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La Rochelle (France) (AFP) – La Rochelle’s South African international centre Raymond Rhule, who has not played competitively for 10 months due to a knee injury, has called time on his playing career, the French Top 14 club announced on Tuesday.

Raymond Rhule scores an early try as La Rochelle beat Leinster in the 2022 Champions Cup final against Leinster in Marseille

Philippine Coast Guard slams 'dangerous' China helicopter manoeuvres

Above the South China Sea (AFP) – The Philippine Coast Guard condemned “dangerous” manoeuvres by a Chinese Navy helicopter on Tuesday that it said flew within three metres (10 feet) of a surveillance flight carrying a group of journalists over the contested Scarborough Shoal.

An aircraft identified by the Philippine Coast Guard as a Chinese Navy helicopter (L) flies near a plane carrying journalists over the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea

Turkey arrests 282 despite reconciliation bid with PKK

Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey has detained 282 people in a nationwide swoop on those with suspected “terror” ties, the interior minister said Tuesday, despite a parallel government bid to end the bloody four-decade Kurdish conflict.

Turkey says it has detained 282 people in a nationwide swoop targeting those with suspected 'terror' ties