The blockbuster clash against India on Monday became the best attended Test in Australia’s history as fans flocked to the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the final day. Early on day five of the fourth Test, a bumper crowd of 51,371 had swelled the total number of spectators since the start of the match on Boxing Day …
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Before the earthquake changed everything, 83-year-old Sueko Naka from Japan’s remote Noto Peninsula wished to live out her life at home, watched over by an altar to her ancestors.But a year after a 7.5-magnitude quake and its aftershocks devastated the region, she lives in a small temporary unit with her husband and daughter, facing an uncertain …
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The Taliban’s supreme leader has issued an order banning the construction of windows in residential buildings that overlook areas used by Afghan women and saying that existing ones should be blocked.According to a statement released late Saturday by the Taliban government spokesman, new buildings should not have windows through which it is possible to see …
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NBA superstar LeBron James celebrates his 40th birthday on Monday, the milestone carrying him to yet another first in a league in which he has starred for more than two decades — with the clock still running.The Los Angeles Lakers great will become the first NBA player ever to play in his teens, 20s, 30s …
South Korea was reeling Monday from the loss of 179 people after a Jeju Air plane crash-landed and burst into flames, with a team of US investigators joining local authorities to probe possible causes.The Boeing 737-800 was carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea when it crashed on arrival Sunday, killing everyone aboard — …
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Croatia’s President Zoran Milanovic will face conservative rival Dragan Primorac in an election run-off in two weeks’ time after the incumbent narrowly missed out an outright victory on Sunday, official results showed.The results came after an exit poll, released immediately after the polling stations closed, showed that Milanovic, backed by the opposition left-wing Social Democrats, …
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Jimmy Carter held a unique place in US politics: he was the oldest former president and a Nobel peace laureate, but his one term in office was forever tainted by his inability to end the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, arguably wielded his greatest influence not during his …
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Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa told Al Arabiya TV on Sunday that elections could take four years, noted the importance of ties with Iran and Russia, and called for the United States to lift sanctions.In a wide-ranging interview three weeks after his Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and allied rebels ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad …
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Rampant Liverpool smashed West Ham 5-0 on Sunday to stretch their lead at the top of the Premier League to eight points as Manchester City returned to winning ways at troubled Leicester.Nottingham Forest climbed to second in the table with a fifth straight win at Everton while Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham conceded late to draw 2-2 …
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Croatia’s outspoken President Zoran Milanovic won Sunday’s election in the first round as he scooped up more than 50 percent of the vote, according to an exit poll.Milanovic, backed by the opposition left-wing Social Democrats, won 51.48 percent of the vote while Dragan Primorac, the candidate of the ruling conservative HDZ party, came second with …
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