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  • BusinessAFP News

    Vietnam Q1 growth hits five-year high on strong exports

    Vietnam's economy grew by 5.66 percent on-year in the first quarter, according to official data published Friday, boosted by strong exports.A major global manufacturing hub, Vietnam also earned $93 billion from goods exports in the first quarter, up 17 percent year-on-year.

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  • PoliticsHuffPost

    Liz Cheney Drops Urgent Message On Supreme Court Over Trump's 'Delaying Tactic'

    Cheney scolded the justice system for being "incapable" of holding the former president to "account" in one of his cases.

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  • EntertainmentAFP News

    Beyonce's 'Cowboy Carter' drips history -- and joy

    Beyonce's "Cowboy Carter" is a full-throated ode to her southern roots, a rollicking revue of an album that also deals a vital history lesson on the Black lineage of country music.At the same time, news of her album magnified a wider conversation on the long history of Black artists in country music, and the persistent racist backlash they've continued to experience in those spaces.

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  • SportAFP News

    Ohtani wins in Dodgers home debut, Rangers open MLB title defense with win

    Japanese star Shohei Ohtani made a triumphant Los Angeles Dodgers home debut on Thursday, getting help from fellow Most Valuable Player teammates in a 7-1 rout of St. Louis.- Silence in Baltimore - Corbin Burnes struck out 11 batters, a record for any pitcher in his Baltimore debut, to spark the Orioles to an 11-3 home rout of the Los Angeles Angels.

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  • NewsMalay Mail

    After helping rescue human trafficking victim, Sarawak activist urges authorities to form task force to fight forced labour

    KUCHING, March 29 — After helping to rescue an Indonesian girl, a victim of a human trafficking syndicate this week, Sar...

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  • NewsAFP

    False posts claim '8 million Buddhists killed' in Indonesia anti-communist purges

    Posts repeatedly shared in Myanmar falsely claimed Muslims massacred "eight million Buddhists" in Indonesia in 1965, completely wiping out Buddhism in the archipelago. Multiple scholars told AFP the posts, which shared unrelated photos, misrepresented mass killings in Indonesia in the mid-1960s which they said targeted communists and not Buddhists. The latest government data showed there were around two million Buddhists in Muslim-majority Indonesia as of 2022 .

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    Jordan Klepper Brutally Shades Clarence Thomas Without Even Using His Name

    "The Daily Show" correspondent has some blunt advice for anyone trying to buy access to power.

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