Argentine President Javier Milei blamed "political panic" for rattling markets Friday in the run-up to crucial midterm elections, sending the peso into a tailspin and hurting the country's sovereign risk.
Colombia on Friday blasted the United States' "excessive" military presence in the Caribbean as destabilizing for all Latin America, a sharp rebuke from one of Washington's oldest regional allies.
World champions India overcame a gutsy Oman team to win the last group match of the Asia Cup by 21 runs on Friday and stay unbeaten in the T20 tournament.
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Venezuela on Friday accused the United States of waging an "undeclared war" in the Caribbean, where Washington has deployed warships and blown up alleged drug boats in recent weeks.
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US President Donald Trump hailed Friday what he called progress with Chinese President Xi Jinping including on selling blockbuster app TikTok and said he would visit the Asian power, which offered a more cautious assessment of their talks.
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French biathlete Martin Fourcade, who retired in 2020, will be awarded a sixth Olympic title following the decision to uphold the doping conviction of Russia's Evgeny Ustyugov, the IOC announced on Friday.
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The International Olympic Committee on Friday announced that athletes from Russia will once more be allowed to compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics under a neutral banner if they meet strict conditions.
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Mikel Arteta expects Arsenal to learn from Myles Lewis-Skelly's provocative celebration against Manchester City last season when the title rivals clash at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
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Sports
Noah Lyles joined Usain Bolt in winning four successive world 200 metres titles on Friday, adding to one of the greatest medal collections of any sprinter in history.
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The United Nations Security Council voted Friday to reimpose deep economic sanctions on Iran over its resurgentnuclear program after Britain, France and Germany called for action.
Akinola Davies, the director of "My Father's Shadow", Nigeria's first film to win an award at the Cannes film festival, is savouring his return to Lagos, the country's cultural capital, where the movie was released Friday.
An elderly British couple detained in Afghanistan for almost eight months arrived in Qatar after their release by Taliban authorities on Friday amid concerns for their health, an AFP journalist reported.
Femke Bol emphatically retained her 400m hurdles world title on Friday and then admitted that absent Olympic champion and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone probably would have beaten her.
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Technology
With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information about how these space rocks disintegrate.
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The UK's foreign intelligence service MI6 on Friday launched a "dark web portal" to try to recruit spies in Russia and around the world by offering a them secure communication channel.
Noah Lyles matched Usain Bolt's record of four consecutive world 200 metre titles as he scorched to victory in Tokyo on Friday.
Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim said talks this week with the club's co-owner Jim Ratcliffe was not a crisis meeting despite a poor start to the season.
Lewis Hamilton topped the times ahead of his Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc and former partner George Russell of Mercedes in Friday’s crash-hit second free practice session for this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
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