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🇬🇧 ⚖️ Burnt-out cars and smashed windows littered Belfast streets on Wednesday as a Sudanese man appeared in court over a brutal knife attack that triggered "terrifying" violence against immigrants in Northern Ireland ➡️ u.afp.com/SDts
🇦🇷 ⚽ ⚖️ Maradona's daughters slam medical team at retrial over his death
The daughters of football icon Diego Maradona have slammed his medical team during the retrial over the Argentinian's death. Maradona died aged 60 in November 2020 while recovering from surgery for a brain clot
🇦🇫 🇵🇰 Pakistan has renewed deadly airstrikes on neighbouring Afghanistan, officials in both countries said on Wednesday, in the worst violence in weeks following a period of relative calm ➡️ u.afp.com/SDtH
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Messi plushies see roaring trade as China firms get World Cup boost.
China won't be at the World Cup after failing to qualify once again, but there's still plenty of interest in the country and the showpiece is a boon for Chinese merchants crunching out kits and accessories for fans
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Nuclear weapons spending and stockpiling.
AFP Infographic charts nuclear weapons spending in 2025, according to ICAN annual report, plus global inventory of nuclear warheads in 2026, according to SIPRI data
Thousands of armed police patrol alongside tourists in Mexico City, where authorities say security is under control in the days leading up to the World Cup.
The opening game will be held in the city on Thursday between Mexico and South Africa
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Salt: integral ingredient of sumo stars' art.
Paris will be the setting next weekend for one of Japan's oldest martial art forms, sumo wrestling, but an unheralded star of the major two-day tournament will be 100% French: the 200 kilogrammes of customised Guerande salt
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🇬🇧 A Sudanese man was due to appear in court in Northern Ireland on Wednesday over a brutal knife attack captured on video that triggered a night of violence by anti-immigration protesters ➡️ u.afp.com/SDts
🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇯🇴 🇧🇭 🇮🇱 Iran attacked American bases in Jordan and Bahrain on Wednesday, warning its Gulf neighbours that they had a "responsibility" to stop the United States and Israel from using their territory to strike the Islamic republic ➡️ u.afp.com/SDtB
#BREAKING Belfast violence following brutal knife attack 'shocking and completely unacceptable': UK PM Starmer
