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Karl and Gnabry spark Bayern to comeback win over Sporting

Karl and Gnabry spark Bayern to comeback win over Sporting

Revitalised striker Serge Gnabry and teenage forward Lennart Karl helped inspire Bayern Munich to a come-from-behind 3-1 home win over Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League on Tuesday.

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Mass graft raids rattle Argentine football

Mass graft raids rattle Argentine football

Argentine police raided national football headquarters and several top clubs Tuesday, in a sweeping money-laundering probe just months before the world champions defend their title.

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Indigenous artifacts returned by Vatican unveiled in Canada

Indigenous artifacts returned by Vatican unveiled in Canada

Indigenous artifacts taken from Canada by Catholic missionaries to Rome a century ago were unveiled at a Canadian museum on Tuesday, repatriations that have sparked calls for the Vatican to return other treasured items.

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Ivory Coast recall Zaha for AFCON title defence

Ivory Coast recall Zaha for AFCON title defence

Defending champions Ivory Coast have recalled 33-year-old former Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.

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Trump's FIFA peace prize breached neutrality, claims rights group

Trump's FIFA peace prize breached neutrality, claims rights group

Human rights group FairSquare has filed a complaint to FIFA's ethics committee claiming the world football body's president Gianni Infantino breached his duty of neutrality by supporting US President Donald Trump.

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NHL 'optimistic' about Olympic rink but could pull out

NHL 'optimistic' about Olympic rink but could pull out

North America's National Hockey League (NHL) said it was "cautiously optimistic" about the Milan Olympic rink but warned it still could yank its players from the Games.

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Three face German court on Russia spying charges

Three face German court on Russia spying charges

Three men went on trial in Germany on Tuesday, accused of tailing a former soldier for Ukraine on behalf of a Russian intelligence service for a possible assassination plot.

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Amy Winehouse's father sues star's friends for auctioning her clothes

Amy Winehouse's father sues star's friends for auctioning her clothes

The father of late British singer Amy Winehouse Tuesday defended his UK lawsuit against two of her friends after they sold some of her clothes at auction for around £730,000 ($970,000).

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Woltemade's 'British humour' helped him fit in at Newcastle - Howe

Woltemade's 'British humour' helped him fit in at Newcastle - Howe

Newcastle manager Eddie Howe said Nick Woltemade's British sense of humour helped him adapt to life in England, ahead of Wednesday's Champions League clash in the striker's native Germany against Bayer Leverkusen.

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UK trial opens in dispute over Jimi Hendrix recordings

UK trial opens in dispute over Jimi Hendrix recordings

A legal dispute over the rights to recordings made by the 1960s British-American rock band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, went to trial on Tuesday at the High Court in London.

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