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US VP Vance to meet Zelenskyy amid worries over Trump-Putin war talks

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday discussed the war with Russian President Vladimir Putin and separately with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Taiwan pledges chip talks with US, more investment in bid to appease Trump

Trump has threatened specifically to put tariffs on imported semiconductors, which could threaten Taiwan's economy given the island's major role in producing chips

Fire breaks out at construction site in South Korea's Busan, 6 dead

About 100 workers managed to evacuate from the site and about 90 firefighters were trying to put out the blaze

Baidu to make latest Ernie AI model open-source as competition heats up

Keen to increase market share, Baidu also announced that it would make its AI chatbot Ernie Bot free starting April 1, about a year and a half after introducing premium versions

Federal judge orders US govt to restore funds for foreign aid programmes

The order blocks the Trump administration from canceling foreign aid contracts and awards that were in place before Trump took office on January 20

US consumer watchdog CFPB broadens layoffs beyond probationary staff

Some staff discovered they had lost access to the agency's IT systems before receiving their termination letters, two of the sources said

Thousands fired in US govt as Donald Trump, Musk purge federal employees

Trump and Tesla CEO Musk's overhaul of the federal government appeared to be widening as Musk aides arrived for the first time at the federal tax-collecting agency

NYC mayor Adams to allow immigration officials to operate at Rikers jail

Adams said he will issue an executive order reestablishing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement presence

Donald Trump's foreign aid freeze stops anti-fentanyl work in Mexico

In Mexico, INL also donates drug-detecting canines that helped Mexican authorities seize millions of fentanyl pills in 2023 alone, according to a March 2024 INL report

Plane carrying Marco Rubio forced to return to US ahead of Europe trip

En route from Washington to Munich, the plane on which Secretary Rubio is flying experienced a mechanical issue

Trump says US, Russian officials to meet in Munich today, Ukraine invited

Not sure exactly who's going to be there from any country, but high-level people from Russia, from Ukraine and from the United States, Trump told reporters

Asian stocks rise with Wall Street as dollar eases on US tariff plans

Trump's plans to impose reciprocal tariffs on every country taxing US imports have stoked concerns of a global trade war

Trump admin lays off probationary govt workers, warns more cuts to come

The decision on probationary workers, who generally have less than a year on the job, came from the Office of Personnel Management

Russian crypto expert Alexander Vinnik returns to Moscow in prisoner swap

Vinnik, who operated cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, was arrested in 2017 in Greece at the request of the US on cryptocurrency fraud charges and was later extradited to the United States

US takes offer, deports 119 migrants from diverse nationalities to Panama

Yesterday a flight from the United States Air Force arrived with 119 people from diverse nationalities of the world, President Jos Ral Mulino said

Senators introduce bill to designate Denali as North America's tallest peak

Trump on his first day in office last month signed an executive order to rename the iconic 20,310-foot (6,190-metre) mountain in Denali National Park and Preserve for McKinley

Elon Musk faces legal challenge over role in Donald Trump's government

A pair of lawsuits filed in federal courts in Washington and Maryland accuse the Tesla Inc. and SpaceX chief executive of exercising authority to reshape and dismantle federal agencies

Apple, Google restore TikTok app after getting assurances from Trump

The move follows weeks of uncertainty about TikTok's future, and there's still no guarantee that it will survive in the US in the long run

Donald Trump's birthright citizenship order piling up losses in court

Trump's order already had been blocked in parallel cases in Seattle, Maryland and New Hampshire, including by one judge who called the directive 'blatantly unconstitutional'

Trump highlights need to end Ukraine war, wants to get Russia back into G7

In a major statement, the US President also called for the readmission of Russia from the G7 grouping, callieng thir expulsion a 'mistake'