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Field of Gold sparkles on opening day of Royal Ascot

Alcaraz wins testing Queen's opener, Draper cruises

'Second time I've died': Nobel laureate Jelinek denies death reports

Oil prices jump, stocks drop as traders track Israel-Iran crisis

Swiss insurers estimate glacier damage at $393 mn

Premiership club Gloucester sign All Blacks prop Laulala

Spain says 'overvoltage' caused huge April blackout

Russian strikes kill 10 in 'horrific' attack on Kyiv

Record stand puts Bangladesh in command in first Sri Lanka Test

Galthie defends second-string France squad for New Zealand tour

China's Xi in Kazakhstan to cement 'eternal' Central Asia ties

'No rice, no sugar, no eggs': Bolivians despair as economy tanks

Waiting in line for hours, often in vain, for basics such as cooking oil has become a way of life in Bolivia, where anger over shortages and skyrocketing prices has exploded into violence.

Israel pounds Iran, Tehran vows vengeance

Israel pounded Iran in a series of air raids on Friday, striking 100 targets including Tehran's nuclear and military sites, and killing the armed forces' chief of staff, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and top nuclear scientists.

Iran's nuclear programme: the key sites

Before Israeli strikes on Friday, Washington and Tehran had held several rounds of talks on Iran's nuclear programme, as concerns mounted about its rapid expansion.

In a Pakistan valley, a small revolution among women

In a sawdust-filled workshop nestled in the Karakoram Mountains, a team of women carpenters chisel away at cabinets -- and forge an unlikely career for themselves in Pakistan.

Anthropic says looking to power European tech with hiring push

American AI giant Anthropic aims to boost the European tech ecosystem as it expands on the continent, product chief Mike Krieger told AFP Thursday at the Vivatech trade fair in Paris.

Bolivia police officer blown up by pro-Morales demonstrators

A Bolivian policeman taken hostage by demonstrators was blown up with explosives, the government said Thursday, marking a dramatic escalation in the state's standoff with backers of ex-president Evo Morales.

'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft

At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.

Rescue teams comb site of Air India crash that killed at least 265

Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed the crash site Friday of a London-bound passenger jet which ploughed into a residential area of India's Ahmedabad city, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground.

Senior US Democrat condemns Israel's 'reckless escalation'

Democratic senators sharply criticized US ally Israel on Thursday for its strikes on Iran, as the White House distanced itself from the attack but Republican senators voiced gratitude to Israel.

With Kane's curse broken, Bayern eye Club World Cup treasures

Fresh from lifting a first team title of his career, Harry Kane and Bayern Munich head to the Club World Cup in the United States eyeing more than just another shot at silverware.

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