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South Korea lift gloom with smash-and-grab Games football gold

Boisterous fashion week barnstorms 'sleepy' Nigerian capital

Ireland news conference before Israel game cut short amid tensions

UAE investigators say flydubai co-pilot was planning 'terrorist act'

Protests over housing flare in Spain after relief measures rejected

Rahul smacks century in India v Windies ODI

Zverev thrashes Shang to set up Djokovic quarter-final at China Open

Daryz seeks to join exclusive club of dual Arc winners

Turkey football ref chief jailed pending trial for graft

Russia warns diplomats to leave Kyiv over new strikes threat

North Korea says test of intermediate-range strategic missile included use of AI

Olympic champ Zheng rebukes rowdy home crowd at China Open

Rampant Sayers leads Hong Kong to third men's rugby gold in a row

Europe’s arms money maze

Houthis and al-Qaeda

Brazil tests Milei’s gamble

Germany under Weidel

Alcaraz, Sinner win Wimbledon openers as Sabalenka pulls out

Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz and world number one Jannik Sinner reached the Wimbledon second round on Monday as Australian Open winner Aryna Sabalenka withdrew with an injury.

Wilson, at 16, becomes youngest male USA track Olympian

Quincy Wilson, at age 16, could become the youngest American male athletics competitor to appear at an Olympics as a member of the 4x400m relay pool at Paris.

Albania mourns death of Kadare, whose novels defied dictatorship

Albanians will mark two days of national mourning for Ismail Kadare, their "greatest cultural monument", after the acclaimed novelist -- tipped several times for the Nobel literature prize -- died of a heart attack at a Tirana hospital aged 88 on Monday.

France detains two filmmakers over sex abuse claims

French authorities detained Monday two leading arthouse film directors, Benoit Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, for questioning over accusations of sexual abuse, as a renewed #MeToo reckoning rocks France's film industry.

Sinner comes through Wimbledon test to set up Berrettini clash

Jannik Sinner overcame a mid-match wobble to see off the challenge of Germany's Yannick Hanfmann in his Wimbledon opener on Monday but said he would have to raise his game.

George joining 76ers, Thompson heading to Mavs in NBA free agency

Paul George is joining the Philadelphia 76ers and Klay Thompson is heading to the Dallas Mavericks, multiple US reports said Monday as NBA free-agency got into full swing.

France coach Deschamps savours reaching Euro 2024 quarter-finals

France coach Didier Deschamps praised his team after Monday's 1-0 win over Belgium which took them into the quarter-finals of Euro 2024 and insisted their ongoing success was not something that should be taken for granted.

Coach Tedesco curses Belgium's luck after Euros exit to France

Domenico Tedesco was left ruing Belgium's luck on Monday after Jan Vertonghen's late own goal ended their Euro 2024 campaign and sent France into the quarter-finals.

Girmay 'opens the door' for Africa with Tour stage win as Carapaz takes lead

Eritrean Biniam Girmay dedicated his stage three win at the Tour de France on Monday to "the continent of Africa" as Richard Carapaz took the overall race lead in Turin.

France star Kounde calls on voters to block far right in elections

France's Euro 2024 star Jules Kounde called on voters in the country to block the far-right National Rally party from winning a majority in the snap parliamentary elections, ahead of the second round of voting next weekend.

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