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China says takes Mbappe apology 'seriously' after Mao remark

Cyclone eases after lashing India coast, no deaths reported

Flavio Bolsonaro on way to Ecuador from Argentina after fleeing Brazil

AI chip giant SK hynix posts seven-fold surge in quarterly operating profit

Netanyahu bloc leads after half of Israeli votes counted but no majority

Two hundred 'Cruise for life' passengers stranded in Cambodia

India vows action after first cheetah shot dead

Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren on the joys of filming 'MobLand'

'Now or Never': Ethiopia influencers push for Eritrea invasion

S.African activists push back on data centre rush

Mbappe furore rages on in China, but Mao comments censored

Judges set to rule on Australian mushroom killer's appeal

Billionaire Ambani's Jio jumps 21% in market debut after record India IPO

Syria reopens Jordan border crossing after mending ties

Hamas, Israel resume talks as Netanyahu set to meet Trump

Hamas and Israel were resuming talks in Qatar on Monday, a Palestinian official said, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled to Washington to meet President Donald Trump, who has pushed for a "deal this week" between the foes.

Desperate search for the missing as more than 80 people dead in Texas floods

Rescuers in Texas raced against time to find dozens of missing people, including children, swept away by flash floods that killed more than 80 people, with forecasters warning of new deluges.

Hong Kong fans queue for opening of Cristiano Ronaldo exhibition

Hong Kong football fans queued for hours on Monday to snap pictures of Cristiano Ronaldo's trophies and jerseys at an exhibition billed as the first of its kind outside the superstar's native Portugal.

Itoje back as Lions take no chances against ACT Brumbies

Maro Itoje returns to captain a strong British and Irish Lions team named Monday to face the ACT Brumbies, while Finn Russell and Jamison Gibson-Park are restored as the half-back combination.

Stock markets struggle as Trump's tariff deadline looms

Equities struggled Monday as countries fought to hammer out trade deals days before Donald Trump's tariff deadline, with the US president saying he would begin sending letters to some capitals outlining the rates he had decided upon.

Nearly 450,000 Afghans left Iran since June 1: IOM

Nearly 450,000 Afghans have returned from Iran since the start of June, the United Nations' migration agency said on Monday, after Tehran ordered those without documentation to leave by July 6.

North Korea bars Western influencers from trade fair tour

North Korea has barred Western influencers from joining a delegation of tourists to an international trade fair in October, a China-based tour operator told AFP on Monday.

Typhoon Danas kills two, injures hundreds in Taiwan

Typhoon Danas battered Taiwan's west coast early Monday, killing two people, injuring hundreds and leaving nearly 400,000 households without electricity, authorities said.

Dutch coastal village turns to tech to find lost fishermen

Jan van den Berg stares out at the sea where his father vanished seven decades ago -- lost in a storm just days before his birth. Now aged 70, he clings to the hope of finding even the smallest fragment of his father's remains.

Boxer Chavez's appeal against arrest if deported from US rejected: Mexico prosecutor

Mexico's attorney general office said a court has so far rejected requests from boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to not be arrested in the event of his deportation from the United States, where he was detained for alleged drug trafficking ties.

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