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The Numbers come on the day the three-million ticket sales mark was reached when Brazil’s 2-0 victory over Serbia the most attended FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 match so far and on the same day, Doha’s FIFA Fan Festival hosted 98,000 fans. After the first round of FIFA World Cup group ...
A vibrant United States side outplayed England in their World Cup Group B battle but were left to rue a flurry of missed chances as they were forced to settle for a 0-0 draw at the Al Bayt Stadium on Friday.England, unchanged from Monday’s 6-2 win over Iran, could have sealed their place in th...
Tears rolled down of Neymar when star player was pictured on the Brazil bench after leaving his team’s 2-0 lead over Serbia to begin their World Cup campaign in Qatar on Thursday, after picking up an injury to his right ankle.Brazil, who are seeking a sixth World Cup trophy, will now have to w...
Japan’s football fans are earning respect for their tradition of staying behind to help clean stadiums after World Cup games.Japan’s stunning victory over Germany left their football fans in a state of joyous disbelief on Wednesday.Now, supporters of the Samurai Blue are earning praise i...
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Iran’s army is holding a large-scale sea, land and air military drill, which comes shortly after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and United States Navy had a confrontation in the Sea of Oman over a seized oil tanker.The drill was launched on Sunday morning and is expected to incor...
Unidentified gunmen have killed 11 soldiers defending a village in a remote part of southwest Niger where armed group fighters operate, the defence ministry said.The heavily armed attackers approached in a convoy of cars and motorbikes on Thursday afternoon, clashing with soldiers stationed outside ...
Sudan’s top general on Thursday ordered the release of four ministers of the now-deposed government who were detained amid a widely condemned military coup last week, the country’s state-run news agency reported.Moez Hadra, a defense lawyer for the deposed officials, said the ministers h...
Officers from Mexico’s National Guard fatally shot a migrant after opening fire at a pick-up truck attempting to avoid a checkpoint, authorities said.The National Guard said the truck, which was carrying 13 migrants, did not respond to orders to stop for inspection near the southern town of Pi...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has returned to Istanbul instead of attending the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.The state-run Anadolu Agency said the president returned to Istanbul late on Sunday night directly after attending the G20 summit in Rome. Erdogan was ex...
The United States wants to deepen its relationship with Taiwan and will work to counter China’s “malign” influence, a top US diplomat to the island has said, as tensions between Beijing and Taipei remain at their highest in decades.Sandra Oudkirk, the new director of the American I...
In its latest report to the United States Congress, the Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has detailed Washington’s decision to cut off the Taliban government’s access to billions in funds and assets that has led to devastation across the cash-strapped n...
Cooped up at home in Afghanistan’s Herat city, Zainab Muhammadi reminisces about hanging out with her friends in the cafeteria after coding class. Now she logs on every day to secret online lessons.Her school shut down after the Taliban took control of the country in August. But that did not s...
A landmark case that helped galvanise Tunisia’s #MeToo movement reached court this week, involving a legislator charged with sexual harassment and public indecency.Feminist activists held a small protest outside the court in Nabeul, south of the capital Tunis, chanting and waving placards that...
The Turkish lira has weakened 1.6 percent to a record low against the dollar in early Asian trade after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he had ordered the expulsion of the ambassadors of the United States and nine other Western countries.The currency had already hit record lows last week after t...
Ethiopia’s military has carried out a second air attack in the northern part of Tigray, according to a statement issued by the government shortly after it said it launched an air raid on a rebel-held facility in Tigray’s west.The raids on Sunday would be the seventh and eighth aerial bom...
Italy’s right-wing former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, went on trial Saturday charged with kidnapping for refusing in 2019 to allow a Spanish migrant rescue ship to dock in Sicily, keeping the people onboard at sea for days.It is the first trial to go ahead against Salvini for his action...
The anti-government uprising that swept across Lebanon two years ago might be a distant memory to many in the country, now struggling with compounding economic crises that have paralysed much of public life, but that is not the case for the dozens of protesters who are currently awaiting trial at mi...
Thousands of refugees and migrants have been camped out in front of a United Nations centre in Tripoli for three weeks, calling for evacuation from Libya in the wake of sweeping raids that saw thousands arrested.The renewed appeals at the sit-in come even as the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) sai...
Somalia’s president and prime minister say they have struck a deal to speed up the process for long-delayed elections, ending their simmering feud which threatened to plunge the country into a fresh crisis.Somalia was meant to choose a new president this month, ending a complicated indirect el...
The email addresses of hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked with British forces, including some who are hiding from the Taliban in the war-torn country, have been shared in a data breach by the British Ministry of Defence.The United Kingdom’s government has launched an investigation into...
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