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Thailand extends activist's jail term to more than 34 years

Drugs giant AstraZeneca reveals higher profits, savings plan

China denies spying on Nvidia's Jensen Huang

French economy 'headed for a wall' as GDP shrinks

BP net profit quadruples on higher oil prices

South Korea to prosecute students cheating with smart glasses

Kiss backs 'hungry' Beale to push for Wallabies game time

Surging costs of living top US voter concerns

World number one Rybakina withdraws in Tokyo with injury

Basic services, fading loyalties loom over South Africa's vote

Malawi's fuel shortages, record prices deepen economic crisis

Shock, vindication, regret: Scientists react to AI roiling life's work

Rubio hosts G20 ministers as Iran, Ukraine wars divide members

Crypto platform Binance confirms $6.3 bn hack

Ecuador's 'armed conflict' with drug gangs: What we know

Tanks and soldiers patrol the streets of Ecuador as narcos sow terror nationwide after declaring all-out war on a government trying to rein them in.

Paris Olympics chief insists river Seine will host opening ceremony

The chief organiser of the 2024 Paris Olympics insisted Wednesday there were no plans to move the opening ceremony of the Games from the river Seine amid ongoing speculation about the hugely ambitious water-based show.

'Nowhere is safe': Russian city evacuates hundreds of children

Authorities in the Russian border city of Belgorod began evacuating hundreds of children Wednesday after weeks of deadly shelling from Ukrainian forces.

Al-Attiyah and Quintanilla dominate Dakar dunes to win stage 5

Five-time winner Nasser Al-Attiyah posted his first win of this year's Dakar Rally on Wednesday, clocking the quickest time in the Empty Quarter dunes between Al-Hofuf and Shubaytah in Saudi Arabia.

Eyeing future, Macron breaks with tradition by picking popular PM

By appointing Gabriel Attal prime minister, President Emmanuel Macron is betting on the youth and dynamism of the 34-year-old to beat the far-right in European elections but also shape a future after 2027 when he must step aside.

High tech glove stymies Parkinson's disease tremors

Roberta Wilson-Garrett looked at the glove keeping her right hand steady and smiled.

German transport hobbled by train strikes, farmer blockades

Nationwide strikes brought German transport to a near standstill Wednesday, with railway workers on a three-day stoppage and farmers on tractors blocking autobahns in a bitter protest over subsidy cuts.

Zelensky says Western hesitation on Ukraine aid emboldens Putin

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for badly needed air-defence systems at the start of a tour of Baltic states Wednesday, warning that Western hesitation on aid for Ukraine was emboldening Russia.

French actor Delon's youngest son steps into escalating family feud

The youngest son of French film legend Alain Delon, 88, has filed a complaint against his sister accusing her of exploiting his frail health, a prosecutor said on Wednesday, in an escalating family feud drawing in his children.

Afghan women detained over improper hijab: Taliban official

A Taliban official has said several girls and women were detained recently in Kabul for not covering themselves properly, after reports circulated of a crackdown in the Afghan capital.

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