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'Wake-up call': Megan Thee Stallion falls ill during Broadway show
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Canada's defense enters new phase, Arctic in focus: top military officer
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France charges man over failed attack on US bank
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Bayern reach women's Champions League semis after late show sinks United
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SpaceX files to go public, paving way for record stock offering
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Delhi make winning start to IPL as Rizvi downs LSG
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Final ticket sales phase begins for FIFA World Cup
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Supreme Court skeptical of Trump bid to end birthright citizenship
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Tractors roll through Vienna as farmers protest
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PGA Tour, Masters chairman support Tiger recovery pause
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World Cup winner Goetze extends contract at Frankfurt
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SpaceX files securities documents to go public: source
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Armenia cannot be in both EU and Russian customs bloc, Putin says
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Supreme Court hears landmark citizenship case -- with Trump in audience
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Chelsea announce record pre-tax loss of £262.4 million
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Stocks rally, oil drops on Mideast war optimism
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Starmer says UK to host multi-nation meeting on Hormuz shipping
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Greece train crash trial resumes after courtroom chaos
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Trump says Iran asks for ceasefire as Tehran hit by fresh strikes
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Swiss government eyes dropping purchase of US Patriot air defence system
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Germany halts rescue efforts for stranded whale
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IndiGo lands IATA chief Willie Walsh as new CEO
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Late charging Ganna denies Van Aert at Across Flanders
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'Embarrassed' Spain probes anti-Muslim chants at Egypt friendly
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Family of man killed in 2020 arrest to sue French state
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The 'million dollar' Senna helmet bought at Japan GP
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Could NATO be collateral damage from Trump's Iran war?
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Supreme Court hearing landmark citizenship case -- with Trump in audience
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Three go on trial in Germany over plot to overthrow government
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Anderson backs England for Australia revenge despite Ashes woes
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Italy's sport minister asks football chief to step down after World Cup disaster
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Cambodia extradites accused cyberscam boss to China
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Supreme Court to hear landmark citizenship case -- with Trump in audience
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UK police arrest three more over Jewish ambulance attack
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Wallaby Skelton has 'season cut short' by Achilles injury
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Armed teenagers on patrol strike fear into Tehran residents
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Macron lauds Europe's 'predictability' in seeming contrast to Trump
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Amsterdam marks 25 years of gay marriage with weddings
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France's Dassault says 'weeks' left to save Europe warplane project
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'Indescribable': Bosnia jubilant after securing World Cup return
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Pakistan says holding talks with Afghan govt in China
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Guehi tells England to 'stick together' after World Cup warm-up loss to Japan
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Generation of Italians reeling from World Cup 'apocalypse'
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Australian journeyman emerges as India's unlikely football saviour
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Germany growth forecasts slashed as Mideast war hits economy
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Spanish police open probe into anti-Muslim chants at Egypt friendly
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Ailing Italy at new low after missing out on yet another World Cup
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Trump says war could end in two, three weeks as Israel strikes Tehran
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Greenpeace accuses oil companies of reaping Mideast 'war profits'
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Australia PM warns months ahead 'may not be easy' due to Mideast war
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Russians marking Stalin's repression warn against return to past
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Turkey says Pakistan-Afghanistan talks to resume
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Trump stirs tensions with surprise nuclear test order
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100 US local leaders will attend COP30 in 'show of force'
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UN warns of 'atrocities,' 'horror' in Sudan as RSF advances
UN officials warned Thursday that "large-scale atrocities" were underway in Sudan's Kordofan region as paramilitary forces advanced, while residents in El-Fasher, a key city in the neighboring Darfur region, were being subjected to mass "horror."
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President Donald Trump has ignited a firestorm of controversy and confusion with his announcement that the United States will begin nuclear weapons testing.
'Better to go to prison': Israeli ultra-Orthodox rally against army service
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Trump stirs tensions with surprise order to test nuclear weapons
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Netherlands nailbiter as far-right, centrists in election dead-heat
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Trump orders US to start nuclear weapons testing
US President Donald Trump said Thursday he had ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing "on an equal basis" to China and Russia -- an announcement made just minutes before he held a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
'Significant' Xi, Trump talks win cautious optimism in China
A rare meeting between leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping has succeeded in temporarily stabilising US-China relations, analysts said on Thursday, with the talks drawing cautious optimism on the streets of Beijing.
Dutch election a photo finish between far-right, centrists
The Dutch election climaxed in an unprecedented cliffhanger Thursday, with only a few thousand votes separating the far-right party of firebrand Geert Wilders and a pro-European centrist party.
Pakistani security source says Afghanistan talks 'likely' to resume
Pakistan and Afghanistan will likely hold another round of peace talks in Istanbul, a Pakistani security source told AFP on Thursday, after Islamabad's announcement that previous negotiations had failed.
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