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Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:54:11 GMT
Zverev's expulsion from Acapulco Open merited: Nadal
Nadal -- playing his first tournament since he became the record holder for Grand Slam singles titles when he won the Australian Open last month -- added it was not the 'Sascha' (Zverev) he knew and with whom he has good relations. World number thr...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:52:11 GMT
Oil tops $100 after Russian assault on Ukraine
Brent surged as high as $100.29 -- a level last seen in 2014. That capped a meteoric rise over almost two years since crude fell into negative territory for the first time. In early 2020, oil briefly turned negative following the onset of the coro...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:48:12 GMT
Bloodshed and tears as eastern Ukraine faces Russian attack
"I told him to leave," the man in his 30s sobbed, next to the twisted ruins of a car. Nearby a woman screamed curses into the wintry sky. A missile crater, some four to five metres wide, was scoured into the earth between two devastated five-stor...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:28:10 GMT
Iran says decisions needed from West to seal nuclear deal
"No matter how close we are to the finish line, there is not necessarily a guarantee to cross it," Ali Bagheri tweeted after flying back to Tehran for consultations on the talks, which Iran says have reached a "critical" stage. "To finish the job, ...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:24:12 GMT
Ukrainians wake up to sounds of bombings as war hits home
Ksenya Michenka looked deeply shaken as she took cover with her teenage son -- their cat peeking out of a bag -- in a metro station off Kyiv's historic Maidan Square. The expansive square was the focal point off two pro-Western revolutions that Rus...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 07:44:14 GMT
Swiss fondue robot out to cause a stir in Paris
A Swiss team has been beavering away on Bouebot, the robotic creation putting a futuristic twist on an Alpine tradition. Outside in the Rhone glacial valley bisecting Switzerland's southern Wallis region, crisp mountain air blows down from the glis...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 07:12:14 GMT
Russia attack on Ukraine reverberates in energy-rich Gulf
As oil prices broke past $100 per barrel and risks of supply disruptions grew, eyes in Europe were increasingly focusing on oil kingpin Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, one of the biggest natural gas exporters. And the calculations in Riyadh and Doha are m...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 06:16:12 GMT
'Unprovoked and unjustified:' world reacts to attack on Ukraine
Here are some reactions to the Russian operation: US President Joe Biden "The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces," the US president said...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:58:09 GMT
No bull: New Zealand bovine rides raging floodwaters
South Island farmer Tony Peacock said the 18-month-old bull was one of three washed away earlier this month when the West Coast region experienced its worst flooding in almost 80 years. "We had a massive dump of water that we weren't expecting and ...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:50:12 GMT
Israel's president heads to Greece to calm ally ahead of Turkey visit
Herzog holds a largely ceremonial post but has assumed a high-profile diplomatic role under the Israeli government that took office last year. He is expected to make a rare visit to Turkey next month for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:28:15 GMT
Scrounging for food in 'hunger hotspot' Colombia
"We don't know what we're going to eat tonight," Garzon told AFP in a shantytown neighborhood of Ciudad Bolivar in the south of Bogota, two toddlers in diapers clinging to her legs. Garzon, 38, and her kids live in a ramshackle shanty with six beds...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:22:13 GMT
'Straight to hell': Ukraine, Russia, spar during heated UN meet
Sergiy Kyslytsya implored the council, chaired by Russia, to "do everything possible to stop the war" against his country. "It is the responsibility of these bodies to stop the war," Kyslytsya told the meeting of the 15-member council, which began ...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:18:15 GMT
Memory hole: Kashmir news archives vanish
But clicking on the Greater Kashmir newspaper report it cites in the killing of a 16-year-old named Ishtiyaq Ahmad Khanday and two other people now generates a "404 Oops... Page not found!" error. For Sajad Ahmad Dar, who died in hospital after bei...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:12:12 GMT
Elgar banks on shaken S.Africa bouncing back in must-win second Test
Elgar's men are in danger of becoming the first South Africa team to lose a series to New Zealand when the second and final Test begins Friday at Christchurch's Hagley Oval. The Proteas suffered an innings and 276-run thrashing in the first Test o...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:02:15 GMT
Battle over future of spytech firm NSO: Israel court papers
NSO was already mired in debt before an investigation revealed last year that its Pegasus phone-hacking software had been used to spy on hundreds of journalists, dissidents and activists worldwide. Now the surveillance tech giant is teetering, espe...



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