Barcelona predict record revenues, rising profits
Barcelona on Thursday forecast profits of 274 million euros (270.7 million dollars) this season and record revenues of 1.255 billion euros.
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At 34, Burkina's new junta chief is world's youngest leader
Just a week ago, 34-year-old Ibrahim Traore was an unknown, even in his native Burkina Faso.
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Six charged over Indonesia stadium disaster
Indonesia's police chief on Thursday said six people had been charged over a football stadium disaster that killed 131 at the weekend.
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Five key books by Annie Ernaux
Here are five books that secured Annie Ernaux's place as one of the leading voices of her generation in France and on Thursday, the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Gunman murders at least 37 in Thai nursery attack
A former police officer shot dead at least 37 people, most of them children, when he stormed a nursery in Thailand on Thursday in one of the kingdom's deadliest mass killings.
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Spain to relocate remains of Franco allies to more discreet graves
Spain is planning to relocate the remains of two far-right figures linked to its 1936-1939 civil war who are buried in grandiose sites, a minister said Thursday.
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Kenya lobby groups protest lifting of ban on GM crops
Activists and agriculture lobby groups on Thursday urged Kenya's government to reverse its decision to lift a long-standing ban on genetically modified crops as the country struggles with a crippling drought.
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'Gold dust': Liberians queue for rice
In the Clara Town suburb of Liberia's capital Monrovia, Aminata Kanneh stands sweating under the hot midday sun, queueing in a 100-metre-long line to buy rice.
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UN Human Rights Council rejects holding Xinjiang debate
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday voted against holding a debate on alleged abuses in China's Xinjiang region in a major setback for Western nations.
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US targets 'senior' IS jihadist in Syria's northeast: Centcom
American forces targeted a "senior" member of the jihadist Islamic State group Thursday in a pre-dawn raid on northeastern Syria, the US military's Central Command said.
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