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Messi missing from Ballon d'Or nominees

Lionel Messi will not win another Ballon d'Or this year after being left out of the nominees revealed by organisers on Wednesday, as stars of Spain's Euro 2024-winning team and Real Madrid's Champions League victors feature heavily.

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Tiafoe, Fritz and Navarro boost home hopes

Frances Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz set up an all-American US Open semi-final on Tuesday as compatriot Emma Navarro reached the women’s last four to boost home hopes of a title sweep...

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Macron mulls right-wing ex-minister as PM

France’s president Emmanuel Macron was on Tuesday considering a former right-wing minister to lead a new government after almost two months of deadlock, sources with knowledge of the...

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UK bolsters fight against migrant crossings

The UK government on Wednesday announced new measures to curb the arrival of migrants on boats from France and to step up the removal of failed asylum seekers...

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French police win plaudits after high-risk Olympics

The vaulting ambition of the Paris Olympics made them risky and hard to police, but French security forces kept thousands of athletes and millions of fans safe -- a ‘gold medal’ performance according to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.

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LeBron's USA clinch basketball gold

The United States won their fifth straight Olympic men's basketball crown on Saturday, holding off a battling France 98-87 to take their tally of Olympic golds to 17.

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Spain beat France to win Olympic men's football gold

Substitute Sergio Camello struck twice in extra time to settle a remarkable Olympic men's football final on Friday as Spain beat France 5-3 to take gold after Thierry Henry's hosts had earlier staged a dramatic comeback.

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TikTok, bowing to EU, withdraws rewards programme

TikTok will permanently remove a feature in a spinoff app in France and Spain that rewards users for watching and liking videos, bowing to pressure from European regulators, the EU and the Chinese-owned company said Monday...

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Foreign nationals advised to leave Lebanon

Urgent calls for foreign nationals to leave Lebanon grew on Sunday with France warning of ‘a highly volatile’ situation as Iran and its allies ready their response to...

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France win over Argentina sparks ugly scenes

France's grudge match with Argentina ended in ugly scenes after Jean-Philippe Mateta scored the only goal to put the hosts into the Olympic semi-finals on Friday with a 1-0 win, joining Spain, Morocco and Egypt.

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Griezmann is France's number one Olympic supporter

The host nation are having a good Paris Olympics so far -- and no-one is cheering them on more enthusiastically and more publicly than France and Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann.

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France, Britain win triathlon golds

France’s Cassandre Beaugrand and Britain’s Alex Yee won gold as the Paris Olympics triathlon went ahead Wednesday in a huge relief for organisers, and the star-studded USA chased a spot in the men’s basketball quarter-finals...

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Mbappe buys Ligue 2 club Caen

France captain Kylian Mbappe has taken over as majority shareholder of Ligue 2 club Caen, Mbappe's company Interconnected Ventures announced in a statement on Wednesday.

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France spent almost 1 mn euros on Modi, King Charles banquets

French President Emmanuel Macron's office spent nearly one million euros on two lavish banquets for Britain's King Charles III and Indian leader Narendra Modi, the country's top auditors said as they urged the Elysee Palace to tighten its belt.