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'Lucky' Quartararo looking forward to Spanish MotoGP

'Lucky' Quartararo looking forward to Spanish MotoGP

Reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo is the form rider as the tightly-fought MotoGP season moves to Jerez for the Spanish GP.

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Canada lifts restrictions on gay men's blood donations

Canada lifts restrictions on gay men's blood donations

Canada announced Thursday a lifting of restrictions on blood donations by gay and bisexual men that dates back to HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Pieters shows signs of consciousness after four months in coma

Pieters shows signs of consciousness after four months in coma

Following four months in a coma after suffering brain damage in a crash, Dutch cyclist Amy Pieters has "consciousness now" her team SD Worx said on Thursday.

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Barca to play away from Camp Nou in 2023-24 due to renovation work

Barca to play away from Camp Nou in 2023-24 due to renovation work

Barcelona will play home games away from Camp Nou during the 2023-24 season while the stadium is being redeveloped, the club confirmed on Thursday.

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Halep has 'fire back' with new coach Mouratoglou

Halep has 'fire back' with new coach Mouratoglou

Former world number one Simona Halep feels like she has "the fire back" as she enjoyed a winning debut with her new coach Patrick Mouratoglou, easing to a 6-2, 6-3 success over China's Zhang Shuai in Madrid on Thursday.

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Klopp signs new Liverpool contract until 2026

Klopp signs new Liverpool contract until 2026

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has signed a new contract that will keep him at Anfield until 2026, the Premier League club announced on Thursday.

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Climate change creating new virus hotspots 'in our backyard'

Climate change creating new virus hotspots 'in our backyard'

Climate change will drive animals towards cooler areas where their first encounters with other species will vastly increase the risk of new viruses infecting humans, raising the threat of another pandemic, researchers warned Thursday.

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Novelist Paul Auster's son, charged over baby's death, dies

Novelist Paul Auster's son, charged over baby's death, dies

The 44-year-old son of acclaimed US novelist Paul Auster has died, New York police said Thursday, just over a week after he was charged in the death of his baby daughter.

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US economy sees surprise Q1 contraction despite solid spending

US economy sees surprise Q1 contraction despite solid spending

The US economy shrank in the first quarter of 2022 as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus hampered activity and companies bought more foreign products to rebuild depleted inventories, in the latest complication for a country already struggling with record inflation.

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'Donbas is not Ukraine': in industrial east, hopes for Russian rule

'Donbas is not Ukraine': in industrial east, hopes for Russian rule

At a market in the industrial town of Lysychansk in east Ukraine -- war-scarred after relentless attacks by Russian forces -- one woman quietly hopes Moscow's army will break through.

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