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🇯🇵 🐐 Rail staff in central Tokyo have deployed an unusual team to trim an overgrown lot -- a pair of goats. Nagi and Pokke are now social media stars

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🇵🇾 Paraguayan prosecutors charged ex-president Santiago Pena and took him into custody on Saturday over a banking crisis that saw millions of people cut off from their money, sparking major protests ➡️ https://t.co/g2VBH4P7uD

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🏎️ 🏁 🇧🇷 🇮🇹 New Formula One world champion Kimi Antonelli said he will be "ready for anything" in Sunday's Sao Paulo Grand Prix when he starts alongside 2025 champion Lando Norris on the front row ➡️ https://t.co/6mlbGFFd1P

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🇮🇱 Israel's president has announced he will task Gadi Eisenkot with forming the next government following last week's election, in what Benjamin Netanyahu's rivals see as a first step to removing the country's longest-serving prime minister ➡️ https://t.co/1NXhzu7w3h

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🇵🇱 ⚠️ The Main Market Square in Poland's second city of Krakow remained sealed off on Sunday while some mourners brought candles to pay tribute to six people killed by a gunman who authorities said was "fascinated by far-right ideologies" ➡️ https://t.co/HLlJDoC0KB

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Wheeling its way between dining booths at a restaurant in Pakistan's Karachi, a robot waitress drops off a fresh pizza to an awaiting family. Robotic staff are a rare sight in the country

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French skipper Tom Laperche wins the Route du Rhum, posting a record time in his first attempt at the prestigious trans-Atlantic yacht race

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New Zealand faces the prospect of weeks or even months of political wrangling after a knife-edge election that produced no clear winner

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Boasting K-pop and Bangladeshi beatboxing, Eurovision stages its first Asia edition this Saturday, bringing the European song contest's unique brand of kitsch and geopolitics to the world's most populous region

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Lewis Hamilton says he and his Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc have "squashed" the tension between them that followed their first lap tangle in Mexico

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Pope Leo XIV on Saturday slammed the deaths of children in areas of wealthy Uruguay gripped by drug violence as he visited the most crime-ridden neighborhood in the South American country. https://t.co/IarQYC7xLd

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Iran said on Saturday its military had grown stronger since the outset of the war with the United States, as mediators including Qatar worked to prevent any return to fighting after months of deadlock in the conflict https://t.co/xb7gRintWT

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🏎️ 🇧🇷 McLaren's outgoing world champion Lando Norris grabbed pole position for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix with a brave and well-judged drive in Saturday's rainswept qualifying at Interlagos. https://t.co/qUDCFlxQsv

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Israel's president announced he would task Gadi Eisenkot with forming the next government following last week's election, in what Netanyahu's rivals see as a first step to remove the country's longest-serving prime minister https://t.co/1NXhzu7w3h

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Manchester City suffers a third straight Premier League defeat at the hands of Nottingham Forest on Saturday, allowing Arsenal to stretch their lead at the top of the table to six points https://t.co/8lhAXObxwF

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US President Donald Trump says he is offering a press secretary role to mixed martial arts executive and "violent fighter" Dana White https://t.co/AiAi8ZIez2

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Heavy rain on Saturday flooded tens of thousands of displaced people's tents in war-devastated Gaza, Palestinian authorities said, leaving them without shelter https://t.co/PqOomrfgI8

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Argentina's football association has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the sanctions FIFA imposed over World Cup final incidents. Midfielder Leandro Paredes was hardest hit, with a 10-game ban and $90,000 fine https://t.co/E8LvEXinFV

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Six people were killed and a dozen others wounded on Saturday when a gunman opened fire in the landmark historic center of Poland's second city of Krakow, in the country's deadliest shooting in decades https://t.co/b0LmcJDGM4

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The son of the ousted shah of Iran on Saturday received a "Freedom Prize" in Frankfurt awarded to the Iranian people in a ceremony that critics said was illegitimate https://t.co/Y0CikNBGXG