Bastianini sets unofficial MotoGP Sepang lap record on day two testing
Italian Enea Bastianini shattered the MotoGP unofficial lap record at the Sepang Circuit during a dramatic second day pre-season test on Wednesday just hours after day one fastest rider Jorge Martin achieved it.
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US Olympics team 'excited' by open-air Paris Games parade
US athletes will take part in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on the river Seine, with the American Olympics team "excited" and also confident in French security, a top US official said.
Read moreAzerbaijan president poised for easy win in election
Azerbaijanis voted in a snap presidential election on Wednesday, with a fifth term for Ilham Aliyev seen as a foregone conclusion after his country's landmark victory over Armenian separatists.
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Followers of jailed Khan vow covert vote during Pakistan polls
Supporters of Imran Khan say they will take evasive measures to cast votes backing the jailed politician in Pakistan's Thursday election, after a major crackdown against his party.
Read moreEuropean stock markets drop, Shanghai extends gains
European stock markets dropped on Wednesday as traders reacted to more mixed earnings and weak German data, while Shanghai extended a rally on measures aimed at supporting China's ailing economy.
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Deal signed to export DR Congo copper via US-backed corridor
Two firms, Singapore-based Trafigura and Canada's Ivanhoe Mines, signed a major deal on Wednesday to export copper along a US-backed rail route from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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US says vote delaying Senegal presidential poll not 'legitimate'
The vote to delay Senegal's presidential election until December "cannot be considered legitimate", the US state department said, after the move plunged the normally stable West African nation into its worst crisis in decades.
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2015 Paris attacker transferred from Belgium to France: lawyer
Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to life in jail over Paris jihadist attacks in 2015, was transferred Wednesday from Belgium back to France, his lawyer said.
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Rui Pinto of Football Leaks gives hard disks to European investigators
Rui Pinto, the Portuguese whistleblower behind the "Football Leaks" revelations, has turned his hard disks over to French and European investigators even as he fears his life is "totally stuck".
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Twin blasts kill 24 on eve of Pakistan election
At least 24 people were killed Wednesday by two separate bomb blasts outside the offices of election candidates in southwestern Pakistan, on the eve of a national vote marred by violence and allegations of poll rigging.
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