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Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:55:23 GMT
Divisions over EU’s legal order, energy remain unresolved at bloc summit
Deep divisions over the EU's legal order and energy took an EU summit into late Thursday, with eastern member states Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic standing in defiance against Brussels.

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:06:16 GMT
Matsuyama warms to task with 68 to grab Zozo Championship lead
The US Masters champion, playing in front of his fervent home fans at Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club outside Tokyo, carded a second-round 68 to move to eight-under par. Matsuyama, Japan's only male major winner, has a one-stroke lead over Ame...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 07:46:11 GMT
Seven killed in Bangladesh Rohingya camp attack
The attackers randomly shot some victims and stabbed others with knives at the Balukhali refugee complex in Cox's Bazar near the border with Myanmar, a regional police chief said. The killings came as tensions mount in the camps that house more tha...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 07:42:16 GMT
The 'open secret' behind Austria media graft scandal
The scandal erupted this month when prosecutors raided locations including the chancellory and the finance ministry. They are currently probing allegations that Kurz's inner circle used public money to pay for polls skewed to boost his image. Pros...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 07:42:00 GMT
Beleaguered property giant Evergrande makes key offshore interest payment
China's troubled property giant Evergrande has made a key offshore interest payment a day ahead of a weekend deadline, state media said Friday, averting a default and buying the embattled company a reprieve as it struggles under a mountain of debt.

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 07:36:13 GMT
Bosnia's Serb leader Dodik unveils plans to dismantle 'failed country'
The inflammatory rhetoric from the country's co-president is stirring fears that the Balkans' dormant powder keg could ignite again. For 15 years, Dodik has held the reins of power in Bosnia's Serb entity -- the Republika Srpska -- and has regularl...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 06:48:15 GMT
Young women are breaking the silence of French immigrants
"It profoundly shocked me and I've never forgotten it," said Harchi, now 34 and a successful novelist and sociologist in Paris. "It was a way of assigning me to my origins, to say that I was not French." A reckoning is belatedly underway in France...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 06:16:12 GMT
Wes Anderson turns his unique eye on France
The Texan director's latest film crams in some major star power, with Timothee Chalamet and Benicio del Toro joining Anderson regulars such as Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton and, of course, Bill Murray. Based around a group of US magazine writers in t...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 06:14:10 GMT
Outspoken Baldwin made comeback with '30 Rock' and Trump
Baldwin was acting in and co-producing "Rust," a 19th-century Western about an accidental killing, when he discharged a prop gun, killing the film's cinematographer and wounding its director, US law enforcement officers said. More recently known fo...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 06:00:59 GMT
Sudan’s fragile transition to democracy at stake as rival camps flex muscles
Supporters of Sudan’s transitional government called for mass rallies in Khartoum on Thursday amid fears the military is plotting to withdraw its support for an uneasy power-sharing agreement, more than two years after a popular uprising led to th...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 06:00:16 GMT
Biden says US would defend Taiwan against China invasion
Authoritarian China regards self-ruled Taiwan as its own territory and has vowed to one day seize the island, by force if needed. Beijing's sabre-rattling has ramped up in recent years, exacerbating fears the island of 23 million people could becom...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 05:40:14 GMT
Herro hailed as Heat hammer banged-up Bucks in NBA
Jimmy Butler delivered 21 points and Bam Adebayo had a game high 13 rebounds for the Heat, who used a 26-2 first quarter run to bust the game open and never look back. "I mean, 137s a lot. Hopefully, we can see that a lot this season," Herro said. ...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 05:26:31 GMT
Prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin kills cinematographer on movie set
US actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that killed a cinematographer and wounded the director on a film set in New Mexico, US law enforcement officers said on Thursday.

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 05:04:11 GMT
'No joke' - Hooper's Wallabies will not take Japan lightly
Australia face the Brave Blossoms in Oita on Saturday, a stop-off en route to Britain for testing clashes against Scotland, England and Wales over successive weeks. But the 115-Test veteran, who played a stint in Japan for Toyota Verblitz this year...

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 04:58:12 GMT
Shiffrin eyes World Cup glory in Olympic year
Shiffrin won the overall women's World Cup title for three straight years to 2019. But that streak ended with a horrible season marked by the sudden death of her father in February 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic and a back injury as she went winless f...



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