Chinese football fans out in force for Super League return
The streets around Beijing's Workers' Stadium were a sea of lime green on Saturday as tens of thousands of football fans turned out for the post-Covid return of the Chinese Super League.
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In east Ukraine, holding the line, waiting to attack
In a muddied trench under fire from Russian forces 200 metres away, Ukrainian servicemen injured while holding the line near the bloodiest battle of Moscow's invasion face a precarious extraction.
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Nienaber to quit South Africa for Leinster after World Cup
South Africa coach Jacques Nienaber will leave his job after the Rugby World Cup to move to Irish province Leinster.
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Milan held at Bologna ahead of Champions League decider at Napoli
AC Milan were held to a 1-1 draw by Bologna on Saturday as a second-string line-up slipped in Serie A's top four race ahead of a Champions League showdown with Napoli.
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Rybakina sends Kazakhstan into BJK Cup Finals with France, Spain, Czech Republic
Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina beat Poland's Magda Linette to send Kazakhstan into the Billie Jean King Cup Finals on Saturday, with France, Spain and the Czech Republic also qualifying.
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Russian strike kills 11 in eastern Ukraine, Moscow claims gains near Bakhmut
The death toll from a Russian strike on a block of flats in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk climbed to 11 on Saturday as Moscow claimed advances near embattled Bakhmut.
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Thousands attend Jerusalem 'Holy Fire' rite for Orthodox Easter
Thousands of Christians attended the thousand-year-old Holy Fire rite in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre Saturday ahead of the Orthodox Easter despite a security clampdown in the holy city.
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China would gain swift air superiority over Taiwan, US leaks show
China would probably gain air superiority very quickly in any attack on Taiwan, something Russia crucially failed to do in its invasion of Ukraine last year, leaked US intelligence documents show, according to media reports Saturday.
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Nienaber to quit Springboks for Leinster after World Cup
Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber will leave his job after the Rugby World Cup to move to Irish province Leinster.
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Deadly fighting rocks Sudan as army battles paramilitaries
Three civilians died in battles between Sudanese paramilitaries and the regular army, which said it launched air strikes against them, sparking global concern days after the army warned the country was at a "dangerous" turning point.
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