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Xinhua Photo Daily | March 24, 2025
Xinhua Photo Daily | March 24, 2025

BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua. Participants attend the China Development Forum...

Alex Bowman wins the pole for Cup race at Miami
Alex Bowman wins the pole for Cup race at Miami

(Photo credit: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images) HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman provided a dramatic final few...

Taiwan's military exercises to focus on invasion preparation
Taiwan's military exercises to focus on invasion preparation

Taipei [Taiwan], March 24 (ANI): Taiwan's annual Han Kuang military exercises will focus on China's increasing use of 'gray zone' tactics...

McLaren runs 1-2 at Chinese GP; 2 Ferraris disqualified
McLaren runs 1-2 at Chinese GP; 2 Ferraris disqualified

(Photo credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images) Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix was a great day for McLaren, as Oscar Piastri beat teammate...

Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches
Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches

Confronting images of dead seadragons, fish and octopuses washed up on South Australian beaches - and disturbing reports of more than...

Australia's 'wild reciters' sought to change the world verse by verse. Who are today's provocateurs?
Australia's 'wild reciters' sought to change the world verse by verse. Who are today's provocateurs?

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the wild reciter, as a reviewer...

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40 times more people killed in Gaza than in the 7 October attack
Gazan death toll now forty times that of 7 October 2023

The death toll in Gaza on the weekend has passed 50,000, local health authorities have reported. What started the carnage was the Hamas-led...

USDA pledges $100 million for bird flu research, vaccine development
USDA to invest up to $100 million in projects to combat bird flu

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced plans to invest up to US$100 million in research to develop...

US HHS orders removal of gun violence public health advisory
US HHS drops advisory labeling gun violence a public health crisis

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has removed a 2024 advisory from its website that called gun...

Regulatory hurdles may leave US behind China in autonomous tech
Trump urged to speed up self-driving car regulations

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Industry leaders are pushing the Trump administration to clear regulatory obstacles slowing the rollout of self-driving...

Israeli forces accused of deadly cruelty against Gazan hospital patients
HRW says Israel committed war crimes while occupying Gazan hospitals

NEW YORK, New York – Israeli military forces caused deaths and unnecessary suffering of Palestinian patients while occupying hospitals...

EU to cut steel import quotas by 15% to counter US tariff fallout
EU proposes cutting steel imports by 15 percent as Trump tariffs bite

BRUSSELS, Belgium: The European Union is set to tighten steel import quotas starting in April, reducing inflows by 15 percent to prevent...