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UK's Glastonbury festival tickets sell out in 45 minutes

Up to 500 French schools to be totally or partly closed Monday: minister

Two dead in Catalonia due to torrential rains: Spanish officials

Sydney Roosters edge Knights in tense NRL grand final

Verstappen claims first win of year in chaotic Bahrain GP in Malaysia

Sabalenka out of China Open in third round, Medvedev into semis

Red Bull's Verstappen wins Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia

Ethiopia controls Tigray capital as regional rivals meet in Egypt

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Asian Games close in Japan after records, rancour and rain

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Pro-Europe Latvian PM wins poll dominated by Russia, social worries

Europe’s arms money maze

Houthis and al-Qaeda

Brazil tests Milei’s gamble

Germany under Weidel

Japan's Honda and Nissan scrap merger talks

Japanese auto giants Honda and Nissan confirmed on Thursday they had scrapped merger talks that would have created the world's third-largest automaker by unit sales.

Vaccine critic RFK Jr. confirmed as health secretary

The Republican-controlled US Senate approved Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary Thursday, disregarding alarm from the medical community over his history of promoting vaccine misinformation and denying scientific facts.

German sports carmaker Porsche to cut 1,900 jobs

Sports car manufacturer Porsche said Thursday it will axe 1,900 jobs after sales slumped in China and amid a tricky shift to electric vehicles, the latest blow for Germany's stalling auto sector.

Bezos's Blue Origin rocket firm to cut 10% of workforce

Jeff Bezos's rocket company Blue Origin is laying off around 10 percent of its workforce following a period of rapid expansion, the firm's chief executive told staff on Thursday.

Kiwi Robinson happy to punch above her weight with world silver

Alice Robinson expressed her pride at ensuring New Zealand again punched above its weight after she bagged a world silver medal in the women's giant slalom in Saalbach on Thursday.

France says EU working toward 'rapid' easing of Syria sanctions

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Thursday that the European Union was working toward swiftly easing Syria sanctions as Paris hosted a conference on the transition in the war-torn country after president Bashar al-Assad's fall.

Norris vows to 'get elbows out' in fight with Verstappen for F1 crown

Lando Norris has warned Max Verstappen he will get his "elbows out" as the McLaren driver fights to dethrone the Formula One world champion.

'Patience paid off': Putin out of shadow after Trump call

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been largely shunned by the West since his troops attacked Ukraine in February 2022, triggering the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II.

Convicted murderers to be executed in Florida, Texas

Two men convicted of murder, including one who has spent more than 25 years on Death Row, are to be executed by lethal injection in the southern US states of Florida and Texas on Thursday.

Polish court orders retrial in hot-button abortion case

A Polish court on Thursday ordered a retrial in the case of an activist found guilty of aiding a woman to terminate her pregnancy, in a symbolic step for Poland's abortion rights movement.

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