LONDON (Reuters) -Chelsea extended their winning run to nine victories from nine Women’s Super League (WSL) games but they were pushed all the way by a Brighton & Hove Albion side who lost 4-2 after a battling performance in terrible weather at Kingsmeadow on Sunday. Chelsea remained top on 27 points with Manchester City, who …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli shelling hit a hospital in northern Gaza, wounding several people, damaging equipment and disrupting surgeries, Palestinian health officials said on Sunday, but Israel’s military denied carrying out strikes in the area. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the town of Beit Lahiya – one of …
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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called on Sunday for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations between Ukraine and Russia to end “the madness”, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy and the Kremlin to list their conditions. Trump made his comments just hours after meeting Zelenskiy in Paris for their first face-to-face talks since …
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By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Dan Ashworth has left his role as sporting director at Manchester United after five months in the job by mutual agreement, the Premier League club said on Sunday. The 53-year-old was recruited from Newcastle United and arrived in July to much fanfare, but the decision was made to part …
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By Joan Faus VALVERDE, Spain (Reuters) – Two years ago forensic pathologist Modesto Martinez, 68, moved to the tiny Canary Island of El Hierro with an eye to retiring. Instead, he’s been called out day and night to deal with dead African migrants, as they arrive by sea in increasing numbers. “I thought El Hierro …
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ROME (Reuters) -Syrian rebels entered the residence of the Italian ambassador in Damascus on Sunday, but did not harm him or his security staff, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said, calling for a peaceful transfer of power in the country. The Islamist fighters, who declared President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster after seizing control of the capital …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis appealed on Sunday for U.S. authorities to commute the sentences of death row prisoners, in an unusual request during his weekly Sunday prayer in St. Peter’s Square. “Today, it comes to my heart to ask all of you to pray for the prisoners in the United …
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By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s former President John Dramani Mahama has staged a political comeback by winning the West African nation’s presidential election after his rival Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia conceded defeat on Sunday. The result of Ghana’s general election is another blow to a ruling party in a …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Sunday that Russia was open to talks on Ukraine after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called for “an immediate ceasefire and negotiations”. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said peace negotiations had to be based on agreements reached in Istanbul in 2022 and on the current battlefield realities. Peskov noted that …
(Reuters) -A wounded Australia roared back into the five-test series against India with a 10-wicket victory at their happy hunting ground in Adelaide on Sunday that saw them reclaim the lead in the World Test Championship (WTC) standings. The hosts had crumbled to a comprehensive defeat by a depleted Indian side in the series opener …
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