Liverpool’s game against Manchester United will be part of 11 Premier League games live on Sky Sports in March.One of English football’s biggest rivalries will be broadcast live on Sky Sports on March 5, with Man Utd looking to make up for their 4-0 hammering at Liverpool last season when they return to Anfield on Super Sunday. Elsewhere, with the title race hotting up between leaders Arsenal and second-placed Manchester City, catch both sides live on Sky during March. Sky Sports will broadcast Manchester City’s away game at Crystal Palace on March 11 and will be live from the Etihad…
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Kyiv has long called for Western nations to send battle tanks, arguing they are essential for battlefield success.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has agreed to send its Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine. The news comes amid reports that Washington is also poised to send dozens of M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine’s front lines. Like Germany, the United States had been hesitant. While Berlin was concerned about escalating the war, Washington cited logistical and maintenance challenges Ukrainians may face if they were to receive the Abrams. Both armoured vehicles are considered state-of-the-art and are more powerful than many Soviet-era tanks fielded…
Kinshasa denies Kigali’s claim calling the incident a ‘deliberate act of aggression that amounts to an act of war’.Rwandan forces have fired at a fighter jet from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that it said violated its airspace, prompting the Congolese government to accuse it of an act of war. “A Sukhoi-25 fighter jet from the Democratic Republic of Congo violated Rwandan airspace for the third time,” Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said in a statement on Tuesday. “Defensive measures were taken,” she said, adding, “Rwanda asks the DRC to stop this aggression.” In December, Rwanda said another…
The catchy Naatu Naatu number and two documentaries – All That Breathes and The Elephant Whisperers – make the cut.It is a big day for Indian cinema, which has secured three nominations at the 2023 Oscars, including one for the best original song and two for documentaries. Naatu Naatu, a catchy musical number from filmmaker SS Rajamouli’s three-hour Telugu epic RRR, figured in the nominations announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday. The nomination comes as a further boost for the song, which earlier this month also won the Golden Globes for best song –…
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tommy Paul reached his first Grand Slam semifinal and ended the surprising run of Ben Shelton by winning their all-American matchup at the Australian Open 7-6 (6), 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 on Wednesday. Paul, a 25-year-old from New Jersey, is the first man from his country to make it to the final four at Melbourne Park since Andy Roddick in 2009. Roddick was also the last man from the U.S. to win a Grand Slam singles championship, at the U.S. Open 20 years ago. The 35th-ranked Paul was a star as a junior, taking the 2015 title at the French Open and getting…
The 44-year-old faces an uphill battle to lead the ruling Labour Party to victory in October’s election amid rising inflation and a looming recession.Labour party leader Chris Hipkins has been sworn in as New Zealand’s new prime minister following the surprise resignation last week of Jacinda Ardern. Hipkins formally took office in front of New Zealand’s governor-general – the representative of the United Kingdom’s King Charles who is the country’s head of state – in the capital, Wellington. Carmel Sepuloni was also sworn in as deputy prime minister, the first person of Pacific Islander descent to hold the role, during…
Last month, protestors stormed the Mongolian capital to denounce corruption in the country’s coal trade. Now the government says it has a solution to put a stop to years of shady business deals. Starting next month, Erdenes-Tavantolgoi JSC — the country’s largest state-owned coal miner — will cease signing direct sales contracts with buyers in neighbouring China, which last year purchased 84 percent of Mongolia’s total exports. Instead, the company’s coal will be auctioned on the Mongolian Stock Exchange. The move to sell coal contracts through the exchange comes in response to large-scale protests against corruption in Ulaanbaatar in December,…
On the afternoon of January 10, Van Bawi Mang, a member of an armed resistance group fighting against the Myanmar military, was resting in his barracks at a camp on the country’s northwestern border with India when a loud explosion jolted him back to the reality of war. He scrambled into a nearby ditch as jet fighters flew overhead, glass shattering with the reverberation of the falling bombs. The camp, known as Camp Victoria, serves as the headquarters of the Chin National Front (CNF), an ethnic armed organisation that resumed its dormant fight for autonomy after the Myanmar military seized…
Lima, Peru — Dozens of civilians shot dead by armed forces. The gates of a premier public university stormed by a military tank. Police precincts set aflame. Nearly seven weeks after Dina Boluarte ascended to Peru’s presidency in the wake of her predecessor Pedro Castillo’s chaotic removal, the protests that have roiled the country’s south have metastasised, spreading to the capital Lima where they have met fierce repression. The demonstrators, many of whom are Castillo supporters, have called for Boluarte’s resignation, as well as for new elections and a revised constitution. An estimated 50 civilians have been killed since the…
The Winnipeg Jets have activated defenceman Logan Stanley from injured reserve and reassigned defenceman Ville Heinola to the AHL’s Manitoba Moose, the team announced Tuesday. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Stanley, 24, hasn’t played since Dec. 9 when he suffered a lower-body injury. He will get his first chance to return to action Thursday when the Jets host the Buffalo Sabres. Two separate stints on the IR have seen Stanley appear in just seven games for the Jets this season, picking up one assist. The 2016 first-round pick played in 58 games in the 2021-22 season for Winnipeg,…