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Carlos Alcaraz opened his account at the ATP Finals on Wednesday with an entertaining 6-3, 7-6 (10/8) win over Andrey Rublev, while Casper Ruud missed an early chance to reach the semi-finals after losing in straight sets to Alexander Zverev. World number three Alcaraz comfortably defeated Rublev to lift himself off the bottom of the John …

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Dutch parliamentarians clashed in a heated debate Wednesday as they addressed last week’s attacks on Israeli football fans, while police in Amsterdam arrested pro-Palestinian protesters who again defied a ban on demonstrations in the wake of the violence.The Netherlands is still dealing with the political fallout from last week’s violence that followed a Maccabi Tel …

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The percentage of adults suffering from diabetes across the world has doubled over the past three decades, the biggest rises coming in developing countries, a study said Wednesday.The serious health condition affected around 14 percent of all adults worldwide in 2022, compared to seven percent in 1990, according to the new analysis in The Lancet …

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Marco Rubio’s first experiences with Donald Trump involved trading schoolyard insults, but he will now become the president-elect’s face to the world — potentially showing a more traditional, hawkish US foreign policy, especially on China.Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants who would be the first Hispanic and first Spanish-speaker as US secretary of state, from …

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The Republicans were declared the majority party in the US House of Representatives Wednesday, completing a clean sweep of Congress and the White House in last week’s elections and handing incoming president Donald Trump vast legislative power.After more than a week of vote counting, CNN and NBC projected that Trump’s party had reached the 218 …

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US President-elect Donald Trump thanked President Joe Biden for pledging a smooth transfer of power as the victorious Republican made a historic return visit to the White House on Wednesday.”Politics is tough, and in many cases it’s not a very nice world. It is a nice world today and I appreciate it very much,” Trump …

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Bangladesh’s interim leader on Wednesday slammed the “humiliating” fight for climate finance at the COP29 talks, demanding rich countries and emitters pay for the problems they caused.Muhammed Yunus, who leads one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, said countries who bear little responsibility for global warming were being forced to haggle for help adapting to …

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Donald Trump will make a triumphant return to the White House to meet President Joe Biden on Wednesday, in the Republican’s first visit since departing under a torrent of scandal nearly four years ago.Trump’s meeting with Biden comes as he moves swiftly to name his administration, including the world’s richest man Elon Musk as head …

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Russia escalated its attacks on Kyiv early Wednesday, launching waves of drones and missiles in its first combined aerial assault on the capital in more than 70 days, authorities said.The attacks came as Washington and Seoul echoed warnings from Ukraine that North Korean troops had begun “engaging in combat operations” alongside Russian forces on the …

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Germany’s embattled Chancellor Olaf Scholz, mired in a government crisis, traded blows with his rivals Wednesday in combative parliament speeches as all sides ready for elections in February.”I will certainly not regret having proposed compromises every day and until the end, until the last common day of this government coalition,” a defiant Scholz told the …

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