MADRID: All upcoming professional football matches in Spain, France and Portugal, as well as some in Germany and a European Championship qualifying match in Slovakia, will be played in empty stadiums because of the coronavirus outbreak. The Spanish League said on Tuesday that matches in the first and second divisions will be played without fans […]
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LAHORE: Quetta Gladiators’ Australian cricketer Ben Cutting on Tuesday said Pakistan was safe for cricket and he did not have any apprehensions on coming here to play in the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020. “Security was not my concern as I had seen the security measures during the World Eleven tour in September 2017,” […]
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KARACHI: Quetta Gladiators are propping up the Pakistan Super League (PSL) standings and the franchise believes a tiring travel schedule has contributed to their dismal performance so far. The reigning champions have picked up just three wins from their eight matches to sit at the bottom of the charts and facing an uphill task to […]
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JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo is weighing an audacious 2032 Olympics bid centred on the country’s not-yet-built new capital and is in early talks with SoftBank chief executive Masayoshi Son and other investors for support, sources said. The world’s fourth-most-populous country unveiled in August plans to build a $34 billion “smart and green” new capital […]
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Malaysia’s new prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, extended an olive branch on Wednesday to the leader he recently replaced, veteran politician Mahathir Mohamad, calling on him to endorse the new government after weeks of political tension. Mahathir, 94, sparked turmoil with his surprise resignation last month, shortly after his coalition partners were seen in talks with his […]
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Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it plans to boost oil production capacity for the first time in more than a decade, a day after it announced a record hike in crude supply in a battle for market share that has hammered global prices this week. Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry has directed oil producer Saudi Aramco […]
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Turkey’s president on Wednesday made the incendiary claim that the Greek authorities’ alleged mistreatment of migrants at its border was comparable to “what the Nazis did,” and said he would denounce Greece’s action at international platforms. In his weekly address to his ruling party’s legislators, Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said there would be no change […]
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A spokesperson for the Afghan Taliban on Wednesday termed the decree signed by President Ashraf Ghani to facilitate the release of some Taliban prisoners in Afghan jails as “conditional”, saying the release order went against the agreement signed between the militant group and the US last month. Sediq Seddiqi, spokesperson for the Afghan president, said […]
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Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Wednesday following his sexual assault and rape conviction last month in a case hailed as a victory for the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct. The sentence was handed down in a Manhattan criminal court by Justice James Burke, who presided over Weinstein’s […]
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Two terrorists were killed on Monday as security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in Tank district of DI Khan to foil a “major terrorist activity”, a press release from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. According to ISPR, the operation was conducted on a terrorist hideout and Colonel Mujeebur Rehman was martyred during the exchange […]
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