Kenyan police mounted a massive security operation Thursday, blocking off much of the capital in a bid to prevent protests marking two years since a landmark "Gen Z" uprising.
A twin earthquake that was Venezuela's largest in over a century has killed at least 164 people and destroyed multiple buildings near the capital, where residents searched Thursday for missing relatives.
Returning England captain Ben Stokes was straight back into the fray as New Zealand skipper Tom Latham won the toss and elected to bat in the third and deciding Test at Trent Bridge on Thursday.
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Powerful twin earthquakes have killed at least 32 people and hurt hundreds in Venezuela, the nation's leader said Thursday, with dozens of buildings collapsed or heavily damaged in a hard-hit area near the capital.
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Top US diplomat Marco Rubio was in Bahrain on Thursday after promising Gulf allies that Washington would protect their interests as it seeks to hammer out a final settlement to end the war with Iran.
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South Korea coach Hong Myung-bo took the blame for his team's limp 1-0 defeat to South Africa on Wednesday that left their World Cup hopes hanging by a thread.
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South Africa coach Hugo Broos said his team had shut up the "big mouths" after the Bafana Bafana qualified for the World Cup knockouts for the first time in their history by beating South Korea 1-0 on Wednesday.
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Brazil punished Scotland's defensive frailties to advance to the World Cup's last 32 on Wednesday as South Africa, Canada and Bosnia-Herzegovina completed a historic hat-trick by progressing to the knockout rounds for the first time.
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"Antonio, it's your mom, I'm right here," a mother's desperate cries bounced off the rubble of a 22-story building in Caracas that collapsed following two powerful earthquakes in Venezuela on Wednesday.
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At 15, like most Danish teenagers, Nora Pihl chose to get confirmed but for her, as for a growing number of young Danes, it wasn't a religious affair.
South Africa beat South Korea 1-0 on Wednesday to reach the World Cup knockout rounds for the first time in their history -- an astonishing turnaround after a dismal opening defeat.
South Korea's Kospi soared more than five percent in a tech-led surge across Asia on Thursday as a forecast-busting earnings report from US chip titan Micron helped traders brush off their latest worries about the AI investment boom.
Scotland coach Steve Clarke accepted that his team may be heading home from the World Cup in a few days after completing the group stage with a comprehensive 3-0 loss to Brazil on Wednesday.
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Venezuela's interim leader declared a state of emergency Wednesday as two massive earthquakes caused buildings in the capital to crumble and forced the closure of the country's main airport.
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Japan manager Hajime Moriyasu said Wednesday his side were focused solely on beating "a very strong" Sweden in their final group match and hoping that would be enough to finish top of Group F.
Above the patter of rain cascading through the jungle canopy comes the haunting call of a pileated gibbon singing to fend off intruders in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains.
It was founded as a Sixties utopia "where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony" without money or religious strife in southern India.
"When the city starts feeding the countryside, it means the country is done for," farmer Emil Deliev said from southern Bulgaria's mountains where small dairy farms are vanishing one after another.
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