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Chwalinska fights back to win Wuhan Open in title breakthrough

Kremlin says Ukrainian attacks won't change war aims as Kyiv hits Saint Petersburg

Kulusevski on brink of return for Spurs after 17-month absence

Martinez starts for Man Utd after outburst

Ukraine sets Saint Petersburg refinery ablaze in large-scale drone attack

Alberta separatists rally ahead of independence vote

Spain's in-form Chacarra wins DP World India Championship

Katie Alexander reportedly leaves flat shared with Eamonn Holmes

Robertson and Selby chase rare Home Nations sweep in Belfast

Body found in search for missing Glasgow teenager

Arteta backs Kai Havertz to become a 30-goal Arsenal forward

Andi King recounts late-life transition after decades behind an “alpha male” identity

Emiliano Martinez expects Chelsea return within weeks after surgery

Bromsgrove Repair Cafe reports nearly 80% repair success rate

Crying wolf to save livestock and their predator

Using a powerful torch, Aliki Buhayer-Mach momentarily drenches a nearby mountain top in light, straining to see if wolves are lurking in the shadows.

Two dead as Greece battles growing wildfire front

Greece on Tuesday was battling a growing wildfire front that killed two and forced widespread evacuations in the second deadly wave of fires in a month.

Ex-PM Thaksin jailed on return to Thailand after 15 years in exile

Thailand's divisive ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra was jailed Tuesday as he returned to the kingdom after 15 years in exile, hours before parliament votes to install his party's candidate as the new prime minister.

BRICS summit of emerging economies to begin in South Africa

BRICS leaders meet in South Africa on Tuesday as the loose association of major emerging economies seeks to assert its voice as a counterweight to Western dominance in global affairs.

Japan to start releasing Fukushima water on Thursday

Japan will begin releasing cooling water from the stricken Fukushima power plant on Thursday, 12 years after one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.

EU green champion swaps Brussels for home front

A tenacious negotiator and master of multiple European languages, Dutch politician Frans Timmermans has become the bearded face and impassioned voice of the EU's efforts to forge an ambitious Green Deal climate pact.

Fukushima's water release: what we know

Japan has announced plans to release wastewater from the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant into the ocean starting Thursday.

Thaksin Shinawatra: Thailand's divisive former PM

He was ousted in a coup 17 years ago and spent the last 15 of them in self-imposed exile, but Thailand's billionaire former premier Thaksin Shinawatra still casts a remarkable shadow over the kingdom's politics.

Markets head tentatively higher but traders fret over outlook

Stocks wavered in nervous trade Tuesday as investors struggled to pick up the baton from a Wall Street rally, with the mood darkened by concerns over China's economy and the outlook for US interest rates.

Ex-PM Thaksin returns to Thailand after 15 years in exile

Thailand's divisive ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra returned to the kingdom Tuesday, after 15 years in exile and hours before parliament votes for a new prime minister.

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