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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Saturday he would slap retaliatory tariffs on the United States after walking away from a "bad deal" on trade, deepening the rift between the longtime allies.

Joao Pedro has signed a new contract with Chelsea, keeping him at the London club until 2032 with an option of two further years.

Swedish police revealed that a 17-year-old student was the fatal victim of a sword attack at a high school where widespread tributes were paid to her Saturday.

Defending champion Akane Yamaguchi stayed on course for her fourth badminton world championship crown and will face top-ranked An Se-young in the title showdown, while France's Alex Lanier reached the men's final on Saturday.

Michael Carrick insisted he would not blast his Manchester United's flops despite a dismal 2-0 defeat at Hull in their opening game of the Premier League season, while Crystal Palace boss Pierre Sage suffered a debut loss against Everton.

McLaren driver Lando Norris won pole position for Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix, the current world champion pipping Mercedes rivals George Russell and Kimi Antonelli into second and third place.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday announced Paris would deliver new interceptor missiles to Ukraine, with Kyiv's air defences running short after the latest round of deadly Russian attacks.

McLaren driver Lando Norris took pole position for Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix, the world champion pipping Mercedes rivals George Russell and Kimi Antonelli into second and third place.

Serena Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, and second-ranked Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, a seven-time Slam singles winner, will compete together in US Open mixed doubles, organizers announced Saturday.

Pope Leo XIV visited the tiny republic of San Marino Saturday and later the Italian seaside resort of Rimini, where he exhorted attendees of an influential cultural and political event to be "courageous pioneers" in fighting inequality and poverty.

France on Saturday promised to deliver new interceptor missiles to Ukraine amid a surge in Russian strikes that have pushed civilian deaths in the four-and-a-half-year war to their highest since the first months of Moscow's invasion.

Michael Carrick admitted Manchester United have "a lot to learn" after suffering a surprise 2-0 defeat at Hull in their opening game of the Premier League season on Saturday.

The Ebola virus has spread across Democratic Republic of Congo at a frightening speed and one of the authorities' biggest fears is that it reaches the teeming capital of Kinshasa.

Defending champion Akane Yamaguchi stayed on course for her fourth badminton world championship title with a win in the semi-final, while France's Alex Lanier reached the men's final.

Swedish police revealed that a 17-year-old female student was the fatal victim in a sword attack at a high school where widespread tributes were paid Saturday.

Manchester United crashed to a humiliating 2-0 defeat at promoted Hull on Saturday in a dismal start to their Premier League campaign.

South Korea sent its first trial container ship through the Arctic on Saturday, as the Middle East war rattles global shipping, while environmental groups warned the route could accelerate polar ice melt.

The market debut of artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, a chief rival to OpenAI, could break the record set by SpaceX, US media have reported.

Marcus Trescothick has insisted he wants to continue working with England's Test team even though Mike Hussey has revealed an approach by incoming head coach Stephen Fleming to effectively replace him.

Far from the solemn pomp of the Vatican, nestled under the arcades of the mountain town of Santarcangelo di Romagna, a tailor clad all in black leaned over his sketch.

Indonesia is deploying an additional 1,500 soldiers to Borneo, an official said Saturday, to help tackle wildfires that have burned through swathes of the island and created thick smog choking some areas.

In a year of change, notably tying the knot with his partner and relocating to Monaco, Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis is happy to now focus on "grinding" out some big clearances.

For three days a year, the quiet residential street of Van Speijkstraat in the sleepy Dutch beach resort of Zandvoort transforms itself into a sea of orange streamers and chequered flags, welcoming Formula One fans from around the world.

Ben Stokes has labelled the decision not to hold a men's Ashes Test at Headingley next year "shambolic", after Joe Root expressed disappointment that Leeds was left off the schedule.

World sprint champions Oblique Seville and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden head a stellar cast of elite track and field athletes who will take part in the Diamond League meet in Poland on Sunday.

Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said new signing Rodri would not be involved in the Spanish champions' La Liga opener against Elche on Sunday.

Mercedes driver George Russell powered to victory in the Dutch Grand Prix sprint race Saturday, making the most of his pole position to claw back some ground on teammate Kimi Antonelli in the world championship standings.

Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone said striker Julian Alvarez would return to the squad for Sunday's La Liga clash against Villarreal.

Mercedes driver George Russell powered to victory in the Dutch Grand Prix sprint race Saturday, making the most of his pole position to claw back some ground on teammate Kimi Antonelli in the driver's championship.

Jihadists kidnapped and killed scores of people in an attack during Friday prayers in central Nigeria's Niger state, survivors and lawmakers told AFP Saturday, though some were able to escape during a clash with rival militants.

A Ukrainian drone attack on Saturday hit a house in southern Russia, killing two children and injuring their parents, officials said, while at least nine people remained missing after a Russian attack on a Ukrainian shopping centre.

Dozens of former senior French and UK diplomats on Saturday urged their governments to work together to uphold international law in the Palestinian territories, accusing Israel of seeking to "destroy" any prospect of a viable Palestinian state.