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Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:52:10 GMT
Saudi prince thanks Macron for 'warm reception' in Paris
"As I leave your friendly country, it gives me great pleasure to express to your Excellency my deepest gratitude and appreciation for the warm reception and hospitality accorded to me and the accompanying delegation," bin Salman wrote in a message p...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:40:13 GMT
Klopp needed one day to forget Liverpool's quadruple woe
Klopp's side came within two matches of football immortality, only to fall just short as Manchester City pipped them to the Premier League title on the final day of the season. Liverpool followed that near-miss by losing the Champions League final ...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:26:59 GMT
Ukrainians rush to wed amid uncertainty of war
In Kyiv, the number of weddings has increased since the beginning of the war. Around 9,120 weddings have been registered in five months, more than an eight-fold increase from the 1,110 ceremonies that took place during the same period in 2021....

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:52:11 GMT
Sony trims annual profit forecast after Bungie purchase
The PlayStation maker announced in February it would buy Bungie for $3.6 billion, weeks after rival Microsoft unveiled a landmark pact to acquire "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard. Microsoft says its massive merger, valued at around $69 bill...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:06:15 GMT
Tug-of-war: Ukraine celebrates its tank-towing farmers
Theoretically, the 1970s MT-LB belongs to the Russian forces but they abandoned it in Ukraine's northeast, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the warring neighbours' shared border. It was found by tractor driver Vitaliy Denysenko, who grins, a mi...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:00:18 GMT
Beyonce sounds urgent call to dance on new album 'Renaissance'
Six years after she shook the culture with her powerful visual album "Lemonade," Beyonce's seventh solo studio work is a pulsating, sweaty collection of club tracks aimed at liberating a world consumed by ennui. Eminently danceable and rife with no...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:56:10 GMT
Two pilots killed as Soviet-era fighter jet crashes in India
The MiG-21 came down on Thursday night in the desert of western Rajasthan state near the city of Barmer, the defence ministry said. The crash was the sixth MiG-21 aircraft to have gone down since January last year, with five pilots killed. The I...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:36:14 GMT
Mystical water underworld of past empires reopens in Istanbul
The Basilica Cistern he built for the capital of his Eastern Roman Empire in modern-day Istanbul has reopened after a five-year makeover that has transformed the water storage site into a refreshingly cool haven of underground sound and light. Buil...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 05:02:42 GMT
Live: Russia puts Wagner in charge of parts of front line
Russian private military firm Wagner has likely been allocated responsibility for specific sectors of the front line in eastern Ukraine, possibly as Russia is facing a major shortage of combat infantry, Britain's Ministry of Defence said in an intel...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 03:44:12 GMT
Bob Dylan accuser drops sex abuse lawsuit
In August of last year the plaintiff, who remains unnamed and was identified only as J.C., had filed a suit alleging that Dylan abused her over a six-week period between April and May of 1965. It alleged Dylan "exploited his status as a musician" t...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 02:52:12 GMT
Man City's Shield showdown with Liverpool puts Haaland, Nunez in spotlight
Heading into Saturday's curtain raiser to the Premier League season, the pressure is on Haaland and Nunez to provide evidence they can justify their hefty price tags over the coming months. The pair represent over £100 million ($121 million) of go...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 02:48:13 GMT
Abe murder spotlights Unification Church controversy in Japan
Police say Tetsuya Yamagami targeted Abe because he believed the former prime minister supported a "certain group" to which the man's mother had made large donations. In a letter published by local media, Yamagami accused Abe of supporting the Unif...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 02:36:16 GMT
Deadly elephant virus stalks Zurich zoo
The zoo overlooking Switzerland's largest city now has only five of the majestic creatures roaming its 11,000-square-metre (118,400-square-foot) elephant enclosure. Two-year-old bull Umesh was the first to fall victim to the Elephant endotheliotrop...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 02:14:10 GMT
Australia say no plans to shift 2023 Women's World Cup
The scenario was raised by French newspaper L'Equipe on Thursday, which said the sport's governing body FIFA had informally approached "several" European football bodies to discuss the merits of moving the event closer to the southern hemisphere sum...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 02:04:17 GMT
Finns call for halt to 'unbearable' Russian tourism
Finland may be seeking NATO membership following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, but the Nordic country remains Russia's only EU neighbour to grant tourist visas to Russian citizens. "I have travelled here for 12 years," 37-year-old Boris Surovtcev f...



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