Portugal's forward #07 Cristiano Ronaldo, goalkeeper #22 Diogo Costa and defender #03 Pepe arrive on the pitch for the UEFA Euro 2024 round of 16 football match between Portugal and Slovenia at the Frankfurt Arena in Frankfurt am Main on July 1, 2024. (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO / AFP)

Ronaldo starts as Portugal change shape in Slovenia last 16 Euros clash

Cristiano Ronaldo leads the line for Portugal in their Euro 2024 last 16 clash with Slovenia on Monday in Frankfurt, looking for his first goal of the tournament. The 39-year-old striker will
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A picture shows the Bank of England, Britain's central Bank, in London on June 20, 2024. - The Bank of England on Thursday kept its key interest rate at a 16-year high despite slowing UK inflation, opting against a cut before Britain's general election next month. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP)

Bank of England freezes rate before UK election

The Bank of England on Thursday kept its key interest rate at a 16-year high despite slowing UK inflation, opting against a cut before Britain’s general election next month. While annual inflation
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Arne Slot during the Open house Feyenoord 2023 at Stadion Feijenoord De Kuip on 16 July 2023 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Copyright: xYannickxVerhoevenxNo Use Switzerland. No Use Germany. No Use Japan. No Use Austria

New Liverpool boss Slot amused by lunchtime kick-off after Klopp criticism

Liverpool boss Arne Slot joked Thursday that TNT Sports selected the Reds’ opening match of the new Premier League season at Ipswich for a lunchtime kick-off because Jurgen Klopp was no longer
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Visit by Dutch PM Mark Rutte with PM Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw, Poland on 21 March, 2022. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Rutte seals NATO top job after lone rival drops out

Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Thursday clinched the race to become the next head of NATO at a pivotal time for the alliance, after sole challenger Romanian President Klaus Iohannis
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Steve Cooper named manager of Premier League Leicester City

Leicester City have appointed former Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper as their new manager, the newly-promoted Premier League club said on Thursday. “Leicester City Football Club can today confirm the appointment of
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Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shade themselves from the sun as they arrive at the base of Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, during the annual hajj pilgrimage on June 15, 2024. - Friends and family searched for missing hajj pilgrims on June 19 as the death toll at the annual rituals, which were carried out in scorching heat, surged past 900. (Photo by Fadel SENNA / AFP)

Death toll tops 1,000 after hajj marked by extreme heat- AFP tally

The death toll from this year’s hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, with more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in
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(FILES) An elderly man waits to refill his donkey-drawn water tank during a water crisis in Port Sudan in the Red Sea State of war-torn Sudan on April 9, 2024. - A perfect storm of war, climate change and man-made shortages have brought Sudan -- a nation already facing a litany of horrors -- to the shores of a water crisis. The country at large, despite its many water sources including the mighty Nile River, is no stranger to water scarcity. Even before the war, a quarter of the population had to walk more than 50 minutes to fetch water, according to the United Nations. (Photo by AFP)

Sudan one of world’s ‘worst crises’ in decades: medical charity

The ongoing civil war in Sudan has provoked one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises in decades, the international chief of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders said Thursday. War has raged
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France's forward #10 Kylian Mbappe, who broke his nose during his country's opening win against Austria, attends a training session during the UEFA Euro 2024 Football Championship, at the Home Deluxe Arena Stadium in Paderborn, western Germany, on June 19, 2024. - Mbappe underwent tests at a hospital in Duesseldorf before rejoining the France squad at their base in Paderborn. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)

Mbappe injury leaves France to prepare Plan B at Euro 2024

France boast fearsome strength in depth but remain hugely reliant on Kylian Mbappe for inspiration, and are now facing the prospect of being without their injured superstar for at least their next
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Two buses travel on a main road during a blackout in Quito June 19, 2024. - Ecuador blacked out on June 19, due to failures in the supply network, according to Deputy Energy Minister Roberto Luque, affecting strategic services such as telecommunications and the Quito metro. (Photo by Galo Paguay / AFP)

Ecuador experiences hours-long nationwide power outage

Ecuador suffered a nationwide blackout for several hours Wednesday as the electrical grid failed, with metro services, road traffic and other critical services crippled. The blackout hit abruptly just after 3:00 pm
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