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Ukrainian drones hit a fuel and energy facility in the Russian region of Kaluga, a source in Ukrainian military intelligence said Monday, in Kyiv's latest attack on Moscow's energy sites.The claim came as Ukrainian authorities said a Russian missile strike had wounded nearly two dozen people...
Sports
Swimmer Emma McKeon, Australia's most decorated Olympian and an eight-time world-record holder, retired from the sport on Monday aged 30.McKeon won 14 Olympic medals, six of them gold, over the Rio, Tokyo and Paris Games this summer."Today I am officially retiring from competitive swimming,...
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The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters dismissed a $300 billion a year pledge from wealthy historic polluters as insultingly low.After two exhausting weeks of chaotic bargaining and sleepless nights, nearly 200 nations...
Peshawar, Pakistan: Three days of bitter sectarian gunfights in northwestern Pakistan have killed at least 82 people and wounded 156 more, a local official said Sunday.Pakistan is a Sunni-majority country but Kurram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province -- near the border with Afghanistan -- has a...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday promised more combat test-firing of an experimental hypersonic missile launched at Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for updated air-defence systems to meet the new threat.The latest statements from the leaders came hours after Ukraine's parliamen...
Sports,Football
A second-half Harry Kane hattrick took Bayern Munich to a 3-0 home win over Augsburg on Friday, sending them eight clear atop the table ahead of Tuesday's Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain.Bayern, still yet to lose in the league in 2024-25, were dominant throughout but kept at bay ...
Lionel Messi's new coach at Inter Miami will be announced "in the coming days", the club's co-owner Jorge Mas said on Friday, with reports suggesting Javier Mascherano is in pole position.Argentine Gerardo 'Tata' Martino has left the club due to personal reasons and Mas sai...
A massive Israeli strike has flattened a residential building in centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut. At least 11 people have been killed and more than 60 injured, according to Lebanon's health ministry.The eight-storey building was completely destroyed without warning by five missiles in the ...
A staggering 281 aid workers have been killed around the world so far this year, making 2024 the deadliest year for humanitarians, the UN aid chief said Friday."Humanitarian workers are being killed at an unprecedented rate, their courage and humanity being met with bullets and bombs," sai...
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin referred the “activ...
Wealthy nations raised their offer for climate finance for poorer nations to $300 billion Saturday at COP29 negotiations, with growing doubts that all countries will leave happy with the outcome.Negotiators worked through the night in a sports stadium in the Caspian Sea city of Baku in a search for ...
Business
China unveiled new measures on Thursday to boost foreign trade, as Beijing battles to turn around a slowing economy threatened further by the potentially hostile policies of incoming US president Donald Trump.The world's second-largest economy has struggled to revive growth since the Covid pande...
ECB chief Christine Lagarde on Friday stepped up calls for greater financial integration in Europe, warning of threats to free trade and of a growing gap with the United States.In a speech in Frankfurt, where the European Central Bank is headquartered, Lagarde warned that "the geopolitical envi...
Shares in Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate sunk again Friday after US charges alleging the tycoon paid more than $250 million in bribes to secure lucrative government contracts rattled investor confidence.Wednesday's bombshell indictment in New York accused Adani and multiple s...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the conflict in Ukraine had characteristics of a "global" war and did not rule out strikes on Western countries.The Kremlin strongman spoke out after a day of frayed nerves, with Russia test-firing a new generation intermediate-range miss...
China urged the International Criminal Court on Friday to remain objective and fair after it issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."China hopes the ICC will uphold an objective and just position (and) exercise its powers in accordance with the law," foreign...
Indian security forces gunned down at least 10 Maoist rebels on Friday during a firefight, police said, as New Delhi steps up efforts to crush the long-running armed conflict.More than 10,000 people have died in the decades-long insurgency waged by the Naxalite movement, who say they are fighting fo...
NATO and Ukraine will hold talks next week in Brussels over Russia's firing of an experimental hypersonic intermediate-range missile, diplomats said on Friday.Ambassadors from countries in the NATO-Ukraine Council will meet on Tuesday to discuss the strike on the city of Dnipro, officials told A...
Sports,Chess
Indian prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju broke new ground to reach the World Chess Championship and the 18-year-old "Friends" fan is now hot favourite to win the title and make more history.Gukesh will be the youngest player to take home the undisputed world crown if he beats reigning champion Ding...
Ruben Amorim takes charge of Manchester United for the first time in Sunday's trip to Ipswich, while Manchester City are aiming to snap a historic losing streak for Pep Guardiola against Tottenham.Fourth takes on fifth in another of Saturday's eye-catching fixtures when Arsenal hope to kicks...
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