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       The Kansas City Chiefs pulled off a thrilling comeback to win the Super Bowl 38-35 against the Philadelphia Eagles in Pheonix, Arizona on Sunday.

       The victory sees the Chiefs become NFL champions for the second time in four years.

       The Chiefs trailed for much of the game and were 27-21 down heading into the final quarter. But an inspired performance from an injured Patrick Mahomes helped the Chiefs seal a dramatic late victory and claim American football's most coveted trophy and title.

       Mahomes threw two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter and scrambled 26 yards on the go-ahead drive before Harrison Butker kicked a 27-yard field goal with just eight seconds to spare.

       DJ Snake prepares to fly French flag at Super Bowl LVII

       The 27-year-old quarterback is the first player since 1999 to win the season MVP (Most Valuable Player), the Super Bowl and the Super Bowl MVP in the same season.

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       Projections suggest a major upset for the ruling Social Democrats in local elections in Berlin with the centre-right Christian Democrats ahead with 27.8% of the vote.

       If the final results mirror the projections, it would be the first time in more than two decades that the Christian Democrats emerged as the strongest party in Berlin.

       Kai Wegner, the party’s top candidate, thanked Berliners for their votes and promised that “we will make Berlin work again.”

       Berliners have long been frustrated by the city’s notoriously dysfunctional administration, which has defied cliches of German efficiency for years and made it the laughing stock of the rest of the country.

       The election itself was a court-ordered rerun of a chaotic 2021 state election that was marred by severe glitches at many polling stations and hours-long queues as some polling centres ran out of ballots or received the wrong ones for the district.

       After the 2021 election, Franziska Giffey, who belongs to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, led the city as Berlin’s mayor in a three-party left-wing governing coalition with the Greens and the Left party. The 44-year-old was running again Sunday.

       And on Sunday there were also regional elections in Italy.

       Candidates backed by Giorgia Meloni's hard-right coalition, Lombardy regional president Attilio Fontana and right-wing Francesco Rocca are expected to triumph in both the northern economic powerhouse of Lombardy and Lazio, which includes the capital Rome.

       Polling stations will reopen on Monday, when results will begin to be known.

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       Former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides was elected as the new president of Cyprus in a runoff election Sunday. His rival, veteran diplomat Andreas Mavroyiannis, conceded defeat.

       With 100% of ballots counted, Christodoulides had 51.9% of the vote to Mayroyiannis' 48.1%, according to official election results.

       Christodoulides, 49, campaigned as a unifying force for ethnically divided Cyprus, eschewing ideological and party divisions. His message resonated with a wide cross-section of voters.

       Mavroyiannis, who had served as Cyprus’ ambassador to the United Nations. positioned himself as the agent of change, ushering in a new political era following a decade of rule by outgoing President Nicos Anastasiades. But the support he received from the communist-rooted AKEL party may have pushed swing voters into backing Christodoulides.

       Speaking to a sombre crowd of supporters, Mavroyiannis, 66, who also was Anastasiades’ chief negotiator with the

       “I want to congratulate Nikos Christodoulides for his election victory and to wish more power to him," Mavroyiannis said. “I'm saddened that we couldn't fulfil the hopes and expectations for large progressive changes that our homeland needs.”

       Christodoulides appeared to have won with support from members of the Democratic Rally (DISY) party, whose leader, Averof Neophytou,

       Many DISY party insiders had blamed Christodoulides, a long-time party member, for running against Neophytou and splitting the party vote.

       However, many did not want the AKEL, Mavroyiannis’ main backer, to regain a foothold in government and feared the diplomat becoming the next president of Cyprus would threaten the country's fragile economy and pro-Western trajectory.

       Critics fault AKEL for bringing Cyprus to the brink of bankruptcy a decade ago and for maintaining a pro-Moscow slant.

       Amid the bickering within DISY, Anastasiades, a former party leader, took the unusual step of issuing a statement suggesting that DISY members should work to thwart an AKEL-backed government.

       He urged the party's voters to safeguard the island’s Western orientation and its deepening alliance with the U.S and to maintain fiscal discipline while effectively dealing with an influx of irregular migrants.

       Trying to mend fences with Christodoulides and divisions within DISY, Neophytou said the president-elect could count on the party's support “for the good of the country.”

       Christoulides inherits the challenge of trying to revive stalemated peace talks with the country's Turkish Cypriots, who declared independence nearly a decade after a 1974 Turkish invasion that followed a coup aimed at union with Greece.

       Turkish Cypriots

       The island's reunification has eluded politicians during over nearly a half-century of negotiations, despite progress on the shape of an overall peace deal.

       A potential resolution became more complicated following the 2017 collapse of talks at a Swiss resort that many believed had come tantalisingly close to producing a breakthrough.

       Turkey, the only country to recognize the minority Turkish Cypriots’ independence, has since turned its back on a United Nations-backed arrangement for a federated Cyprus. It advocates instead a two-state deal, which the U.N., the European Union, the U.S. and other countries have rejected.

       As the government spokesman and Anastasiades' close confidant at the time, Christodoulides was a key insider during the failed peace drive in Switzerland. He has blamed Turkey’s insistence on maintaining a permanent troop presence and military intervention rights in a reunified Cyprus as the main reason the negotiations unravelled.

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       European union membership

       Christodoulides has said he draws the line at those two Turkish demands but would utilise Cyprus' European Union membership to engage with Ankara on ways to break the current deadlock.

       On the economy, Christodoulides said a top priority would be to maintain fiscal discipline without endangering the country’s social safety net.

       The president-elect also aims to expedite development on

       “Mr. Christodoulides’ candidacy is an opportunity for Cypriot people to turn the page, with a new type of governance, with a humanist purpose above all else,” voter Neophytos Makrides, 58, said as he cast his ballot in Paphos. “No to corruption and in favour of the right resolution of the Cypriot problem.”