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Italian police have fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters who threw firecrackers, smoke bombs and bottles at them near a Winter Olympics venue.

A 'storm train' of consecutive winds and rains battering Spain and Portugal has already forced 11,000 people to flee their homes. 

Japanese politics is politer and more understated than most.

Cristiano Ronaldo has missed a second straight game with Saudi Pro League side Al Nassr as he continues his strike.

The US president and Israel's prime minister will meet on Wednesday in Washington to discuss negotiations with Iran, according to Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

A drone attack in Sudan has killed 24 people, including eight children, according to a doctors' group.

For a largely sedate and elegant spectacle, the Winter Olympics opening ceremony still became an outlet for rage in Milan.

Japan is holding a snap election on Sunday, in the first electoral test for the country's first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, since she became leader.

Neil Young has cancelled his upcoming UK tour and other dates in Europe with rock band The Chrome Hearts.

From the Skripal poisonings to the invasion of Ukraine to subverting American elections, it is hard to think of a Russian outrage Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev has not been involved in.