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Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:43:37 GMT
Trilateral meeting in Antalya: Turkey talks end without progress on ceasefire
2022-03-10 18:22 Trilateral meeting in Antalya: Turkey talks end without progress on ceasefire

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:22:10 GMT
India look for 'mental adjustments' in pink ball Test: Bumrah
The hosts are looking to sweep the two-match series in Bangalore after a thumping opening Test win inside three days. But Bumrah said the team is entering unchartered territory despite having won their previous two day-night Tests on home soil agai...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:56:11 GMT
Loss leaves Pakistan on brink at World Cup
Pakistan came agonisingly close to victory after going into the fixture ranked last in the eight-team tournament's standings after heavy losses to India and Australia. They lost two wickets in the final over, finishing on 217 all out chasing a targ...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:46:10 GMT
Argentina lawmakers approve deal with IMF to repay vast debt
With 204 votes in favor, 37 against and 11 abstentions, the package obtained "an affirmative result and will be communicated to the honorable Senate," chamber president Sergio Massa said. The details of the deal were ironed out between Argentine of...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:44:09 GMT
International 'uncertainty' will slow China's growth, premier warns
The country's economy is being weighed down by fears over its "zero-Covid" strategy and post-pandemic recovery, as well as tensions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- a conflict that has thrown global markets into disarray and sent oil prices soar...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:36:25 GMT
Visually impaired rugby offers 'new beginning' in Ireland
The sport gave McDowell a "new beginning" after he joined the Irish Rugby Football Union's Visually Impaired (VI) rugby programme, his wife Aine told AFP. The programme came into being last year with former Italy fly-half Ian McKinley playing a pro...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:26:31 GMT
As Odesa prepares for war, residents are divided over which side to take
Odesa, a Russian-speaking port city in southwest Ukraine and an important strategic target in the Russian military offensive, is preparing for war. Fighting has not yet started in the city but the war is already creating rifts within families and ...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:06:04 GMT
Prison attack on Corsican nationalist reopens old wounds on restive French island
A prison assault last week that left prominent Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna in a coma has triggered days of angry protests and whipped up resentment against the French state on an island with a history of separatist violence.

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 07:54:15 GMT
North Korea plans 'monster' missile launch by April: analysts
Pyongyang has conducted a record nine weapons tests so far this year, in what experts see as an effort to work through a laundry list of strategic weapons set out by leader Kim Jong Un. One top priority is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICB...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 07:48:10 GMT
Australia battles spread of Japanese encephalitis
Previously confined to the tropical north, Japanese encephalitis has travelled as far south as South Australia since late February -- infecting 17 people and leading to two confirmed deaths, according to state health authorities. More extreme rainf...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 07:38:11 GMT
Ukraine's Kostyuk slams tennis response to Russian invasion
Kostyuk saved two match points in an emotional 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (8/6), 7-5 victory over Ukrainian-born Belgian Maryna Zanevska in the first round at the Indian Wells WTA Masters. But she admitted that she thought about not taking the court at all ove...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 07:32:13 GMT
Desperate relatives seek news from Ukraine port siege
The city is without water, gas and electricity, with communications down since March 2. A few patches of weak phone signal remain the only way for most residents to get news out, and the connection is unreliable. Channels on messaging app Telegr...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 07:20:14 GMT
'Pumped' Swepson to make Australia debut in Pakistan Test
After a dreary draw on a flat Rawalpindi pitch in the first Test there is hope that Karachi will live up to its reputation of producing a result through spinners. The 28-year-old Swepson will become the first specialist leg-spinner to play a Test f...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 06:24:12 GMT
Leftist Gabriel Boric, the president breaking new ground in Chile
The 36-year-old, one of the youngest heads of state in the world, has vowed to send Chile's once-lauded neoliberal economic model -- which dates back to the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship -- to the "grave" but that is not the only way he will ruffle ...



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