Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency on Saturday and appealed for international assistance as the death toll from heavy rains and floods triggered by Cyclone Ditwah rose to 132, with another 176 reported missing.
A new draft law on conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews, whose support is crucial for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, has sparked uproar in Israel, with the opposition denouncing it as a special privilege for "draft-dodgers".
Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul's famed Blue Mosque early on Saturday on the third day of his trip to Turkey.
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Sri Lanka made an appeal for international assistance on Saturday as the death toll from heavy rains and floods triggered by Cyclone Ditwah rose to 123, with another 130 reported missing.
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Lawyers for Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro filed a new appeal Friday requesting the annulment of his coup-plotting conviction, which saw him sentenced to 27 years in prison.
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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is adamant that there is more to come from Declan Rice ahead of the England international's confrontation with Chelsea's formidable midfield duo of Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo.
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US President Donald Trump on Friday made a major intervention into Honduran politics days before the country's presidential election, pardoning a convicted ex-leader and threatening to cut US support if his preferred candidate loses.
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Geoff Parling made a winning return to Kingston Park on Friday as his Leicester side extended Newcastle's losing start to the English Prem season with a 39-17 victory.
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World champions Spain held Germany to a scoreless draw in the first leg of their Women's Nations League final in Kaiserslautern on Friday, as goalkeeper Cata Coll made several crucial saves ahead of Tuesday's second leg in Madrid.
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Austria's Stefan Brennsteiner captured his first alpine World Cup win on Friday, storming to victory in the men's giant slalom at Copper Mountain, where Swiss superstar Marco Odermatt failed to finish the first run.
Global stocks mostly rose Friday, extending a positive winning streak based in part on expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again next month.
The annual "Black Friday" kickoff to the US holiday shopping season drew crowds Friday as millions of Americans seized on the time-tested custom at physical stores and through e-commerce.
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Lewis Hamilton's self-confessed 'nightmare' with Ferrari plumbed new depths on Friday when he was reduced to using only nine words in a terse interview after qualifying 18th on the grid for Saturday's sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix.
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Three nuns in their 80s who made headlines after fleeing their care home to take back their convent in Austria are being allowed to stay there "until further notice", church officials said Friday.
Series leader Lando Norris struggled to contain his disappointment after qualifying third for Saturday's sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix where McLaren team-mate and title rival Oscar Piastri took pole.
Colombia's spymaster on Friday told AFP that intelligence-sharing with the CIA and other US agencies is "completely fluid" despite an angry public spat between the country's two leaders.
Max Verstappen's quest for a fifth drivers' world title suffered a setback on Friday when he was out-qualified by a Red Bull team-mate for the first in 440 days.
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