US President Donald Trump said Iran has requested a meeting that will be held in Qatar on Tuesday, despite Tehran earlier denying that any technical talks on the deal aimed at ending the Middle East war were planned.
American world number four Jessica Pegula has slammed the four-year ban given to former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova for refusing an anti-doping test.
The Spanish government on Monday raised its 2026 growth forecast to 2.6 percent from 2.2 percent, saying its economy was well positioned to overcome the energy shock and other turbulence stemming from the Middle East war.
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Jannik Sinner will begin his march towards a second successive Wimbledon title on the opening day of the grass-court Grand Slam, while Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka are also in Centre Court action.
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The most severe heatwave ever recorded in Europe roasted central and eastern parts of the continent on Monday and began to creep over Ukraine, which scrambled to prepare its war-ravaged power grid for the shock of scorching heat.
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Defending champion Tadej Pogacar will be joined by Isaac del Toro and Adam Yates in his quest for a record-equalling fifth Tour de France, his UAE team announced on Monday.
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Paris Saint-Germain are in talks with Bundesliga side RB Leipzig to buy Ivory Coast forward Yan Diomande, a source close to the dossier told AFP.
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Australia said Monday its football team will play two games against powerhouse Brazil for their first home fixtures after the World Cup.
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Hopes were fading Monday of finding survivors more than four days after powerful twin earthquakes struck Venezuela, as residents grow increasingly frustrated with the government's response to the disaster that has killed at least 1,450 people.
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Asian stocks mostly rose and oil prices edged up on Monday as reports said the United States and Iran had agreed to stop attacking each other following a weekend of strikes that threw their fragile truce into question.
A Jewish lawyer wounded in a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach discovered that AI-generated images depicting him as a "crisis actor" were proliferating online as he was going into surgery, a royal commission inquiry heard Monday.
South Korea will invest nearly $1.2 trillion -- equivalent to more than two-thirds of its GDP -- in a new chip-building hub and AI data centres over several years, as it seeks to profit from soaring demand while developing previously neglected regions.
Pakistani airstrikes killed dozens of people in eastern Afghanistan, with Islamabad saying on Monday it targeted militants but the Afghan government reporting civilian casualties.
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Politics
Seeing a whole class of children pile into his museum about a Russian prince's 13th-century victory over Western crusaders, historian Vladimir Potresov was delighted.
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Cape Verdean make-up artist Leonardo put the finishing touches to a singer's look at a shoot for a music video, open and comfortable about being a gay man in Africa.
Brazil's quest to win a record sixth World Cup heads into the knockout stages on Monday as Carlo Ancelotti's team face Japan in the last 32, before four-time champions Germany play Paraguay and Morocco take on the Netherlands in perhaps the tie of the round.
South Korea's dismal World Cup first-round exit has sparked fury at home and calls for a complete overhaul at the top have not been silenced by coach Hong Myung-bo's resignation.
A US official said Sunday that Washington and Tehran agreed to halt attacks after new tit-for-tat strikes strained their interim deal, with the sides planning to renew talks aimed at ending the Middle East war.
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