Music show: Nashville four-piece Be Your Own Pet return after 15-year hiatus
We also check out new releases by Olivia Rodrigo, Royal Blood and Icona Pop.
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Gabon coup, Prigozhin's legacy, Spanish football scandal, Venice Film Festival
Guess who paid a call on coup leaders who have left their border open with Niger? Russia's Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov was in Burkina Faso on Thursday to offer his services to junta leader Ibrahim Traoré. It's the same Yevkurov who was in Libya simultaneously with Yevgeny Prigozhin's final tour of Africa. On that score, the Grey Zone Telegram channel Thursday published images of the late Wagner Group leader.
Key numbers for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France
After an unprecedented venture in Asia in 2019, the Rugby World Cup returns to Europe for a marathon 10th edition set to stretch over more than seven weeks. The home country France is hoping to carry Les Bleus to a maiden title after three final defeats in 1987, 1999 and 2011. England remain the only European nation to have lifted the Webb Ellis Cup in a tournament long dominated by the three Southern Hemisphere heavyweights of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia.
Malian football legend Salif Keita, Saint-Etienne’s ‘Black Panther’, dies at 76
Minister Abdoul Kassim Ibrahim Fomba said Keita passed away in the captial city Bamako, where he was also born.
India's textbook purge: Drastic curriculum revision sparks controversy
Meanwhile, as China's housing crisis deepens, a $100 billion megacity project in Malaysia is facing an uncertain future. We take a closer look at this paradise on Earth-turned-ghost town.
Outcry over Spain football chief's forced kiss after World Cup win
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PSG land in ‘group of death’ with AC Milan, Dortmund in Champions League draw
Bayern Munich’s new signing Harry Kane will return to England to face Manchester United in a group that also includes Copenhagen and Galatasaray. Man United beat Bayern in the 1999 final after an injury-time comeback.
Berlin Bad Boy Artist Jonathan Meese: 'I'm the sweet boy of art!'
We also visit Australian artist Ron Mueck's new show at the Fondation Cartier to see his larger-than-life sculptures and we get a glimpse of an exhibition devoted to French fashion photographer Frank Horvat at the Jeu de Paume in Paris.