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Rio favela residents vote with little hope

Three previous two-time Arc de Triomphe winners

Evenepoel puts worlds 'disappointment' to bed with European crown

'Champion' Daryz wins second successive Arc in fine style

Two-time winning Arc trainer Rouget bows out in emotional farewell

Daryz wins second successive Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

Battling Djokovic stuns top seed Zverev at China Open

England's seven-goal spree sends message to Euro rivals: Kane

Spy chief Clayton, the Trump loyalist tech bosses trust on AI

Trump confirms national intelligence chief as new AI czar

Russian strikes hit Kyiv while Germany's Merz visits

UK's Glastonbury festival tickets sell out in 45 minutes

Up to 500 French schools to be totally or partly closed Monday: minister

Two dead in Catalonia due to torrential rains: Spanish officials

Sextet shine in cycling's new golden age

Mathieu van der Poel's triumph at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday is further confirmation of the stranglehold six cycling superstars have on the sport, which is basking in a new golden age as they sweep aside everyone in their path.

Guardiola ready to pit his wits against old rival Tuchel

Pep Guardiola is relishing the chance to pit his wits against Bayern Munich manager Thomas Tuchel as the Manchester City boss looks to avenge his team's 2021 Champions League final defeat at the German's hands.

Blinken to visit Vietnam, Japan as Asia tensions flare

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Vietnam later this week in the latest bid to build relations with a growing US partner as tensions flare with China over Taiwan, the State Department said Monday.

At least four killed by bomb in southwest Pakistan

At least four people were killed and 15 others injured Monday by a bomb blast in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, officials said.

Assistant ref stood down after Robertson elbow incident

Assistant referee Constantine Hatzidakis will not be involved in any matches while the Football Association investigate whether he elbowed Liverpool's Andrew Robertson.

Toll rises to four in French building collapse

Rescue workers on Monday recovered a fourth body from the rubble of a collapsed apartment in France's Marseille, a cabinet minister said, as firefighters raced against the clock to find four people still missing.

Rescuers find sixth body after French Alps avalanche

Emergency workers found two more victims of an avalanche near Mont Blanc in southeastern France on Monday, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to six.

China ends Taiwan war games aimed at 'sealing off' island

China declared it had "successfully completed" three days of war games around Taiwan on Monday, after it deployed dozens of aircraft to launch simulated strikes and an aerial blockade of the self-ruled island.

Italy's Berlusconi steadily improving, doctors say

Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has been in hospital for leukaemia and a lung infection, is getting progressively better, doctors said Monday, expressing "cautious optimism" over his condition.

Taiwan's frontline islanders resigned in face of Chinese military might

At a beach on a windswept Taiwanese archipelago just a few miles from mainland China, Lin Ke-qiang offers a gloomy prediction: should war ever break out with Beijing, his island does not stand a chance.

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Toll rises to three in French building collapse