Shiffrin on track for world medal milestone as Rast leads slalom
US star Mikaela Shiffrin remained on course to become the most decorated alpine World Ski Championships racer in history after safely negotiating the first run of the women's slalom in Saalbach on Saturday.
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Musk and space travel skewered in S. Korean director Bong's latest
Interplanetary space travel and the vanities of tech billionaires like Elon Musk are the subject of acclaimed South Korean director Bong Joon Ho's satirical new film "Mickey 17" which will be shown at the Berlin film festival on Saturday.
Read moreHamas releases hostages, Palestinian prisoners freed in latest Gaza swap
Palestinian militants handed three Israeli hostages over to the Red Cross on Saturday, while buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners rolled out of two Israeli jails in the latest exchange under an ongoing Gaza truce deal.
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Tennis world number one Sinner accepts 3-month doping ban
Jannik Sinner has accepted a three-month ban from tennis after the world number one admitted team mistakes led to him twice testing positive for traces of banned substance clostebol in March last year.
Read moreUN chief warns against regional war over DR Congo at Africa summit
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded that the Democratic Republic of Congo's "territorial integrity" be respected and a regional war avoided, at an African summit the day after Rwandan-backed fighters seized a second DRC provincial capital.
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Flanked by masked gunmen, Israeli hostages address Gazans before release
Their voices monotone and their faces staring mostly ahead, three Israeli hostages spoke in Hebrew on a Gaza stage before walking to freedom on Saturday, after more than 16 months of captivity in the Palestinian territory.
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McKenzie steers Chiefs to Super Rugby upset of champion Blues
Damian McKenzie scored two tries as his Waikato Chiefs beat the Auckland Blues 25-14 on Saturday to extract a measure of revenge for last year's Super Rugby Pacific final defeat.
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Hamas transfers Israeli hostages to Red Cross in latest Gaza swap
Gaza militants handed three Israeli hostages over to the Red Cross on Saturday in an exchange that is also set to see the release of 369 Palestinians from Israeli custody, the latest such swap under an ongoing truce deal.
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Myanmar militia says ready to deport 10,000 cyber scam workers
A Myanmar ethnic militia said on Saturday it was preparing to deport 10,000 people linked to cyber scams in the area it controls to Thailand as part of a crackdown on the illicit compounds.
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Lebanon president vows punishment for attackers of UN peacekeeper
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun vowed to punish the perpetrators of an attack on a United Nations peacekeeping convoy, with authorities set to hold an emergency meeting on Saturday.
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