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UK police arrest 11 around Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv match

British police said Friday that 11 people were arrested the previous night around the highly charged Europa League football match in Birmingham between English Premier League side Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv, a match that saw fans of the Israeli team banned.

In an update Friday, West Midlands Police said five of those arrested were on suspicion of racially aggravated offenses. The others included failure to comply with orders and breaching the peace.

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World shares retreat after falling tech stocks pull Wall Street lower

Shares were mostly lower in Europe following a retreat Friday in Asia after losses for influential technology stocks pulled Wall Street benchmarks lower.

U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices advanced.

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Bellingham and Foden back in England squad but no room for Alexander-Arnold

Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden were recalled Friday by England coach Thomas Tuchel for the team's upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Albania.

The attacking midfielders — two of the country's most talented players — were left out of England's last squad, with Tuchel stressing the need to have a strong team spirit in the camp and warning there would be "no guarantees" for his superstar players.

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Outside powers backing Sudan warring sides help fuel fighting as atrocities mount

For more than two years, Sudan's military and a powerful paramilitary force have torn the country apart in a war for power, both digging in against peace efforts even as atrocities mount and starvation spreads. One reason they can keep going is the support each reportedly gets from other nations looking for influence.

International alarm has grown since Oct. 26, when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized the key city of el-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region from the military and reportedly went on a rampage. Witnesses and aid groups say fighters have killed hundreds of civilians, and the fate of thousands more is unknown.

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Musk could become history's first trillionaire as Tesla shareholders approve giant pay package

The world's richest man was just handed a chance to become history's first trillionaire.

Elon Musk won a shareholder vote on Thursday that would give the Tesla CEO stock worth $1 trillion if he hits certain performance targets over the next decade. The vote followed weeks of debate over his management record at the electric car maker and whether anyone deserved such unprecedented pay, drawing heated commentary from small investors to giant pension funds and even the pope.

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Hurricane? Cyclone? Typhoon? Here's the difference

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 114 people in the Philippines with even more missing and then hit Vietnam Friday. A second typhoon, Fong-Wong, is forecast to hit the Philippines around Sunday and strengthen to a major storm by that time.

Some facts about typhoons:

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Brazil stumps up billions of dollars for its ambitious rainforest fund at UN climate summit

Brazil on Thursday unveiled long-awaited details of a plan to pay countries to preserve their tropical forests and announced it had already drawn $5.5 billion in pledges.

The fund is President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's flagship project as he welcomes world leaders to the edge of the Amazon for the United Nations annual climate summit — an effort to draw attention and money to the imperiled rainforest crucial to curbing global warming.

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At UN climate summit, world leaders say time running short to stop worst warming effects

World leaders warned Thursday that time is running short for urgent and decisive action to prevent the worst effects of climate change, and blasted the United States for its retreat from those efforts, as they gathered at the edge of Brazil's Amazon rainforest for the annual United Nations climate summit.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres opened a gathering of heads of state in Belem, Brazil, with harsh words for world powers who he said "remain captive to the fossil fuel interests, rather than protecting the public interest."

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Fans watch as Barcelona trains for first time at remodeled Camp Nou

More than 20,000 Barcelona fans filled a part of the modernized Camp Nou stadium on Friday to watch the team practice there for the first time since it was closed for a major facelift over two years ago.

Fans cheered as Lamine Yamal and teammates ran onto the field.

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South Korea says North Korea fired ballistic missile toward its eastern waters

North Korea on Friday fired a suspected short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters, South Korea's military said, as Pyongyang steps up its testing activity while talks with Washington and Seoul remain stalled.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the weapon flew about 700 kilometers (434 miles) cross-country after being fired from an inland area around the western county of Taekwan.

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