Tessier adamant Canada can 'go all the way' to win Women's Rugby World Cup
Canada captain Alex Tessier believes her side can "go all the way" by beating favourites England in Saturday's Women's Rugby World Cup final at an already sold-out Twickenham.
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Inmates beheaded in second Ecuador prison massacre in days
Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the violence-wracked country said.
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McIlroy becomes Europe's inspirational Ryder Cup cornerstone
Rory McIlroy learned what it meant to be on Europe's Ryder Cup squad watching teammates cry in a locker room as a 21-year-old rookie in 2010.
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Mix and match at Prada, joyful colour at Fendi
Italian fashion house Prada juxtaposed military-style shirts with bell skirts and elegant evening gloves in a collection Thursday intended to shake up traditional notions of glamour.
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At UN, Ghana's leader warns against normalizing anti-migrant 'hatred'
Addressing the UN General Assembly, Ghanaian leader John Mahama said it was time to "dispense with the euphemisms and dog whistles and speak frankly" about Western leaders' push against migration.
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Trump urges Turkey's Erdogan to stop buying Russian oil
US President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop buying Russian oil over the war in Ukraine, as Erdogan sought a long-awaited deal to buy US stealth fighter jets.
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Sea life thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs, sub discovers
Marine life is thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs sitting at the bottom of a German bay, a submersible has discovered, even capturing footage of starfishes creeping across a huge chunk of TNT.
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'Bullets, fire and fear': Haiti is at war, its leader warns
Violence-ravaged Haiti is a nation "at war," its leader Laurent Saint-Cyr warned at the United Nations on Thursday, as he appealed for help from the international community to defeat gangs that have overrun the Caribbean country.
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Germany vows defence against Russia in drone warfare and in space
Germany said Thursday it would step up its defences -- from drone warfare to outer space -- at a time of growing tensions between Russia and NATO while the Ukraine war grinds on.
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France's Sarkozy prepares for five-year prison term after guilty verdict
A court on Thursday sentenced former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison over a scheme for the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his 2007 presidential run, a verdict that will make the rightwinger the first French postwar leader to serve jail time.
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