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Australia says relations with Israel 'difficult' after aid worker death

Messi scores first goal since father's death in Miami draw

PSG start Ligue 1 defence with eye on Champions League hat-trick

Mercedes and Max: What to watch as F1 returns for Dutch GP

Arsenal can become world's best club: Arteta

'People, not robots': Ukraine's soldiers justify human role amid drone revolution

Japan's King Kazu, 59, scores twice from spot to make cup history

North Sea drilling tests UK govt climate pledge

Kyiv's desperate vendors persevere outside obliterated flea market

'Ray of hope': Gaza seed bank rebuilds after wartime destruction

Australia races to shield little penguins from H5N1 bird flu

Mourinho begins second Real Madrid reign with Barca in his sights

Messi scores first goal since father's death

'More confrontational': Iran's new hardline security leadership

Russian war reporter Andrei Babitsky dies at 57

Russian journalist Andrei Babitsky died at home in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk aged 57, regional media and Radio Free Europe reported.

US lifting pandemic expulsion policy

The United States announced Friday it was lifting a public health order imposed because of the Covid-19 pandemic that required the immediate expulsion of migrants arriving at the border.

Amazon workers in New York vote to unionize in US first

Amazon workers in New York voted Friday to establish the first US union at the e-commerce giant, a milestone for a company that has steadfastly opposed organized labor in its massive workforce.

NASA begins critical final test on mega Moon rocket

NASA on Friday begins a critical two-day-long test of its giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket complete with a mock countdown, as the agency gears up to return humans to the Moon.

South Africa's Harmer in four-wicket Test return, admits to 'self-doubt'

Simon Harmer gave credit to English county Essex after spinning South Africa into a dominant position on the second day of the first Test against against Bangladesh at Kingsmead on Friday.

Masters champ Matsuyama pulls out of Texas Open with neck injury

Japan's Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama withdrew from the US PGA Tour Texas Open on Friday with a neck injury less than a week before he was set to launch his title defense at Augusta National.

Smoke signals: US House votes to decriminalize cannabis

US lawmakers backed the decriminalization of marijuana nationwide in a vote Friday that will eliminate punishments for providing or possessing the drug if it is signed into law by President Joe Biden.

Stocks wobble as solid US jobs data points to rate hike

Stock markets wavered on Friday as a solid US jobs report raised expectations of an aggressive US interest rate hike to tame runaway inflation.

Street protests grip Sri Lanka as economic crisis escalates

Street protests gripped Sri Lanka Friday as demonstrators blocked main roads across the country, a day after hundreds tried to storm the president's home in anger over an unprecedented economic crisis.