Anthony Gordon starred with a brilliant four-goal haul as Newcastle crushed Qarabag 6-1 in the first leg of their Champions League play-off tie on Wednesday.
France's far-right leader Jordan Bardella on Wednesday accused President Emmanuel Macron and his allies of helping strengthen the hard-left as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed shock at the fatal beating of a far-right activist blamed on the ultra left.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said he regretted the slow progress his company made in identifying underage users on Instagram as he testified at a landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles.
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Mitch Marner scored in overtime as Canada saw off the Czech Republic 4-3 to advance to the Olympic men's ice hockey semi-finals along with Slovakia, who dispatched Germany 6-2 on Wednesday.
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Peru's Congress is set to name a new president Wednesday -- the country's eighth in a decade -- after Jose Jeri was impeached on graft allegations barely four months into his term.
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Leila Shahid, the first woman diplomat representing Palestine abroad, died in southern France aged 76, her family said Wednesday.
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The United States is building a major force of naval and air assets in the Middle East, potentially setting the stage for a sustained military campaign against Iran.
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Slovakia dispatched Germany 6-2 on Wednesday to become the first team to advance to the Olympic men's ice hockey semi-finals before favourites Canada and the United States take to the ice for their games later.
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Greece will claim a World War II photo trove posted for sale online believed to show for the first time one of Nazi Germany's worst atrocities in the country, the culture ministry said Wednesday.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright urged the International Energy Agency on Wednesday to abandon its work on climate change and focus instead on its founding mission.
Mikaela Shiffrin's thoughts turned to her deceased father after she ended her long wait for a third Olympic gold by winning the slalom in Cortina on Wednesday.
A coalition of environmental and health groups on Wednesday filed suit against the Trump administration's repeal of a key scientific finding that underpinned federal climate regulations.
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The genteel Olympic sport of curling has attracted a cult following, but one of its leading lights says the spirit of the sport is "dead" after cheating claims at the Milan-Cortina Games.
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Denmark's King Frederik X arrived in Greenland on Wednesday for a three-day visit in a show of support for the autonomous Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.
Shivam Dube hit a counter-attacking 66 to lift holders India to 193-6 after a batting stutter against the Netherlands in their final group match at the T20 World Cup on Wednesday.
Japan's Sanae Takaichi was formally reappointed as prime minister on Wednesday, 10 days after her historic landslide election victory.
A Polish bishop went on trial Wednesday for allegedly covering up paedophilia by priests in his diocese in a landmark case for the deeply Catholic country.
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