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Tue, 23 Nov 2021 07:36:11 GMT
Cornwall hits out to see West Indies avoid follow-on in Sri Lanka
Rahkeem Cornwall was on 33 not out off a breezy 43 balls containing five fours and a six, while Joshua Da Silva was on nine at the interval. Jason Holder and Kyle Mayers resumed on the precarious overnight score of 113-6 needing to reach 187 to avo...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 07:32:10 GMT
Poor diets imperilling people and the planet: report
The Global Nutrition Report (GNR), a yearly survey and analysis of the latest data on nutrition and related health issues, found that 48 percent of people currently eat either too little or too much -- resulting in them being overweight, obese or un...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 07:14:11 GMT
Hameed hits unbeaten 53 as England begin Ashes warm-ups
Test superstars Joe Root, Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson and Ben Stokes were among the first wave of players to land in Brisbane on November 6 with their Twenty20 World Cup contingent jetting in later. They have completed 14 days quarantine at a Gold...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 07:00:17 GMT
Ecuador pardons some inmates to cut prison overcrowding after riots
The pardons will benefit seriously or terminally ill prisoners and those involved in traffic offenses that did not cause injury or death, the communications ministry said in a statement, without specifying how many would be released. The measure is...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:50:23 GMT
The broken dreams of desperate migrants fleeing Africa for Saudi
Instead, after he reached the coast of Somalia, the smugglers demanded more money and dumped the 19-year-old when he couldn't pay up. Broke and alone, Fentahun had no option but to walk back the way he came -- a journey many hundreds of kilometres t...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:38:17 GMT
'Pawns': Serbs in north Kosovo stuck in simmering dispute
For the past two decades, Mitrovica in northern Kosovo has straddled a simmering fault line between Serbs in the north and ethnic Albanians in the south. NATO underwrites the uneasy peace and the Ibar River effectively partitions the two communitie...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:34:14 GMT
At least 45 people killed in bus blaze in Bulgaria
A cause has yet to be determined but officials believe a fire broke out on board and the bus crashed into guardrails. There were no other vehicles involved in the accident, which occurred around 2:00 am (2400 GMT) on a highway about 40 kilometres (...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:18:15 GMT
Zhang Gaoli: former China vice premier accused by Peng
The former vice premier (2013-18) has been accused by tennis champion Peng Shuai -- in a message promptly censored on Chinese social networks -- of forcing her to have sex during a long-term on-off relationship. The tennis world has expressed conce...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 05:58:14 GMT
Iranian ex-official to testify in Sweden war crimes trial
Hamid Noury, 60, has been on trial in Stockholm's district court since August on charges including murder, crimes against humanity and war crimes. They stem from the period between July 30 to August 16, 1988, when he was allegedly assistant to the d...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 05:38:09 GMT
Brady halts Tampa losing streak as Giants stumble
The reigning Super Bowl champions had been left reeling after back-to-back defeats to Washington and New Orleans in recent weeks, but got back to winning ways with a comfortable home win at Raymond James Stadium. The Bucs' task was made easier afte...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 05:18:17 GMT
Back in the spotlight: Africa's Great Green Wall
The initiative concerning 11 countries on the rim of the world's biggest desert was first launched to great acclaim in 2005, only to battle a lack of cash. But 2021 could be the year of change. Donors this year pledged $19 billion for the scheme,...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 05:18:17 GMT
Great Green Wall brings life back to Niger desert
Goats crunch acacia seeds, squirrel and partridge prints dot the ground, praying mantises hang from trees and swarms of grasshoppers devour the verdant foliage. "A small forest has miraculously been reborn," marvelled Simiri mayor Moussa Adamou. T...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 05:06:19 GMT
The Chinese dad making medicine to treat his dying son
Instead, his desperate father, Xu Wei, has created a home laboratory to create a remedy for the boy himself. "I didn't really have time to think about whether to do it or not. It had to be done," the 30-year-old told AFP from his DIY lab in a high...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 05:02:13 GMT
Asian Tour back on tee after 20 months -- boosted by Norman's millions
When the $1 million Blue Canyon Championship tees off on Thursday on the idyllic Thai island of Phuket, it will see the first shots played on the Asian Tour since the Malaysian Open on March 7, 2020. The restart comes just weeks after Norman shook ...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 04:52:12 GMT
US warship transits Taiwan Strait after Biden-Xi summit
The passage through the Taiwan Strait by the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Milius was a routine transit, the US Seventh Fleet said. The voyage, the 11th declared freedom of navigation exercise of the year, "demonstrates the US co...



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