Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard will not play Monday night in Detroit against the Pistons because of right knee injury management. Leonard’s status for his return to Toronto to face the Raptors on Tuesday remains uncertain. Leonard has played just 13 of the Clippers’ 34 games this season. He is averaging 16.3 points and 5.9 rebounds. Leonard did play in the Clippers’ last three games before Christmas. New Orleans Pelicans It looks like Zion Williamson‘s return to the Pelicans could be delayed. After missing two games last week while in health and safety protocols, the Pelicans star is listed…
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Sutton clinched only their second away Sky Bet League Two win of the season with second-half goals from Joe Kizzi and Rob Milsom earning a 2-1 triumph at struggling Crawley.United’s first victory on the road since the middle of October left new Crawley boss Matty Etherington with two defeats in his opening three games in charge. Etherington stressed going into the game that he wanted to see a performance that “gets the crowd going” after criticising his side for being “awful” in the 2-0 home defeat by Hartlepool.Sutton were forced into a late change with Donovan Wilson injuring himself in…
Exeter and Portsmouth had to settle for a point each in a match of few clear-cut opportunities at St James Park.Portsmouth created the better of the chances in the first half with Denver Hume striking the upright after a poor Jamal Blackman clearance fell to him some 30 yard out. Owen Dale had an effort topped over the bar, but Blackman saved the best until just before half-time when he quickly got down to his left to divert Archie Collins’ tackle behind for a corner and from the resultant kick, he brilliantly tipped Michael Morrison’s header around the upright.Exeter created…
Grimsby keeper Max Crocombe’s stoppage-time own goal earned Harrogate a third straight Sky Bet League Two win following a 3-2 thriller.In-form striker Luke Armstrong had earlier bagged a brace, either side of Otis Khan and Harry Clifton replies for the visitors, to take his personal tally to six goals in four matches. But the contest was decided in the first minute of added time when Kayne Ramsay’s 15-yard drive struck Crocombe’s left-hand upright and then bounced over the line off the unfortunate New Zealand international’s back.Armstrong opened the scoring in the 12th minute, finding an empty net from two yards…
Newcastle moved second in the Premier League after a blistering first-half performance saw them win 3-0 at Leicester following the World Cup break as Miguel Almiron hit his ninth goal of the season.The Magpies scored all three goals in the first 32 minutes in a Boxing Day victory that puts them above Manchester City and four points behind leaders Arsenal, although both sides have two games in hand. Newcastle were 2-0 up after seven minutes at the King Power Stadium thanks to Chris Wood’s penalty (3) and Almiron’s cool finish (7) giving him his eighth goal in his last nine…
A Hezbollah spokesperson says the detained suspect is a supporter of the group but not a member.The Lebanese army has detained a suspect in the recent killing of an Irish United Nations peacekeeper in a move coordinated with the powerful armed group Hezbollah over the weekend, two security sources and a Hezbollah spokesperson said. The man is a supporter of the Iran-backed armed group and heavyweight political party, but not a member of the group, a Hezbollah spokesperson told the Reuters news agency on Monday. The security sources said the man was suspected of firing shots at a United Nations…
Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont – From the outside, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House looks like any other Victorian-style building from the early 20th century, complete with stained-glass windows, a grandiose façade and a slate roof. But once inside, it doesn’t take long to see that the Haskell is unlike most places. That’s because the border between the United States and Canada bisects the building, leaving some readers and theatre-goers in one country – and the rest in another. Most of the library books – primarily English and French offerings, as well as some in Spanish –…
A group of 58 Rohingya men at sea for more than a month landed at a fishing village in Indonesia’s Aceh Besar district early on Sunday, according to the local police chief. Villagers who saw the group on a rickety wooden boat helped them on to Indrapatra beach at Ladong, a fishing village, and then reported their arrival to authorities, said Rolly Yuiza Away, the police chief. “They look very weak from hunger and dehydration. Some of them are sick after a long and severe voyage at sea,” said Away, adding that the men received food and water from villagers…
As 2022 is coming to a close, the war in Ukraine rages unabated. Russian President Vladimir Putin sees what he still calls a “special military operation” as a life-or-death contest with the United States and its allies in NATO. The West, for its part, considers the war a threat to its own security and has thrown its weight behind the defence of Ukraine’s sovereignty. But there is an inherent problem with framing the war as a clash between the US and Russia. It underplays the spirit, resilience and daily sacrifices of Ukrainians in resisting their mighty neighbour bent on re-creating…
China conducts ‘strike drills’ around Taiwan in protest against US defence support for self-ruled island.The Chinese military has sent 71 planes and seven ships towards Taiwan, according to the Taiwanese defence ministry, marking the biggest daily incursion yet as Beijing protested against “collusion and provocation” by the self-ruled island and the United States. In a statement on Monday, the Taiwanese defence ministry said 47 of the Chinese planes crossed the median line of the Taiwan strait, an unofficial boundary once tacitly accepted by both sides, during the 24-hour display of force. Among the Chinese planes were 18 J-16 fighter jets,…