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Street rallies held as Taliban govt marks five years ruling Afghanistan

UK PM urges 'reflection' after Cambridge professor's death

World Cup winner Ferran Torres signs for PSG from Barcelona

Rescuers search for survivors as Indonesian quake death toll rises to 40

Monsoon rains submerge villages, fields in Myanmar

Earthquake rocks Spain's tourist jewel Granada

India's Padikkal, Rahul hit half-centuries in Sri Lanka Test

Perez, Fiorini set world records in winning Euro race walk golds

UK-based Afghan writer pleads for country's 'abandoned' women

Lebanon says 9 dead in strikes as Israel says targeted Hezbollah

Werro edges Hodgkinson in boost for world record-seeking 800m rivalry

World Cup winner Ferran Torres signs for Paris Saint-Germain

Mehidy claims Smith as Bangladesh sense historic upset in Australia

India's island choke point

China’s lithography leap

China’s cartel lifeline

Australia limits migration

Macron booed by angry French after signing pensions reform

French President Emmanuel Macron was loudly booed by crowds in eastern France on Wednesday as he embarked on his first trip out of Paris since signing his unpopular pensions reform into law.

Scotland hooker McInally hanging up boots to earn his wings

Scotland hooker Stuart McInally has announced he is hanging up his boots to pursue a career as a commercial airline pilot.

EU pledges more cash in Ukraine grain standoff, Bulgaria bans imports

Brussels on Wednesday offered an extra 100 million euros of support for EU farmers to ease a standoff over Ukrainian grain after Bulgaria became the latest country to approve a temporary ban on food products from the war-hit nation.

Iraq's Yazidis mark New Year still haunted by IS horrors

One by one, members of Iraq's minority Yazidi community light oil lamps to mark their New Year at a sacred shrine, but for Omar Sinan the celebration cannot erase the atrocities of jihadist rule.

Family planning in India: A woman's burden

Occasional screams sounded from the operating theatre in a rural Indian clinic as a heavily sedated woman named Kajal waited to have her tubes tied, long the country's preferred family planning method.

Relentless Pogacar surges to Fleche Wallonne triumph

Tadej Pogacar's sensational form continued unabated Wednesday when a late surge on a fabled steep finale landed the Team UAE leader the Fleche Wallonne one-day classic in Belgium.

Juventus win appeal over stand closure for Lukaku racist abuse

Juventus have won their appeal against a one-match stand closure for their fans racially abusing Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) said on Wednesday.

Thousands flee 'bodies on the streets' in battle-scarred Khartoum

Thousands of residents on Wednesday fled Sudan's capital, where witnesses said bodies lay in the street from fighting between the army and paramilitaries after a 24-hour truce failed to take hold.

Stock markets fall on inflation, interest rate concerns

Global stock markets retreated Wednesday as traders digested stubbornly high UK inflation and more corporate earnings, with a wary eye on future central bank moves to tame rampant consumer prices.

'Hotter and hotter': Swathes of Asia sweat in heatwave

Sweltering under a blistering sun, people across South and Southeast Asia have been taking cover beneath any shelter they can find as they pray for cooling rains with record temperatures hitting the region.

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