Mixed day for global stocks as oil prices rise again
Wall Street stocks fell Monday after an early rally petered out, while the dollar weakened and oil prices continued to recover after recent declines.
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Leonor Espinosa: Celebrated Colombian chef with a taste for social change
From its jungles to its deserts: the world's newly-minted best female chef, Leonor Espinosa, draws her inspiration from Colombia's vast biodiversity, painful history and oft-neglected traditional communities.
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Erdogan renews threat to 'freeze' Swedish, Finnish NATO bids
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday renewed his threat to "freeze" the NATO membership bids of both Sweden and Finland unless the military alliance complies with Ankara's conditions.
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Kasatkina slams Russian stance to homosexuality in coming-out video
Russian world number 12 Daria Kasatkina criticised her country's attitude towards homosexuality in a video published on Monday as she announced she was a lesbian.
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Assange committed no serious crime, Mexico president tells Biden
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday he had interceded with US President Joe Biden on behalf of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, insisting that he had committed no serious crime.
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Harrowing video aired at death penalty trial of US school shooter
A harrowing video of the Valentine's Day 2018 shooting at a high school in Florida that left 17 people dead was played at the sentencing trial on Monday of the troubled young man who admitted to carrying out the massacre.
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Rams tackle Brown gets six-game ban for doping offence
Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Bobby Brown has been handed a six-game ban for breaching the NFL's anti-doping rules, the league said Monday.
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Fresh roadblocks as Panama protesters reject deal
There were fresh demonstrations and roadblocks in Panama on Monday as pressure groups turned their backs on a deal signed with the government to end their protest in exchange for a fuel price cut.
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Sunak widens lead in race to become UK PM after party vote
Former finance minister Rishi Sunak widened his lead in the latest round of voting Monday by Conservative MPs to decide Britain's next prime minister, but the race to get in the final two tightened.
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Vetter leafrogs Thiam with one event in heptathlon left
Anouk Vetter of the Netherlands leapfrogged Belgium's two-time Olympic champion and overnight leader Nafi Thiam with one event left to race in the heptathlon on Monday.
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