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Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur identified in Thailand

Rapprochement, debates, dissidents: US presidential visits to China

Indian magnate Adani agrees multi-million-dollar penalty in US court case

Drones to fight school shooters? One US company says yes

Mines 'draining Turkey's water sources', environmentalists warn

Zimbabwe tobacco hits new highs under smallholder contracts

War imperils rare vultures' yearly odyssey to the Balkans

Russian border city shrugs off Baltic fears of attack

Bitter church row divides Armenia ahead of elections

India hikes fuel prices as Middle East war strains supplies

Injured Mitoma fails to make Japan's World Cup squad

Malaysia PM says not opposed to fugitive financier's bid for pardon

Malaysia will not oppose a bid by a fugitive businessman involved in the massive 1MDB corruption scandal to seek a pardon from US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Friday.

Indian PM seeks trade, energy stability on UAE-Europe tour

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi began a five-nation tour on Friday, heading to the United Arab Emirates before Europe, overshadowed by energy and supply-chain worries due to the Iran war.

Passenger from hantavirus cruise quarantines on remote Pitcairn Island

A passenger from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship is in quarantine on tiny Pitcairn Island, a volcanic outcrop in the South Pacific famously settled by mutineers from the HMS Bounty.

Duplantis kicks off Diamond League season in China

Serial world record setter Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis will be on hand to kick off this season's Diamond League series when he takes to the pole vault runway at the Shanghai/Keqiao meet this weekend.

Arsenal scent Premier League glory

Arsenal can move within touching distance of the Premier League crown before title rivals Manchester City next play as a gripping race enters its final stretch.

Russia pummels Kyiv, killing at least 24 and denting peace hopes

Ukrainian emergency services said Friday that a massive Russian missile and drone attack that pummelled Kyiv the previous day killed at least 24 people, further shredding hopes of a halt to Moscow's grinding invasion.

Rare South-North Korea football match sells out in 12 hours

Tickets in South Korea for a rare match against a visiting North Korean team sold out within half a day, Seoul's football association told AFP on Friday.

Trump says made 'fantastic trade deals' with Xi

President Donald Trump said he made "fantastic trade deals" with Xi Jinping, as the pair met on Friday at final meetings of a superpower summit that according to the US leader has also reaped a Chinese offer to help open the Strait of Hormuz.

Six hantavirus cruise passengers land in Australia

A plane carrying six passengers caught up in the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship landed Friday at a military airbase in western Australia, where they will immediately enter a strict three-week quarantine.

Markets wait on Trump-Xi summit, Seoul hits record

Oil inched higher and Asian markets traded in a narrow range Friday as investors awaited tangible results from US President Donald Trump's talks in Beijing, while an AI stock boom boosted Seoul to a new record.

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