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Germany's midfielder #08 Toni Kroos and Germany's forward #13 Thomas Mueller react at the end of the UEFA Euro 2024 quarter-final football match between Spain and Germany at the Stuttgart Arena in Stuttgart on July 5, 2024. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP)

Germany set sights on World Cup after Euros exit

The hosts may have bowed out of Euro 2024 at the quarter-finals on home soil, but Julian Nagelsmann has given Germany their swagger back after a difficult decade. Germany came into Euro
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Bolsonaro faces possible charges in Saudi jewel scandal

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro is facing possible money laundering and other charges related to undeclared diamond jewelry gifted by Saudi Arabia, local media reported Thursday. Federal police accused Bolsonaro, who led
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A woman walks past a signboard of Samsung Electronics displayed outside the company's Seocho building in Seoul on April 5, 2024. - Samsung Electronics said on April 5, it expects first-quarter operating profits to rise more than 10-fold year on year as chip prices recover. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
A woman walks past a signboard of Samsung Electronics displayed outside the company's Seocho building in Seoul on April 5, 2024. - Samsung Electronics said on April 5, it expects first-quarter operating profits to rise more than 10-fold year on year as chip prices recover. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

Samsung Electronics forecasts major Q2 profit jump

Samsung Electronics said Friday it expects second-quarter operating profits to rise more than 15-fold on-year as chip prices bounce back and demand for generative AI continues to grow. The firm is the
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England's midfielder #10 Jude Bellingham attends a training session at team's base camp, the Weimarer Land golf resort, near Blankenhain, on July 3, 2024, during the UEFA Euro 2024 football championship. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP)

Bellingham fined by UEFA for obscene gesture

Jude Bellingham is available for England’s Euro 2024 quarter-final with Switzerland after he was given on Friday a suspended one-game ban for his controversial celebration after scoring against Slovakia in the previous
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Argentina's goalkeeper #23 Emiliano Martinez celebrates after saving a goal during a penalty shoot out during the Conmebol 2024 Copa America tournament quarter-final football match between Argentina and Ecuador at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, on July 4, 2024. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)

Martinez the shoot-out ‘animal’ roars again for Argentina

It will be tough for Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez to top his penalty shoot-out heroics from the run to World Cup glory in Qatar in 2022 but that certainly won’t stop him
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A Palestinian man cycles past open sewage and buildings destroyed in past Israeli bombardment, in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City on July 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant Hamas group. - Israel's military said on July 3, it was conducting raids backed by air strikes in northern Gaza, killing "dozens" of militants in an area where it had declared the command structure of Hamas dismantled months ago. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Gaza: Fuel shortages ‘catastrophic’ for devastated health services- WHO

The World Health Organization chief has warned that a dire lack of fuel in the Gaza Strip could have a “catastrophic” impact on already devastated health services in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
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A protestor wrapped in a Spain's flag gestures next to an effigy of Begona Gomez, wife of Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, as she is expected to arrive to appear before magistrate in graft probe at Madrid Court on July 4, 2024. - The sign bearing the name of a pressure group linked to the far right 'Hazte Oir' (Make yourself heard) reads 'I brought Begona to court'. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife testifies before a judge on July 5, 2024 "as an investigated party" as part of a judicial inquiry into "the alleged offences of corruption in the private sector and influence peddling", in a case that has complicated life for the Spanish leader. (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP)

Spain PM’s wife testimony before judge in graft probe suspended

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s wife arrived at a Madrid court to testify before a judge Friday as part of a preliminary corruption probe into her business ties, but the hearing was
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A pedestrian walks past electoral posters of Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) left-wing coalition in Paris on July 4, 2024, ahead of the second round of the French legislative elections. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

France bans rallies in New Caledonia during Sunday polls

Gatherings have been banned this weekend in the restive French Pacific territory of New Caledonia during the second round of France’s parliamentary polls. France is on tenterhooks ahead of Sunday’s run-off vote,
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Denmark accuses bank of laundering €3.5bn for Russians

Denmark has charged the Nordic bank Nordea with laundering 3.5 billion euros ($3.8 billion) for Russian clients, the country’s financial prosecutors said Friday. “Nordea did not adequately investigate transactions by Russian clients
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A woman looks at a beach littered with trash at Bull Bay, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl on July 4, 2024. - Beryl powered towards Mexico and the Cayman Islands early on July 4, threatening strong winds and a storm surge after battering Jamaica's southern coast. Beryl weakened to a Category 3 storm overnight, sustaining winds of 125 miles (200kms) an hour, but is forecast to be "at or near major hurricane intensity" while it passes by the Caymans, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC). (Photo by Ricardo Makyn / AFP)

Beryl foreshadows future hurricanes, says UN weather agency

The World Meteorological Organization, which is tracking Hurricane Beryl’s deadly course through the Caribbean, told AFP that more storms with its hallmarks could be expected in the future. The WMO, the United
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