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Rice work: Dutch test new crop to save sinking peatlands

Japan tightens rules for foreigners wanting permanent residency

Russians join street choirs to sing away sorrows -- or show dissent

'Happiest moment': China's Mu first woman to win eSports Games gold

UK fears grow over AI giant Palantir's health service deal

EU talks deportations as five nations seek migrant centre in Africa

Empty nets in Latin America as fish flee El Nino

Kenneth Branagh examines the scars of Iraq war in 'Atonement'

Meidroth blasts White Sox through, Phillies survive in MLB playoffs

Hundreds held, dozens wounded as French school protests escalate

'Catastrophic': Swiss glaciers lose fifth of mass in five years

US government's new AI chatbot pulls back from debunking Trump

California roller coaster shut after brain damage claims

US tennis star Navarro reveals health battle, ends season

Europe’s arms money maze

Houthis and al-Qaeda

Brazil tests Milei’s gamble

Germany under Weidel

Oil companies close in on Venezuela despite hurdles

Foreign oil companies scrambled for a slice of Venezuela's crude at an oil summit in Caracas this week despite years of sanctions, underinvestment and mismanagement that have crippled the once booming industry.

Romanian parliament rejects pro-EU PM candidate

The Romanian parliament on Wednesday rejected a pro-European liberal as prime minister, prolonging a political crisis seen as fuelling the rising far right.

Turkey freezes ex-minister's assets as fund scandal grows

Turkish prosecutors have moved to freeze the assets of a senior governing party official and former minister who resigned at the weekend over allegations she profited from an investment fund crisis.

Court halts Tennessee's first execution of woman in 200 years

A US court on Wednesday halted the lethal injection of a 50-year-old female killer that would have been Tennessee's first execution of a woman in more than 200 years.

Guardiola backs Man City after bombshell guilty verdicts

Former Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola threw his weight behind the club on Wednesday after a bombshell verdict on Premier League financial rule breaches plunged their future into serious doubt.

Israelis march between once-closed West Bank settlements

Hundreds of Israelis marched Wednesday between newly rebuilt settlements in the northern West Bank to celebrate a Jewish holiday, a symbolic show of their return to an area until recently almost fully Palestinian.

G20 trade ministers open talks under strain of Trump tariffs

G20 trade ministers began talks Wednesday in the United States with President Donald Trump's global tariffs casting a pall over the gathering, pushing countries to seek cooperation outside the world's biggest economy.

'Welcome back,' says Macron, as UK PM opens door to EU return

Andy Burnham put the idea of Britain rejoining the EU on the table Wednesday, breaking a taboo for a UK prime minister and leading French President Emmanuel Macron to declare in English "Welcome back".

France in talks with UK to end 2025 migrant accord: ministry

France is in discussions with the UK on ending a 2025 accord that aimed to reduce the number of migrants illegally crossing the Channel to England on small boats, the French interior ministry said on Wednesday.

Israel PM says pilot of rerouted flight tried to crash plane

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the pilot of a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight had tried to crash the plane and kill its passengers, after the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

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