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Asian stocks mostly down as tech firms struggle to claw back losses

Japan PM says housework makes her busier than male predecessors

AI boom drives record sales at Dutch tech giant ASML

Top Indian 'cockroach' leaders sent to jail after protest

Trump says 'massive' oil, gas, mineral exploration to begin in Greenland

Ukraine ex-military officer to stand trial over Nord Stream sabotage

China heads for record trade surplus as exports surge

IMF chief says Saudi attacks could have negative spillover 'everywhere'

Vietnam mourns 700 war dead in major push to identify missing

Premier League move a Sage decision for new Palace boss

Relentless Swiatek wins all-Polish battle to launch Wuhan campaign

South Korean FA condemns 'personal attacks' as rift rumours grow

Seeing pivotal election, Israelis fly from around world to vote

Japan urges 'impartial treatment' of journalist arrested in Russia

Germany coach calls for 'balance' after World Cup penalty glut

Germany coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg called for greater "balance" on Sunday after referees awarded penalties in all of the first eight games of the Women's World Cup.

High winds feared as Rhodes fire rages

High winds forecast for Sunday are expected to hamper firefighters' battle to contain a blaze burning out of control on the Greek island of Rhodes, where some 30,000 people have been forced to evacuate.

Cambodia goes to polls with Hun Sen all but guaranteed to win

Cambodians voted Sunday in an election that long-time leader Hun Sen is all but guaranteed to win as he looks to secure his legacy by handing the reins to his eldest son.

'Vigilance is key': Al Shabaab threat rising in Kenya's northeast

In Kenya's rural northeast, roadside bombs and beheadings that killed two dozen people last month appear to be part of a troubling escalation of violence by Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists, analysts say.

Women's World Cup never been tougher, warns Germany coach

Germany coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg warned Sunday that women's football has never been more competitive as her side chase a third World Cup title.

Once 'humiliated', South Korea's Park savours third World Cup

Park Eun-seon was "humiliated" a decade ago by unfounded claims about her sex but has put the episode behind her to reach a third Women's World Cup.

Netanyahu gets pacemaker ahead of vote on judicial reforms

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker on Sunday ahead of a debate in parliament on a controversial judicial overhaul bill that has brought tens of thousands of protesters to the streets.

Ledecky lays down marker ahead of 400m showdown

Katie Ledecky threw down the gauntlet to women's 400m freestyle rivals Ariarne Titmus and Summer McIntosh at swimming's world championships on Sunday, finishing fastest in the morning's heats.

Russia strikes Odesa hours before Putin-Lukashenko summit

The Ukrainian port city of Odesa came under renewed Russian missile attack early Sunday, just hours before President Vladimir Putin was due to hold a summit with his staunch Belarus ally Alexander Lukashenko.

Iran's Zoroastrians keep ancient, sacred flame burning

A Zoroastrian priest dressed in white carefully added wood to a fire that has burned for centuries inside an Iranian temple, sacred to one of the world's oldest religions.

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