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'Last man standing': Klopp sad to see so many managers fired

Premier League managers are losing their jobs at a quicker rate than ever and it's making Jurgen Klopp feel uncomfortable.

"The elephant in the room," the Liverpool manager said Monday, "is why I'm still sitting here in this crazy world. I'm the last man standing."

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Leader PSG loses to Lyon; Monaco rallies to beat Strasbourg

French league leader Paris Saint-Germain gave its rivals in the title race a glimmer of hope after losing 1-0 to Lyon on Sunday for a second straight home defeat.

PSG's fifth loss of the league campaign leaves its six points ahead of second-place Lens and Marseille with nine rounds of matches remaining.

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Benzema nets 7-minute hat trick, Madrid beats Valladolid 6-0

It was a quick hat trick for Karim Benzema, and a big win for Real Madrid ahead of the last "clasico" of the season.

Benzema scored his three goals in a seven-minute span as Madrid crushed Valladolid 6-0 in the Spanish league on Sunday, boosting the team's morale before it faces Barcelona in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician and film composer, dies

Ryuichi Sakamoto, a world-renowned Japanese musician and actor who composed for Hollywood hits such as "The Last Emperor" and "The Revenant," has died. He was 71.

Japan's recording company Avex said in a statement Sunday that Sakamoto died on March 28 while undergoing treatment for cancer.

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'Dungeons & Dragons' opens with $38.5M, takes down John Wick

Riding terrific reviews and a strong word-of-mouth, the role playing game adaptation "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" opened with $38.5 million in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, stealing the top box-office perch from "John Wick: Chapter 4."

The Paramount Pictures and eOne release appealed to more moviegoers than many expected a film based on a notoriously niche table top game to interest. "Game Night" directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley turned in a rollicking comic action-adventure, with a cast including Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page and Hugh Grant, that's bringing in ticket buyers less familiar with "D&D." Audiences gave "Honor Among Thieves," which launched with a raucous opening-night premiere at SXSW, an A- CinemaScore. It scored 91% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Tunisia opposition demands clarity on president's 'absence'

Tunisia's main opposition coalition pressed the government on Monday to explain a days-long public "absence" of President Kais Saied, saying it had information that he was sick.

Saied, 65, has not appeared in public or held any meetings since March 22, according to posts on his Facebook page -- the presidency's only official channel of communication.

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The US leads the world in weather catastrophes. Here's why

The United States is Earth's punching bag for nasty weather.

Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet, several experts said. Two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, jutting peninsulas like Florida, clashing storm fronts and the jet stream combine to naturally brew the nastiest of weather.

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Twitter pulls check mark from main New York Times account

Twitter has removed the verification check mark on the main account of The New York Times, one of CEO Elon Musk's most despised news organizations.

The removal comes as many of Twitter's high-profile users are bracing for the loss of the blue check marks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the social media platform.

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Russia blames Ukraine for bomb that killed military blogger

Russian authorities blamed Ukrainian intelligence agencies on Monday for orchestrating a bombing at a St. Petersburg cafe that killed a Russian military blogger who fervently supported Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and arrested a suspect accused of involvement in the attack.

Ukrainian authorities did not directly respond to the accusation, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he doesn't think about events in Russia and a senior official earlier described the bombing as part of Russia's internal turmoil.

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Finland to join NATO military alliance this week, chief says

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Finland will become the 31st member of the military alliance on Tuesday.

"From tomorrow, Finland will be a full member of the alliance," Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels.

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