Australia's second-biggest city eases lockdown as virus cases fall

Lockdown restrictions in Australia's second-biggest city were eased slightly Sunday following a steady decline in new coronavirus cases, but officials stopped short of ending a controversial "stay-at-home" rule.More than 100 days after the lockdown was impo

Iran says UN arms embargo on Tehran has been lifted

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Iran said a longstanding UN embargo on arms sales to and from the Islamic republic expired Sunday in line with a 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers from which Washington has withdrawn. Tehran, which could now purchase weapons from Russia, China and e

Polls close in Guinea, as fears of post-election dispute mount

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Polls closed in Guinea on Sunday, to fears of a looming electoral dispute, after a high-stakes vote in which the 82-year-old President Alpha Conde is seeking a controversial third term.The election -- the first in a string across West Africa -- follows months

American Airlines to restart 737 MAX flights in December

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American Airlines says it plans to begin flying the Boeing 737 MAX again in December, assuming the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) allows the plan to resume service, the carrier confirmed on Monday.Boeing's best-selling jet is undergoing a lengthy recertificati

Facebook unveils machine learning translator for 100 languages

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Facebook on Monday unveiled software based on machine learning which the company said was the first to be able to translate from any of 100 languages without relying on English.The open-source artificial intelligence software was created to help the massive so

UK insists EU must go further to break Brexit deadlock

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Britain on Monday welcomed signals that the European Union was ready to intensify stalled post-Brexit trade talks, but said its commitments did not yet go far enough to restart face-to-face negotiations.Britain's chief negotiator David Frost said he held a "

Pelosi, Mnuchin continue US stimulus talks as Tuesday deadline nears

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made progress in US stimulus negotiations with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin but a Tuesday deadline for a deal is looming, an aide to the Democratic lawmaker said Monday.Negotiations over another stimulus package to help the econ

Virus, what virus? India gets back to work

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India is on course to top the world in coronavirus cases, but from Maharashtra's whirring factories to Kolkata's thronging markets, people are back at work -- and eager to forget the pandemic for festival season.After a strict lockdown in March that left mil

In US election with record spending, Biden is out-advertising Trump

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Hyper-visible on the campaign trail, US President Donald Trump has been far more discreet in on-air advertising than his rival Joe Biden in a presidential race that is shattering ad spending records.Barack Obama's former vice president is projected to spend t

Netflix reports slowing subscriber growth; shares slide

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Netflix shares slid on Tuesday after the US streaming television titan reported that subscriber growth slowed in the recently ended quarter, after booming in the early days of the pandemic.While Netflix added 28.1 million paying subscribers so far this year, o

Mediapro said it will honour Ligue 1 TV deal but must renegotiate price

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Mediapro on Wednesday reiterated its desire to renegotiate its TV rights deal for Ligue 1 as French football reels from its decision to not make this month's scheduled payment.In a packed press conference in Paris, the firm's CEO Jaume Roures said that the c

Spain tourism sector eyes 100-bln-euro loss over virus

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Devastated by the pandemic, Spain's all-important tourism sector is expected to incur losses of more than 100 billion euros ($120 billion) this year, an industry body warned Wednesday. If the dire prediction proves correct, it would take the sector's annual

US firms more optimistic amid uncertainty: Fed report

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Businesses around the country were a bit more upbeat about their prospects coming out of the worst months of the pandemic, but worries remain, including about jobs and retail, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.While growth picked up speed, commercial real est

UK-EU Brexit talks restart with just weeks to seal deal

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Britain and the European Union will resume fraught post-Brexit trade talks on Thursday after seven days lost to threats and brinkmanship, and with just weeks left to salvage an agreement.The UK had been refusing since Friday to restart long-running negotiation

Ireland locks down for second wave, Germany smashes record daily high

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Ireland became the first European country to enter a second national lockdown and Germany's daily cases leapt to a record high as the second wave of coronavirus spread gloom across the continent on Thursday.As a Covid-19 surge gripped European countries ahead

Senate panel votes to compel Facebook, Twitter CEOs to testify

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Senate Republicans voted Thursday to subpoena Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as part of a stepped-up assault on social media's handling of online political content.The Senate Judiciary Committee move comes a week after th

US voter data traded on hacker forums: researchers

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A database with information on virtually the entire US voting population has been circulated on hacker forums, opening up the potential for disinformation and scams that could impact the November 3 election, security researchers say.A report released Wednesday

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US imposes sanctions over Russia rights abuses despite revived ties

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on five Russians over abuses including the killing of a prominent opposition leader, days after top-level talks seemed to ease tensions between the two powers.The State Department highlighted the actions against

Berlusconi interested in buying Serie C club Monza - reports

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who sold AC Milan after a trophy-laden three decades under his ownership a year ago, could be set to return to football by buying Serie C side Monza, according to press reports in Italy on Thursday.Media tycoon

Ryanair cabin crew in 5 countries to strike Sept 28: union

Ryanair cabin crew members from five European countries will go on strike on September 28, threatening hundreds of flights, a Belgian union said on Thursday.Staff from Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Portugal will stage a stoppage on the Irish no-fr

Hero dog 'saves Indian family' in flood-hit Kerala

A family in the flood-ravaged Indian state of Kerala narrowly escaped death after their pet dog woke them up moments before a landslide destroyed their home, local media reported Monday.Mohanan P. and his family were sleeping at home in the mountainous Idukki

Depth of French police collaboration with Nazis revealed

A new book and documentary have revealed the lengths to which the French wartime Vichy regime went to please the Nazis.The new research carried out by historian Laurent Joly and filmmaker David Korn-Brzoza uses previously unseen documents to show how the Frenc

World Cup big guns limber up in Russia as atmosphere builds

The World Cup big guns limbered up on Monday ahead of the tournament opener in Russia while brash underdogs Australia warned Euro 2016 finalists France to brace for an early shock.As the atmosphere built before Thursday's curtainraiser between the hosts and S

Ligue 1 returns hoping to capitalise on French World Cup success

The dust has barely settled on France's triumphant World Cup campaign, but Ligue 1 returns this weekend with French champions Paris Saint-Germain under new management and with Kylian Mbappe and Neymar taking superstar billing.Less than four weeks after France

Singapore woman jailed in 'Fat Leonard' US Navy graft case

A Singaporean woman was sentenced to 33 months in jail Friday for her role in a massive bribery scandal dubbed the "Fat Leonard" case that rocked the US Navy.Gursharan Kaur Sharon Rachael, 57, a former lead contract specialist with the US Navy, was charged a

UK PM gathers ministers as Davis resignation rumours swirl

British Prime Minister Theresa May gathers her ministers Thursday amid swirling rumours that Brexit secretary David Davis could quit over her plans to avoid a hard Irish border.Davis, the public face of the Brexit negotiations, is said to be furious about a fa

Godfather Godin won't give ground to Griezmann in World Cup battle

A self-confessed lover of all things Uruguayan, from grilled meat to bitter-tasting infusion mate, France's Antoine Griezmann knows not to expect any favourable treatment when confronted by close friend Diego Godin in Friday's World Cup quarter-final.Teammat

Hales keeps nerve as England square T20 series with India

Alex Hales kept his nerve with 58 not out to see England home and square the international T20 series against India 1-1 with one to play in Cardiff on Friday.Set 149 to win off their 20 overs England needed 12 off the final over and Hales put Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Niemann, Stanley lead as Woods climbs Memorial leaderboard

Tiger Woods ignited the crowd with a sensational hole out for eagle, but a storm delay dampened his charge at the Memorial where he was six shots behind halfway leaders Joaquin Niemann and Kyle Stanley.Woods, a three-time champion at Muirfield Village, bounced

Mohamed Salah included in final Egypt World Cup squad

Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah was included Monday in Egypt's 2018 World Cup squad despite still underdoing treatment for a shoulder injury he suffered in the Champions League final, the Egyptian Football Association said.Salah, who hit a stunning 44 goals f

Torn over coal, German village struggles to heal

Sybille Tetsch returned to the German village of Proschim to set up a restaurant four years ago, in an attempt to save her birthplace from mining excavators and heal a deep rift there over the future of coal.Residents of Proschim have for years lived with the

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