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The airshow is proceeding, with gates opening 8am Saturday.

The companies are being combined in an all-stock deal that values xAI at US$80b and X at $33b, factoring in the social network's $12b debt.

Aid experts expressed alarm at the new cuts to an agency whose humanitarian aid has saved lives across the globe for more than 60 years.

The top court in Spain's Catalonia region has overturned Brazilian soccer player Dani Alves' rape conviction, saying the case against him had inconsistencies and contradictions.

The US Vice President says Denmark has not done a good job in keeping Greenland and its people safe from incursions by China and Russia.

Several Russian military correspondents said on Friday that Ukrainian troops were inside Belgorod and fighting battles with Russian forces there.

'Soldier F' is accused of murdering two unarmed protesters on the streets of Londonderry on 30 January, 1972.

The UN Human Rights Office has accused Israel of violating international law by forcibly displacing Palestinians under "mandatory evacuation orders".

MFAT has accounted for all its staff in the area, and Kiwis in Myanmar and Thailand to let their families know they're OK.

Turkish authorities deported a BBC News correspondent after detaining him for 17 hours and branding him a "threat to public order". Audio

US President Donald Trump ordered that "improper, divisive or anti-American ideology" be removed.

Analysis - Come May only one can be Australia's prime minister. Audio

Moscow said it would only agree to a US-brokered deal on ending fighting in the Black Sea if some sanctions were eased.

"Three years after bursting on the scene in a blaze of orange, at the end of April we will be hanging up the hi vis," the group said.

Thirty-nine foreign tourists were rescued from the submarine which was on a trip to the Red Sea's spectacular corals and marine life.

Donald Trump's administration has already imposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, and plans an additional duty on car imports.