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Meta pushes global AI vision amid race with OpenAI, Anthropic and China

Notts Forest owner Marinakis sues Palace over gun banner - reports

US judge ends graft case against India's Adani

Koech gets three-year ban, stripped of US 1,500m title

Anderson retires after 10 MLB seasons after 'too much pain'

Sensational Ingebrigtsen back with more European gold

Colombia in state of emergency as quake kills 111

'A scare': Brazil player leaps into tunnel in joy over goal

Britain's Amy Hunt wins European women's 100m gold

USA Swimming CFO Hilliard arrested for alleged theft

Trump order pushes for overhaul of childhood vaccine schedule

French minister seeks ban of Kanye West concert in Marseille

France's interior minister is seeking to block US rapper Kanye West from performing in the southern city of Marseille in June due to his antisemitic remarks, a source close to the minister told AFP on Tuesday.

Turkey school shooting wounds 16, attacker dead

An ex-student opened fire at his former high school Tuesday in Turkey, wounding 16 people including students before killing himself in a showdown with police, officials said.

Lavrov bashes efforts to 'contain' Russia, China on Beijing visit

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticised efforts he said were aimed at "containing" Russia and China, Moscow's state media said on Tuesday during his visit to Beijing.

Stocks rise, oil slips on hopes for Mideast peace deal

Stock markets climbed and oil prices retreated Tuesday on rekindled hopes for a deal to end the Middle East war and reopen the key Strait of Hormuz to end disruptions that have sent energy prices soaring.

France, UK to host Hormuz talks Friday: French presidency

France and Britain will co-host a video conference Friday of countries ready to contribute to a "purely defensive mission" to secure the Strait of Hormuz, the French president's office said.

Romuald Wadagni, from economic reformer to presidential palace

For a decade, Benin's new president Romuald Wadagni has been the behind-the-scenes architect of sweeping economic reforms that have led to one of the strongest growth rates in west Africa.

Zelensky in Germany for military talks amid drone boom

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday visited Germany, his country's biggest military backer, which is increasingly seeking to tap UKraines battlefield expertise.

Stokes says talk of McCullum rift 'massive overstatement'

England captain Ben Stokes has dismissed suggestions of a collapse in his relationship with coach Brendon McCullum, although he says the way they work together will "look a little bit different" this season.

Xi calls for closer ties with Spain in face of global 'chaos'

China's President Xi Jinping warned against a return to the "law of the jungle" in international relations and called for closer economic ties with Spain as he met Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday, according to Chinese state media.