Pakistan launched air strikes inside Afghanistan late Friday, killing at least 10 people and breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border, Afghan officials told AFP.
Losing his title as Duke of York caps a remarkable fall from grace for Britain's scandal-tarred Prince Andrew and appears to end once and for all the royal career of King Charles III's younger brother.
Argentines scrambled Friday to buy dollars and household items as the peso depreciated against the greenback, despite multi-billion dollars of US support for the under-pressure currency.
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Paris Saint-Germain produced a second-half fightback to draw 3-3 with an impressive Strasbourg on Friday as Luis Enrique's side held on to top spot in Ligue 1.
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The UK government vowed on Friday to do everything to allow all fans to attend a match between Aston Villa and Tel Aviv Maccabi after anger at a ban on the Israeli team's supporters.
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South Africa's juggernaut rolled on in the Women's World Cup as they crushed Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in a rain-marred contest in Colombo on Friday.
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Pakistan launched strikes on Afghan soil late Friday, breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border, a senior Taliban official told AFP, warning that Kabul would "retaliate."
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King Charles III and Pope Leo XIV will pray together in a "unique" Sistine Chapel service not seen in centuries, Buckingham Palace said Friday, as it announced next week's state visit to the Vatican.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Donald Trump at the White House on Friday to push the US leader for long-range Tomahawk missiles that can strike deep inside Russia.
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Georgian prosecutors raided the homes of some of the country's most powerful former officials on Friday, including ex–prime minister Irakli Garibashvili, signalling what may be a shakeup within the country's ruling elite.
A senior member of the US Federal Reserve on Friday indicated he could back another interest rate cut later this month, while urging a meeting-by-meeting approach going forward.
Thousands of worshippers returned on Friday to the Gaza Strip's few intact and many damaged mosques, where for the first time in months loudspeakers blared the Islamic call to prayer.
John Bolton, who served as Donald Trump's national security advisor before becoming an outspoken critic of the US president, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of mishandling classified information.
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The US agency in charge of nuclear weapons is putting most of its workforce on unpaid leave, a top Republican lawmaker warned Friday, as a prolonged government shutdown bit further into already crippled public services.
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Two people died and dozens were injured in a stampede at the state funeral of Kenya's revered opposition leader Raila Odinga on Friday as crowds rushed to see his coffin, Doctors Without Borders said.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is set to speak Friday with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, an official from President Donald Trump's administration told AFP -- as Washington works to rally allies to respond to Beijing's rare earth curbs.
Global stocks mostly fell Friday even as concerns over bank loans and an escalation in the US-China trade war eased.
Ange Postecoglou says that if he is given time at a club it always ends "with me and a trophy" as he fights to save his job at Nottingham Forest.
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