Two-time Grand Slam winner and former world No. 1 tennis player Yevgeny Kafelnikov says he won’t embark on a political career, due to 'the compromising material on him' which could have been collected at the peak of his career.
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Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn from consideration to head the Pentagon, President Donald Trump has said, announcing that the current Secretary of the Army Mark Esper will become the new acting secretary.
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French club Dijon FCO have made world football headlines by announcing the signing of a striker named Messi. That's 12-year-old striker Rayane Messi, who already has fans wondering if he can live up to his famous namesake.
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A Mexican volcano’s dramatic eruption has been captured in spectacular footage taken from inside a plane as it flew past the shocking sight.
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US President Donald Trump said he would consider military action against Iran to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons. The row between Tehran and Washington escalated after the US accused Iran of attacking two oil tankers.
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Russia’s Federal Tourism Agency (Rosturism) and the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) signed an agreement on Tuesday to hold the 23rd General Assembly of the UNWTO in St. Petersburg on September 9-13.
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In groundbreaking research that could revolutionize witness evidence, scientists in Scotland say they’ve successfully constructed 3D facial models using information from someone’s brain as they recalled a familiar face.
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Facebook has announced its intention to make cryptocurrency mainstream with the launch of its own digital currency, Libra, which will be overseen by new financial services subsidiary Calibra.
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A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck in the Sea of Japan, triggering a brief tsunami warning in some areas. Waves were expected to reach heights of around 0.2 to 1 meter, but they turned out to be minor.
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Western secret services are perfecting clandestine tools which are designed to weaken countries like viruses weaken bodies, the Russian foreign intelligence chief has said. This kind of warfare is currently used in Venezuela.
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Football legend and former UEFA boss Michel Platini has been detained in France amid a probe into the awarding of the 2022 FIFA World Cup to Qatar, reports say.
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China chided Washington for its “extreme pressure methods” against Iran and called on all sides to show restraint and avoid further escalation around the Persian Gulf as US-Iran tensions rise.
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Breathtaking footage from inside the cockpit of a Su-27 has been shared by Russian Defense Ministry after the fighter was recently sent to intercept a US bomber heading for its airspace.
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Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer whose 2016 meeting with Trump campaign members was a major point in ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy theory, has been suspended from Twitter for reasons unknown.
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Lawmakers in the Canadian province of Quebec have adopted a law banning public service employees from wearing religious symbols. Critics and advocates both see it as an attempt of the Francophone region to preserve its identity.
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A Fathers’ Day "joke" tweet by the Topeka, Kansas police encouraging mothers to turn in their baby-daddies if they’ve committed any crimes blew up in the department’s face after it was perceived as somewhat less than humorous.
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