Bagnaia brushes off Rossi heir talk with MotoGP title in his sights
Francesco Bagnaia is not interested in comparisons with Valentino Rossi as he makes his bid to become the first Italian since the motorcycling legend to win the sport's biggest prize.
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Russia proxies hold breakaway polls in Ukraine
Voting on whether Russia should annex Kremlin-controlled regions of Ukraine opened Friday as the West denounced the referendum that has dramatically raised the stakes of Moscow's seven-month invasion.
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Superstar van Vleuten to race worlds with fractured elbow
Olympic champion and winner of all three major tours in women's cycling this season Annemiek van Vleuten will line up at the start of the world championships on Saturday despite a fractured elbow.
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Tiger helps US cause from a distance at Presidents Cup
Tiger Woods, playing captain in a 2019 US victory, couldn't be an assistant at this week's Presidents Cup due to severe leg injuries suffered in a car crash last year.
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'Tremendous hope': New cystic fibrosis treatment changing lives
David Fiant says his cystic fibrosis and the arduous therapy it required was so bad he "could no longer tell if I was living to heal myself or healing myself to live".
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Detained Russian protesters face conscription or jail
Mikhail Suetin expected to be detained when he protested Russian mobilisation, but he never imagined he would be ordered to enlist in the very army he was denouncing.
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Iran stages rallies to counter week of deadly protests
Thousands demonstrated across Iran on Friday at government-backed pro-hijab counter rallies, after a week of bloody protests over the death of a woman arrested for "improperly" wearing the Islamic headscarf.
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UK axes EU-inherited cap on banker bonuses
Britain on Friday axed a cap on bankers' bonuses aimed at boosting London's finance sector after Brexit, raising anger amid a cost-of-living crisis.
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PSG's Hamraoui denounces 'smear campaign' after assault
Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Kheira Hamraoui on Friday slammed a "smear campaign" against her in the wake of a teammate's arrest over her brutal street assault, which has thrown her career into disarray.
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Lafferty axed by Northern Ireland over alleged sectarian comment
Kyle Lafferty has been cut from Northern Ireland's squad for upcoming Nations League games against Kosovo and Greece after a video emerged which appeared to show the Kilmarnock striker using sectarian language.
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