Price sets world best in women's weight throw at US Indoors
DeAnna Price delivered a world best of 26.02 meters to win the women's weight throw on Friday at the US Indoor Track and Field Championships while world 200m champion Noah Lyles advanced easily in the 60m.
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Clashes at living cost protests in Suriname
Hundreds of people protested in Suriname Friday against rising living costs, clashing with security forces in the capital Paramaribo and looting city center shops, AFP observed.
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Rio carnival returns, celebrating 'life, democracy'
Rio de Janeiro's mayor declared the world's biggest carnival officially open Friday for the first full-scale edition in three years, calling it a celebration of life and democracy after the turmoil of Covid-19 and Brazil's bitterly divisive elections.
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Bulgaria finds 18 dead migrants suffocated in truck
Bulgarian authorities on Friday found the bodies of 18 people who suffocated in a truck smuggling them through the country.
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Barcelona facing more questions over refereeing chief payments
Barcelona are facing further questions about payments of millions of euros made to a former refereeing chief's company following revelations that the amount in question was four times bigger than the one originally declared.
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European allies vow more support for Kyiv at security meet
European powers on Friday vowed to intensify support for Ukraine as it battles to repel Russia, with France's president underlining at a major security conference that the time was not ripe for talks with Moscow.
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'Feedback loops' worsening climate crisis: report
Global warming melts sea ice, which leads to further warming because water absorbs more heat than ice, creating what scientists call a "climate feedback loop."
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England's Bell says India 'Mankad' memory 'put to bed'
England fast bowler Lauren Bell believes India will provide "great opposition" when the two teams meet in the Women's T20 World Cup on Saturday but said their last controversial meeting had been "put to bed".
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Hamilton and F1 stars warned time and place for free speech
Lewis Hamilton and his fellow F1 drivers were told on Friday they can still speak out on controversial issues -- as long as they choose the right time and place.
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Five US officers plead not guilty to murdering Tyre Nichols
Five former police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to charges they murdered Tyre Nichols, a young Black man who died after a beating in the southern US city of Memphis, Tennessee.
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