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6/4/2022 11:36:14 AM
France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema has dropped his appeal against a conviction for complicity in blackmail in a sex-tape case that rocked French soccer, French media reported Saturday.
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Sports
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Omni sports
6/3/2022 8:12:42 PM
Rafael Nadal was locked in a tight, compelling and lengthy French Open semifinal Friday when his opponent, third-seeded Alexander Zverev, ran to his right to chase a shot and twisted his right ankle. Zverev crumpled to the ground, wailing in agony and clutching at his lower leg.
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Omni sports
6/3/2022 10:42:48 AM
Rafael Nadal will face No. 3 seed Alexander Zverev in one French Open men's semifinal. No. 20 Marin Cilic will play No. 8 Casper Ruud in the second semifinal in Court Philippe Chatrier on Friday. It is Nadal's 36th birthday.
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Sports
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Omni sports
6/2/2022 4:50:50 PM
Rafael Nadal showed up at Roland Garros with his personal doctor along for the trip, hoping to get some help with the chronic pain in his left foot that’s been an off-and-on problem for years.
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Omni sports
6/1/2022 11:07:23 AM
Rafael Nadal insists he can't know for sure whether any match at Roland Garros might be his very last at a place he loves, a place he is loved.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
5/31/2022 9:18:19 PM
Egypt's Ministry of Housing Utilities and Urban Communities singed on Tuesday an agreement with the European Union (EU), the French Development Agency (AFD), and the European Investment Bank (EIB) to upgrade the Helwan wastewater treatment plant in southern Cairo.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/31/2022 6:07:28 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that he and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had urged Vladimir Putin to end Russia's blockade of the Ukrainian port of Odessa under the terms of a UN resolution.
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Sports
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World
5/31/2022 2:51:37 PM
French security services warned authorities of the risk of 50,000 fans without tickets or with fake ones two days before the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid in Paris marred by chaotic scenes, according to a document seen by AFP Tuesday.
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Sports
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World
5/31/2022 1:44:05 PM
Liverpool chairman Tom Werner has demanded an apology from French sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera over the treatment of the club's fans at Saturday's Champions League final in Paris.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/30/2022 6:28:35 PM
Teenager Holger Rune became the first Danish man to reach the French Open quarter-finals on Monday when he shocked world number four Stefanos Tsitsipas, while Daria Kasatkina and Veronika Kudermetova guaranteed a Russian woman will make the semi-finals.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/30/2022 5:35:45 PM
A French journalist has been killed while working in Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron said Monday on Twitter, the latest of several reporters killed or wounded during Russia's invasion of the country.
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Sports
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World
5/30/2022 3:48:32 PM
French authorities defended police on Monday for indiscriminately firing tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters at the Champions League final, while blaming industrial levels of fraud that saw 30,000 to 40,000 people try to enter the Stade de France with fake tickets or none at all.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/30/2022 11:06:12 AM
By the end of only the third five-setter Rafael Nadal has played in 112 career matches at Roland Garros, as the sun and temperature descended and the chants of ``Ra-fa! Ra-fa!'' filled the evening air, the man known as the King of Clay showed precisely what this meant to him.
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Sports
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World
5/28/2022 7:59:04 PM
Kylian Mbappe's decision to stay at Paris Saint-Germain rather than move to Real Madrid is very good news for French football, France coach Didier Deschamps said on Saturday.
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Omni sports
5/27/2022 10:39:31 AM
Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep said she had a panic attack while leading her second-round match that she eventually lost at the French Open on Thursday.
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World
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International
5/26/2022 5:58:15 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron asked his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday to "respect the sovereign choice" of Finland and Sweden to join NATO.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
5/26/2022 2:53:56 PM
The former president of the Louvre museum in Paris has been charged with conspiring to hide the origin of Egyptian archaeological treasures that investigators suspect were spirited out of the country during the Arab Spring uprisings, a French judicial source said Thursday.
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Sports
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World
5/26/2022 11:35:51 AM
Paris Saint-Germain will play three J-League teams on a tour of Japan this summer, the French champions said on Thursday, as they court an Asian audience with Kylian Mbappe still in tow.
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Sports
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Omni sports
5/25/2022 6:47:43 PM
Egyptian Mayar Sherif has pulled out of the French Open due to injury, the competition’s organisers announced on Wednesday.
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Sports
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World
5/25/2022 4:36:10 PM
Neymar says he would like to stay at French champions Paris Saint-Germain despite rarely justifying his world record fee of 222 million euros ($236 million) and amid rumours the club would like him to leave.
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