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Rain delays New Zealand chase of 107 to beat India in first Test

Rain delays New Zealand chase of 107 to beat India in first Test

Rain delayed the start of the fifth day of the first Test in Bengaluru on Sunday, with New Zealand needing 107 to win the weather-interrupted contest.

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Murtazaliev punishes Tszyu to retain IBF super welterweight crown

Murtazaliev punishes Tszyu to retain IBF super welterweight crown

Unbeaten IBF super welterweight world champion Bakhram Murtazaliev destroyed Tim Tszyu on Saturday, knocking the Aussie down four times en route to a third-round technical knockout in Orlando, Florida.

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Prabowo Subianto: ex-general who marched to Indonesia presidency

Prabowo Subianto: ex-general who marched to Indonesia presidency

Prabowo Subianto was inaugurated Sunday as Indonesia's president after a convincing election win, but he has also been accused of rights abuses during the dying days of the Suharto dictatorship a generation ago.

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Ex-general Prabowo takes office as Indonesia president

Ex-general Prabowo takes office as Indonesia president

Former general Prabowo Subianto was sworn in Sunday as president of Indonesia, seeking a more prominent position on the global stage for the world's fourth most populous nation.

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New rules drive Japanese trucking sector to the brink

New rules drive Japanese trucking sector to the brink

Fujio Uemura has to rest after driving fish all night to Tokyo, under new rules that trucking firms and experts say are crippling Japan's logistics sector and risk pushing up prices for consumers.

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Cher, Mary J. Blige, Ozzy Osbourne among Rock Hall of Fame inductees

Cher, Mary J. Blige, Ozzy Osbourne among Rock Hall of Fame inductees

Cher, Mary J. Blige and Ozzy Osbourne were among this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, an elite group formally introduced into the music pantheon Saturday at a star-studded concert gala.

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'One of the last': handmade bagpipes a dying art in Scotland

'One of the last': handmade bagpipes a dying art in Scotland

The Highland bagpipe is an integral part of Scottish culture and history, famous for its distinctive, powerful sound that even accompanied troops as they landed in northern France on D-Day.

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Japan's Higuchi wins Skate America women's gold

Japan's Higuchi wins Skate America women's gold

Wakaba Higuchi won the women's title at Skate America on Saturday, leading Rinka Watanabe in a Japanese one-two in the first figure skating grand prix event of the season.

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UN biodiversity conference: what's at stake?

UN biodiversity conference: what's at stake?

The world's pledges to halt humankind's destruction of nature will be put to the test when the 16th UN conference on biodiversity opens Monday in Colombia.

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Harris, Trump duel over endurance as celebrities join campaign trail

Harris, Trump duel over endurance as celebrities join campaign trail

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump invited star power to the campaign trail Saturday, as they took shots at each other's endurance and urged early voting in battleground states key to the ever-tightening US presidential race.

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