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Argentina moves closer to labor reform, despite protests

Argentina moves closer to labor reform, despite protests

Argentina pushed closer on Thursday to approving labor reforms that have triggered clashes between workers and police in the streets outside Congress.

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Geneva opera house selling off thousands of extravagant costumes

Geneva opera house selling off thousands of extravagant costumes

Sandra Delpierre's fingers linger on a long blue and white fur coat and graze a pair of angel wings as she winds past thousands of colourful costumes used in opera performances.

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Non-alcoholic wine: a booming business searching for quality

Non-alcoholic wine: a booming business searching for quality

Bertrand Degat, vineyard manager for French zero-alcohol wine producer French Bloom, winces visibly when recalling some of the criticism and snobbery he has encountered from his contemporaries.

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Greece's Cycladic islands swept up in concrete fever

Greece's Cycladic islands swept up in concrete fever

On the sloping shoreline of the Greek Aegean island of Milos, a vast construction site has left a gaping wound into the island's trademark volcanic rock.

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Grieving Canada town holds vigil for school shooting victims

Grieving Canada town holds vigil for school shooting victims

As the sun set in the grief-stricken Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge on Wednesday, hundreds gathered in a main square, lighting candles for victims of one of the country's worst-ever mass shootings.

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Cunningham on target as depleted Pistons down Raptors

Cunningham on target as depleted Pistons down Raptors

Cade Cunningham finished with 28 points as the Detroit Pistons shrugged off the suspensions of Jalen Duren and Isaiah Stewart to cruise past the Toronto Raptors 113-95 on Wednesday.

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Dutch speed skater Jutta Leerdam combines Olympic gold and influencer attitude

Dutch speed skater Jutta Leerdam combines Olympic gold and influencer attitude

To say Dutch speed skater Jutta Leerdam divides opinion is an understatement.

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Scotland coach Townsend under pressure as England await

Scotland coach Townsend under pressure as England await

Scotland coach Gregor Townsend heads into Saturday's Six Nations match at home to England knowing even a win is unlikely to quell the debate about his position.

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Canadian ice dancers put 'dark times' behind with Olympic medal

Canadian ice dancers put 'dark times' behind with Olympic medal

Canadian figure skaters Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier put the dark times behind them with ice dancing bronze at the Winter Olympics after it had looked as if their career could be over following her cancer diagnosis.

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'Exhausting' off-field issues hang over Wales before France clash

'Exhausting' off-field issues hang over Wales before France clash

A Wales side low on confidence welcome an in-form France to Cardiff on Sunday in the Six Nations, with rugby in the country rarely having sunk to such troubling depths.

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