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Bill Gates urges world leaders to increase global health spending

The philanthropist and billionaire also says artificial intelligence could help boost Africa's ability to feed itself.

The philanthropist and billionaire, Bill Gates, has told Newsday that world leaders must increase global health spending to prevent tens of millions more children in Africa suffering from malnutrition. You'll hear the interview with him, in which he also says artificial intelligence could help boost Africa's ability to feed itself.

We'll head to Mexico, where violence is worsening in the state of Sinaloa. At least thirty people have been killed in a wave of violence over the past week.

The aircraft maker Boeing says it may have to lay off staff temporarily as it deals with the impact of a strike involving some thirty thousand workers.

We'll talk to the mother who offered her daughter, who was glued to her smartphone, a one-hundred dollar bribe to read a book. But did it work?

Donald Trump has spoken publicly for the first time since being targeted in an apparent assassination attempt at his golf course in Florida.

We'll also hear why a growing number of elderly people in Malaysia are at risk of poverty.

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