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Trump to address media after felony conviction
Newly convicted felon Donald Trump was set to address journalists Friday in his first public act since a stunning guilty verdict in a New York criminal court threw the 2024 presidential campaign into uncharted territory.he announced in an online campaign ad immediately after the guilty verdicts landed.
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India's FY24 fiscal deficit lower than projected
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's fiscal deficit for fiscal 2023/24 was lower than its full-year target of 5.8% of the gross domestic product due to a small cut in expenditure, government data showed on Friday. The country's fiscal deficit stood at 5.63% of gross domestic product for the financial year that ended on March 31. The budget gap, or fiscal deficit, was 16.54 trillion rupees ($198.34 billion), or 95.3% of the estimate, even though the government continued its record infrastructure spendi
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Israel pummels Gaza as troops push into central Rafah
Israeli forces on Friday struck targets across the Gaza Strip, with witnesses reporting air raids around the southern city of Rafah, the latest focus of the nearly eight-month war.Witnesses said Friday Israeli strikes hit the Rafah area as well as central Gaza's Nuseirat, and an AFP correspondent reported intense bombardment in the north.
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India court urges heatwave emergency declaration as deaths rise
An Indian court has urged the government to declare a national emergency over the country's ongoing heatwave, saying that hundreds of people had died during weeks of extreme weather."Due to extreme weather conditions in the form of (the) heatwave, hundreds of people have lost their lives this month," the court said Thursday, before the deaths in Bihar were announced.
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India's economy grows faster-than-expected in Jan-March on strong manufacturing
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's economy grew at a faster-than-expected pace of 7.8% year-on-year in the January-March quarter, helped by strong growth in the manufacturing sector, and economists expect the momentum to remain strong this year. The gross domestic product growth in the first three months of 2024, the fourth quarter of 2023/24 fiscal year, was lower than a revised 8.6% expansion in the previous quarter, government data released on Friday showed. However, it was higher than the 6.7% g
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Strong trial results for Pfizer lung cancer drug
A Pfizer medicine has been shown to greatly reduce cancer progression and improve survival outcomes for people in the advanced stages of a form of lung cancer, results published Friday showed.Lorlatinib, which is already approved and available under the brand name Lobrena in the United States, was tested in a clinical trial of hundreds of people with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
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Yemen rebels threaten 'escalation' as US, UK strikes said to kill 16
Yemen's Iran-backed Huthis on Friday threatened to escalate attacks on Red Sea shipping after overnight strikes by the United States and Britain that the rebels said killed 16 people.- Drone claim - Since January, the United States and Britain have launched repeated strikes on Huthi targets in Yemen in response to the rebels' harassment of shipping.
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