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New Zealand defence spending set to increase by around $472 million

New Zealand will invest a further NZ$419 million ($264.18 million) to boost the salaries of Defence Force personnel and NZ$328 million to upgrade Defence Force assets and infrastructure, Defence Minister Andrew Little said on Monday.

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China and U.S. see need to stabilise relations

China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Monday it is imperative to stabilise Sino-U.S. relations after a series of "erroneous words and deeds" threw ties back into a deep freeze.

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Ukraine military says all 35 drones Russia launched overnight destroyed

Ukraine's top military command said on Monday that its forces destroyed all 35 Iranian-made Shahed drones that Russia had launched overnight at different targets around the country.

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Cold snap brings early snow, high wind to Australia's southeast

Winter has come early to Australia with a cold front bringing high winds, snow and hail to the southeast in a cold snap the weather bureau says could last until the middle of the week.

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Chinese premier urges IOC to oppose politicisation of sports

China wants to work with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to oppose the politicisation of sports, Premier Li Qiang said, amid demands on the sporting body to exclude athletes from Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.

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Seven die as fires rage in swaths of Russia's Urals

Raging fires have consumed swaths of Russia's Urals mountains, killing at least seven people, razing hundreds of homes, forcing evacuations and spurring investigations, officials said on Monday.

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Chile right-wing parties win majority in vote to draft new constitution

Chilean right-wing parties won a majority of votes on Sunday to elect advisers to draft a new constitution, marking a sharp shift from a progressive majority that drafted a failed first constitutional rewrite.

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Top Biden aide discusses Yemen peace efforts with Saudi crown prince

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a visit to the kingdom on Sunday and reviewed what the White House called "significant progress" in Yemen peace efforts, the White House said.

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Gunmen kill journalist in restive northwest Cameroon, says union

Gunmen shot dead a journalist late on Sunday in Bamenda, a city in Cameroon's troubled northwest region, the local journalists' union said, in at least the third killing of a media worker in the country this year.

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Trump will not testify in New York rape, defamation trial

Former U.S. President Donald Trump will not testify at a civil trial to challenge claims made by writer E. Jean Carroll that he raped her in the 1990s and later defamed her, after letting a Sunday deadline pass without asking the court to appear.

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Russia attacks Ukrainian cities with drones and missiles

Russia launched its biggest swarm of drones for months against Ukraine on Monday, the eve of Russia's May 9 holiday celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, striking the capital Kyiv and the Black Sea city of Odesa and shelling other cities.

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Australian govt pledges $10 billion in budget to ease cost of living

Australia's centre-left Labor government said on Monday it would include A$14.6 billion ($9.84 billion) over four years in the federal budget for cost of living relief for families and businesses, which it promised would not stoke inflation.

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More than 1,600 evacuated from areas near Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - Russia-installed official

Some 1,679 people, including 660 children, have been evacuated from areas near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, a Moscow-installed official in the Russia-controlled parts of the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine said late on Sunday.

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EUs plans to slap sanctions on Chinese firms aiding Russia's war machine - FT

The European Union has proposed sanctions on Chinese companies accused of selling equipment that could be used in weapons to support Russia's war machine, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

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Ukrainian media report explosion in Odesa, widespread air raid alerts

An explosion was heard following a missile attack that hit the Black Sea city of Odesa overnight, a local Ukrainian official said, while air raid alerts rang out in other regions of the country including the capital, Kyiv.

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Ukraine general: Russia hopes to capture Bakhmut by Tuesday, steps up fighting

Russia has intensified shelling of Bakhmut hoping to take it by Tuesday, Ukraine's top general in charge of the defence of the besieged city said late on Sunday, vowing to do everything to prevent it.

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Driver arrested after 7, including migrants, killed in Brownsville, Texas

At least seven pedestrians were killed and several others injured on Sunday when an SUV mowed down people near a homeless shelter that attends to migrants in Brownsville, Texas, police said.

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Russian nationalist writer describes surviving attack Moscow blamed on U.S., Ukraine

The prominent Russian nationalist writer, Zakhar Prilepin, on Sunday described breaking both legs in a car bomb that killed his driver and which Moscow blamed on the United States and Ukraine.

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Jordan ends emergency laws that stifled public freedoms

Jordan on Sunday ended laws enacted at the start of COVID-19 that gave the authorities powers to enforce a state of emergency that rights groups said were used as an excuse to suppress civic and political liberties.

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Erdogan calls opposition 'pro-LGBT' at election rally

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan accused the opposition of being "pro-LGBT" at a rally in Istanbul on Sunday, as he stepped up his rhetoric against his opponents a week before what is expected to be a tight election.

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At least 22 dead after tourist boat capsizes in India's Kerala

At least 22 people including children died when an overcrowded double-decker tourist boat capsized in an estuary in southern India, authorities said.

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Chinese scour Thailand for homes, looking to offset risks after pandemic

Shanghai resident Daniel Bian drank in the sweeping views over the Thai capital as he lay on a deckchair beside a swimming pool on the 19th floor of a luxury condominium.

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Serbia's education minister resigns over school shooting

Serbia's Education Minister Branko Ruzic resigned on Sunday over last week's shooting at an elementary school in which eight children and a security guard were killed, amid public anger over that and another mass shooting just a day later.

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Israel demolishes Palestinian West Bank school

Israeli authorities demolished a Palestinian school in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, drawing harsh condemnation from the European Union.

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Migrants stranded on Chile-Peru border repatriated to Venezuela

Chile's government said that 115 Venezuelan migrants who had been stranded on the border with Peru were repatriated to Venezuela on a humanitarian flight Sunday.

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