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Japan says it suspects three Chinese surveillance balloons may have flown over the country in recent years.
It comes after the United States shot down a Chinese spy balloon earlier this month.
Chris Gilbert reports from Tokyo.
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It was a tough day on Wall Street after new data showed prices continued to rise last month.
January's Consumer Price Index report was higher than expected, prompting concerns of further rate hikes.
Sally Patterson has more.
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The U.S. military has retrieved electronics from the suspected Chinese spy balloon that was shot down on February 4th.
Since then they've taken down three other objects from U.S. and Canadian airspace, but little has been revealed about what they are or where they came from.
Caroline Malone reports from Washington.
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At least three students have died and five more are in a critical condition after a shooting at Michigan State University.
Police identified 43-year-old Anthony McRae as the suspect - he died from a self-inflicted gunshot.
US correspondent Kate Fisher reports
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Ford has announced plans to cut thousands of jobs across Europe.
The US car giant has blamed uncertain economic times, and a need to transform the company as it ramps up the production of electric vehicles.
John Bevir (Beaver) reports.
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Nigeria's electoral body - The Independent National Electoral Commission says elections will not be held in 240 polling units in 28 states and the Capital Abuja.
INEC says this is because no voter chose the polling units during the last Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) between June 2021 and July 2022.
The country is preparing to hold presidential elections later this month.
Correspondent Ajeck Mangut reports from Abuja.
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India is set to receive its second tranche of African cheetahs as the country moves ahead with its efforts to reintroduce the extinct animal back into the wild.
The Cheetahs will be flown in from South Africa and kept in enclosures before being released in the wild.
Cheetahs were declared extinct in India in 1952, primarily due to habitat loss and excessive poaching by Indian royals and colonial officers.
Ishan Garg tells us more from New Delhi.
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Japan and South-Korea say they fully support the US response to dealing with a suspected Chinese spy balloon.
At a trilateral meeting in Washington, Japanese and South Korean foreign ministry officials said they trusted the US assertion that the balloon was a "surveillance apparatus".
Nora Weinek reports from Tokyo.Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has approved the use of two additional border crossings to be used by the United Nations to deliver aid to areas affected by an earthquake which has left at least 37,000 people dead in Syria and Turkiye.
Jody Jacobs has more from the UN.
Stocks rose on Monday as markets recovered from their worst weekly declines in nearly two months.
All US indexes ended last week down after the Federal Reserve said that there is still a long way to go in the fight against inflation.
Sally Patterson reports.
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