr praises anti-vaxxers after attending funeral service of lady (8) who died of measles

Scientists alerted of increased risk of seismic catastrophes just days before Myanmar quake

Revealed: how the time of year youre conceived in affects your chances of being slim

Israeli soldiers clear land in Gaza as new report informs of 'kill zone'

Bourbon, wine and dairy not included in EU draft of counter-tariffs on US after Trump threats

'I do not want to live under emergency situation rule': Why firebrand Republican Rand Paul is leading charge against Trump's tariffs

Birmingham chocolatiers declare to have actually cracked world's biggest Creme Egg-- and it weighs the like a newborn horse

Artist says her company is 'in threat' after Trump called her portrait of him 'distorted' and 'genuinely the worst'

'We will follow Martin Luther King as an example,' Le Pen states, as thousands end up in assistance at Paris rally

Sex toys and massage pillows utilized in suspected Russian parcel bombs that went on fire in storage facilities

Labour MPs declined entry to Israel as part of parliamentary delegation to occupied West Bank return home to UK

Trumps national security adviser saved journalists number under wrong name, say reports

Ongoing attacks by Russia show Vladimir Putin does not want to end the war, says Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky

Were trying to understand why this happened Israel changes its account over killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza

Pope Francis greets crowds at Vatican in surprise public appearance

Nose job boom in Iran where treatment can increase social status

Audit finds Hong Kong company flouted terms of Panama Canal ports contract

Teotihuacan altar discovered at Guatemala Maya site

Worldwide temperatures at near historic highs in March - EU screen

200 firefighters battle significant Paris inferno

US Supreme Court lifts order barring deportations under wartime law

Netanyahu satisfies Trump for tariff and Gaza talks

Trump promises substantial new China tariffs as markets nosedive

Russia, accused of stalling, wants responses before truce

Boeing settles to prevent civil trial over Ethiopian Airlines crash

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific bans pilots, cabin crew from taking power count on flights

Belgian prince seeks social security on top of allowance

Buchenwald camp survivor states liberation, 80 years on

China holds military drills at newly broadened Cambodian naval base

2nd US kid passes away of measles, practically 650 ill: authorities

Haiti jazz festival is rare respite for violence-racked capital

US storms, 'disastrous' flooding death toll climbs to 17

Gaza rescuers state Israeli strikes eliminate 44

World scrambles to temper Trump tariffs as market fears mount

Thousands march across US in anti-Trump protests as tariffs fallout continues

Recovering Pope surprises crowd at Vatican square

France's far-right, leftwingers rally supporters after Le Pen conviction

Numerous protesters turn out in European cities against Trump

Jaguar Land Rover to pause US shipments in wake of tariffs

Prosecutors seek seven years in prison for disgraced ex-congressman George Santos

More than 1,200 protests against Donald Trump and Elon Musk planned across the US Saturday

US begins collecting Trump tariffs, smashing global trade standards after stock market sell-off

Rain makes complex healing in quake-hit Myanmar as death toll rises

'Hands Off!' Anti-Trump Americans flood Washington

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