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Mon, 30 May 2022 08:00:18 GMT
Pandya tipped as future India captain after Gujarat's IPL fairytale
Pandya's Gujarat Titans thrashed Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets in the Indian Premier League final on Sunday, with the skipper taking three wickets and scoring 34 runs in front of nearly 105,000 fans in the world's biggest cricket stadium. It wa...

Mon, 30 May 2022 06:08:15 GMT
Riot police clash with pitch-invading fans as Saint-Étienne relegated from Ligue 1
Saint-Étienne, one of France's biggest clubs, were relegated from Ligue 1 on Sunday after losing a penalty shoot-out in their play-off against Auxerre, who return to the top flight after 10 years away.

Mon, 30 May 2022 06:08:15 GMT
High-tech race to map Ukraine's damaged historic buildings
One of them is volunteer French engineer Emmanuel Durand, a specialist in 3D data acquisition, who is assisting a bevy of architects, engineers, historic building experts and a museum director to record buildings in Kyiv, Lviv, Chernigiv and Kharkiv...

Mon, 30 May 2022 05:38:56 GMT
Amid economic slowdown, China is 'weaker than anytime' in recent memory
China Foreign Minister Wang Yi holds a meeting with counterparts from 10 Pacific island nations in Fiji on Monday, midway through a diplomatic tour of the region where China's ambitions for wider security ties has caused concern among US allies. For...

Mon, 30 May 2022 05:34:11 GMT
Race to save undersea Stone Age cave art masterpieces
Then they have to negotiate a 137-metre (yard) natural tunnel into the rock, passing through the mouth of the cave until they emerge into a huge cavern, much of it now submerged. Three men died trying to discover this "underwater Lascaux" as rumour...

Mon, 30 May 2022 04:44:15 GMT
Virtual entertainment is 'very contentious,' opening the door to 'a lot of ethical issues'
Joining FRANCE 24 is Dr. Jenna NG, Senior Lecturer in Film and Interactive Media at the University of York and Author of "The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie." As entertainment goes v...

Mon, 30 May 2022 04:21:01 GMT
Live: Ukraine and Russia battle in the east, French foreign minister visits Kyiv
EU leaders will meet Monday to discuss a new sanctions package against Moscow, with the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell saying they would agree a deal despite resistance from Hungary and other eastern member states to a ban on Russian oi...

Mon, 30 May 2022 04:12:15 GMT
Tiananmen masses axed as crackdown memorials erased in Hong Kong
Since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law in 2020 to snuff out pro-democracy demonstrations, once-packed candlelit vigils have been banned, a Tiananmen museum has been forced to close, and statues have been pulled down. The annual Cath...

Mon, 30 May 2022 03:50:19 GMT
Ukraine pushes back in Kherson as Zelensky visits east
Zelensky, who on Monday will press EU leaders to break a deadlock on a new round of sanctions against Russia, a day earlier walked the streets of the devastated Kharkiv region's capital in a bullet-proof vest. While one-third of the northeastern re...

Mon, 30 May 2022 03:42:11 GMT
Celtics beat Heat, advance to face Warriors in NBA Finals
Boston captured the winner-take-all matchup to take the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals 4-3 and secure a place in the championship series, which begins Thursday in San Francisco. The Celtics, who eliminated 2021 NBA champion Milwaukee in a ...

Mon, 30 May 2022 03:30:17 GMT
Hardliner, China hawk elected Australian opposition leader
Dutton came out swinging after accepting the top spot, saying the country's newly elected Labor government was not "ready to govern and we are already seeing their inexperience on display". He promised his party will go to the next election, due in...

Mon, 30 May 2022 03:13:18 GMT
Nepali rescuers find more than 10 bodies in wreckage of missing plane
Nepali rescuers pulled 14 bodies on Monday from the mangled wreckage of a passenger plane strewn across a mountainside that went missing in the Himalayas with 22 people on board.

Mon, 30 May 2022 03:02:10 GMT
Nepal army finds wreckage of missing plane
"A search team has located the wreckage of the plane and shared a picture. Additional teams are heading there so we can get details," said Nepal Army spokesman Narayan Silwal. An image shared by Silwal on Twitter showed debris from the wreckage of ...

Mon, 30 May 2022 02:42:11 GMT
Irish judges to rule on ex-soldier accused of IS membership
Lisa Smith, 40, from Dundalk on Ireland's east coast, pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful terrorist group between October 28, 2015 and December 1, 2019. She also denied funding terrorism by sending 800 euros ($900) to aid medical treatm...

Mon, 30 May 2022 02:24:19 GMT
Tech giant Grab's female co-founder blazes a trail
This month the company announced it will raise the proportion of women in leadership positions to 40 percent by 2030 -- up from 34 percent now -– and is committed to ensuring equal pay. The key weapon in her arsenal for gender equality? Data. ...



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