Israeli troops fired warning shots during foreign diplomats' visit to the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the military said, drawing condemnation as pressure mounted on Israel to allow aid into war-battered Gaza.
Lyon striker Rayan Cherki, who has been linked with a summer move to the English Premier League, is in line to win his first France cap after coach Didier Deschamps called him up Wednesday to his squad for the Nations League Final Four.
England captain Ben Stokes, who leads his side in one-off Test against Zimbabwe on Thursday, has challenged his players to make the jump from second in the Test world rankings to first.
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A German team from the tiny town of Elversberg are unawed as they bid to become the smallest club in Bundesliga history ahead of Thursday's playoff first leg at top-flight Heidenheim.
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Pepe Reina will hang up his gloves after he plays his final match on Friday, against Inter Milan for Como where he will finish his career at the age of 42.
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US director Spike Lee says music artists today are not as politically active as they were in the 1970s, because doing so is going to "hurt your pocketbook".
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Chinese internet giant Baidu on Wednesday posted a quarterly revenue increase of three percent, as the firm seeks to grow its presence in artificial intelligence and expand its robotaxi business abroad.
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South Africa's competition authority announced Wednesday it had approved the buyout of Africa's largest pay TV enterprise MultiChoice by France's Canal+, which wants to expand its footprint on the continent.
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Pakistan dropped stars Shaheen Shah Afridi, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan on Wednesday as they named a new-look squad for three home Twenty20 internationals against Bangladesh.
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The famously volatile father of Australian former tennis star Jelena Dokic has died, she said on Wednesday, calling her grief "difficult and complicated".
The 2025 Tour de France will make three circuits of the historic Paris district of Montmartre on its last stage in what organisers said Wednesday would add a competitive finale to the world's greatest bike race.
The eldest son of US President Donald Trump, Don Jr, said Wednesday he could run for president "maybe one day", after previously denying he was considering a White House bid.
Gazans waited desperately for vital supplies on Wednesday after Israel said it let in dozens of UN trucks but faced mounting international pressure to increase the aid flow and abandon its intensified military campaign.
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French President Emmanuel Macron's political party wants to ban minors under 15 from wearing the Muslim headscarf in public, with the government set to review a report Wednesday on the spread of "political Islamism" in France.
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The 2025 Tour de France will make three circuits of the historic Paris district of Montmartre on its last stage in what organisers said Wednesday would add a competitive finale to the world's greatest bike race.
Prosecutors on Wednesday urged a French court to hand a 10-year prison sentence to the main suspect in the 2016 robbery of US celebrity Kim Kardashian in a Paris hotel after a trial that saw the influencer testify.
Pep Guardiola has said he could quit his position as Manchester City manager if he is given too large a squad next season as he can no longer bear to leave out large numbers of fit players from his team.
British clothes-to-food retailer Marks and Spencer on Wednesday said a cyberattack disrupting its online service is set to last through to July and hit group profit by around £300 million ($404 million).
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