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Prince Harry has tea with his father, King Charles III, in first meeting in over a year

Britain's Prince Harry joined his father, King Charles III, for tea on Wednesday at the monarch's London home, the first time they've met in well over a year.

The two have been distant since Harry and his wife, Meghan, left royal life and moved to California in 2020 and then publicly aired grievances about the royal family.

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Defending champions Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon take perfect records into 4th round

Defending champion Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon are the only sides to have won all their games heading into the fourth round of matches in Ligue 1.

Not many observers would have expected Lyon to start this well, having avoided relegation to the second tier for financial irregularities after a successful appeal and being obliged to sell key players to balance the books.

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Racial abuse of Black players spikes early in European soccer season

The Premier League season wasn't even 30 minutes old when Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo reported being racially abused by a spectator.

The same weekend, a German Cup match was stopped after Schalke midfielder Christopher Antwi-Adjei was racially abused at a throw-in.

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Study links heat waves to pollution from major fossil fuel producers

Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday.

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Barcelona faces home game challenges with injuries and stadium issues

Barcelona approaches its first home game in La Liga missing a few injured players — and a proper stadium.

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Flash floods in Indonesia leave at least 15 dead and 10 missing

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 15 people who died in flash flooding in two Indonesian provinces, while authorities said Wednesday 10 others were missing.

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Wind and solar power fuel over one-third of Brazil's electricity for first time

Wind and solar power generated more than a third of Brazil's electricity in August, the first month on record the two renewable sources have crossed that threshold, according to government data made public on Thursday and analyzed by energy think tank Ember.

The clean energy sources accounted for 34% of the country's electricity generation last month, producing a monthly record of 19 terawatt-hours (TWh), enough to power about 119 million average Brazilian homes for a month, Ember told The Associated Press.

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US inflation worsened last month, putting Fed in difficult spot as job market slows

Inflation rose last month as the price of gas, groceries, and airfares jumped, while a measure of layoffs also increased, putting the Federal Reserve in a tough spot as it prepares to cut rates at its meeting next week despite persistent price pressures.

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Wall Street rises toward more records on expectations for easier interest rates

Wall Street is ticking toward more records on Thursday following mixed U.S. data that likely keeps the path clear for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in order to boost the economy.

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Massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected whole planet. Archeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived

By Jayde N. Hirniak, Arizona State University

(THE CONVERSATION) If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years.

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