Mali calls for immediate end of UN mission
Mali's foreign minister called Friday for the UN Security Council to withdraw the peacekeeping mission in his country "without delay," denouncing its "failure" to respond to security challenges.
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Johnson plummets with quadruple bogey at US Open
Two-time major winner Dustin Johnson said the Los Angeles Country Club North Course was harder than a pair of US Open first-round 62s made it look -- and he hammered home that point with a quick quadruple bogey on Friday.
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Blinken: trip to China aims at 'avoiding miscalculations'
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that his coming visit to China aims to open up better communications "by addressing misperceptions and avoiding miscalculations."
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Injured Woods to miss British Open
Tiger Woods will miss next month's British Open at the Royal Liverpool course as the American star recovers from surgery.
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Ton-up Root revives England before Stokes declares in Ashes opener
Joe Root ended his Ashes century-drought as England made 393-8 before skipper Ben Stokes's bold declaration on the opening day of the first Test against Australia at Edgbaston on Friday.
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Basel defies forecast of art market slowdown
The Basel contemporary art fair this week defied forecasts of a market slowdown, with wealthy collectors buying works with seven or eight-figure price tags.
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Marquez 'lucky' to escape injury but falls from top 10 in German MotoGP
Eight-time German Grand Prix champion Marc Marquez said Friday he felt lucky to have escaped injury after a crash in the rain-hit second practice session.
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Defending champ Fitzpatrick aces 15th at US Open
The hole-in-one count kept climbing Friday at the US Open, where defending champion Matt Fitzpatrick aced the 120-yard par-three 15th in the second round.
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Forest fire risks mount in drought-hit Nordic nations
"I need water", pleads farmer Lars Jonsson, casting a desperate eye over a parched field in eastern Denmark where the only shade is that cast by wind turbines.
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In Kyiv, South African leader urges Russia and Ukraine to de-escalate
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday called on Ukraine and Russia to de-escalate their conflict, as he arrived in the war-torn country on a mission to broker peace.
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