Atletico thump Rayo, Valladolid relegated after Betis defeat
Atletico Madrid cruised to a 3-0 La Liga win over Rayo Vallecano on Thursday as they bounced back from defeat at Las Palmas last weekend.
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Alphabet quarterly earnings lifted by cloud and AI
Google parent Alphabet on Thursday reported profit of $34.5 billion in the recently ended quarter, powered by its cloud computing and artificial intelligence operations.
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Stocks rally rolls on in US, mixed elsewhere
Wall Street stocks pushed higher for a third day on Thursday but the rally fizzled elsewhere as China poured cold water on US President Donald Trump's comments talking up prospects of a deal to end their trade war.
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EU still far from tariff deal with US: French minister
The European Union and United States are far from reaching a deal on tariffs, France's economy minister said Thursday, as the bloc seeks a way out from trade tensions with Washington.
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Ahead of marathon debut McColgan 'calls out' social media abuse
Eilish McColgan said on Thursday that she has been the target of body shaming on social media and called for accounts to be passport linked as she prepared for her first marathon.
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French youth kills student, wounds three, in school knife attack
A student killed a girl and wounded three other pupils in a stabbing spree on Thursday at a private school in France that prompted demands for tighter security in schools after a series of attacks.
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Panama president says moving toward reopening contested mine
Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Thursday that his government was working toward the reopening of Central America's biggest copper mine, despite fierce opposition from environmentalists.
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Trump trade deals appear distant as tariff tensions simmer
US President Donald Trump's promises of securing trade deals with major partners took another blow Thursday, with a French minister saying an agreement with the EU was "a long way" off and China insisting talks had not even started.
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Sudan war destroys world's only research centre on skin disease mycetoma: director
The world's only research centre on mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease common among farmers, has been destroyed in Sudan's two-year war, its director and another expert say.
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'Vladimir, STOP!': Trump tells Putin after deadly Kyiv strike
Donald Trump called Thursday on Vladimir Putin to halt attacks on Ukraine, in a rare rebuke of the Russian leader after Moscow fired missiles and drones at Kyiv in the deadliest attack on the capital in months.
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