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Meta pushes global AI vision amid race with OpenAI, Anthropic and China

Notts Forest owner Marinakis sues Palace over gun banner - reports

US judge ends graft case against India's Adani

Koech gets three-year ban, stripped of US 1,500m title

Anderson retires after 10 MLB seasons after 'too much pain'

Sensational Ingebrigtsen back with more European gold

Colombia in state of emergency as quake kills 111

'A scare': Brazil player leaps into tunnel in joy over goal

Britain's Amy Hunt wins European women's 100m gold

USA Swimming CFO Hilliard arrested for alleged theft

Trump order pushes for overhaul of childhood vaccine schedule

Trump insists Netanyahu relationship 'very good' despite Gaza rift

Global stocks mixed while oil prices jump on Hormuz

Ingebrigtsen delivers masterclass for seventh European athletics gold

Power blackouts, soaring fuel prices shut Nigerian businesses

For eight years, Nigeria hairdresser Damy Idowu ran her business in a commercial district of Lagos, surviving growing inflation, recession and the global pandemic.

'What have we done wrong?' Afghan school girls forced home

Atiya Azimi was up all night packing and repacking her bag, feverish at returning to school for the first time since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan.

Late surge gives leftist firebrand shot at French vote run-off

Jean-Luc Melenchon, a divisive but charismatic 70-year-old leftist, is in possible contention to make a French presidential election run-off against Emmanuel Macron as traditional socialist forces fall by the wayside.

Man United hold talks with Ajax coach Erik ten Hag over manager's job

Manchester United have held "positive" talks with Ajax coach Erik ten Hag about the vacant manager's job at Old Trafford, it was reported on Wednesday.

'Hellscape' in Ukraine's Mariupol but Russia talks tough

Almost 100,000 people are trapped by Russian bombardment and facing starvation in the ruins of Mariupol, Ukraine's leader said, as Moscow accused Washington of undermining peace talks.

Zelensky slams UN, urges reform in address to Japan

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Japan's parliament Wednesday that the United Nations had failed over the conflict in his country and reforms were needed, calling for more pressure on Russia.

Russia turns to attrition one month into Ukraine war

Russia's forces in Ukraine appear to be turning to a war of attrition with devastating effect on civilians, after failing to secure hoped-for swift gains when President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion one month ago.

Pakistan 227-3 at tea after Azhar reaches milestone

Azhar Ali achieved a milestone 7,000 runs before Pakistan reached 227-3 at tea on the third day of the third and deciding Test against Australia in Lahore on Wednesday.

Black box of crashed China Eastern jet recovered

A black box from the crashed China Eastern airliner was recovered on Wednesday as investigators try to piece together what made a jet carrying 132 passengers nosedive into a mountainside in southern China.

Water supply fears as Morocco hit by worst drought since 1980s

As Morocco withers under its worst drought in 40 years, experts warn that a combination of climate change and bad resource management could trigger severe drinking water shortages.

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