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Major earthquake hits Panama, injures at least 27

Marquez grabs MotoGP championship lead with Indonesia sprint win

India detains 'cockroach' leaders ahead of election protest

Schauffele closes in on leaders after 'weird' round in Japan

'No divisions, no borders', French astronaut says of seeing Earth

Medvedev through at Shanghai Masters in first match since disqualification

India's 'cockroach' movement chief detained ahead of major protest

Trump sows doubt on plan to livestream US military execution

Year later, Gaza ceasefire promises mostly unfulfilled

Hunger and malnutrition stalk Gazans, a year on from ceasefire

Taiwan's leader says increasing defence spending to 'deter war'

Fernandez trumps MotoGP championship duo to grab Indonesia pole

Major quake hits Panama, no deaths reported

October 7 scars push Israel's first-time voters to right

US trucker guilty of 2018 synagogue massacre

A truck driver was convicted on Friday of massacring 11 Jewish worshippers five years ago in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history.

Stokes' bold declaration 'no surprise' to Bairstow

England captain Ben Stokes' bold declaration on the opening day of the first Ashes Test may have come as a shock to cricket traditionalists, but it was "no surprise" to team-mate Jonny Bairstow.

Hungarian govt, media set sights on Soros son

After years of demonising billionaire investor George Soros as a sinister liberal bogeyman, the Hungarian government and its allied media are taking aim at a fresh target -- his son Alexander.

Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg dead at 92

Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the "Pentagon Papers" about the Vietnam War, died on Friday, his family announced. He was 92.

Ukraine troops secure village as new push seeks momentum

The blue and gold flag flying above the shattered doorway of the Blagodatne cultural centre is Ukrainian, but the soldiers lying dead inside are Russian.

Opening Canada F1 practice cut to five minutes by circuit power problems

Opening free practice at the Canadian Grand Prix was hit by power and communications infrastructure problems that ended the action after only five minutes on Friday.

African leaders urge de-escalation after missile attack on Kyiv

A delegation of African leaders met President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday and told Russia and Ukraine to de-escalate and negotiate, hours after sheltering from missile strikes on Kyiv.

Putin proclaims end of 'ugly neo-colonialism'

President Vladimir Putin on Friday proclaimed the end of "neo-colonialism" in international politics and praised Russia's economic strategy following its ruptured ties with the West.

Mali calls for immediate end of UN mission

Mali's foreign minister called Friday for the UN Security Council to withdraw the peacekeeping mission in his country "without delay," denouncing its "failure" to respond to security challenges.

Johnson plummets with quadruple bogey at US Open

Two-time major winner Dustin Johnson said the Los Angeles Country Club North Course was harder than a pair of US Open first-round 62s made it look -- and he hammered home that point with a quick quadruple bogey on Friday.

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