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The US government has banned exports to Russia's state airline Aeroflot as well as two other carriers for flying aircraft in violation of sanctions, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the US House of Representatives, has tested positive for Covid-19, her spokesman said Thursday.

Tiger Woods launched his improbable quest for a record-equalling sixth Masters title on Thursday, 14 months after a rollover car crash left him with injuries so severe he feared he would lose his right leg.

A Roman villa housing the only mural by Caravaggio failed to sell for a second time Thursday, the lawyer charged with the sale told AFP.

A Sudanese court on Thursday acquitted politicians and figures linked to the deposed regime of president Omar al-Bashir of plotting to overthrow the transition, a lawyer said.

Star US soprano Renee Fleming has found a new use for her world-class breath-control: helping people suffering from long Covid.

Honorary Masters starters Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson praised Hideki Matsuyama's Champions Dinner efforts and said Thursday his example could inspire more major winners from Japan.

US and European stocks fluctuated Thursday after minutes from central banks showed US policymakers ready to aggressively wind back easy-money policies while their eurozone counterparts disagreed over their own way forward.

Players warming up in woolly hats and multiple layers. A biting wind whipping across the lush green grass. Welcome to the first day of the English county cricket season.

Chancellor Scholz, you and also your party, the SPD, know the truth, because the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) knows the radio transmissions of Russian soldiers who planned, discussed and apparently carried out murders of civilians in Butscha (Ukraine). The plan: first question the civilians, then kill them. The BND intercepted radio transmissions and can even attribute some of them to killed civilians lying in the street. For example, soldiers had been talking about how a person had been shot from a bicycle.  Russian radio transmissions clearly state: "Kill them all, damn you! Civilians, all of them, kill them all!", a Russian commander orders his units in the major city of Mariupol, which has been under siege for weeks, according to audio recordings.These are unmistakable orders to kill defenceless civilians, to massacre them, these are deliberate war crimes by the Russian soldiery! It would not be surprising if such orders were and are being issued to Russian soldiers in the other places and cities of Ukraine as well.

European Central Bank policymakers disagreed last month on how to respond to runaway inflation and economic uncertainty caused by the Ukraine war, minutes from their meeting showed on Thursday.

Yemen's president said Thursday he is handing his powers to a new leadership council, in a major shake-up in the coalition battling Huthi rebels as a fragile ceasefire takes hold.

Algeria's French-language newspaper Liberte will run its final edition next week, the newspaper announced Thursday, criticising the decision by its owner, the country's richest man.

Sri Lanka's president has appointed a panel of experts to organise a restructuring of foreign debt as he seeks a way out of a worsening economic crisis, with protests demanding his resignation escalating.

Greece's government said Thursday it plans to double production of lignite, or brown coal, in the coming two years despite the pollution it causes as Athens aims to reduce its dependence upon Russian gas.

Andreas Christensen has urged Chelsea to take a "nothing to lose" approach if they are to revive their season following Wednesday's convincing 3-1 loss at home to Real Madrid.

A cast of "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin will be auctioned in Paris on June 30, expected to reach between 9 and 14 million euros ($10-$15 million), Christie's said Thursday.

The UN rights chief has miserably failed to address China's "genocide" against the Uyghur minority, a leading campaigner told AFP, demanding that a long-delayed report on abuses be released "immediately".

Yemen's president said Thursday he is handing his powers to a new leadership council, in a major shake-up in the coalition battling Huthi rebels as a fragile ceasefire takes hold.

Borussia Dortmund coach Marco Rose has demanded an improved performance from his team at Stuttgart on Friday to make amends for their drubbing at home to RB Leipzig.

UEFA on Thursday approved new licensing regulations to replace its existing Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules, allowing European clubs to make bigger losses than before but limiting spending on wages and transfers.

Somalia's feuding leaders were locked in a fresh dispute Thursday after the prime minister ordered the expulsion of the African Union's envoy -- a move rejected by the president as "illegal".

Tiger Woods, 14 months removed from a car crash that left him with injuries so severe he feared he might lose his lower right leg, was set to launch his boldest Masters bid yet on Thursday as play began at Augusta National.

Honorary starters Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and newcomer Tom Watson struck ceremonial tee shots Thursday to signal the start of the 86th Masters golf tournament at Augusta National.

Due to the consequences caused by the war in Ukraine, 45 million people are already facing "dramatic famine", according to Welthungerhilfe.That is three million more than at the beginning of the year, says Secretary General Mathias Mogge in a recent interview, according to BERLINER TAGESZEITUNG. Some western countries, such as Canada and Australia, are trying to meet the demand for grain.But this is not enough, which is why there will be unrest in countries where there is hunger, which will cause new sources of conflict. Therefore, the mass murderer Putin is now using hunger as a weapon, bombing Ukrainian petrol depots so that Ukrainian tractors are unable to get the grain into the ground!

The kind of "diplomacy" of European heads of state is a scandal and this scandalous behaviour is summed up by the Polish head of government Mateusz Morawiecki because of the telephone calls of the French President Emmanuel Macron with the Russian war criminal and mass murderer Vladimir Putin, about the Ukraine war, and rightly calls it abominable!The fact that Macron calls the justified criticism of the Polish head of government Morawiecki because of his telephone calls with the Russian dictator Putin, on Wednesday, "unfounded", shows that the EU heads of state have not understood the seriousness of the situation of this criminal Russian terror war against Ukraine until today.

South African Test captain Dean Elgar on Thursday defended his team against allegations of "unbearable sledging" during the first Test against Bangladesh in Durban.

Eurozone stocks rose Thursday but London drooped as investors digested news that the Federal Reserve held off from a bigger interest rate hike last month owing to Ukraine turmoil, dealers said.

Real Madrid might want both Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland this summer but Karim Benzema's latest Champions League hat-trick shows they already have the world's deadliest number nine.

Ukraine urged its residents in the east of the country Thursday to take their "last chance" to flee mounting Russian attacks, after devastation around the capital Kyiv shocked the world.

Подобная "дипломатия" глав европейских государств является скандалом, и это скандальное поведение подытожил глава польского правительства Матеуш Моравецкий из-за телефонных разговоров президента Франции Эммануэля Макрона с российским военным преступником и массовым убийцей Владимиром Путиным по поводу войны в Украине, справедливо назвав это отвратительным!Тот факт, что Макрон называет обоснованную критику главы польского правительства Моравецкого из-за его телефонных переговоров с российским диктатором Путиным в среду "необоснованной", показывает, что главы государств ЕС до сегодняшнего дня не понимали серьезности ситуации этой преступной российской террористической войны против Украины.

Early morning thunderstorms forced a 30-minute delay to Thursday's start of the opening round of the 86th Masters, pushing back the return of Tiger Woods to major golf.