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(Reuters) – First Citizens BancShares Inc FCNCA.O said today it would acquire the deposits and loans of failed Silicon Valley Bank, closing one chapter in the crisis of confidence that has ripped through global financial markets.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday dismissed Defence Minister Yoav Gallant a day after he broke ranks and urged the government to halt a highly-contested plan to overhaul the judicial system.

SILVER CITY Mississippi (Reuters) – Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi late on Friday, killing at least 25 people there and one person in Alabama as it leveled hundreds of buildings and spawned at least one devastating tornado.

KYIV (Reuters) – NATO on Sunday criticised Vladimir Putin for what it called his “dangerous and irresponsible” nuclear rhetoric, a day after the Russian president said he planned to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

PARIS (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne plans to meet with opposition leaders and trade unions in the hope of ending weeks of protests against a new pension law, her office said on Sunday.

TUNIS (Reuters) – At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their two boats sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, the Tunisian coast guard said on Sunday.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today dismissed Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, triggering mass protests, a day after Gallant broke ranks with the government and urged a halt to a highly contested plan to overhaul the judicial system.

KYIV, (Reuters) – NATO today criticised Vladimir Putin for what it called his “dangerous and irresponsible” nuclear rhetoric, a day after the Russian president said he would station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

BEIJING/TEGUCIGALPA/TAIPEI, March 26 (Reuters) – China established diplomatic ties with Honduras on Sunday after the Central American country ended its decades-long relationship with Taiwan, while Taiwan’s foreign minister accused Honduras of demanding exorbitant sums before being lured away by Beijing.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant yesterday called on the government to halt legislation on changes to the judiciary, saying the bitter dispute over the measures poses a danger to national security.

(Reuters) – Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, President Vladimir Putin said yesterday, marking the first time since the mid-1990s that Moscow will have based such arms outside the country.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – At least 2,000 mummified ram heads dating from the Ptolemaic period and a palatial Old Kingdom structure have been uncovered at the temple of Ramses II in the ancient city of Abydos in southern Egypt, antiquities officials said yesterday.

(Reuters) – At least 23 people were killed and dozens injured as a tornado and strong thunderstorms swept across Mississippi late on Friday, the state’s emergency management agency said after the twister left a trail of damage for more than 100 miles (160 km).

WACO, Texas,  (Reuters) – Die-hard fans of Donald Trump flocked to the ex-president’s election rally in Waco, Texas, yesterday, brimming with defiance as their favored candidate faces legal peril from prosecutors and mixed polling ahead of next year’s Republican primary elections.

 (Reuters) – At least 23 people were killed and dozens injured as a tornado and strong thunderstorms swept across Mississippi late yesterday, the state’s emergency management agency said after the twister left a trail of damage for more than 100 miles (160 km).

NEAR KREMINNA, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Russian forces attacked northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region yesterday, even as Kyiv said Moscow’s assault was flagging near the city of Bakhmut.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s attorney-general yesterday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of breaking the law by ignoring a conflict of interest over his ongoing trial for corruption and getting directly involved in his government’s judicial overhaul plan.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Intel Corp INTC.O co-founder Gordon Moore, a pioneer in the semiconductor industry whose “Moore’s Law” predicted a steady rise in computing power for decades, died Friday at the age of 94, the company announced.

WASHINGTON/KIGALI, (Reuters) – Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed as a hero in the film “Hotel Rwanda,” was released from a Rwandan prison on Friday, U.S.

SANTO DOMINGO,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will attend the Ibero-American summit hosted by the Dominican Republic, a summit official said yesterday.