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Five killed in South Africa’s Cape Town amid taxi strike
Five people have been killed in the South African city of Cape Town as a strike by mini-bus taxi drivers that began ...Brazil football legend Pele dies aged 82
Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern ...Argentina wins the 2022 World Cup
Argentina won the World Cup on Sunday after beating defending champions France 4-2 on penalties, following a dramatic 3-3 draw after extra ...World Cup gets underway with stakes high for host Qatar
Qatar’s ruler opened the World Cup on Sunday with a call for people of all races and orientations to put aside their ...Thousands of workers evicted in Qatar’s capital ahead of World Cup
Qatar has emptied apartment blocks housing thousands of foreign workers in the same areas in the centre of the capital Doha where ...Indonesia authorities say 174 dead after soccer melee, stampede
Brazilians are voting on Sunday in the first round of their country’s most polarized election in decades, with leftist Luiz Inacio Lula ...Thousands revive Sydney’s famous road race after COVID hiatus
More than 60,000 people thronged Sydney’s streets on Sunday for an annual road running event and mass party that returned for the ...Qatar to re-install Zidane statue that sparked backlash
Qatar plans to re-install a sculpture immortalising French-Algerian soccer player Zinedine Zidane’s head butt during the 2006 World Cup final, which had ...Belarusian skier flees country after ban for political views
A Belarusian cross-country skier has fled the country with her family because of fears of reprisals by authorities after she was barred ...UN head calls for ‘Olympic’ truce in Ethiopia
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged Tuesday for all parties in the Ethiopian conflict to implement a truce to mark the Olympic ...