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Lula, Bolsonaro in final push for votes ahead of knife-edge election

South Korea lift gloom with smash-and-grab Games football gold

Boisterous fashion week barnstorms 'sleepy' Nigerian capital

Ireland news conference before Israel game cut short amid tensions

UAE investigators say flydubai co-pilot was planning 'terrorist act'

Protests over housing flare in Spain after relief measures rejected

Rahul smacks century in India v Windies ODI

Zverev thrashes Shang to set up Djokovic quarter-final at China Open

Daryz seeks to join exclusive club of dual Arc winners

Turkey football ref chief jailed pending trial for graft

Russia warns diplomats to leave Kyiv over new strikes threat

North Korea says test of intermediate-range strategic missile included use of AI

Olympic champ Zheng rebukes rowdy home crowd at China Open

Rampant Sayers leads Hong Kong to third men's rugby gold in a row

Europe’s arms money maze

Houthis and al-Qaeda

Brazil tests Milei’s gamble

Germany under Weidel

'Not easy' to seize Russia assets: EU task force head

EU plans to seize Russian assets following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, prioritising state assets of around $350 billion, are unprecedented and tricky, the EU task force head told AFP on Friday.

Bank shares sink as contagion fears return

Bank shares tumbled on Friday, jolting stock markets as fears about the health of the financial sector resurfaced, with Deutsche Bank now in the eye of the storm.

Bayern Munich make Tuchel new coach after Nagelsmann firing

Bayern Munich announced Friday they had appointed former Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain coach Thomas Tuchel as their new boss after firing Julian Nagelsmann.

Thomas Tuchel: brilliant tactician with 'challenging' streak

Welcomed with fanfare by Chelsea but then sacked just over a year later, Thomas Tuchel, who is returning to Germany as Bayern Munich's new coach, is one of Europe's most sought-after bosses but is not without controversy.

WTA agree to meet with Ukraine players

The WTA will meet with Ukrainian players to discuss their concerns as locker-room tension with Russian and Belarus players continues to simmer in the sport.

Roglic climbs away from Evenepoel on Catalunya mountain

Primoz Roglic extended his lead in the Tour of Catalunya on Friday by dropping his key rival Remco Evenepoel on the upper slopes of the final climb of the day.

Van Aert outduels big guns at E3 cobbled classic

Belgian Wout Van Aert beat great rivals Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar to win the E3 cobbled classic in Belgium on Friday for his first victory of the season.

After battling back to health, Deutsche Bank faces new turbulence

Storied German lender Deutsche Bank had just been getting back on its feet after years of scandals -- but now faces new turbulence after its shares tanked Friday amid concerns of a widening banking sector crisis.

LatAm food crisis on the table at Ibero-American summit

Addressing a food crisis affecting a fifth of Latin America's population featured high on the agenda of an Ibero-American leaders summit that started in the Dominican Republic on Friday.

Finn bidding for Man Utd is sport-crazy tech entrepreneur

Finnish entrepreneur Thomas Zilliacus, who has entered the race to buy Manchester United, is a former Nokia executive who says he made his fortune in Asia's tech sector.

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