Three tales from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix
Three storylines from Sunday's Azerbaijan Grand Prix:
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High stakes for Macron as parliament power at risk
French President Emmanuel Macron and his allies began a crucial week of campaigning on Monday to secure a parliamentary majority after a first round of voting that has galvanised a newly formed leftwing alliance.
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Markets dive on inflation woes as dollar spikes against yen, rupee
Markets tumbled in Asia and Europe on Monday to extend a global rout while the dollar soared after a forecast-beating US inflation print ramped up bets on a more aggressive campaign of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.
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Ukraine forces pushed back from Severodonetsk centre, fighting for 'every metre'
Ukraine said Monday that its forces had been pushed back from the centre of key industrial city Severodonetsk, where President Volodymyr Zelensky described a fight for "literally every metre".
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Milky Way's secrets revealed by massive space probe map
The Gaia space probe unveiled its latest discoveries on Monday in its quest to map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, surveying nearly two million stars and revealing mysterious "starquakes" which sweep across the fiery giants like vast tsunamis.
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Revellers on cloud nine at cannabis festival as Thailand relaxes law
The pungent smell of smoke was unmistakable as revellers celebrated under the stars at a major Thai cannabis festival following the kingdom's decision to begin relaxing the laws around the drug.
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'Magnificent' Mary Kom out of Commonwealth Games with knee injury
India's boxing queen Mary Kom will miss this year's Commonwealth Games after limping out of the ring in a trial event, but her coach on Monday said she will "make a comeback".
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Plays about Black artists and Wall St are big winners on Broadway
A musical about a Black and queer author won a top prize at the Broadway awards in New York on Sunday, while a play about Lehman Brothers and a Michael Jackson biopic also triumphed at the Oscars of the theater.
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Ukraine's desperate farmers trapped by grain blockade
Nadiia Ivanova should have been harvesting her crop soon. But so far on her farm in southern Ukraine, she has only managed to collect bombshells.
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UK economy shrinks for second month in a row
British economic output declined for a second month in a row in April, weighed down by decades-high inflation, official data showed Monday.
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