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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the head of the state guards on Thursday, two days after two of its members were accused of plotting to assassinate the president.

Donald Trump's lawyer sought to show inconsistencies in porn star Stormy Daniels's various tellings of a 2006 sexual encounter she has said she had with Trump, part of an effort on Thursday to undermine her credibility as a witness.

Canadian riders Michael Woods and Riley Pickrell are out of the Giro d'Italia, as is Israel-Premier Tech teammate Nadav Raisberg, who was also involved in the same crash Wednesday on the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia.

Joyful crowds gathered along the streets of France's southern port of Marseille on Thursday to see torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame through the city's most emblematic sites, a day after it arrived on a majestic three-mast ship for a welcoming ceremony.

Ramón Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal over the hiding of wealth in offshore entities, has died, a lawyer from his firm confirmed Thursday. He was 71.

A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off a runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal's capital, injuring 10 people, according to the transport minister and footage from a passenger that appeared to show the aircraft on fire.

Israeli forces bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed U.S. President Joe Biden's threat to withhold weapons from the country if it assaults the southern Gaza city.

Severe storms were tearing through the central and southeast U.S. late Tuesday and Wednesday, spawning damaging tornadoes, producing massive hail and killing two people in Tennessee and another in North Carolina.

A FedEx Airlines Boeing 767 cargo plane landed at Istanbul Airport on Wednesday without its front landing gear, a Turkish Transport Ministry official said, adding there were no casualties and authorities had launched an investigation.

Severe storms passed through several counties in Michigan on May 7, creating tornadoes in some areas. One tornado was caught on a doorbell camera downing multiple trees outside the owner's home.

Jeannie Epper —one of Hollywood's most renowned stuntwomen — died Sunday at the age of 83.

A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 13-metre dead whale across its bow, marine authorities said.

FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed — and some will get more than that — nearly two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded.

Florida this month became the first U.S. state to ban lab-grown meat. Other states are adopting similar laws while, in Canada, early whispers of the debate are stirring in an ongoing federal public review.

The federal judge in Florida presiding over the classified documents prosecution of former U.S. president Donald Trump has cancelled the May 20 trial date, postponing it indefinitely.

Ukraine's state security service said it caught two agents for Russia plotting the assassination of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials as "a gift" for Russian President Vladimir Putin as he was sworn in for a new term in the Kremlin on Tuesday.

TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, are suing the U.S. over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it's sold to another company, arguing that it relies on vaguely painting it as a threat to national security to get around the First Amendment.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned that the threat of antisemitism is growing, in remarks honouring the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, as his support for Israel's assault on Gaza divides his Democratic Party.

Porn star Stormy Daniels described her 2006 encounter with former U.S. president Donald Trump in unflattering terms at his criminal trial on Tuesday, testifying she tried not to think about the sex while it took place and feared it would become public.

Rescue teams searching for dozens of construction workers missing after an apartment complex collapsed in South Africa brought out more survivors Tuesday, as they entered a second night of desperate work to find anyone alive in the wreckage.