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Odermatt warms up for Winter Games with Adelboden giant slalom win
Odermatt warms up for Winter Games with Adelboden giant slalom win

Reigning Olympic giant slalom champion Marco Odermatt warmed up for next month's Games with his sixth World Cup victory of the season in front of his home crowd at Adelboden on Saturday.

January 10, 2026

Benin showcases culture with Vodun Days
Benin showcases culture with Vodun Days

On the newly-renovated streets of Ouidah, thousands of Beninese and foreign tourists gathered this week to discover the rituals and deities bound up with voodoo, a popular animist tradition which has grown to become the focus of a international festival.

January 10, 2026

Iran crackdown fears grow as protests persist
Iran crackdown fears grow as protests persist

Rights groups expressed alarm on Saturday that Iranian authorities were intensifying a deadly crackdown under cover of an internet blackout on the biggest demonstrations in the Islamic republic in over three years after another night of mass protests.

January 10, 2026

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India's Gill calls it 'destiny' after shock T20 World Cup snub
India's Gill calls it 'destiny' after shock T20 World Cup snub

Test and ODI skipper Shubman Gill on Saturday said he respected the Indian selectors' shock decision to drop him from the squad for the T20 World Cup on home soil, calling it "destiny".

January 10, 2026

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Anger over fatal Minneapolis shooting fuels US protests
Anger over fatal Minneapolis shooting fuels US protests

Fresh demonstrations were planned across the United States this weekend in the wake of the fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration officer in Minneapolis, as local officials slammed federal agencies for excluding them from the investigation.

January 10, 2026