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Online same-sex romance series embrace AI 'freedom'
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Morocco 'unstoppable' says coach after Netherlands thriller
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New Oxford academic centre symbolises UK's big-donor era
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Russia's small businesses pay the price of spiralling Ukraine war
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Trump says Iran meeting set in Qatar, despite uncertainty
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Paraguay shock Germany as Brazil, Morocco advance at World Cup
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Morocco down Netherlands to reach World Cup last 16
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NASA robot mission aiming to rescue space telescope
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Asian stocks unable to track Wall St higher, yen holds at 40-year low
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Mouse-that-roared Paraguay savors World Cup win over Germany
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'We came from nothing': DR Congo dreams of England World Cup upset
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Taiwan's ageing seaweed harvesters hope younger women wade in
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Peruvian political heir Fujimori wins presidency
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Key Venezuela port opens with US aid, as burials begin
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What to expect as EU small parcel levy kicks in
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Ambitious Japan search for answers after World Cup exit
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Nagelsmann says won't 'run away' after Germany World Cup exit
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How NATO will try to keep Trump happy at Ankara summit
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Paraguay coach salutes 'extraordinary' World Cup win over Germany
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Ultra-wealthy Chinese exile in New York sentenced to 30 years for fraud
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Japan fans stunned as Brazil end their World Cup dream
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Years on, families bury 68 Indigenous victims of Guatemala civil war
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'Powerhouse' Haaland leads by example at World Cup: Norway coach Solbakken
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'Deliberate' Monaco explosion wounds Ukrainian oligarch
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Sadness and joy as breakaway Catholic group nears schism
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Paraguay shock Germany, Brazil advance at World Cup
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Germany dumped out by Paraguay in seismic World Cup shock
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'I recognized her ring': identifying Venezuela's dead in a makeshift morgue
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More than 1,000 drones detected since start of World Cup: FBI
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Tuchel defensive headache as England ready for DR Congo clash
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Extreme heat warning issued for World Cup host Kansas City
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US reopens Venezuela port as quake deaths top 1,700
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Bloodied but unbowed: Sinner, Djokovic survive Wimbledon scares
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Coach says Japan getting closer to World Cup glory despite defeat
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Djokovic battles past Wu in 'challenging' Wimbledon first round
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NBA Grizzlies deal Morant to Portland: report
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World Bank drops climate finance targets in renewed action plan
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Sweden ready for 'game of our lives' in France World Cup clash
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Ancelotti says never doubted 'suffering' Brazil would score
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MLS Chicago Fire announce signing of Poland's Lewandowski
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Venezuela's quake-hit La Guaira port 'operational': US military
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Tech rebound lifts Dow to record, yen hits 40-year low against dollar
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Martinelli late show as Brazil down Japan to reach World Cup last 16
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US Supreme Court rules on dragnet searches of cellphone location data
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Madueke says he can be England's World Cup game-changer
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South Korea fans target coach Hong with boos as World Cup squad returns
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Switzerland returns famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
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Vaughan calls for England change after Stokes bows out with defeat
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Last-gasp Brazil down Japan to reach World Cup 16
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Europe's deadly heatwave scorches east, Slovakia hits record
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Kenya finds seven more bodies as cult massacre exhumations resume
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Climate change made historic Brazil floods twice as likely: scientists
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Hunter Biden, the long-troubled son of Joe Biden, went on trial Monday on gun charges in a historic first prosecution of a sitting president's child -- and potential threat to his father's reelection.
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Thousands evacuated from German flood zone as Scholz visits
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Maldives to ban Israelis to protest Gaza war
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Rescue worker dies amid flooding in southern Germany
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France arrests three after coffins left at Eiffel Tower
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Hunting for edible plants with London's urban foragers
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Feeling flush: Japan's high-tech toilets go global
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Hong Kong newspaper runs blank front page ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
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El Salvador's Bukele sworn in, says 'bitter medicine' ahead
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El Salvador's 'all-powerful' Bukele starts second term
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Biden calls Trump 'reckless' over attacks on court
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Six wounded in knife attack at German anti-Islam rally
Six people were wounded in a knife attack at a far-right rally in Germany on Friday, including a prominent critic of Islam, drawing immediate condemnation from the nation's leaders.
Four dead in Colombian bridge collapse
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England's Carse given three-month cricket ban for betting offences
England paceman Brydon Carse has been banned from all cricket for three months for betting violations, it was announced Friday
Islam critic among six wounded in Germany knife attack
A prominent Islam critic was among six people wounded in a knife attack at a rally in Germany on Friday, drawing immediate condemnation from the nation's leaders.
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India court urges national emergency declaration for heatwaves
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