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Residents of the Ohio town where a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed continue to demand action.
People in East Palestine say they are still suffering from illnesses caused by the toxic spill, one month on from the incident.
Rail company Norfolk Southern says it is "very sorry" for what happened.
Sally Patterson has more.
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In a case that gripped the U.S., former attorney Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to life in prison by a judge in South Carolina for double murder.
It took a jury just three hours to come to find him guilty of killing his wife and son.
U.S. correspondent Caroline Malone reports.
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It's a heavy week for US employment data - with figures expected from the Department of Labour and a report on private-sector employment and pay.
A strong labour market could see the Federal Reserve continue to hike interest rates.
Sally Patterson reports.
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Opposition candidates in Nigeria's Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of Labour Party , have both rejected Bola Tinubu's win at the polls.
Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu the winner after scoring 8.7 million votes.
Main opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar scored 6.9 million votes in second place while Peter Obi scored 6.1 million of the votes cast to come a close third.
Correspondent Ajeck Mangut reports from Nigeria's capital Abuja.
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Australia's Foreign Minister has held talks with her Chinese counterpart, on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in India.
Shaun Bindley reports.
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More than a hundred people have been evacuated in central Hong Kong as a huge fire ripped through a skyscraper construction site in the middle of the night.
Firefighters battled the blaze for nine hours before bringing the flames under control.
Richard Kimber sent this report from the scene.
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Labor Department data showed on Thursday that the number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits continued to fall last week.
This evidence of a strong jobs market could fuel further wage increases and keep interest rates high.
Jody Jacobs reports from New York.
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SpaceX and NASA have launched a four-man crew on a mission to the International Space Station.
The Crew Dragon capsule set off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12.34 am local time… three days after the launch was scheduled to take place.
Sally Patterson has more.
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The Foreign Ministers of the U.S. and Russia spoke briefly on the sidelines of the Group of 20 nation meetings in India on Thursday. It's the first time the two have met face-to-face since before the war in Ukraine.
Caroline Malone reports from Washington.
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The United States has approved the potential sale of $619 million of weapons to Taiwan, including hundreds of missiles for F-16 fighter jets.
China claims the island as its own territory and the arms sale is likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and Beijing.
It comes as Taiwan reported a second day of large-scale Chinese air force incursions.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington
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Inflation in the Eurozone has dropped for the third month in a row. Analysts had warned that inflation could climb again in February but statistics released on Thursday show Europe's economy is still faring better than expected.
Alex Cadier reports from Brussels