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Missing soccer star may be alive aboard plane's life raft, police say

The Argentine had spent the hours before the aircraft vanished saying farewell to teammates after Cardiff City paid $19 million for him last week.

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Inside the Brexit deal's major sticking point: The Irish backstop explained

Hardly mentioned during the referendum campaign in 2016, arrangements for the Irish border have proved trickier to solve than almost any other issue.

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Talk about highway speed limit on Autobahn has Germans all fired up

Germany is one of the few countries in the world that doesn't impose speed limits on its beloved Autobahn highways.

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Watch: 2019 Oscar nominations announced

The 2019 Oscar nominations have been announced by actors Kumail Nanjiani of The Big Short and Tracee Ellis Ross from ABC’s Black-ish.

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Plane carrying Premier League player vanishes over English Channel

Cardiff City paid FC Nantes around $19 million for the Argentine forward last week.

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Soccer icon Ronaldo avoids jail, but must pay $21M fine for tax fraud

The Juventus star was accused of having used shell companies outside Spain to hide income made from image rights.

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45 dead, 70 wounded as Taliban strikes base run by intelligence service

The group holds sway in almost half of Afghanistan and carries out attacks on a daily basis, mainly targeting the country's beleaguered security forces.

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France fines Google €50 million using GDPR privacy law

France's regulatory body dealing with data privacy has fined Google €50 million regarding advertisers’ access to users' personal data, it announced on Monday.

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Theresa May aims to break Brexit deadlock — but her plan B might look familiar

More than one-third of lawmakers from May's Conservative Party voted against her divorce proposal last week.

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Nazi's paintings now fund foundation for Jews

The Zurueckgeben foundation also encourages Germans to take stock of the more mundane items in their households and question where they came from.

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Israel confirms attacking Iranian forces in Syria

Until now Israel has largely refrained from public admissions of its covert military operations in neighboring Syria.

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Student filmed in face-off with protester denounces 'lies' against him

The young man, Nick Sandmann, said he respected all races and was trying to defuse the incident at Friday's Indigenous Peoples March.

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Members of group giving food, water to migrants convicted of misdemeanors

Four members of the group No More Deaths face a maximum sentence of six months in prison and a possible $500 fine.

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Death toll in Mexican pipeline fire reaches 85

The victims were consumed by flames last week as they tried to cart off gasoline spurting out of a punctured pipeline belonging to the state oil company.

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Taliban says it pulls out of peace talks after refusing to release U.S. professor

Kevin King was kidnapped at gunpoint from the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul alongside Australian colleague Timothy weeks in 2016.

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Bus collision in Bolivia leaves at least 22 dead, 37 injured

A police report said that the accident was due to excessive speed and one of the buses may have driven into the oncoming lane.

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IRA dissidents suspected in Northern Ireland car bomb blast

"Shame on you. Shame on you and stop," said Mary Lou McDonald, leader of the Sinn Fein political party which was once the political wing of the IRA.

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Around 120 migrants feared dead after overloaded dingy sinks in Mediterranean

At least 2,297 people are thought to have drowned or gone missing trying to reach Europe in 2018.

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Death toll rises to 73 in Mexico fuel pipeline fire horror

The tragedy came three weeks after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed to fight fuel theft gangs that drill dangerous, illegal taps into pipelines.

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No apparent injuries in suspected Northern Ireland car bomb

"Thankfully no one appears to have been injured in this incident. Derry is a city moving forward and no one wants this type of incident," a local member of parliament said.