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Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:42:12 GMT
Joshua promises dream bout with Fury will happen
Anthony Joshua says the mouthwatering heavyweight boxing bout with fellow Briton Tyson Fury will happen preferably in Britain before he hangs up his gloves. Between them, the two boxers currently hold all the major versions of the heavyweight world...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:32:13 GMT
Police trampled, hundreds arrested in Melbourne anti-lockdown protest
Several police officers were wounded and hundreds of protesters were arrested in Australia's second-most-populous city Saturday in violent clashes at an anti-lockdown march. Officers used pepper spray and made over 200 arrests in Melbourne as sever...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:00:25 GMT
Gun-toting Taliban mingle with families and kids at Kabul Zoo
Taliban soldiers cradling AK-47s and M16 assault rifles mingle among families at Kabul Zoo, a novelty experience for many of the young fighters from rural Afghanistan. As visitors set up picnic spots in the shaded grounds, enjoying ice creams and ...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:38:50 GMT
Greece to open new ‘controlled’ migrant camp as rights groups criticise restrictions
Greece on Saturday inaugurates the first of five new "closed" migrant camps, opposed by rights groups who say the strict access measures are too restrictive.

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:12:14 GMT
Girls excluded from returning to secondary school in Afghanistan
Girls were excluded from returning to secondary school in Afghanistan on Saturday, after the country's new Taliban rulers ordered only boys and male teachers back to the classroom. The hardline Islamist group ousted the US-backed government last m...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 06:06:12 GMT
Greece inaugurates its first 'closed' camp for asylum seekers
Greece on Saturday inaugurates the first of five new "closed" migrant camps, opposed by rights groups who say the strict access measures are too restrictive. Barbed wire fencing surrounds the new camp on the island of Samos which is also installed ...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 06:00:22 GMT
Hungary opposition hopes new primary system will help oust Orban
Hungary's newly united opposition politicians will go to the polls Saturday in the country's first-ever primary elections that they hope are the key to ousting right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban. After years of bickering and a string of landsl...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 05:50:26 GMT
Kremlin critic Navalny’s allies blast Apple and Google for removal of opposition voting app
Allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny accused Apple and Google of "censorship" on Friday after they removed an opposition voting app at the start of a three-day parliamentary election in Russia.

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 04:50:16 GMT
Venezuela's Maduro in Mexico on first foreign trip since US accusations
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Mexico on Friday to participate in a gathering of leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean, a rare trip abroad and his first since the United States accused him of drug trafficking. Maduro was rece...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 04:04:20 GMT
South Korea's Ko vaults into lead at Portland LPGA event
World number two Ko Jin-young surged to the top of the leaderboard on Friday with a five-under 67 to take a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the LPGA Portland Classic. Ko, who is playing in her first tournament since failing to win a medal at ...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:58:12 GMT
McNealy leads at Silverado as top-ranked Rahm misses cut
Maverick McNealy capped a wild eight-under par 64 with a chip-in eagle to grab the halfway lead in the US PGA Tour Fortinet Championship, where world No. 1 Jon Rahm missed the cut. Along with his eagle at the par-five ninth hole, McNealy had nine b...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:24:14 GMT
Critics warn of Apple, Google 'chokepoint' repression
The global dominance of tech giants serves as a convenient online chokepoint for authoritarian governments to crack down on dissent or rig elections, critics of Apple and Google said Friday. The companies were facing international outrage after pul...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:24:14 GMT
Argentina's president reshuffles cabinet after political crisis: official
Argentina's president Alberto Fernandez announced a new cabinet on Friday in a bid to smother a political crisis that pitted him bitterly against his vice president this week after an electoral defeat in legislative primaries. The reshuffle came on...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:18:18 GMT
'Burnt out': Philippine nurses battle Covid, resignations
Exhausted nurses in the Philippines are struggling to care for patients as colleagues contract Covid-19 or quit a profession that was dangerously understaffed even before the pandemic. The country is enduring a record rise in infections, fuelled by...

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:02:16 GMT
World leaders descend on New York despite pandemic
Some 100 world leaders descend on New York next week in a partial return of the annual UN extravaganza despite Covid concerns, with progress sought on pressing global problems -- starting with the pandemic. The UN General Assembly will also look to...



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