World
Philippine officials and residents of areas that bore the brunt of Typhoon Rai pleaded for food, water, and shelter on Tuesday as damaged roads, flooding, and severed power and communication lines hampered relief efforts. Rai struck last Thursday, the strongest typhoon to hit the archipelago this ye...
Sports,Cricket
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting has questioned Joe Root's comments about England's bowlers during the Ashes and said that as captain of the touring side the onus is on him to make changes when needed.After a nine-wicket thrashing in the Brisbane opener, England lost the second test in...
Jos Buttler's dogged resistance ended in a bizarre fashion as Australia thrashed England by 275 runs in the day-night second test to go 2-0 up in the five-match Ashes series on Monday.England resumed the final day on a precarious 82-4, needing 386 more runs for an improbable win or to at least b...
New Zealand will tour Pakistan twice next season, including once to compensate for abandoning their tour earlier this year, the cricket boards of both countries said on Monday.New Zealand had abandoned their tour in September citing a security threat, a decision which came as a massive blow to Pakis...
Sports,Football
After a weekend of COVID-19 related postponements Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool raised the spirits with a rip-roaring 2-2 draw in a pre-Christmas Premier League classic on Sunday.A mistake by Liverpool keeper Alisson gifted Tottenham's Son Heung-min a 74th-minute equaliser after the Juergen Kl...
Holders Paris St Germain strolled into the last 32 of the French Cup with a no-nonsense 3-0 win at amateur side Entente Feignies-Aulnoye as two Ligue 1 sides were knocked out on Sunday.Kylian Mbappe and Mauro Icardi both netted first-half penalties before the France forward completed a double in the...
Thailand has sent over 600 Myanmar refugees who fled fighting between the military and ethnic rebels back across the border, according to a senior Thai official who said on Sunday (Dec 19) clashes were continuing.Some of the refugees who reached northwest Thailand's Tak province told Reuters bef...
The Netherlands will go into a strict lockdown over the Christmas and New Year period to try to contain the highly-contagious Omicron coronavirus variant, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Saturday.All non-essential shops and services, including restaurants, hairdressers, museums and gyms will be cl...
Indian police detained scores of people for blocking highways in a protest against a food poisoning incident at a Foxconn India unit, which makes iPhones for Apple, a police official said on Sunday.More than 150 employees at Foxconn's production unit in southern India were hospitalised after a b...
Paris has cancelled planned fireworks as well as festivities on the Champs Elysees avenue on New Year's Eve in line with new government rules to prevent the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, BFM TV reported on Saturday.French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday that major public ...
European Union governments have agreed to exercise an option to buy over 180 million doses of a version of the Covid-19 vaccine adapted for the Omicron variant developed by BioNTech and Pfizer, the head of the European Commission said.Pfizer and BioNTech began development of a prototype Omicron-spec...
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola compared Sergio Aguero to Argentina greats Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi after the Barcelona striker announced his retirement at the age of 33 on Wednesday due to a heart condition.Former City striker Aguero scored more than 400 goals during his 18-year career...
West Indies' cricket board (CWI) met with its Pakistan counterpart on Thursday to discuss whether to call off the rest of the ongoing tour after five more members of the touring party, including three players, tested positive for Covid-19.CWI said in a statement just hours before the third Twent...
European Union policymakers said on Wednesday they will create a system to certify carbon removals next year, a move that could pave the way to a regulated EU market to trade them and create a financial incentive to store CO2.Technologies such as 'direct air capture' suck in air and use chem...
Iran on Tuesday accused Western parties to its 2015 nuclear deal of "persisting in their blame game", a day after European diplomats warned the pact would soon become defunct if efforts to revive it fail.In a pessimistic assessment of talks between Iran and major powers in Vienna, diplomat...
Manchester United’s Premier League match at Brentford on Tuesday has been postponed due to a number of COVID-19 cases at the Old Trafford club, the league announced on Monday.United had reported a “small number" of cases discovered among first-team staff and players on Sunday, with ...
Barcelona will play Napoli in the knockout round playoff of the second-tier Europa League, marking a face-off between the former clubs of late football great Diego Maradona.Barca, who crashed out of the Champions League after finishing third in their group, will host Napoli in the first leg on Feb. ...
The European Union is discussing a possible new round of economic sanctions against Russia with the United States and Britain, but no decisions will be taken on Monday (Dec 13), the bloc's top diplomat said.The EU and the United States imposed economic sanctions on Russia in July 2014, targeting...
Germany is committed to safeguarding Ukraine's role as a transit route for gas into Europe, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday as Russian troop movements along the Ukrainian border increased pressure on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline development.Nord Stream 2, which would carry Russian gas to Ger...
Country, Districts
Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held talks with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan on Monday in the first ever public meeting between an Israeli leader and the United Arab Emirates' de facto ruler.Israel's ambassador to Abu Dhabi said the issue of Iran was...
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