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Trump says Iran ceasefire 'over' after fighting flares
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Trump says Iran ceasefire 'is over'
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Thai beer dynasty mother drops 'ungrateful child' case against son
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Rescuers search for missing in China storms after 100,000 flee
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France v Morocco rematch as World Cup quarter-finals get under way
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OpenAI to launch new model after US freeze
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Modi visits Australia for minerals talks and rockstar welcome
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UK museums at 'sharp end' of climate change challenge
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Sensors, early starts: how Spain keeps working when heat hits
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In Mauritania, Imraguen people's desert-ocean paradise under threat
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Kenya Rastafarians hope for freedom to smoke
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Iraq's holy cities host funeral processions for Khamenei
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Pacific nation of Tuvalu condemns Chinese missile launch into Pacific
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Rescuers search for missing in China storms after 100,000 evacuated
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How a viral post sparked India's Gen-Z protest
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Ex-Australia cricketer MacGill loses appeal against cocaine conviction
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Cambodia wants to bring tigers back, but should it?
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Oil prices extend rally as US strikes on Iran revive geopolitical fears
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Chinese repairwomen smash stereotypes with power tools
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Iraq's holy cities to host funeral processions for Khamenei
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Ecuador's Death Canal: watery grave for victims of gang violence
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In Venezuela's quake ruins, a baby is born
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'Unique event': Solar eclipse fever fills empty Spain
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What to know about the total solar eclipse due in August
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Venezuela says Caracas airport to reopen to commercial flights 'soon as possible'
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Trump, NATO allies to begin key talks at Turkey summit
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World Cup: Eight teams remain in the hunt for glory
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Former Real Madrid coach Arbeloa named Fulham manager
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'A nice surprise': Marathon man Djokovic revels in Wimbledon epic
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Messi inspires Argentina great escape over Egypt, Swiss advance
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Switzerland beat Colombia on penalties to reach World Cup quarter-finals
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US strikes Iran after Hormuz attacks, Tehran threatens response
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Djokovic survives Wimbledon's longest quarter-final to book Sinner blockbuster
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Djokovic wins five-hour epic to earn Sinner showdown at Wimbledon
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'Flunked': US soccer seeks answers as World Cup dream shattered
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US strikes Iran after Hormuz tanker attacks: military
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Mbappe revels in captain's role for France at World Cup
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Messi 'didn't want to go home' as Argentina comeback stuns Egypt
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Iyer's India 'atrocious' in record 125-run T20 defeat by England
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Netflix strikes deals in short-form video push
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Rain hands West Indies series win over Sri Lanka
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The height factor: how a small building survived Venezuela's quakes
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World Cup exit puts another nail in America's summer of fun
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Egypt 'cheated' in controversial World Cup exit to Messi's Argentina, says Hassan
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US revokes Iran oil waiver after Hormuz tanker attacks
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Global AI industry falls short on safety, think tank warns
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England quicks star as India suffer record 125-run T20 defeat
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'History made': Egyptian pride despite World Cup heartbreak
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Cardinal tipped to be pope accused of molesting several women
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How rescuers carried out 180-hour 'miracle' amid Venezuela's ruins
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Testimony from a key prosecutor in the statutory rape case against Roman Polanski must be unsealed, more than 40 years after the fugitive director was convicted, a California court has ruled.
Bank of America fined $225 mn for 'botching' US Covid-19 aid payments
Two US agencies fined Bank of America a total of $225 million on charges it wrongfully froze unemployment and other public benefit programs at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Eight children trapped after Colombia landslide buries school: officials
At least eight children are believed trapped in northwest Colombia after a landslide buried a school on Thursday, local authorities said.
US doctor under investigation after abortion for child rape victim
Authorities in Indiana said they are investigating a gynecologist who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old girl who had been raped -- a flashpoint case in the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn the federal right to end a pregnancy.
Nigeria's Twitter ban unlawful: W.African court
A seven-month ban on Twitter use in Nigeria was unlawful, according to a court ruling by West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS seen by AFP on Thursday.
Germans demand change a year on from deadly floods
Germany on Thursday paid tribute to more than 180 people killed in severe floods a year ago, as those left behind charged that help with the reconstruction effort has been too slow to arrive.
Swedish court gives Iranian ex-official life in jail over 1988 purge
A Swedish court on Thursday handed a life sentence to former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury for crimes committed during a 1988 purge of dissidents, in the first trial related to the mass executions.
UK police open investigation into Farah trafficking revelations
London's Metropolitan Police have opened an investigation into British Olympic great Mo Farah's stunning revelations he was illegally trafficked into Britain as a child.
'A heart of love': Kinshasa locals reward honest cops
At dawn in a working-class district of Kinshasa, a driver slows to a halt and hands a fistful of small bills to a traffic cop.
Shadow of 'Bloody January' unrest stalks Kazakhstan
Red plastic embellishes the canvas of painter Saule Suleimenova, depicting the starting point of the lethal unrest that shook Kazakhstan at the beginning of the year.
Belchite, the open wound of Spain's civil war
Like many Spanish villages, Belchite was devastated by Spain's 1936-39 Civil War.
Flood anniversary prompts sadness and soul-searching in Germany
Germany will on Thursday remember more than 180 people killed in severe floods a year ago, as concerns mount over climate change and the country looks to overhaul its planning for future disasters.
Nearly 90 dead in Haiti gang violence, as country slides into chaos
A week of gang violence in Haiti's capital has left at least 89 people dead, a rights group said Wednesday, as soaring prices, fuel shortages and gang warfare accelerate a brutal downward spiral in the security situation in Port-au-Prince.
US judge rejects Amber Heard's demand for new Depp trial
A Virginia judge on Wednesday rejected actress Amber Heard's demand for a new trial in the defamation case she lost to her former husband Johnny Depp.
Judge rejects Amber Heard's demand for new trial
A Virginia judge on Wednesday rejected actress Amber Heard's demand for a new trial in the defamation case she lost to her former husband Johnny Depp.
Remains of 8,000 Nazi war victims found in Poland
A mass grave containing human ashes equivalent to 8,000 people has been discovered near a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, the country's Institute of National Remembrance said on Wednesday.
Mexico declares drought emergency
Mexico has declared a drought emergency to enable authorities to take special measures to guarantee water supplies in hard-hit areas.
Liverpool fans' group calls for French government apology
A leading Liverpool fans' group has called for a "full apology from the French Government" after a French senate enquiry found organisational failings were to blame for the chaos that surrounded the Champions League final.
Greece's Real daily and radio firebombed: company
Firebombs exploded at Greece's Real News and Real FM radio sparking a blaze that tore through the outlets' Athens offices, the media group said in a statement Wednesday.
Western Europe wilts under heatwave
France and Britain suffered soaring temperatures Wednesday, edging closer to the blistering heat already engulfing Spain and Portugal as wildfires destroyed vast stretches of Western European forestland.
Former bosses of Fukushima operator ordered to pay $97 billion damages
A Tokyo court Wednesday ordered former executives from the operator of the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 13.32 trillion yen ($97 billion) for failing to prevent the disaster, plaintiffs said.
Former bosses of Fukushima operator ordered to pay $97 bn damages
A Tokyo court Wednesday ordered former executives from the operator of the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 13.32 trillion yen ($97 billion) for failing to prevent the disaster, plaintiffs said.
Mo Farah relieved at UK govt support after shock revelation
Olympic great Mo Farah expressed relief Wednesday after receiving fulsome backing from the UK government despite his admission that he was illegally trafficked into Britain as a child.
Fukushima operator ex-bosses ordered to pay $97 billion
A Tokyo court Wednesday ordered former executives from the operator of the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 13.32 trillion yen ($97 billion) for failing to prevent the disaster, plaintiffs said.
Fukushima operator ex-bosses ordered to pay $95 bn: media
A Tokyo court Wednesday ordered former executives from the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant involved in the 2011 disaster to pay around 13 trillion yen ($94.8 billion) in damages, local media said.
Remote repast: Dining at the world's northernmost Michelin restaurant
You can only get there by boat or helicopter, but Michelin-starred chef Poul Andrias Ziska hopes his restaurant in remote Greenland, far above the Arctic Circle, is worth the journey.
US prosecutor says Polanski case transcripts can be unsealed
Los Angeles prosecutors said Tuesday they will no longer oppose the release of sealed transcripts in the statutory rape case against Roman Polanski -- documents which the fugitive director has previously argued could reveal judicial misconduct.
Mattel unveils Jane Goodall Barbie, complete with chimp
American toy manufacturer Mattel has unveiled new specialty Barbie dolls modeled after the famous English primatologist Jane Goodall and her beloved research specimen, a chimpanzee named David Greybeard.
Video shows hesitant police response to Uvalde school shooting
A video of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, published Tuesday showed police waiting for more than an hour before breaching a classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers.
Twitter lawsuit accuses Elon Musk of contract breach
Twitter on Tuesday sued Elon Musk for breaching the $44 billion contract he signed to buy the tech firm, calling his exit strategy "a model of hypocrisy," court documents showed.
Trump 'wild' rally tweet was a 'call to arms': committee
Right-wing extremists and supporters of Donald Trump staged the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol after a tweet from the former president seen as a "call to arms," lawmakers said Tuesday.
Olympian Mo Farah wins UK plaudits after revealing true past
Olympic great Mo Farah won praise from across Britain's political spectrum Tuesday after the shock revelation that he was illegally trafficked as a child to the country and forced to work in domestic servitude.