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McIlroy chasing elusive Memorial, Scheffler eyes three-peat

Sabalenka implodes as Shnaider books French Open semi with Chwalinska

Sabalenka fell into 'dark hole' during French Open loss

Ukrainian drones hit Saint Petersburg as 'Russian Davos' opens

Stokes defends Archer's England absence due to IPL duties

UN urges AI firms to reveal environmental footprint

Sabalenka crumbles to French Open quarter-final defeat by Shnaider

Oil rises, stocks slip on fragile Mideast peace hopes

Henry fit to lead New Zealand's attack at Lord's

Yamal, Williams should be fit for World Cup opener: De la Fuente

UK PM slams violence over police handcuffing of dying student

EU wants to favour European firms for AI, cloud in sovereignty push

The EU on Wednesday unveiled its plan for slashing dependence on American and Asian technology, including favouring European firms in the most sensitive public contracts for cloud computing and AI.

England captain Stokes defends Archer's IPL-enforced absence from Test side

England captain Ben Stokes said the "landscape of cricket" has changed as he defended Jofra Archer's absence from the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's because of the fast bowler's IPL commitments.

Oil jumps, stocks mixed on fragile MIdeast peace hopes

Oil prices jumped and stock markets diverged Wednesday as fresh Middle East attacks dented hopes of an imminent peace deal.

Polish qualifier Chwalinska reaches French Open semi-finals

World number 114 Maja Chwalinska continued her stunning French Open run on Wednesday by beating 22nd seed Anna Kalinskaya to become just the second women's qualifier to reach the last four at Roland Garros in the professional era.

'Backrooms' born of 'itch to explore' online horror meme

Bringing a horror series that went viral on YouTube to the big screen, "Backrooms" smashed box office records in its opening weekend in the US.

French content creators gear up to influence presidential election

Politicians want to meet them, the media want to hire them -- content creators, seen as a key to reaching their young followers, are readying to be players in the 2027 presidential campaign.

France hits Shein with 22 mn euros in new fines over consumer violations

French authorities said Wednesday that they had imposed two fines on Shein totalling more than 22 million euros ($25.5 million), citing problems with product traceability, environmental labelling and delivery times.

DRC coach prepared to play friendly behind closed doors

The Democratic Republic of Congo are willing to play their pre-World Cup friendly with Chile behind closed doors, their head coach Sebastien Desabre has said.

CBS News fires '60 Minutes' veteran Scott Pelley

CBS News fired longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday following clashes over the show's future, the latest shakeup under the network's new leadership.

Robots, supply strain: five hot topics at Computex

From laptops designed for the artificial intelligence era to advances in robotics and sky-high tech shares, here are five hot topics at Taipei's huge Computex trade show:

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