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PES loses Champions League official licence

Konami’s partnership with UEFA is coming to an end, which means Pro Evolution Soccer’s 10-year run as exclusive Champions League rights holder for video games is over. The deal ends after this year’s Champions League final in Kyiv, Konami said. The Champions League first appeared in Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, which came out in 2008, […]

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Mexico’s great gamble: ‘Trump plays poker, but Lopez Obrador plays chess’

It has been the strangest of courtships, between the ultimate unlikely couple. On one side sits Donald Trump, the bombastic and erratic “America First” nationalist who seized the White House from the gilded realm of Trump Tower. On the other Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a veteran Left-winger who started his political career sleeping on the […]

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UAE defends British academic’s life sentence, saying court was shown ‘compelling evidence’

The UAE defended on Thursday the decision by an Abu Dhabi court to sentence a British academic to life in prison for espionage, claiming it had been presented with “compelling and powerful evidence.” The country’s foreign ministry said the court relied on witness statements and information found on Matthew Hedges’s laptop and phone, which is […]

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Five dead and 32 injured in Hong Kong coach crash

A coach on its way to Hong Kong’s airport was in collision with a taxi Friday leaving five dead and 32 injured, police said. The crash happened on the island of Tsing Yi with images on local media showing the back half of the taxi completely crushed and part of the front of the coach sheared off. A […]

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South Korea orders Japanese firm to compensate forced laborers as relations hit new low

The Japanese government has reacted angrily to a new ruling by a court in Seoul on Thursday ordering a Japanese corporation to pay compensation to 11 South Koreans who were forced to work in the company’s factories during World War II. The South Korean Supreme Court approved rulings by two lower courts that ordered Mitsubishi […]

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Sea of Thieves human cannonball breaks world record

In Sea of Thieves your pirate can climb into a cannon and be fired out of it, so what better way to promote the game in real life than to do the same? And why not attempt a world record in the process? Yesterday, at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ (how appropriate) stadium in Tampa, Florida, […]

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Florida orders vote recount in Senate and governor races

Donald Trump accused Democrats of trying to "steal" a US senate seat and governorship in Florida after the state ordered recounts. Florida announced it will hold a machine recount of votes in its neck-and-neck races for Senate and governor, which were both being narrowly led by Republican candidates. Results will be due by 3pm on […]

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Trump Organisation reportedly considered giving Putin $50m Moscow penthouse

Donald Trump’s company discussed a plan to give a $50 million penthouse in its new luxury Moscow development to Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to several sources quoted by Buzzfeed News. Two law enforcement officials told the website that the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, discussed the idea with Mr […]

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Vanuatu considers suing fossil fuel companies over climate change, as global carbon dioxide levels hit new record

Low-lying Vanuatu is considering suing fossil fuel companies and industrialised countries that use them for their role in creating catastrophic climate change, the foreign minister of the Pacific island nation said on Thursday. The comments came as the UN World Meteorological Organisation warned that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had hit a […]

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California wildfire becomes deadliest in state’s history as toll hits 42

Survivors told how they fled California’s apocalyptic wildfires as the soles of their shoes melted, celebrities returned to find their multi-million dollars homes in ashes, and the state’s governor warned "our whole way of life" was under threat. As the fires continued to rage at both ends of the Golden State the death toll around […]

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