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Two years after Hamas attack, Israelis mourn at Nova massacre site
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German factory orders drop in new blow to Merz
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Man City star Stones considered retiring after injury woes
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Kane could extend Bayern stay as interest in Premier League cools
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Renewables overtake coal but growth slows: reports
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Extreme rains hit India's premier Darjeeling tea estates
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Raducanu retires from opening match in Wuhan heat with dizziness
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UK's Starmer condemns pro-Palestinian protests on Oct 7 anniversary
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Tokyo stocks hit new record as markets extend global rally
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Japan's Takaichi eyes expanding coalition, reports say
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Canadian PM to visit White House to talk tariffs
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Indonesia school collapse toll hits 67 as search ends
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Dodgers hold off Phillies, Brewers on the brink
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Lawrence sparks Jaguars over Chiefs in NFL thriller
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EU channels Trump with tariffs to shield steel sector
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Labuschagne out as Renshaw returns to Australia squad for India ODIs
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Open AI's Fidji Simo says AI investment frenzy 'new normal,' not bubble
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Tokyo stocks hit new record as Asian markets extend global rally
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Computer advances and 'invisibility cloak' vie for physics Nobel
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Nobel literature buzz tips Swiss postmodernist, Australians for prize
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Dodgers hold off Phillies to win MLB playoff thriller
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China exiles in Thailand lose hope, fearing Beijing's long reach
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Israel marks October 7 anniversary as talks held to end Gaza war
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Indians lead drop in US university visas
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Colombia's armed groups 'expanding,' warns watchdog
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Shhhh! California bans noisy TV commercials
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HotelRunner and Visa Partner Globally to Power Embedded and Autonomous Finance in Travel
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Trump 'happy' to work with Democrats on health care, if shutdown ends
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Trump says may invoke Insurrection Act to deploy more troops in US
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UNESCO board backs Egyptian for chief after US row
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Unreachable Nobel winner hiking 'off the grid'
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Retirement or marketing gimmick? Cryptic LeBron video sets Internet buzzing
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CAF 'absolutely confident' AFCON will go ahead in protest-hit Morocco
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Paris stocks slide amid French political upheaval, Tokyo soars
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EU should scrap ban on new combustion-engine sales: Merz
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US government shutdown enters second week, no end in sight
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World MotoGP champion Marquez to miss two races with fracture
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Matthieu Blazy reaches for the stars in Chanel debut
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Macron gives outgoing French PM final chance to salvage government
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Illinois sues to block National Guard deployment in Chicago
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Exiled Willis succeeds Dupont as Top 14 player of the season
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Hamas and Israel open talks in Egypt under Trump's Gaza peace plan
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Mbappe undergoing treatment for 'small niggle' at France camp: Deschamps
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Common inhalers carry heavy climate cost, study finds
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Madagascar president taps general for PM in bid to defuse protests
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UEFA 'reluctantly' approves European league games in US, Australia
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Hundreds protest in Madagascar as president to announce new premier
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Greta Thunberg lands in Greece among Gaza flotilla activists deported from Israel
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Frozen in time for 20 years, two superyachts lie at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, bearing witness to the false glories of former dictator Saddam Hussein.

King Charles III calls for Commonwealth unity
Charles III on Monday attended his first Commonwealth Day service as king, issuing a call for unity to tackle the globe's most pressing issues.

Bizarre, beloved 'Everything Everywhere' wins best picture Oscar
In the end, its victory was utterly predictable and yet still totally implausible.

'Everything Everywhere' all-conquering at Oscars
Surreal sci-fi film "Everything Everywhere All at Once" dominated the Oscars on Sunday, winning seven golden statuettes including best picture, Hollywood's most coveted prize.

Brendan Fraser caps 'Brenaissance' with best actor Oscar win
Brendan Fraser's best actor Oscar win on Sunday for his powerful performance as a morbidly obese man in "The Whale" caps a remarkable career comeback for the charismatic leading man.

'Everything Everywhere' claims early Oscars as gala kicks off with slap jokes
Subversive sci-fi flick "Everything Everywhere All at Once" collected key early prizes Sunday at the Oscars, where it is favorite to win the highly coveted best picture prize, as the star-studded Hollywood gala began with a flurry of jokes about the infamous slap.

After 40+ years in showbiz, Jamie Lee Curtis strikes Oscars gold
She is Hollywood royalty, the daughter of two legendary actors. She became a scream queen for the ages in the "Halloween" films and did a sexy striptease for Arnold Schwarzenegger in "True Lies." Now, Jamie Lee Curtis is an Oscar winner.

Ke Huy Quan: from 'Temple of Doom' to Oscar winner
It is a comeback story so improbable, it could only happen in Hollywood.

Oscars red carpet: smooth elegance, lots of trains, candy glam
The Oscars is the pinnacle of Hollywood's awards season, and thus the A-listers in attendance typically save their best looks for last. On Sunday, the stars did not disappoint.

'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio' wins best animated film Oscar
"Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio," a strikingly dark take on the beloved children's book about an exuberant living puppet and his elderly wood-carver father, won best animated feature at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

Match of the Day shortened and silenced in wake of Lineker row
The BBC's flagship football highlights show Match of the Day was cut short on Saturday as pundits and commentators pulled out after presenter Gary Lineker was taken off air by the corporation.

UK's King Charles grants brother Edward Duke of Edinburgh title
Britain's King Charles III on Friday awarded his younger brother Edward the title Duke of Edinburgh, in line with the wishes of the late Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip.

Macron, Sunak seek to overcome years of Franco-British feuding
French leader Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will Friday seek to reset cross-Channel relations at a Paris meeting signalling an end to years of feuding between the two capitals.

Shirley Kurata: designer for the 'Everything Everywhere' multiverse
As a teenager, Shirley Kurata worked in the Aratani Theatre in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. On Sunday, the venue will host an Oscars watch party for her film "Everything Everywhere All at Once" -- and she could be one of the winners.

Prince Harry's daughter christened 'Princess Lilibet Diana'
Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have begun calling their young daughter Lilibet a princess, apparently ending uncertainty over the royal titles of their two children.

Hundreds mourn Ukrainian saboteurs killed in Russia
Hundreds of mourners packed a Kyiv church on Tuesday for the funeral of volunteers killed on a sabotage mission in Russia, following a spate of attacks along Moscow's frontier.

Sweden's Princess Madeleine to move back home
Sweden's Princess Madeleine, who has been living with her British-American husband in the United States, will move back to Stockholm in August, the Swedish Royal Court said Tuesday.

Colombia hopes to remove dead drug lord's hippos
The governor of a region of Colombia where a herd of some 150 hippos -- descendants of animals once owned by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar -- are breeding out of control said Monday he hopes for the greenlight to send half of them to sanctuaries in India and Mexico.

Oscar short docs race showcases booming art form
When marine biologist Maxim Chakilev flings open the door of his ramshackle Siberian hut in the Oscar-nominated short documentary "Haulout" to find 100,000 honking and heaving walruses, the effect is breathtakingly cinematic.

From homemakers to home builders: Venezuelan women breaking ground
Ursulina Guaramato and Claudia Tisoy, both homemakers in their forties, apply a special glue to a complex network of pipes in an apartment block they and other women are building with their own hands in Caracas.

Goodbyes and good buys: Paris Fashion Week highlights
The womenswear autumn-winter season finally comes to a halt on Tuesday, having rumbled through New York, London and Milan before ending in the French capital. Here are some of the highlights from the final set of shows in Paris.

Osimhen targets Scudetto with Napoli, then Premier League move
Serie A top goal-scorer Victor Osimhen said on Monday he dreams of playing in the English Premier League.

Kilicdaroglu: Turkey's 'quiet force' taking on Erdogan
It took more than a decade and some bitter defeats for Kemal Kilicdaroglu to secure the Turkish opposition's trust and become its torchbearer in May's crucial parliamentary and presidential polls.

Eye-light highlight at Louis Vuitton
Futuristic luminous visors were the highlight of Louis Vuitton's womenswear show on Monday at Paris Fashion Week.

Beyond Pandora: Oscar films highlight man's destruction of our own planet
While James Cameron's ecological sci-fi fable "Avatar: The Way of Water" is vying for best picture at the Oscars, his fellow nominees in the documentary categories have been busy chronicling very real threats to our own planet.

'Everything Everywhere' dominates Spirit Awards week before Oscars
"Everything Everywhere All At Once" swept up yet more film prizes Saturday, as it was named best feature at the Spirit Awards -- one of the last major Hollywood ceremonies before next weekend's Oscars.

Horseback riding may have begun 5,000 years ago in Europe: study
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France, Germany to host Charles III on first state visits as king
King Charles III will make his state first state visits as UK monarch when he travels to France and Germany later this month, Buckingham Palace announced Friday.

Bialiatski: rights champion in authoritarian Belarus
Nobel Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, who was handed a 10-year prison term Friday, has battled against repression for a quarter of a century in authoritarian Belarus.

Rwanda cyclist's rocky road to success
Jean Bosco Nsengimana spent his teens working as a bike courier to take care of his struggling family, never imagining that he would one day win the Tour du Rwanda.

Danish queen out of hospital after back surgery
Denmark's Queen Margrethe II was discharged from hospital on Thursday after back surgery last week though a full recovery is expected to last months, the Danish Royal House announced.

Three heroines of the French Resistance
Without firing a gun or shedding any blood, Odile de Vasselot, Odette Niles and Michele Agniel were among the thousands of women who took part in the resistance against the Nazi German occupation of France during World War II.