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Marseille downed by Lille in Ligue 1 as Lyon's struggles continue

NBA bans Mitchell, Champagnie one game for sparking melee

'Project Hail Mary' rockets to top of N. America box office

Syrians protest alcohol sale limits, curbs on personal freedom

Spurs can '100 percent' avoid nightmare of relegation: Saltor

Araujo header scrapes Liga leaders Barcelona win over Rayo

Israel launches strikes as Lebanon warns of invasion

Torrential rains in Kenya kill 81 in March: officials

Iran threatens Mideast infrastructure after Trump ultimatum

Spurs felled by Forest in relegation battle, Sunderland shock Newcastle

Spurs collapse against Forest, failing acid test

Israel strikes Beirut suburbs as displacement shelters overflow

Israel carried out new strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs and again ordered residents of vast parts of southern Lebanon to evacuate, as more than a million people have been displaced across the country.

Hard-hitting Conway steers New Zealand to victory over South Africa

Devon Conway blasted a half-century before New Zealand skittled South Africa cheaply to win the second Twenty20 international by 68 runs Tuesday and level the five-match series 1-1.

During Ramadan, Senegal's Baye Fall community lives to serve

Thousands of followers of a unique Senegalese Muslim community, the Baye Fall, worked with electric fervour on a recent morning preparing iftar meals for breaking the Ramadan fast, even though they themselves were not fasting.

Afghan govt says 'around 400' killed in Pakistani strike on Kabul rehab clinic

The Afghan government on Tuesday said that about 400 people were killed in a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation centre in the capital, Kabul, in the deadliest attack in the recent violence between the two neighbours.

Russian ballet banned for 'gay propaganda' gets new life in Berlin

A ballet about the life of legendary Soviet-born dancer Rudolf Nureyev that was banned in Russia for containing "gay propaganda" will get a new lease of life in Berlin this week.

Strikes shake Tehran as Trump presses allies to help in Mideast war

Loud explosions shook Tehran Tuesday after a night of bombing, as US President Donald Trump pressed allies to help in the war that has engulfed the Middle East and sparked global economic turmoil.

Malaysia hit with 3-0 forfeits to send Vietnam to Asian Cup

Malaysia's 2027 Asian Cup hopes are over after the country was hit with 3-0 forfeits in two qualifiers for fielding ineligible players, the regional football body said Tuesday, sending Vietnam through instead.

Rescue workers comb ruins of Kabul drug clinic after Pakistan strike

Rescue workers scrambled to recover bodies and survivors on Tuesday from a drug treatment centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, after it was hit by a Pakistani airstrike, with the Taliban authorities saying hundreds of people were feared killed.

'Many dead': Wounded survivor escaped Kabul clinic strike

Azmat Ali Momand had just finished his rounds, checking patients at the "Camp Omid" drug rehabilitation centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, when the explosion erupted.

Belgian court decides on holding trial over 1961 Congo leader murder

A Brussels court is to decide Tuesday whether a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat should stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba.

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