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19 Jan
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez was re-elected with a mandate until 2029 on Sunday after running for the position unopposed. "There having been only one candidacy... (Perez) is hereby proclaimed president of Real Madrid," said Los Blancos in a statement. Madrid announced the news after a 4-1 thrashing of Las Palmas helped them move top…
24 Nov
Real Madrid chief Florentino Perez lashed out at various targets during the club's annual general meeting on Sunday including European and world football governing bodies UEFA and FIFA. The 77-year-old Los Blancos chief has been at war with football's rulers over the Super League project Madrid, Barcelona and other top European sides tried to launch…

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A British woman from the hit Netflix crime documentary "Con Mum", about her allegedly scamming her renowned pastry chef son, was charged with fraud in a Singapore court on Saturday, according to documents seen by AFP. Dionne Marie Hanna, 84, was charged with five counts of fraud involving three people, the documents show. In the…
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Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of major US cities on Saturday to oppose the divisive policies of President Donald Trump, in the largest demonstrations since his return to the White House. Opponents of the Republican president's policies -- from government staffing cuts to trade tariffs and eroding civil liberties -- rallied in…
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US senators on Saturday approved a budget blueprint unlocking trillions of dollars for sweeping tax cuts promised by President Donald Trump, despite bitter infighting among the majority Republicans over the savings that will be needed to fund them. Working deep into the night, lawmakers voted 51-48, mostly along party lines, to approve the resolution, with…
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A missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early Sunday injured at least three people and caused several blazes, the city's mayor said, two days after a Russian strike killed 18 people in President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown. Vitali Klitschko said paramedics had been sent to two districts in Kyiv, while the Ukrainian air force said…
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Violent storms battering the central-eastern United States have killed at least 16 people, officials said, with the National Weather Service warning on Saturday of "severe" flash flooding in the coming days. A line of fierce storms stretching from Arkansas to Ohio has damaged buildings, flooded roadways and produced dozens of tornadoes in recent days. Tennessee…
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Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu has won the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for the upcoming Anambra State governorship election. Ukachukwu secured 1,455 votes in a contest that lasted through the night and concluded at 4:19 am on Sunday. His closest rival, Valentine Ozigbo, received just 67 votes. Johnbosco Onunkwo got 26, while Edozie Madu scored 8.…
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German chemicals giant Bayer said on Friday that it had again asked the US Supreme Court to intervene in the dispute about its weedkiller Roundup, as it tries to draw a line under years of costly legal troubles. It is the third time Bayer has appealed to the United States' top court to hear its…
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A Democratic Republic of Congo government delegation has met with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in Qatar in a bid to halt fighting in the country's east, a source with knowledge of the talks said Saturday. The M23 has taken control of large swathes of the DRC's eastern provinces of North and South Kivu since 2021 and…
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday rejected direct negotiations with the United States as "meaningless" after US President Donald Trump said he would prefer direct talks with the Islamic republic. Trump had called last month on Tehran to hold negotiations on its nuclear programme with Washington, but threatened to bomb Iran if diplomacy fails.…
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Burundi has shut down a transit site sheltering tens of thousands of refugees who have fled violence in neighbouring eastern DR Congo, witnesses and a local official told AFP on Saturday. According to the United Nations Rugombo Stadium has been hosting more than 45,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Rwanda-backed M23…