The return of the prodigal Oasis brothers to Manchester on Friday -- on the second leg of their highly anticipated reunion tour -- has rekindled memories of the city's time as a cultural epicentre.
The EU's top diplomat on Friday slammed Russia's latest blitz on Ukraine as "unacceptable", saying the 27-nation bloc was pondering a new raft of sanctions against Moscow.
Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, who won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for women's and human rights in Iran, has received death threats from Tehran, the Nobel Committee said Friday.
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Politics
Cambodian lawmakers amended the constitution Friday paving the way for people charged with foreign collusion to be stripped of their citizenship, despite concerns such a law could be used to silence government critics.
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US President Donald Trump was set to visit Texas on Friday as questions mounted over the response to flash floods that have left at least 120 people dead, including dozens of children.
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Caleb Clarke's All Blacks recall has been delayed after the team announced Friday he had suffered an ankle injury and wouldn't play the second Test against France.
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Veteran playmaker James O'Connor was included Friday in Australia's squad to face the British and Irish Lions, adding a wealth of experience to a Wallabies side with a mountain to climb.
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PKK fighters were to begin laying down their weapons at a ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.
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Economy
China's economy is expected to have expanded more than five percent in the second quarter thanks to strong exports, analysts say, but they warned Donald Trump's trade war could cause a sharp slowdown in the final six months.
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Stocks mostly rose Friday in Asia, tracking records in New York and London, as investors absorbed US President Donald Trump's latest tariff salvos amid optimism that most countries will strike a deal to avoid the worst of his levies.
Hundreds of people protested in Caracas Thursday demanding the return of at least 30 children who remain in the United States after being separated from their Venezuelan parents during deportation.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Friday on the sidelines of ASEAN talks in Malaysia where Washington's tariffs are in sharp focus.
A man has been charged with racially abusing a high-profile basketball player via social media in what officials said Friday was a first for the sport in Australia.
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Politics
Canada will face a 35 percent tariff on exports to the United States starting August 1, President Donald Trump said Thursday in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Thousands of people are expected to gather in Srebrenica on Friday to commemorate the genocide committed 30 years ago by Bosnian Serb forces, one of Europe's worst atrocities since World War II.
US President Donald Trump has announced a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian imports as he accused the country's leftist leadership of orchestrating a "witch hunt" against his right-wing ally, former leader Jair Bolsonaro.
At Cuernavaca's Grill, a Mexican restaurant in the Fashion District of downtown Los Angeles, owner Nayomie Mendoza is used to seeing customers line up for lunch.
As President Donald Trump ramps up tariff threats on US trading partners, his administration is taking aim at a tactic said to be used by Chinese companies to dodge the levies by moving goods through third countries.
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