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Russia's electoral chief said that there were over 1,000 waves of distributed denial-of-service attacks targeting Russian election infrastructure in recent days, which likely came from "highly professional, well-coordinated groups using artificial intelligence tools," she said.
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Israel's military said on Sunday it had arrested a man suspected of killing an Israeli, reported to be a settler, at a hospital in the occupied West Bank.
"IDF soldiers apprehended the terrorist who carried out the shooting attack," the army said in a statement.
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Kenyan runner Agnes Ngetich set a new women-only world record of 1 hour 05 minutes 15 seconds, as she won the half marathon at the world road running championships in Copenhagen on Sunday.
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Sri Lanka's Air Force said on Sunday it had flown Buddhist monks who prayed and sprinkled holy water over drought-hit areas in an attempt to encourage rain.
Sri Lanka's meteorologist warned that severe drought and heavy rains are likely to hit Sri Lanka for the rest of the year.
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Iran's top negotiator parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday that Tehran had conveyed to Washington through mediators its conditions for reopening the strategic Strait of Hormuz, which it has blockaded throughout the Middle East war.
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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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