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Kim Jong Un mourns death of North Korea's former propaganda chief
North Korea's former propaganda chief, credited with masterminding the personality cult surrounding the ruling Kim dynasty, has died, state media said Wednesday, with leader Kim Jong Un photographed bowing at his funeral bier.He is credited with masterminding the cult of the Kim family dynasty, and Pyongyang's state media on Wednesday described him as "a veteran of our Party and the revolution, a prestigious theoretician and a prominent political activist".
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Mongolia's wildlife at risk from overgrazing
The icy peaks of Jargalant Mountain are supposed to belong to snow leopards, whose numbers have dwindled to fewer than 1,000 in Mongolia, but hard-pressed herders are increasingly pushing into the vulnerable animals' traditional habitat."Herders always complain about snow leopards and their lost animals," he told AFP. "But we tell them that they must leave Jargalant Mountain -- it is a national park reserved area for snow leopards and they are not allowed to pasture their livestock."
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India sees no 'nasty' upside to inflation, govt adviser says
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India does not see any nasty upside to inflation at the moment, and expects its economy to expand by more than 7% in the current fiscal year, V. Anantha Nageswaran, the government's chief economic adviser, said on Wednesday. Annual retail inflation rate eased in March to a five-month low of 4.85%, helped by a drop in fuel prices. "We don’t see, at the moment, scope for nasty upside surprises (on inflation)," Nageswaran said at an event in the capital, New Delhi.
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Toyota posts record yearly net income, revenue
Toyota said Wednesday that it enjoyed a record net profit of 4.94 trillion yen ($31.9 billion) in the year to March on revenues of 45.1 trillion yen, which was also an all-time high.Toyota's previous record annual net profit was 2.85 trillion yen in 2021-22.
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Milking venom from Australia's deadly marine animals
Imagine feeling like an elephant is sitting on your chest, you can't breathe, there's a sense of impending doom and the pain is so intense you want to die.If its spines pierce your skin, the pain will cause you to lose consciousness and the area around the wound will turn black and die.
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Ex-Trump White House Attorney Has Damning Prediction For Classified Docs Judge
Ty Cobb said Judge Aileen Cannon is "not capable of ruling intelligently or fairly."
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US halts bomb shipment to Israel over Rafah concerns
The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over fears it would invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, an official said Tuesday, marking the first time in the conflict that President Joe Biden has squeezed military aid to the key US ally.The pausing of weapons marks the first time that Biden has acted on the warning that he gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in April that US policy on Gaza would depend on how Israel treated civilians.
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