Arsenal and Sporting Lisbon could not be divided in an entertaining 2-2 draw in their Europa League last 16 first leg clash in Lisbon on Thursday.
Honduras' first woman president, Xiomara Castro, on Thursday lifted a 14-year-old ban on the emergency contraceptive pill in one of the last countries to outlaw its use.
Rory McIlroy toiled as American Chad Ramey shot a bogey-free eight-under-par round of 64 to take the early first round clubhouse lead at the Players Championship on Thursday.
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Politics
The protests in Georgia reflect internal political turmoil over its geopolitical destiny in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, analysts say.
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Major league superstar Shohei Ohtani was given a hero's welcome but Japan had to overcome "heavy" resistance from China to win their World Baseball Classic opener on Thursday.
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Standing in mud, a group of Ukrainian soldiers armed with military kit and rations wait nervously be to sent as reinforcements to the eastern town of Bakhmut.
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Real Madrid rejected UEFA's "insufficient" and "restricted" offer of compensation for supporters affected by trouble outside the Stade de France in Paris at last season's Champions League final on Thursday.
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Donald Trump is to release a collection of 150 letters from some of the biggest public figures in modern history, including Richard Nixon, Kim Jong Un and Oprah Winfrey, his publisher said Thursday.
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Sports
Warren Gatland said the threat of possible player strike action before Wales' Six Nations clash against England caused "a significant split" within his squad.
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Fourteen people from sub-Saharan Africa drowned in the Mediterranean, authorities said Thursday in Tunisia, where black migrants have faced a wave of violence since an inflammatory speech by President Kais Saied.
A US investment firm has proposed to stop a controversial oil auction in DR Congo's rainforests, bidding to exploit carbon credits instead of drilling in the environmentally sensitive areas.
Former captain Jason Holder lifted a struggling West Indies and frustrated South Africa with an innings of 81 not out on the second day of the second Test at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Thursday.
A French labour union said members working in the energy sector had on Thursday cut power to the building sites for the Olympic Village for the 2024 Paris Games, as well as the main Stade de France stadium.
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Politics
EU ministers met Thursday to wrangle once again over who should take responsibility for migrants arriving in Europe, pointing the finger at a reluctant Italy.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni gathered her ministers Thursday for a meeting near the site of a fatal shipwreck, as protesters accused her right-wing government of risking lives with its hard line on migration.
Peru and Burkina Faso led a global deterioration in freedom last year but a number of other nations made improvements, giving hope in the fight against authoritarianism, a US democracy research group said Thursday.
Wall Street rose on Thursday but European stock markets fell as investors brace for US jobs data that they fear could prompt the Federal Reserve to ramp up interest rate hikes.
England captain Owen Farrell has been dropped for Saturday's Six Nations match against France, with Marcus Smith selected in his place for the pivotal fly-half role.
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