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Elon Musk says xAI startup buying X platform
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'Jail or death': migrants expelled by Trump fear for their fate
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Djokovic closing in on 100th title after Dimitrov downed in Miami
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Leverkusen beat Bochum to stay hot on Bayern's heels
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Global markets slide as fears over US tariffs intensify
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Dorival Junior sacked as Brazil coach after Argentina humiliation
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Djokovic cruises past Dimitrov into Miami Open final
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No.1 Scheffler ties Houston Open record with 62 to grab lead
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Trump auto tariffs strike at heart of North American trade
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Vance says Denmark has 'under invested' in Greenland
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Green light for Winter Olympics bobsleigh slope
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Musk's DOGE team emerges from the shadows
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Film stars blast Academy for 'failing to defend' Palestinian filmmaker
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Record fine for UK university renews free speech row
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Grizzlies fire head coach Jenkins: team
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'Game-changing' Hazlewood shines as Bengaluru thrash Chennai in IPL
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Table-topping Bengaluru thrash Chennai by 50 runs in IPL
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Israel warns of attacks 'everywhere' in Lebanon after rocket fire
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Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in drinking water
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Trump prompts US allies to reopen nuclear weapons debate
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Nigerian police ban Kano Eid parade as rival emirs dispute throne
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Ex-Barcelona star Dani Alves has rape conviction overturned
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French lawyers condemn 'sexism' of Depardieu's defence in abuse trial
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Stock markets slide over US inflation, tariff fears
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King of cobbles Van der Poel adds Belgium's E3 to Milan-San Remo win
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Vance lands in Greenland as anger mounts over Trump takeover bid
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Teen Brennan wins again, Ayuso retakes lead in Catalonia
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Massive quake kills more than 150 in Myanmar, Thailand
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Trump, Canada PM ease tensions with 'productive' call
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Italy tries to fill its Albanian migrant centres after legal woes
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S.Sudan govt says Vice President Machar 'under house arrest'
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Erdogan turns sights on opposition CHP with his main rival in jail
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Mateta 'ready' to return for Palace in FA Cup after horror injury
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US 'in arrears' at the WTO
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Massive quake kills nearly 150 in Myanmar, Thailand
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Fleeing Trump: four Americans who chose Mexico
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US Fed's preferred inflation gauge shows some cause for concern
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Journalist, protester killed at Nepal pro-monarchy rally
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Barca blow as Olmo ruled out for three weeks
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Guardiola seeks redemption as Man City head to Bournemouth in FA Cup
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Stock markets fall over US inflation, tariff fears
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PSG 'feel like champions' as Ligue 1 title nears, says Luis Enrique
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'We don't deserve bonus': Man City boss Guardiola
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Cuba resurrects dollar-only stores, a symbol of inequality
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Germany says 'nothing off table' in US tariff row
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Chinese regulator to vet Panama ports deal: Hong Kong media
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Pro-Duterte rallies as ex-Philippine leader marks 80th birthday in jail
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Israel hits Beirut after rockets fired from south Lebanon
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Pupil started deadly Guyana dorm fire over confiscated phone: source
The weekend school dormitory blaze that killed 19 minors in central Guyana is believed to have been started by a disgruntled pupil angry at having her mobile phone confiscated, a government source told AFP on Tuesday.

Defence pleads for Islamic scholar's acquittal at Swiss rape trial
Tariq Ramadan's lawyers pleaded Wednesday for the controversial Islamic scholar to be acquitted on the third and final day of his trial in Geneva on charges of rape and sexual coercion.

Jack Ma takes up visiting professor post in Japan
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma on Monday took up a visiting professor position at a Japanese university, another new academic role for the founder of tech giant Alibaba.

Jack Ma accepts university teaching post in Hong Kong
Jack Ma, founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, has been made an honorary professor of business at a top Hong Kong university, the school announced Friday.

Funny-side up: Comedy booming in French-speaking Canada
Home to a prestigious comedy school, the world's largest annual laughs festival and nightclubs that pack in audiences for dozens of weekly stand-up shows, comedy is serious business in Montreal.

Teargas and pan bans as Macron faces fresh pension anger
French police fired teargas Thursday in a village in southern France to keep angry protesters away from President Emmanuel Macron, who was the target of chants and heckles for a second day over his unpopular pension reform.

Brazil mourns children killed in preschool attack
The families of four children killed at a Brazilian preschool held emotional funerals for them Thursday, a day after an attacker murdered them with a hatchet in a crime that has shocked the nation.

Teens lured to Marseille become 'slaves' of its drugs war
Marseille's drug lords have a problem. Last year 32 of their foot soldiers were shot dead in the crime-plagued French Mediterranean port city.

Attacker kills four children with hatchet at Brazil preschool
A 25-year-old man burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children with a hatchet-like weapon Wednesday before turning himself in to police, an attack President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned as "monstrous."

US parents' dilemma: how to discuss school shootings without scaring kids
When Elizabeth Barese picked up her 11-year-old son from school on Monday, she knew she had to tell him that a shooting had happened the same day at the school neighboring their family home in Nashville.

Nashville school shooter hid seven firearms in house
The 28-year-old who shot dead six people at an elementary school in Nashville bought and concealed multiple weapons in the family home, despite evidence of mental health issues, police said Tuesday.

Nashville police seek motive after school shooter kills six
Nashville police worked Tuesday to pin down a motive behind a murderous rampage that saw three elementary school pupils and three staff shot dead by a heavily armed former student in a carefully planned and executed assault.

Founder of Afghan girls' school project arrested in Kabul
The founder of a project that campaigned for girls' education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the United Nations said Tuesday.

Female shooter kills 3 children, 3 staff at Nashville school
A heavily-armed 28-year-old woman killed three children and three staff at a private elementary school in Nashville Monday before being shot dead by police, in the latest outburst of gun violence to shock the United States.

Female shooter kills 3 children, 3 adults at Nashville school
A 28-year-old woman killed three children and three staff at a private elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday before being shot dead by police, in the latest outburst of gun violence to shock the United States.

Florida set to expand 'Don't Say Gay' law to all school years
Florida is expected to ban the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity in all school grades, expanding a controversial law championed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis ahead of his widely expected presidential run.

Russia's Asia pivot spurs boom in Chinese classes
Every Sunday, Chinese tutor Kirill Burobin begins work in the early morning and is kept busy until midnight.

Rap battle: young Tunisians fight stigma with the arts
"We're sick of being seen as thugs," said Mohamed Ali Ayari, a rapper from a down-at-heel Tunis district, where jobless youth are finding a voice through music, cinema and photography.

Hundreds of thousands strike in UK over pay
Teachers, London Underground train drivers and civil servants joined striking doctors Wednesday in a mass stoppage as Britain's finance minister unveiled his tax and spending plans.

Dawn school trial for drowsy teens draws outcry in Indonesia
Every morning in a city in Indonesia's far east, sleepy teenagers can be seen trudging zombie-like through the streets on their reluctant way to school.

Taliban free Afghan educator who protested women's university ban: aide
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have freed a detained academic, his aide told AFP on Monday, months after he used a television appearance to protest the ban on women's university education.

Afghan universities reopen but women still barred
Male students trickled back to their classes Monday after Afghan universities reopened following a winter break but women remain barred by Taliban authorities.

French teenager charged with murder over teacher killing: lawyer
Prosecutors on Friday charged a 16-year-old boy with murder over the fatal stabbing of his Spanish teacher during class earlier this week in southwest France, his lawyer said.

'Existential war': Putin steels Russia for long conflict
When Russia introduced patriotism classes in primary and secondary schools last September, Tatyana Chervenko decided she was not going to peddle Kremlin "propaganda" to her eighth-grade students in Moscow.

Biden demands Congress act on gun violence after latest mass shooting
US President Joe Biden called on Congress Tuesday to act against America's epidemic of gun violence, one day after a new massacre on a Michigan university campus killed three people and injured five.

One in 3 schoolchildren lacks access to drinking water: UN
One in three children worldwide does not have access to clean drinking water while at school, impacting their health and ability to learn, the United Nations said Wednesday.

Florida presses bid to roll back Disney special status
Florida lawmakers on Monday introduced a bill that would allow the state to take control of the area around Walt Disney World that has until now been controlled by the entertainment giant.

ChatGPT maker fields tool for spotting AI-written text
Creators of a ChatGPT bot causing a stir for its ability to mimic human writing on Tuesday released a tool designed to detect when written works are authored by artificial intelligence.

Bullying prompted French schoolboy's suicide: mother
The mother of a 13-year-old boy who killed himself in eastern France this month said Monday she believed homophobic bullying by classmates had "triggered" his suicide.

Library thrives in Pakistan's 'wild west' gun market town
When the din of Pakistan's most notorious weapons market becomes overwhelming, arms dealer Muhammad Jahanzeb slinks away from his stall, past colleagues test-firing machine guns, to read in the hush of the local library.

US college admissions scam mastermind gets 3.5 years in jail
The mastermind of a sprawling US college admissions scam that saw actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman serve jail time was sentenced to three and a half years in prison Wednesday.
Several foreign NGOs stop work in Afghanistan after Taliban ban on women staff
Several foreign aid groups announced on Sunday they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the country's Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs to stop women staff from working.