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'Emergency' at Afghan border as migrant returns from Iran surge ahead of deadline

Rain delays India's bid for win over England in second Test

Gaza truce talks to resume in Doha before Netanyahu heads to US

Schmidt admits Wallabies have mountain to climb against Lions

Israeli negotiators due in Qatar for Gaza truce talks

Last-gasp try saves 'massively relieved' Australia against Fiji

Last-gasp try saves Australia against Fiji

'Brilliant artist': Provocateur Demna takes on slumping Gucci

Cancelled Cold war-era football tie finally completed after 65 years

Rescuers search for missing girls as Texas flood death toll hits 50

Israel army bulldozers plough through homes at West Bank camps

Geopolitics: Peru's balancing act

Israel's Covert Nuclear Rise

Spain defies NATO's 5% goal

Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

Boomers: Selfish or Scapegoats?

Germany's Anti-Woke Tide

Demographic Collapse Crisis

Israel's War on Iran's Ayatollahs

'Simple Buddhist monk' Dalai Lama marks landmark 90th birthday

Calling himself a "simple Buddhist monk" who usually didn't celebrate birthdays, the Dalai Lama marked his 90th on Sunday by praying for peace after China insisted it would have final say on who succeeded the Tibetan spiritual leader.

Messi returns to MLS with spectacular double in Inter victory

Lionel Messi scored two brilliant goals to lift Inter Miami to a 4-1 victory over Montreal in Miami's return to Major League Soccer action on Saturday in the wake of their elimination from the Club World Cup.

Hiroshima teens relay atom bomb horror with art

Trudging through the ruins of Hiroshima after the US atom bombing four days before in 1945, five-year-old Masaki Hironaka clutched his mother's hand and silently vowed to protect her.

Vietnam's laid-off communist officials face uncertain future

Sipping green tea in his garden of roses, ex-communist party official Nguyen Van Cuong says he is "jobless but happy" after Vietnam cut 80,000 state roles this week.

China's abandoned buildings draw urban explorers despite risks

Xu Pengcheng looks over his shoulder and, after confirming the coast is clear, helps his crew of urban adventurers climb through the broken window of an abandoned building.

'Into a void': Young US college graduates face employment crisis

Over two years, Rebecca Atkins filed more than 250 job applications, and felt like every one was going into a gaping chasm -- one opened by the highest unemployment rate for recent college graduates in the United States in more than a decade.

Alcaraz faces reformed Rublev as Sabalenka eyes Wimbledon glory

Carlos Alcaraz's charge towards a third consecutive Wimbledon crown faces a tricky test against volatile Russian Andrey Rublev on Sunday.

In already precarious industry, US musicians struggle for health care

In 2019, American musician Jon Dee Graham suffered a heart attack that left him "dead" for several minutes -- a scare that inspired his album, "Only Dead For a Little While."

AI robots fill in for weed killers and farm hands

Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotton field in California, plucking out weeds.

Jefferson-Wooden tops Alfred in Eugene 100m

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden continued her red-hot form at the Eugene Diamond League athletics meeting, where the American ended Julien Alfred's winning streak Saturday with another sizzling 100m win.

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