Wall Street and key European equity markets rose on Friday in thin US holiday weekend trading, with a key US exchange suffering an outage.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday removed his powerful chief of staff and top negotiator, Andriy Yermak, after detectives raided his house as part of a sweeping corruption probe.
France on Friday charged the fourth alleged member of a gang arrested over last month's spectacular jewel heist at the Louvre museum, prosecutors said.
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Matheus Cunha remains sidelined as Manchester United look to bounce back after a "really tough" week, manager Ruben Amorim said Friday.
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Uzbek Muslims held mass prayers for rain Friday as the Central Asian country suffers severe droughts associated with climate change.
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Cole Palmer is fit to start Chelsea's Premier League summit meeting against Arsenal this weekend after more than two months on the sidelines, manager Enzo Maresca said Friday.
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President Emmanuel Macron called on Friday for changes to French legislation that would allow "false information" online to be urgently blocked.
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A NASA rover has recorded evidence of lightning on Mars for the first time, its microphone picking up the sounds of tiny "zaps" whipped up by the dust storms constantly sweeping across the planet.
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UK football chiefs on Friday unveiled details of their unopposed joint bid to host the Women's World Cup in 2035, with 22 proposed stadiums listed in the official submission.
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Hungary's Viktor Orban defied the EU Friday by promising Vladimir Putin he will keep buying Russian oil, as he attended a Kremlin meeting held in the midst of a diplomatic push to end Moscow's Ukraine offensive.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier honoured Nazi war victims in Guernica on Friday, becoming the first German leader to visit the Spanish town where hundreds of civilians were killed in 1937.
The International Criminal Court on Friday rejected a request by former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte to be released from detention ahead of his trial on crimes against humanity during his war on drugs.
India's economy grew faster than expected in the last quarter, official data showed Friday, but the impact from US tariffs is expected to bite in the rest of the financial year.
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Three rebel nuns in their 80s who made headlines after fleeing their care home to take back their Austrian convent are being allowed to stay in the nunnery "until further notice", church officials said Friday.
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France superstar Antoine Dupont will make his long-awaited return to action on Saturday when his league-leading Toulouse side host Racing 92 in the French Top 14.
Ukraine's anti-corruption authorities on Friday raided the home of President Volodymyr Zelensky's powerful chief of staff and top negotiator, Andriy Yermak, searches that come as a massive graft scandal embroils Kyiv.
Days of devastating flooding across Southeast Asia have killed more than 300 people in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, authorities said on Friday.
France on Friday caught one of two detainees who used bed sheets to escape from prison a day earlier after sawing through the bars of their cell, a prosecutor said.
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