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- UK's battered Tory party to reveal new leader
- Gill, Pant fight back for India in third Test against NZ
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- Man Utd said 'it was now or never', new manager Amorim says
- Trump, Harris clash over rhetoric as they battle for swing state votes
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- With stones and slings, supporters of Bolivia's Morales gird for battle
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- Sacked Ten Hag wishes 'trophies and glory' for Man Utd
- Wasteful Leverkusen held by Stuttgart
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- Gauff backs WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia despite 'reservations'
- Spain flood deaths top 200, hopes fade for missing
- Famed Indian designer Rohit Bal dies: fashion group
- Fake US election video signals sprawling Russian disinformation ops
- Spencer to end long wait for first England start against New Zealand
- Russian skater Valieva vows to compete again after doping ban
- Erdogan sues opposition chief, Istanbul mayor for slander
- Piastri takes Brazil sprint pole ahead of Norris
- Morales supporters storm Bolivia military barracks, take hostages
- Dodgers celebrate World Series win with long-awaited parade
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- Last-ditch effort to solve funding deadlock at nature-saving summit
- France international Jegou resumes rugby after rape allegations
- Former Man Utd star Yorke named coach of Trinidad and Tobago
- Botswana's new president sworn in after historic election upset
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- US announces $425 mn in new Ukraine security aid
- Portraits of slain leaders watch out on Hezbollah's battered Beirut bastion
- Biden bites baby: a last week of US election oddities
- Emery says Villa are underdogs against Spurs
- Verstappen hit with five-place grid penalty at Brazilian Grand Prix
- South Carolina to execute Black man for shooting store clerk
- New Zealand captain Barrett says Marler has 'loaded gun' with haka jibe
- Kenya reintroduces tax reforms with new deputy president
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England captain George rejects Marler call for New Zealand to axe haka
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More than 400 people come forward over Al-Fayed sexual abuse claims
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Strikes near south, east Lebanon cities after Israel evacuation calls
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Van Nistelrooy 'motivated' to help managerless Man Utd
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Georgia says ruling party won disputed election, opposition calls protests
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Harris slams 'offensive' Trump as rivals go west
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US election, tech jitters rattle global stocks
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Harris slams 'offensive' Trump as rivals hit western battlegrounds
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Tsitsipas keeps ATP Finals hopes alive with gritty Paris win
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Turkey opposition protests at mayor's arrest for 'PKK ties'
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Powerful storms turbo-charged by a warming planet, poor urban planning and carelessness combined with catastrophic consequences in Spain's deadliest floods in a generation, experts told AFP.