Germany set sights on World Cup after Euros exit
The hosts may have bowed out of Euro 2024 at the quarter-finals on home soil, but Julian Nagelsmann has given Germany their swagger back after a difficult decade. Germany came into Euro
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UN Security Council weighs Burundi crisis
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