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Paris Saint-Germain's Qatari President Nasser al-Khelaifi is under investigation in France on conflict-of-interest suspicions, prosecutors in the French capital said on Sunday.
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Six French nationals went on trial on Sunday, as Iraq's prisons, already packed with IS suspects, have received thousands more detainees transferred since last year from neighbouring Syria.
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The brother of princess Diana, Charles Spencer, on Sunday accused King Charles III of "gaslighting" him by querying his explosive account of events around her death in the upcoming memoir "Swan Song".
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Hundreds of drones targeting Moscow and its surrounding region killed at least two people and damaged a major refinery on the final day of Russia's parliamentary elections, the authorities said Sunday.
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Newly-appointed England Test coach Stephen Fleming says it would be "wrong" to ask former captain Ben Stokes to reverse his international retirement before next year's Ashes.
Stokes announced the end of his England career during a defeat by New Zealand in June.
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Germans began voting Sunday in two state elections where far-right and far-left gains could send fresh shock waves through Berlin and rock the government of embattled Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
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North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast on Sunday, South Korea's military said, days after Pyongyang reaffirmed its status as a nuclear-armed state and fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles.
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The US warned Saturday that hostilities between Saudi Arabia and Iran-backed Houthis could "escalate rapidly" after a missile attack targeted Riyadh for the first time since the Yemen conflict resumed.
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Russians headed to the polls on Sunday for a third and final day of tightly controlled parliamentary elections set to strengthen the Kremlin's grip on power, as the Ukraine war grinds through its fifth year.
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It took years for Tenzing Norgay to secure his place in history as the man who, alongside New Zealander Edmund Hillary, first reached the summit of Mount Everest. And it has taken far longer for his feat to be memorialized in film.

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BREAKING North Korea fired an unidentified projectile off its east coast on Sunday, South Korea's military says.

"The North has fired an unidentified projectile into the East Sea," the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a brief statement, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.

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Hong Kong officials and the public commemorate the city's first post-colonial leader, Tung Chee-hwa, at his funeral, AFP journalists saw

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While AI researchers in the United States fret over out-of-control superintelligence wiping out humanity, Chinese policymakers have until now been more focused on immediate risks, from deepfakes to child safety. But the alarming hacking ability of top artificial intelligence models is leading Beijing to see the dangers in a new light, with the spy agency chief warning this week that the technology could jeopardise national security.

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US President Donald Trump is betting a familiar culture-war issue can help Republicans in the November midterm elections: the transgender rights row

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The first gold medal of the 20th Asian Games is won by host nation Japan as a 13-year-old swimmer from China starts in blistering form on the opening day of the multisports extravaganza

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German voters go to the polls Sunday in two state elections where far-right and far-left gains could send new shock waves to Berlin and rock the government of embattled Chancellor Friedrich Merz

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Tribal leader Petronila Munoz walks across the sweeping Philippine grasslands she has called home for generations, uncertain about its future, as a sprawling tech hub for a US-led initiative takes shape

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Pop star Ed Sheeran says the situation in Gaza is "unjustifiable," following a wave of criticism that he had failed to back his opening act who was booted from their tour after making pro-Palestinian comments

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BREAKING Pop star Ed Sheeran says the situation in Gaza is "unjustifiable," following a wave of criticism that he had failed to back his opening act's pro-Palestinian comments

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Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile, withdrew her candidacy for the position of United Nations secretary-general on Saturday, weeks after a straw poll showed her in second to last place among eight candidates.

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