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For a largely sedate and elegant spectacle, the Winter Olympics opening ceremony still became an outlet for rage in Milan.

Italian police have fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters who threw firecrackers, smoke bombs and bottles at them near a Winter Olympics venue.

Japan is holding a snap election on Sunday, in the first electoral test for the country's first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, since she became leader.

The US president and Israel's prime minister will meet on Wednesday in Washington to discuss negotiations with Iran, according to Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

Japanese politics is politer and more understated than most.

Cristiano Ronaldo has missed a second straight game with Saudi Pro League side Al Nassr as he continues his strike.

A drone attack in Sudan has killed 24 people, including eight children, according to a doctors' group.

Neil Young has cancelled his upcoming UK tour and other dates in Europe with rock band The Chrome Hearts.

A 'storm train' of consecutive winds and rains battering Spain and Portugal has already forced 11,000 people to flee their homes. 

From the Skripal poisonings to the invasion of Ukraine to subverting American elections, it is hard to think of a Russian outrage Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev has not been involved in.