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Canadian teenager Leylah Fernandez shocked another high-ranked opponent on Thursday in second seed Aryna Sabalenka to reach the US Open final - where she will face 18-year-old Briton Emma Raducanu. Unseeded Fernandez, who turned…
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Lock forward Brodie Retallick would Captain New Zealand for the first time in the absence of Ardie Savea when the All Blacks play Argentina in the Rugby Championship on Australia's Gold Coast on Sunday. Loose forward Savea…
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Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen, his wife and the father-in-law were further remanded until September 17 by Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya. The Magistrate made this order when the case regarding the death of…
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AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban have taken over the Norwegian embassy in Kabul and taken to smashing wine bottles and destroying books at the establishment. Norwegian ambassador to Iran, Sigvald Hauge, said in a tweet, “Taliban has now…
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RUSSIA: Russian Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev has died after he jumped off a cliff trying to save a cameraman who fell during training exercises in the Arctic city of Norilsk, officials and reports said Wednesday. “The…
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US: Jill Biden is going back to her whiteboard. After months of teaching writing and English to community college students in boxes on a computer screen, the first lady resumes teaching in person Tuesday from a classroom at Northern…
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CHINA,US: Chinese President Xi Jinping told his American counterpart that US policies towards Beijing have caused “serious difficulties” and that putting ties back on track was critical to the destiny of the world”, state media…
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US: For nearly six years, Andrea Haberman’s ashen and damaged wallet lay mostly untouched in a drawer at her parents’ Wisconsin home, along with a partly melted cell phone, her driver’s license, credit cards, checkbook and house keys.…
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US: The remains of two people who died in the September 11 terrorist attack at the World Trade Center were positively identified this week, as officials continued the difficult and heart-wrenching task of returning victims to their…
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AFGHANISTAN: The first international commercial flight since the end of the chaotic western airlift from Afghanistan last month took off from Kabul airport on Thursday with more than 100 passengers on board, officials said. “We…
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