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PARIS (AFP) – Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, Europe’s climate monitor said yesterday, prolonging an unprecedented heat streak that has pushed the bounds of scientific explanation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ended funding to UN World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them struggling with conflict, according to the organisation and officials who spoke toThe Associated Press.

GENEVA (AFP)–A last round of talks aimed at securing a global consensus on tackling future pandemics got underway on Monday, without the United States but with pressure building to strike a deal.

Borneo Bulletin is the leading English daily in the country. It was first published by Brunei Press. Today, Borneo Bulletin has become the foremost source of information on local and foreign affairs, and the region’s business news.

BERLIN (AFP) – Roma defender Mats Hummels, who won the 2014 World Cup with Germany, is set to retire at the end of the season, he announced on social media on Friday.

DHAKA (AFP) – Bangladesh’s interim leader called an emergency meeting yesterday after textile leaders in the world’s second-largest garment manufacturing nation said United States (US) tariffs were a “massive blow” to the key industry. Textile and garment production accounts for about 80 per cent of exports in the South Asian country, and the industry has been rebuilding after it was hard hit in a revolution that toppled the government last year.

BANGKOK (AFP) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met yesterday with the leader of neighbouring Bangladesh, the first such meeting since a revolution in Dhaka ousted Sheikh Hasina and soured relations.

(AP) – Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology.

AP – From France to Iceland to the United States, April Fools’ Day will be celebrated on Tuesday with practical jokes and elaborate hoaxes, so make sure to triple check viral posts and don’t leave your back open to any stray sticky notes.

The Language and Literature Bureau (DBP), through its Literature and Magazine Division, collaborated with Kumpulan PUTRA Seni to organiseBaca Bahana, a virtual artistic platform showcasing creative works featured inBahanamagazine in conjunction with World Poetry Day.