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Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:06:11 GMT
Head, Warner plunder centuries as Australia make 355-5 against England
The hosts lead 2-0 after a six-wicket victory in Adelaide then a 72-run win at Sydney, with England playing for pride on their return to the venue where they won the Twenty20 World Cup this month. But after captain Jos Buttler, back after missing t...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 07:30:16 GMT
'Stop killing us': anger and hope at LGBTQ club vigil
Groups huddled clutching candles, sharing memories of the five people whose lives were ended in the horrific violence of Saturday night, the latest example of a deadly mass shooting in America. Other sobbed as speakers deplored the killing that the...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 07:28:09 GMT
Colombia resumes talks with powerful ELN guerrilla group
The talks are a push by President Gustavo Petro, who in August became Colombia's first-ever leftist leader, and has vowed a less bellicose approach to ending violence wrought by armed groups, including leftist guerrillas and drug traffickers. In th...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 07:00:15 GMT
Who will become history's first 'parastronaut'? 
People with physical disabilities have previously been excluded from one of the most exclusive and demanding jobs on Earth -- and beyond -- due to strict selection requirements. Guillaume Weerts, the ESA's head of space medicine, told AFP that the ...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:32:10 GMT
UN rights council eyes probe of Iran crackdown
The UN Human Rights Council is due to host a special session on Thursday on "the deteriorating human rights situation", following a request by Germany and Iceland. The meeting follows two months of protests in Iran sparked by the death of 22-year-o...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:30:16 GMT
Cuban singer Pablo Milanes dies in Madrid at 79
"It is with great pain and sadness that we inform you that the maestro Pablo Milanes died this morning, November 22, in Madrid," his agency said on the singer's official Facebook page. "May he rest in the love and peace he always transcended. He wi...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:28:12 GMT
In Kherson, longing for family still under Russian occupation
Though the key city she lives in has been retaken by Ukrainian forces, her mother remains stuck in Kremlin-controlled territory just a few kilometres away. "Every day I wake up and check the news to see if her place is ok," Chernyavska, 41, said of...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:22:17 GMT
Inflation swells Spain's 'hunger queues'
But with the cost of living soaring across Europe, the 44-year-old father of three is one of a growing number of people in Spain turning to food banks to make ends meet. "We see prices increase every week, even for basic goods," he told AFP as he s...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:16:15 GMT
Confusion, fear cloud China's path out of zero-Covid
China is the only major economy still attempting to stamp out the domestic spread of the virus, shutting down entire cities and placing contacts of infected patients into strict quarantine. A series of new rules announced by Beijing earlier this mo...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:14:13 GMT
Bulls end Celtics' nine-game NBA win streak, depleted Warriors crash
Zach LaVine, who was frustrated to be pulled from the waning minutes of the Bulls' loss to Orlando on Friday, scored 22 points. Nikola Vucevic added 12 points and 13 rebounds for Chicago -- who had also beaten the Celtics at home in October but fel...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:38:09 GMT
Cuban singer Pablo Milanes dies in Madrid at 79: agent
"It is with great pain and sadness that we inform you that the maestro Pablo Milanes died this morning, November 22, in Madrid," his agency said on the singer's official Facebook page. Cuba's Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz said on Twitter that ...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:14:10 GMT
49ers cruise past Cardinals in NFL Mexico clash
Garoppolo said the 49ers fed off the energy of the crowd in the last of the league's five international games this season. A rainy night in Mexico City didn't dampen the enthusiasm of 78,427 fans, the overwhelming majority of whom were pro-San Fran...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:08:12 GMT
Six staffers from Hong Kong's Apple Daily plead guilty to foreign collusion
Their convictions were part of a landmark case in which the city's sweeping national security law, imposed by Beijing in 2020 to crush dissent, was used against a news organisation and its staff for the first time. Apple Daily was scathing in its c...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 04:50:20 GMT
'Stop killing us': anger and hope at LGBTQ club vigil
Groups huddled clutching candles, sharing memories of the five people whose lives were ended in the horrific violence of Saturday night, the latest example of a deadly mass shooting in America. Other sobbed as speakers deplored the killing that the...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 04:38:11 GMT
US VP Harris visits Philippine island near China-claimed waters
Harris is the highest-ranking US official ever to visit the western island of Palawan, the closest Philippine landmass to the Spratly archipelago in the hotly contested South China Sea. Beijing claims sovereignty over almost the entire sea and has ...



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