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Bidding opens for Messi napkin that defined soccer great's career
LONDON - Bidding began on Wednesday for a napkin on which soccer club Barcelona penned a promise to sign a 13-year-old Lionel Messi...
May 9, 20241 min read
Olympics-Flame arrives in Marseille amid tight security
MARSEILLE, France - The Olympic flame landed on French soil amid tight security on Wednesday, firing the starting gun on a summer...
May 9, 20243 min read
Prince Harry appears, alone, for UK Invictus Games service
LONDON -Prince Harry made a rare public appearance in Britain on Wednesday when he attended a service of thanksgiving to mark the 10th...
May 9, 20242 min read
Factbox-Who is the US soldier detained in Russia?
MOSCOW - U.S. Staff Sergeant Gordon Black was detained on May 2 by police in the Russian far eastern city of Vladivostok on suspicion of...
May 9, 20243 min read
New members of elite Swiss Guard sworn in to protect the pope
VATICAN CITY - Maximilian Fischer, 20, is one of the new recruits to an institution that has been protecting popes since the 16th...
May 9, 20242 min read
Probe launched after Boeing cargo plane lands in Istanbul without front landing gear
ISTANBUL -A FedEx Airlines Boeing 767 cargo plane landed at Istanbul Airport on Wednesday without its front landing gear, a Turkish...
May 8, 20242 min read
Olympics-Elite French tactical unit hopes for peaceful Paris Games
PARIS - Around 50 khaki-clad men riding atop a black armoured truck approached an abandoned office building on the outskirts of Paris...
May 8, 20242 min read
China, Serbia chart 'shared future' as Xi Jinping visits Europe
BELGRADE -China and Serbia on Wednesday agreed to follow a "shared future" as President Xi Jinping visited the Balkan country, part of...
May 8, 20242 min read
With lamb and cheese, Macron tried to charm China's Xi in the Pyrenees
TARBES, France -Chinese President Xi Jinping left France on Tuesday after a two-day trip during which he offered no major concessions on...
May 8, 20243 min read
Putin starts new six-year term with challenge to the West
MOSCOW -Russian President Vladimir Putin said it was up the West to choose between confrontation and cooperation as he was sworn in for...
May 7, 20243 min read
Macron, von der Leyen press China's Xi on trade in Paris talks
PARIS -French President Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen urged Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday to...
May 7, 20243 min read
Holocaust survivors march in Auschwitz in shadow of Oct 7 attacks
OSWIECIM, Poland - Several thousand Jews, including Holocaust survivors personally affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel,...
May 7, 20242 min read
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