Timeline: How FIFA's World Cup private investment plan imploded
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has pulled the plug on the plan to allow private investment in the World Cup which had sparked a furious global backlash even among his allies.
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South Korea baseball league cancels two games over heatwave
South Korea's baseball league cancelled two professional games Saturday to ensure the safety of players and fans in a heatwave.
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Search resumes for missing climbers from Pakistan avalanche
Pakistan rescue teams resumed a high-altitude search on Saturday for seven climbers missing after a powerful avalanche on one of the world's highest peaks, with the remains of three mountaineers recovered.
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US drops Reflecting Pool case, admits damage due to botched renovation
The US Justice Department on Friday dropped its case against a former Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying the hurried renovations ordered by President Donald Trump had been botched.
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Warsaw and Kyiv exhume Volyn victims at centre of diplomatic quarrel
Beneath two now-deserted villages in western Ukraine –- the site of WWII-era massacres -- archaeologists are uncovering the bones at the heart of a dispute that has strained relations between Warsaw and Kyiv for years.
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Russian attacks on Kyiv kill 9, wound more than two dozen
Russian attacks on Ukraine's capital killed at least nine people and wounded more than two dozen others, local officials said on Saturday, with strikes damaging homes and causing fires across the city.
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India PM Modi says he forgives protesters who abused him
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he wanted to "forgive" protesters who abused him during recent youth-led demonstrations that dealt a rare political setback to his government.
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Injured Australian swim star O'Callaghan pulls out of PanPacs
Australian five-time Olympic gold medallist Mollie O'Callaghan pulled out of the looming Pan Pacific championships on Saturday due to injury.
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Veteran Wallabies playmaker Quade Cooper eyes World Cup comeback
Veteran 38-year-old Wallabies playmaker Quade Cooper says he never retired and is eyeing a comeback for next year's World Cup on home soil.
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California lifeguards wiped out from extreme weather
In California, repeated heat waves have sent Americans running to the beaches to seek relief, but more and more swimmers are finding themselves in troubled waters as strong waves whip the coast and fuel powerful rip currents.
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