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Manny Pacquiao vs Keith Thurman result: Filipino blitzes American to roll back the years and clinch WBA world welterweight title
The Filipino produced a vintage display to improve his legacy at 40 years of age
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Manny Pacquiao vs Keith Thurman LIVE: Round-by-round updates, results, scores and winners from Las Vegas
The Filipino looks to hand the American his first defeat as a professional and lure Floyd Mayweather Jr out of retirement for a rematch
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Pompeo to meet with Mexico's foreign minister to discuss immigration, trade
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard on Sunday to discuss migration and trade, amid heightened bilateral tension ahead of a deadline on a deal that removed tariff threats on Mexican exports.
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Another three Russian nuclear reactors offline after short-circuit malfunction at power plant
The malfunction at the Kalinin plant northwest of Moscow is the second incident linked to Russia's nuclear grid in a week.
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Death toll rises to 15 in Chinese gas plant explosion
Authorities in central China say the death toll in a gas plant explosion has risen to 15 with another 15 seriously injured
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More than 60 Australian-made planes grounded after fatal crash in Sweden
Civil Aviation Safety Authority suspends operations of GippsAero GA8 after nine people killed
Sixty-three Victorian-made planes have been grounded in Australia after a fatal crash in Sweden that killed nine people.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has suspended operations of GippsAero GA8 aircraft after the accident in Umeo on 14 July. No one on board survived the crash. Continue reading
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Ocasio-Cortez: Trump enjoyed crowd saying, 'Send her back!'
NEW YORK (AP) " U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told constituents on Saturday that President Donald Trump enjoyed hearing a crowd at his rally call for a U.S. congresswoman to return to the country where she was born.The Democratic legislator spoke in New York for the first time since Trump again criticized her and three other minority Democratic congresswomen on Friday for saying what he called "horrible things" about the U.S. He suggested they leave, though all are U.S. citizens. [
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Panama deregisters oil tanker that strayed into Iranian waters
Country says MT Riah, which stopped transmitting location on 14 July, ‘deliberately violated international regulations’
Panama’s maritime authority has begun the process of withdrawing the registration of the oil tanker MT Riah, which ended up in Iranian waters after it disappeared from ship tracking maps in the strait of Hormuz on 14 July.
Panama began the flag-withdrawal process on Friday after an investigation determined the tanker had “deliberately violated international regulations” by not...
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Britain says Iran approached tanker in Omani waters
Britain told the United Nations Security Council on Saturday that a British-flagged tanker seized by Iran was approached by Iranian forces when it was in Omani territorial waters and the action "constitutes illegal interference."
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In pictures: Americans cool down in sweltering heatwave
Temperatures in some US cities are dangerously high, with the east coast particularly hard-hit.
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US concerned over China's 'interference' in South China Sea
The U.S. says it's concerned by reports of China's interference with oil and gas activities in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, where Vietnam says Beijing violated its sovereignty
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Man denies telling US politician Erica Thomas 'go back where you came from'
Eric Sparkes admits berating lawmaker but says comment wasn’t racially charged
A man has admitted cursing at a pregnant black Georgia lawmaker for taking too many items into a supermarket express lane but denies telling her “go back where you came from.”
Eric Sparkes showed up during a television interview with Republican state representative from Georgia, Erica Thomas, on Saturday, outside the Atlanta-area Publix store where the incident allegedly occurred, the station reported. Continue...