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'Football Leaks' hacker faces court verdict

'Football Leaks' hacker faces court verdict

Hacker Rui Pinto, the man behind "Football Leaks" and "Luanda Leaks", faces sentencing in Lisbon on Friday at the end of a trial that started in September 2020.

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'I just want to be judged': Halep still waits on doping hearing

'I just want to be judged': Halep still waits on doping hearing

Simona Halep has insisted she did not "knowingly" take performance-enhancing drugs, as she waits for a doping hearing seven months since being provisionally suspended.

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Legendary US talk show host Jerry Springer dies aged 79

Legendary US talk show host Jerry Springer dies aged 79

Longtime US talk show host Jerry Springer, whose program became a symbol of low brow television with its on-air fights, swearing and infidelity revelations, died Thursday at the age of 79.

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Ex-insurance salesman elected unlikely mayor of Berlin

Ex-insurance salesman elected unlikely mayor of Berlin

Berlin appointed its first conservative mayor in more than two decades on Thursday after the Christian Democrats (CDU) unseated the ruling left-wing coalition.

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Iran seizes oil tanker off Oman, says two missing in collision

Iran seizes oil tanker off Oman, says two missing in collision

Iran seized a US-bound oil tanker off Oman on Thursday, saying it had crashed into an Iranian vessel leaving two crew missing -- the latest disruptive incident in the crucial but troubled waterway.

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Beijing-led talks on Ukraine a 'trap' for the West: analysts

Beijing-led talks on Ukraine a 'trap' for the West: analysts

China and Ukraine's leaders speaking this week raises the unflattering prospect of Kyiv and the West having to reject a Chinese proposal to end the Ukraine war, analysts say.

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Finland's PM-designate to seek alliance with far-right

Finland's PM-designate to seek alliance with far-right

Conservative politician Petteri Orpo, who won Finland's April general election, said Thursday he plans to form a coalition government that includes the far-right runner-up Finns Party.

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Spain hit by summer-strength heat in April

Spain hit by summer-strength heat in April

An unusually early heatwave in drought-hit Spain is set to peak on Thursday and Friday with temperatures expected to break April records in the south of the country.

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Renewed air strikes hit Sudan capital as truce enters final hours

Renewed air strikes hit Sudan capital as truce enters final hours

The Sudanese army pounded paramilitaries in the capital Khartoum with air strikes Thursday while deadly fighting flared in Darfur, as a fragile US-brokered ceasefire entered its final hours.

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Legendary US talk show host Jerry Springer dies aged 79: US media

Legendary US talk show host Jerry Springer dies aged 79: US media

Longtime US talk show host Jerry Springer, whose program became a symbol of low brow television with its on-air fights, swearing and infidelity revelations, has died at the age of 79, US media reported Thursday.

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