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BARCELONA, Spain – Barcelona president Joan Laporta insisted on Tuesday his club have never “bought referees” amid investigations into payments made to a former refereeing chief…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – IOC president Thomas Bach has told Ukraine that its calls for a boycott of the 2024 Paris Games over the possible participation of Russian competitors…

UNITED NATIONS – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday told fossil fuel producers they “should not be in business” unless they are credibly aiming for…

WASHINGTON – US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin warned African leaders at a summit on Tuesday that China and Russia risked “destabilising” the continent with their rising…

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday said financial pledges for Ukraine by the United States and Europe should be sufficient to get Kyiv through 2023, assuming the war does…

BEIJING – Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev will hold security consultations and meetings during a two-day visit to China starting Sunday, China’s foreign…

BRUSSELS – Western sanctions on Russia are having a real impact and are there to stay, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday, stressing that the…

GENEVA – WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus voiced his personal pain on Thursday (Aug 25) over the situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, lamenting that he could not reach or…

LONDON – Russia has failed to gain ground in cyberspace against Ukraine almost six months after its invasion of the country, the head of Britain’s GCHQ intelligence service said…

GENEVA – China is asking the United Nations human rights chief to bury a highly-anticipated report on human rights violations in Xinjiang, according to a Chinese letter seen by…