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Meidroth blasts White Sox through, Phillies survive in MLB playoffs

Hundreds held, dozens wounded as French school protests escalate

'Catastrophic': Swiss glaciers lose fifth of mass in five years

US government's new AI chatbot pulls back from debunking Trump

California roller coaster shut after brain damage claims

US tennis star Navarro reveals health battle, ends season

Panama ministers push for reopening of huge open-pit copper mine

Panic, anger, tears: Evan Gershkovich's uneasy journey after Russian jail

Bohm's blast keeps Phillies alive in MLB playoffs

UK PM says 'strong indications' Iran involved in airbase incident

US judge accepts Paramount's Warner Bros. buyout settlement

Google restricts access to new AI model over safety concerns

Global stocks mixed as markets weigh higher oil prices, bond yields

Watchdog clears former US Fed chief Powell in renovation probe

Europe’s arms money maze

Houthis and al-Qaeda

Brazil tests Milei’s gamble

Germany under Weidel

IS militant behind Kabul airport attack arrested: US

An Islamic State operative who allegedly planned the 2021 suicide bombing outside Kabul airport during the chaotic US military withdrawal has been arrested, President Donald Trump has said.

Monkey business: Sri Lanka to count crop-raiding nuisance wildlife

Sri Lanka will launch a nationwide census of nuisance wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, as part of an effort to tackle the increasing threat to agriculture, the government said Wednesday.

Newcastle striker Isak lost car and cash in home raid, court hears

Newcastle striker Alexander Isak's home was raided by a "professional group of travelling burglars" who stole his car and jewellery worth £68,000 ($87,000), a court heard on Wednesday.

France warns against weight loss supplements using Garcinia plant

France warned Wednesday against dietary supplements promising weight loss that use the tropical plant Garcinia cambogia after a range of rare but serious side effects including one death were reported.

Germany set for massive rearmament as divide with US widens

Germany is set to rearm in a way not seen since World War II after the likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said his government would vastly increase defence spending.

Pope's illness spreads doubt at Vatican

St Peter's Square is bustling, but behind the Vatican's walls, activities have slowed as the Catholic Church grapples with the uncertainty caused by the absence of Pope Francis.

Greenland rejects Trump pledge to make the island American

Greenland's prime minister on Wednesday hit back at President Donald Trump's pledge to take the Arctic territory "one way or the other", insisting that islanders did not see their future with the United States or even Denmark.

Mind the wage gap: China's subway farmers highlight inequality

Elderly Chinese farmers carrying enormous baskets of vegetables squeezed into a subway station as its doors opened before dawn on Wednesday, on the outskirts of megacity Chongqing.

Stocks rally on tariff relief hopes, German spending plan

Stock markets rallied Wednesday, buoyed by Germany's plan to massively boost spending on defence, signals that US President Donald Trump could ease huge tariffs and China's economic targets.