How El Nino is choking the Panama Canal
The Panama Canal will restrict the number of vessels transiting the crucial waterway from Friday for the second time ever due to drought caused by the El Nino climate phenomenon.
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Bordeaux facing sixth-tier football after French federation upholds relegation
Six-time French champions Bordeaux were condemned to sixth tier football on Thursday when the special executive committee of the French Football Federation (FFF) confirmed their relegation, AFP learned from a source close to the body.
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Hamilton drives his Ferrari dream at Monza
Lewis Hamilton glided into Formula One's temple of speed on Thursday hoping that a twist of fate and an engine upgrade will bring him good luck in the Italian Grand Prix.
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Stoic Verstappen looking beyond 'painful' Monza weekend
Max Verstappen expects no miracles at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix where, he said on Thursday, he believes his Red Bull car could be exposed to a painful weekend on the Monza track.
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Senegal has an IMF loan, now what?
Heavily indebted Senegal received a $2.2 billion lifeline from the IMF earlier this week. What does the three-year loan mean for the west African nation?
Read moreIran hits US targets as Washington says probing wedding strike
Iran said it hit US military bases in Kuwait and the UAE on Thursday, vowing to avenge a wedding attack it blamed on Washington as US Vice President JD Vance said the strike was being investigated.
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OpenAI begins rollout of new powerful AI model GPT-6 Astra
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Thursday it would begin rolling out its newest and most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model to select customers, saying it had built in safeguards to mitigate security risks.
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Auger-Aliassime upset by Khachanov at US Open
Russian veteran Karen Khachanov defeated third-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime Thursday in the second round of the US Open in four sets.
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FIFA blasts UEFA 'smear campaign,' fights World Cup plan disclosures
FIFA has accused UEFA of a "smear campaign" and a "fishing expedition" after European football's governing body asked US judges to force it to hand over documents related to its failed World Cup investor plan.
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Hugging Face, the French start-up that became AI's warehouse
Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence platform US chip giant Nvidia is buying for $12.9 billion, is a French success story -- founded by three Frenchmen and incubated in Paris -- even if its headquarters and many of its investors are American.
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