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Catherine, Princess of Wales, will attend the Wimbledon Men's final in London on Sunday as she recovers after being diagnosed with cancer, her Kensington Palace office said.

France's prime minister was poised on Saturday to take the leadership of his party's National Assembly lawmakers as politicians from all sides jockeyed for position to form the next government.

Nepali rescue teams on Saturday recovered the first body from around 50 people missing after monsoon rains triggered a landslide that swept two buses off a highway and into a river.

The International Monetary Fund has agreed to loan Pakistan $7 billion to bolster its faltering economy, with Islamabad pledging Saturday it would be the last time it relied on relief from the Washington-based lender.

Kenya's police watchdog said it is investigating whether there is any police involvement in the gruesome discovery of mutilated bodies dumped in a Nairobi rubbish tip.

The International Monetary Fund said it reached a new $7 billion loan deal with Pakistan in a bid to bolster its faltering economy.

Iran's president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian said he looks forward to improved relations with European nations, even though he accused them of reneging on commitments to mitigate the impact of US sanctions.

Lavish wedding celebrations for the son of Asia's richest man resumed Saturday with a star-studded guestlist including Hollywood celebrities, global business leaders and two former British prime ministers.

An Ecuadorian court sentenced a gang member to nearly 35 years in prison Friday for plotting and ordering from his cell the murder of a journalist turned anti-corruption presidential candidate.

Turkey plans to draw on its geographical position and an EU customs deal to entice Chinese investors keen to access European markets tariff-free, as it recently just did with carmaker BYD.

Meta said Friday it was lifting restrictions on US presidential candidate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts, ending measures put in place after his supporters violently stormed the US Capitol in 2021.

China on Saturday announced a new crackdown on its tightly controlled internet, taking aim at video apps and social media platforms to purge content deemed harmful to children.

In a sun-baked village north of Morocco's capital Rabat, Mustapha Loubaoui and other itinerant workers wait idly by the roadside for farm work made scarce by a six-year drought.

North Korea has denounced a declaration at a recent NATO summit that condemned Pyongyang's weapons exports to Russia, calling the document "illegal", state media said Saturday.

Donald Trump will next week receive the Republicans' official blessing to run for president -- the first ever convicted felon to be a nominee for one of the two major US parties.

Over a year and a half since Haiti's rampant gang violence upended her life, Philomene Dayiti longs for nothing more than leaving the Port-au-Prince church where she has taken refuge with hundreds of others and returning home.

Guatemala's president on Friday offered an official apology to one of the many families whose children were taken away and adopted abroad in a multimillion-dollar black market.

Duhan van der Merwe scored a record-equalling 27th international try as Scotland romped past the United States 42-7 in the latest stop on their summer tour of North and South America on Friday.

Five suspects in the assassination of Ecuadoran presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, shot dead last year just before the country's election, were handed hefty prison sentences Friday for their roles in the killing.

A fired up Joe Biden again rejected speculation he would quit the US presidential race and tried to turn the spotlight on rival Donald Trump as he took his crisis-hit reelection bid back on the campaign trail Friday.

Alec Baldwin's trial for involuntary manslaughter was abruptly dismissed by a judge Friday after she ruled that key evidence over a fatal shooting on the set of "Rust" had been withheld from the defense.

Alec Baldwin's trial for involuntary manslaughter was dismissed by a judge Friday after she ruled that key evidence over a fatal shooting on the set of "Rust" had been withheld from the defense.

US President Joe Biden returned to the campaign trail Friday seeking to reassure voters and Democrats alike about his fitness for office, after a major news conference failed to silence calls for him to quit.

France coach Fabien Galthie admitted on Friday that the events of the last week have traumatised his team as they prepare for Saturday's second Test against Argentina in Buenos Aires.

Sakina Karchaoui's long-distance screamer helped ensure France's place at Women's Euro 2025 on Friday as they emerged 2-1 winners against Sweden in League A qualifying, while England beat the Republic of Ireland to close in on qualification.

Josh Vance stands in the airconditioned entrance of Sunnyside Community Center in Houston, Texas, one of the designated "cooling centers" open to the public after Hurricane Beryl knocked out power during a potent heat wave.

Global stock markets mostly powered ahead on Friday, lifting the Dow above 40,000 and near a fresh record despite disappointing US inflation data and a lackluster market reaction to American bank earnings.

As much of America baked in heat waves this week, the relatively poor New York borough of the Bronx suffered disproportionately.

SpaceX's highly reliable Falcon 9 rocket has experienced a rare failure that means the latest batch of the company's Starlink satellites won't make it into orbit, the company said Friday, as regulators opened an investigation.

Uruguay coach Marcelo Bielsa lashed out at Copa America organisers on Friday, saying they were to blame for the brawl between his players and Colombian fans following their semi-final exit.

Newcastle confirmed the departures of minority shareholders Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi on Friday.

Rai Benjamin claimed the spoils in a clash of the hurdling titans at Friday's Monaco Diamond League as Djamel Sedjati and Quincy Hall both set world leads in perfect fine-tuning for the Paris Olympics.