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Cash-strapped Senegalese unmoved by Youth Olympic Games

Yankees, White Sox, Padres advance, Phillies survive in MLB playoffs

Indonesia haze chokes neighbours, but little legal recourse

Samad launches Pakistan into first Asian Games men's cricket final

Cable car offers small hope for Mongolia's gridlocked capital

Yankees and White Sox advance, Phillies survive in MLB playoffs

Man City scandal risks damage to Premier League's booming brand

First-time Sepang F1 racers will master track 'from opening lap'

Rice work: Dutch test new crop to save sinking peatlands

Russians join street choirs to sing away sorrows -- or show dissent

'Happiest moment': China's Mu first woman to win eSports Games gold

UK fears grow over AI giant Palantir's health service deal

EU talks deportations as five nations seek migrant centre in Africa

Empty nets in Latin America as fish flee El Nino

Turkey says news site closed for 'LGBTQ propaganda'

Turkey's justice ministry said Wednesday a court had shut down the website and social media accounts of T24, a leading independent digital news website, citing its "LGBT propaganda".

The voices of Spain's housing camp protesters

Under the threat of eviction or with soaring rents gobbling up a large chunk of their salaries, protesting campers in Madrid and Barcelona are sharing their struggles and calling for action to tackle Spain's housing crisis.

Turkey freezes ex-minister's assets as fund scandal grows

Turkish prosecutors have moved to freeze the assets of a senior governing party official and former minister who resigned at the weekend over allegations she profited from an investment fund crisis.

Court halts Tennessee's first execution of woman in 200 years

A US court on Wednesday halted the lethal injection of a 50-year-old female killer that would have been Tennessee's first execution of a woman in more than 200 years.

Guardiola backs Man City after bombshell guilty verdicts

Former Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola threw his weight behind the club on Wednesday after a bombshell verdict on Premier League financial rule breaches plunged their future into serious doubt.

Israelis march between once-closed West Bank settlements

Hundreds of Israelis marched Wednesday between newly rebuilt settlements in the northern West Bank to celebrate a Jewish holiday, a symbolic show of their return to an area until recently almost fully Palestinian.

G20 trade ministers open talks under strain of Trump tariffs

G20 trade ministers began talks Wednesday in the United States with President Donald Trump's global tariffs casting a pall over the gathering, pushing countries to seek cooperation outside the world's biggest economy.

Israel PM says pilot of rerouted flight tried to crash plane

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the pilot of a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight had tried to crash the plane and kill its passengers, after the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

Demuro hopes to deliver Japan a 'magical' Arc victory

Cristian Demuro has ridden the winner of Europe's most prestigious race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, twice and he said Wednesday it would be "magical" to deliver Japan's first ever triumph as the nation has "been waiting years for the victory."

Truth commission demands compensation for Sweden's Sami people

A Swedish truth commission on Wednesday urged the state to apologise for injustices committed against its indigenous Sami people, including assimilation programmes, and provide compensation and redress.

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