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Interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa arrives in Riyadh on trip that appears to signal shift away from Iran alliance

Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, travelling to Saudi Arabia in a move that is likely to be an attempt to signal Damascus’s shift away from Iran as its main regional ally.

Ahmed al-Sharaa, who was once aligned with al-Qaida, landed in Riyadh alongside his government’s foreign minister, Asaad al-Shaibani. The two men travelled on a Saudi jet, with a Saudi flag visible on the table behind them.

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26-year-old Doncic would join up with “idol” Lebron James in Los Angeles

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Tuesday’s meeting at the White House will be Trump’s first with a foreign leader since returning to office.

• Dončić and Davis switching teams in major swap
• Utah Jazz also reportedly involved in trade

Luka Dončić led Dallas to the NBA finals last season. Anthony Davis won a championship with the Los Angeles Lakers.

They’re switching teams now – in an absolute blockbuster.

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Cooper Flagg had 21 points and fellow Duke freshman Kon Knueppel had 22 to lead the second-ranked Blue Devils past the Tar Heels 87-70 on Saturday.

• Australia defeat Sweden 3-1 to seal home tie in next round
• Peers-Ebden beat Bergevi-Goransson 6-7 (7-9), 6-3, 6-2

Olympic champions John Peers and Matt Ebden have reunited to seal an emphatic Davis Cup triumph in Sweden and celebrate their Australian team earning a rare tie back on home soil.

With Lleyton Hewitt’s outfit 2-0 overnight in the first-round qualifying tie after the first-day singles in Stockholm, the golden veterans teamed up on Saturday for the first time since their Paris triumph to win the tie-clinching doubles rubber.

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Miller scored twice in his first game with the Rangers one day after they reacquired him from Vancouver in a multiplayer deal that sent Filip Chytil to the Canucks.

Rebels had captured the city in January in major escalation of 10-year-old conflict

At least 773 people were killed in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s largest city of Goma and its vicinity this week amid fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels who captured the city in a major escalation of a decade-long conflict, Congolese authorities have said.

The rebels’ advance into other areas was slowed by a weakened military that recovered some villages from them.

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The program is also expected to lose its funding.

Assault by the Rapid Support Forces in city of Omdurman also leaves more than 150 people wounded

Fighters with the opposition Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have attacked an open market in the Sudanese city of Omdurman, killing 54 people.

The attack on Sabrein market also wounded at least 158 others, Sudan’s health ministry said.

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Meant to lend credibility to his nomination to head HHS, the letter is signed by some doctors disciplined for not following Covid guidelines

A letter submitted to the US Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination as secretary of health and human services includes the names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked or suspended, or who have faced other disciplinary actions, the Associated Press has found.

The letter was meant to lend credibility to Kennedy’s nomination, which has faced strenuous opposition from medical experts due to his two decades of anti-vaccine activism. Republican senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a medical doctor who boasts on his official website of an effort he created to vaccinate 36,000 children against hepatitis B, expressed hesitancy about Kennedy’s nomination and is seen as a key vote.

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"60 Minutes” has resisted releasing transcripts for this and all of its interviews, to avoid second-guessing of its editing process.

PHILADELPHIA -- A medical transport jet with a child patient and five others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff Friday evening, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several homes. Read More

Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months were freed by the government of President Nicolás Maduro after he met Friday with a senior Trump administration official.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted on Friday by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online to a pregnant minor in the Deep South state.

A coalition of legal organizations in Texas called on school leaders to reject the adoption of a recently approved state curriculum heavily infused with references to Christianity and biblical teachings.

Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring.

A man who alleges A$AP Rocky fired a handgun at him in 2021 returns to the courthouse Friday for more cross-examination after a difficult day on the stand.

NEW YORK — Karla Sofia Gascon, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of the movie Emilia Perez, is apologizing for her old posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that called George Floyd "a drug addict and a hustler." Read More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. Read More

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

Around 30 total players have now been punished for their connections to the syndicate run by Grigor Sargsyan, who was previously given a five-year custodial sentence.

Divers are expected to return to the Potomac River on Friday as part of the recovery and investigation after a midair collision killed 67 people in the United States deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter century. Investigators have already recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of the American Airlines plane that collided with...