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Indian football fans relish rare friendly against Brazil

Cash-strapped Senegalese unmoved by Youth Olympic Games

Yankees, White Sox, Padres advance, Phillies survive in MLB playoffs

Indonesia haze chokes neighbours, but little legal recourse

Tennessee woman in hospital after execution 'failed': lawyers

Samad launches Pakistan into first Asian Games men's cricket final

Cable car offers small hope for Mongolia's gridlocked capital

Yankees and White Sox advance, Phillies survive in MLB playoffs

Man City scandal risks damage to Premier League's booming brand

Asian stocks mixed as positive US data offset by elevated oil, bond yields

First-time Sepang F1 racers will master track 'from opening lap'

Rice work: Dutch test new crop to save sinking peatlands

Japan tightens rules for foreigners wanting permanent residency

Russians join street choirs to sing away sorrows -- or show dissent

Hopes fade for more survivors in Indian landslide rescue

Indian rescue crews scoured mud-caked tea plantations and villages Thursday with little hope of finding more survivors from successive landslides that killed around 200 people.

How Hong Kong's stunning fencing success was 50 years in the making

Hong Kong has emerged as a fencing powerhouse at the Paris Olympics, topping the sport's medal table with two gold medals, but the seeds of success were sown half a century ago.

Ecuador's Pintado walks to first Olympic athletics gold

Ecuador's Brian Pintado won the first athletics Olympic gold medal of the Paris Games on Thursday with victory in the men's 20-kilometre walk.

Most stocks rise on Fed rate cut hope but strong yen hits Tokyo

Most equity markets rose Thursday after the Federal Reserve flagged a possible interest rate cut next month, but Tokyo's Nikkei tumbled on a stronger yen following a hike by the Bank of Japan.

Reclaimed by floods, wildlife returns to Romania's Danube Delta

Tour guide Eugen Grigorov steered his boat past half-underwater combine harvesters and last year's flooded crops in a part of Romania's Danube Delta reclaimed by the great river.

Gustavsson out as Matildas coach after Australia Olympic exit

Football Australia on Thursday parted ways with Matildas head coach Tony Gustavsson, following a disastrous Olympic campaign that saw them fail to reach the quarter-finals.

Calls for revenge at Iran funeral for Hamas chief Haniyeh

Iran held funeral processions on Thursday with calls for revenge after the killing in Tehran of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in a strike blamed on Israel.

South Korea union pickets outside Samsung chairman's house

Leaders of a South Korean union representing tens of thousands of workers at Samsung Electronics staged a protest Thursday outside the house of the company's chairman and heir, after fresh negotiations failed.

Crusaders stick with coach Penney after woeful Super Rugby season

Canterbury Crusaders said Thursday that Rob Penney will remain head coach for the 2025 Super Rugby season, despite overseeing the Christchurch club's worst campaign in more than 20 years.

Weak yen helps Toyota compensate for Japan problems

Toyota reported a modest rise in first-quarter net profits on Thursday as a weak yen and cost cuts helped the Japanese auto giant overcome a drop in production and sales in its home market.

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Iran holds funeral for Hamas chief Haniyeh