Sitting in front of the closed gates of Senegal's largest university, Boubacar shows footage he took on his phone of police violence during clashes that shook the Dakar campus for several days this week.
Julia Simon's road to redemption took on a golden hue for a second time as just over three months after she received a suspended prison sentence the French biathlete won the Olympic 15 kilometres title in Anterselva on Wednesday.
Defending champion Rory McIlroy makes his US PGA Tour season debut in Thursday's opening round of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, confident in his game and a return to familiar equipment.
- Mourning Canada in 'shock' after deadliest school shooting in decades
- US top official in Venezuela for oil talks after leader's ouster
Politics
Ukraine will only hold elections once it has security guarantees in place and a ceasefire with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, pushing back at suggestions he was planning to stage fresh ballots under US pressure.
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EU leaders push rival fixes to reverse bloc's 'decline'
Economy
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A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers.
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Left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie tore the heart out of England's much-vaunted middle order Wednesday as the West Indies won by 30 runs in their T20 World Cup clash in Mumbai.
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Detroit Pistons forward Isaiah Stewart was suspended seven games by the NBA and three others from a brawl between Detroit and Charlotte were also banned by the league on Wednesday.
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Pop superstar Shakira will perform a free concert on Rio de Janeiro's iconic Copacabana beach, following in the footsteps of Madonna and Lady Gaga, city authorities said Wednesday.
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Weather
A cyclone packing violent winds has killed at least 31 people in Madagascar's second-largest city, ripping roofs off buildings, causing flooding and felling trees, the Indian Ocean island's disaster authority said Wednesday, releasing an updated toll.
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Optimism over better-than-expected jobs data in the United States proved short lived with stocks failing to hold onto gains as investors worried about delays to interest rate cuts.
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta described Thomas Frank as "extraordinary" after the Dane was fired by Tottenham on Wednesday, but said football managers are all vulnerable to the sack.
Whether chasing skiers as they fly down the mountain or tracking the luge as it tears around bends, new drone-mounted cameras are offering Winter Olympics viewers a wild ride.
Instagram's CEO Adam Mosseri takes the stand Wednesday in a landmark trial that could determine whether social media giants knowingly hooked children on their platforms for profit.
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Canada was reeling after a mass shooting targeting a school in a remote mining town, with nine people gunned down in one of the deadliest attacks in the country's history.
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NATO on Wednesday said it had launched a new mission to bolster security in the Arctic, in a move to assuage US President Donald Trump after he backed off claims on Greenland.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, after rushing to Washington to push the US president to take a tougher stance in nuclear talks with Iran.
Canada was in mourning Wednesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said, after a lone shooter killed at least nine people, including seven at a school, and injured dozens more in a remote western town.
US lawmakers grilled US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday over the Justice Department's slow release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and the redactions made to the documents about the convicted sex offender.
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- Cyclone kills 20 in Madagascar as 2nd-largest city '75% destroyed'
- French court rejects bid to reopen probe into black man's death in custody
- French rape survivor Gisele Pelicot reveals pain, resilience in memoirs
- xAI sees key staff exits, Musk promises moon factories
- Real Madrid, UEFA reach 'agreement' over Super League dispute
- Johannesburg residents 'desperate' as taps run dry
- US hiring soars past expectations as unemployment edges down
- Stock markets rise as US jobs data beats expectations