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France's Macron declares Paris 2024 Olympics open
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron declared the 2024 Paris Olympic Games open on Friday during a rain-soaked ceremony in the French capital.
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Urgent: French President Macron declares Paris Olympics open
PARIS, July 26 (Xinhua) -- French President Emmanuel Macron officially opened the Paris Olympic Games on Friday.
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Trump says he'll hold a rally in town where he was shot
(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he will soon hold another rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the town where a gunman shot and injured him during a campaign rally nearly two weeks ago.
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Massive fire rages in northern California, thousands evacuated
SACRAMENTO, United States, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Crews in northern California on Friday continued battling the largest wildfire of the year in the western U.S. state, which has left more than 130 structures destroyed and thousands of people evacuated.
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Roundup: Europe gears up for Paris Olympics amid heightened terror threats
PARIS/BERLIN, July 26 (Xinhua) -- As millions of visitors descend on Paris for the Summer Olympic Games starting Friday, the city is on high alert for terrorist attacks, with tens of thousands of armed soldiers patrolling the Seine River.
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Severe water shortages threaten central and southern Italy
ROME, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Central and southern Italy are grappling with a severe water shortage, with agricultural supplies projected to last only three more weeks, according to local authorities and media reports.
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U.S. dollar ticks down
NEW YORK, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar weakened in late trading on Friday.
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Olympics | Iraqi judoka fails doping test at Paris Olympics
PARIS, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Sajjad Ghanim Sehen Sehen of Iraq has become the first athlete to fail a doping test at the Paris Olympic Games, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said here on Friday.
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Olympics | Dark skies and train issues forgotten as Paris 2024 opening ceremony gets underway
PARIS, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The Olympic Games are about sport, and they are about more than sport. "Sport is health. Sport is inclusion. Sport is respect. Sport is empowerment. Sport is solidarity. Sport is peace," IOC President Thomas Bach commented two days before Friday's opening ceremony for the Paris Olympic Games.
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EU takes action against 7 states for violating budget regulations
BRUSSELS, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The European Council on Friday placed France and six other European Union (EU) member states under formal procedures, urging them to take corrective measures to address their budget deficits.
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Olympics-Former Canada soccer manager Herdman confident his teams did not spy with drones
(Reuters) - Former Canada women's team manager John Herdman said news that Team Canada staff used a drone to spy on an opponent's practice was "a surprise and a shock," and he is "highly confident" that such practices did not occur under his watch.
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Venezuela's bondholders hope pre-election recruitment drive will pay off
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - As Venezuela heads for pivotal elections at the weekend, its bondholders are on a recruitment drive in the hope the vote will open up some sort of path to the world's biggest debt restructuring.
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Olympics-Boxing-Poland duo making the most of their unusual sporting journeys
PARIS (Reuters) - Poland's Mateusz Bereznicki and Julia Szeremeta have taken slightly winding routes on the road to becoming Olympic boxers but believe their experiences in other sports can help in the ring.
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Trump doctor disputes suggestion that shrapnel, not bullet, hit his ear
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's former White House physician disputed on Friday a suggestion by the FBI director that shrapnel, not a bullet, could have caused the injury to the Republican candidate's right ear during an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on July 13.
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Fatal listeria outbreak prompts nationwide recall of deli meat in U.S.
LOS ANGELES, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A multi-state listeria outbreak in the United States, which has now sickened at least 34 people and killed two as of Friday, prompted a massive recall of tainted deli meat.
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Olympics | Tokyo gold medal winner Pidcock unhappy with 'bland' Paris mountain bike course
PARIS, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Reigning Olympic mountain bike champion Tom Pidcock commented on Friday that he thought the course for this year's tournament could have been tougher.
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Olympics-Soccer-Canada great Sinclair: 'We were never shown drone footage'
PARIS (Reuters) - Canada soccer great Christine Sinclair said on Friday national team players were never shown drone footage during the more than two decades she was on the team, following a spying scandal that cast a shadow over the Canadians at the Paris Games.