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Liverpool, Leverkusen aim to play up to favourites tag in Europa League

Liverpool, Leverkusen aim to play up to favourites tag in Europa League

Liverpool and Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen are the standout contenders to go all the way in this season's Europa League with both teams this week heading east for last-16 ties they will be expected to win comfortably.

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Peru PM resigns over influence-peddling claims

Peru PM resigns over influence-peddling claims

Peru's powerful Prime Minister Alberto Otarola resigned Tuesday amid allegations of influence-peddling to help a young woman he is said to have addressed lovingly in recordings released by news media.

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Peru PM resigns amid influence-peddling claims

Peru PM resigns amid influence-peddling claims

Peru's powerful Prime Minister Alberto Otarola resigned Tuesday amid allegations of influence-peddling to help a young woman he is said to have addressed lovingly in recordings released by news media.

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Buried clothes, bones and DNA help identify Colombia's missing

Buried clothes, bones and DNA help identify Colombia's missing

Two decades after her son went missing, Soledad Ruiz was handed a small coffin containing his remains, identified using DNA and the sweater he was wearing when he disappeared.

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Hunger crisis in Gaza: what to know

Hunger crisis in Gaza: what to know

Children have begun starving to death in Gaza, where the United Nations has warned a famine is "almost inevitable."

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'Luckiest' Oppenheimer biographer rooting for Oscar wins

'Luckiest' Oppenheimer biographer rooting for Oscar wins

Kai Bird has just returned from the Jaipur literature festival, where he signed countless copies of his two-decade-old book for hundreds of young Indians who all watched the film "Oppenheimer."

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Trump backs Israel's war in Gaza

Trump backs Israel's war in Gaza

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump expressed his support for Israel's war in Gaza Tuesday, in his most explicit comments yet on the fighting, as international pressure grows on the United States to rein in its ally.

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Final novel was huge challenge for Garcia Marquez, sons say

Final novel was huge challenge for Garcia Marquez, sons say

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's posthumous novel, set for release Wednesday, was a daunting challenge for the award-winning Colombian writer as he neared death 10 years ago, his sons said.

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Trump set for Super Tuesday knockout in White House race

Trump set for Super Tuesday knockout in White House race

Polls began closing Tuesday on the biggest day of the year for US presidential primaries, with Donald Trump expected to cement his hold on the Republican nomination and set up a rematch with President Joe Biden in November.

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Birds, beetles, bugs could help replace pesticides: study

Birds, beetles, bugs could help replace pesticides: study

Natural predators like birds, beetles and bugs might be an effective alternative to pesticides, keeping crop-devouring pests populations down while boosting crop yields, researchers said Wednesday.

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