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Commanders fire head coach Rivera

Commanders fire head coach Rivera

The Washington Commanders fired head coach Ron Rivera on Monday after the team failed to make the playoffs for a third straight season.

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New US lunar lander runs into technical problem: company

New US lunar lander runs into technical problem: company

The first US lunar lander launched in more than five decades has experienced an anomaly preventing it from pointing its solar panels towards the Sun, the company that built the robot said Monday.

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Mass Hindu wedding defies poverty and persecution in Pakistan

Mass Hindu wedding defies poverty and persecution in Pakistan

Under a chequered marquee dazzling with chandeliers, 122 Hindu couples unable to afford their own weddings were instead married in a mass ceremony in Muslim-majority Pakistan.

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Oil prices slump but stock markets largely steady

Oil prices slump but stock markets largely steady

Oil prices prices slumped Monday on oversupply concerns while stock markets held largely steady despite dampened hopes of an early cut to US interest rates.

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No hard feelings? Macron hails French Golden Globes winner

No hard feelings? Macron hails French Golden Globes winner

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday congratulated French director Justine Triet for her Golden Globes victory, breaking his previous silence over the successes of her hit film "Anatomy of a Fall" after she bitterly criticised his government.

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Hezbollah commander killed as top US diplomat seeks Gaza de-escalation

Hezbollah commander killed as top US diplomat seeks Gaza de-escalation

Israel killed a top commander of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, a security source said on Monday, as Washington's top diplomat visits the Middle East seeking to avert a widening of the Israel-Hamas war.

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Blinken arrives in Saudi for tent meeting with crown prince

Blinken arrives in Saudi for tent meeting with crown prince

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to meet Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler on Monday before heading to Israel as part of efforts to stop the Gaza war spiralling into a regional conflict.

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'Appalling' false convictions for UK Post Office 'thefts' spur outrage

'Appalling' false convictions for UK Post Office 'thefts' spur outrage

Public anger is mounting over what has been described as Britain's biggest ever miscarriage of justice that saw hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly convicted of theft because of a computer software glitch.

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Breivik's isolation in Norwegian prison causing 'depression': lawyer

Breivik's isolation in Norwegian prison causing 'depression': lawyer

Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in 2011, is "suicidal" due to his strict prison conditions, his lawyer said as his trial against the Norwegian state opened Monday.

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Rolls-Royce delivers record number of cars in 2023

Rolls-Royce delivers record number of cars in 2023

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars delivered a record number of luxury vehicles last year when clients also began taking possession of its first all-electric Spectre model, the German-owned brand said Monday.

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