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Mali jails junta-critic broadcaster, influencer for seven years

Stocks steady as investors weigh US rate path

'Nowhere to run': Indonesian quake survivors plead for help

Taiwan's leader says government to propose record defence spending for 2027

Belgium fire makes 'limited' spread overnight, more help on way

Kushner meets Netanyahu after talks with Hamas on Gaza plan

Cambridge head slams 'feeding frenzy' over dead academic

Vingegaard brings curtain down on season

Ebola outbreak now DR Congo's deadliest ever

Dickwella, Dinusha hit fifties as Sri Lanka fight back

Nearly 13,000 displaced by deadly Indonesian quake await aid

Germany's coalition split over putting climate in constitution

Bangladesh Test cricket reboot delivers in style with historic win

Ukraine badminton star: 'How can you feel normal when bombs are falling?'

Zelensky hails 'real progress' in Berlin talks with Trump envoys

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that talks in Berlin with US President Donald Trump's envoys on ending the war with Russia were "not easy" but brought "real progress" on the question of security guarantees.

Toulouse handed two-point deduction for salary cap breach

Record 24-time French Top 14 champions Toulouse were handed a two-point penalty by the league's organisers on Monday for 2022's transfer of Melvyn Jaminet from Perpignan.

Son arrested for murder of movie director Rob Reiner and wife

Hollywood giant Rob Reiner's son was charged Monday with murdering his father -- the famed director of hits including "When Harry Met Sally" -- and his mother in their Los Angeles home.

Stock market optimism returns after tech selloff but Wall Street wobbles

European stock markets recovered upward momentum on the back of interest rate optimism Monday following a brief correction affecting mostly the tech sector, but gains were pared as Wall Street ran out of steam by the late morning.

Clarke warns Scotland fans over sky-high World Cup prices

Scotland boss Steve Clarke has urged fans not to rack up huge debts as they plot how to follow their team at next year's World Cup after decades of pain for the Tartan Army.

In Israel, Sydney attack casts shadow over Hanukkah

With heavy hearts, Jews in Israel lit the year's first Hanukkah candles, mourning after gunmen opened fire on a Jewish gathering in Australia, killing 15 and reviving painful memories of the October 7, 2023 attack.

Son arrested after Rob Reiner and wife found dead: US media

Police took Rob Reiner's son into custody after the Hollywood director of hits including "When Harry Met Sally" and his wife were found dead in their Los Angeles home, US media reported Monday.

Athletes to stay in pop-up cabins in the woods at Winter Olympics

Hundreds of athletes at Italy's Winter Games in February will stay in mobile homes as part of a high-altitude Olympic Village offering mid-winter luxury camping at 1,300 metres (4,240 feet).

England seek their own Bradman in bid for historic Ashes comeback

England arrived in Australia knowing it would take something special to reclaim the Ashes. Now, after losing the first two Tests, they need a miracle -- but it is one that has been achieved before.

Decades after Bosman, football's transfer war rages on

Thirty years after the European ruling on the case of Jean-Marc Bosman transformed football's economic landscape, the sport is still wrestling with the legal fallout.

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