The Phoenix Suns star guard Devin Booker left Sunday’s contest vs. the Denver Nuggets with a groin injury and will not return, per the team. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Booker was making his return to the lineup after missing the Sun’s previous three games with a groin problem. He played just four minutes on Sunday against the Nuggets, scoring two points on 1-of-2 shooting. Prior to Sunday, the Kentucky product had last played on Dec. 17 vs. the New Orleans Pelicans when he dropped a season-high 58 points in a 118-114 win. Without Booker in the lineup…
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The decision by the NHC to scrap the daily virus count comes as COVID cases surge across multiple Chinese cities.China will no longer publish daily figures for COVID-19 cases and deaths, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday, ending a practice that began in early 2020. Cities across China are struggling with surging virus cases, resulting in pharmacy shelves stripped bare and overflowing hospitals and crematoriums, after Beijing suddenly dismantled its zero-COVID regime earlier this month. The decision to scrap the daily virus count comes amid concerns that the country’s blooming wave of infections is not being accurately reflected…
Russian president says Moscow is willing to negotiate and accuses ‘geopolitical opponents’ of trying to divide Russia.President Vladimir Putin says Russia’s offensive in Ukraine is being carried out to “unite the Russian people”. Putin used the concept of “historical Russia” to argue in an interview to be aired on Sunday that Ukrainians and Russians are one people as he sought to justify his 10-month offensive in Ukraine and undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty. Russia’s “geopolitical opponents [were] aiming to tear apart Russia, the historical Russia”, Putin said in excerpts from a broadcast for Rossiya 1 national television. “Divide and conquer, that’s what they…
The deadly winter storm traps people in cars, causes power outages and kills at least 24 people as temperatures plummet drastically.A frigid storm has killed at least 24 people across the United States and is expected to claim more lives after trapping some residents inside houses and cars and knocking out power to several hundred thousand homes and businesses. About 60 percent of the US population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning, and temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, the National Weather Service said on Sunday. The US-based NBC…
Taiwan accuses Beijing of destroying regional peace and trying to cow its people.China’s military says it has conducted “strike drills” in the sea and airspace around Taiwan in response to what it says is provocation from the democratically governed island and the United States. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, said the drills on Sunday showed Beijing was attacking regional peace and trying to cow Taiwan’s people. China staged war games around Taiwan in August after a visit to Taipei by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and on Saturday, it condemned the US for a new defence authorisation…
Whitworth’s 88 LPGA wins are the most on any professional tour, exceeding the men’s PGA Tour record of 82 shared by Sam Snead and Tiger Woods. Last Updated: 25/12/22 8:26pm Kathy Whitworth has died aged 83 Record-breaking former LPGA Tour player Kathy Whitworth has died at the age of 83. Whitworth’s 88 LPGA wins are the most on any professional tour, exceeding the men’s PGA Tour record of 82 shared by Sam Snead and Tiger Woods.She won six major titles – the Titleholders Championship in 1965 and 1966, the 1967 Western Open and the Women’s PGA Championship in 1967, 1971…
The 69-year-old man ‘always wanted to kill migrants or foreigners’, the Paris public prosecutor’s office says.The suspected attacker thought to have fatally shot three Kurds in Paris has admitted to a “hatred of foreigners that has become pathological”, French officials have said. Ever since a burglary at his home six years ago, the 69-year-old man had “always wanted to kill migrants or foreigners”, the Paris public prosecutor’s office said on Sunday. He set out on Friday morning aiming to kill migrants or foreigners and then himself, prosecutors added. He killed three people outside a Kurdish cultural centre and wounded three…
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known as Prachanda, will head the new government until 2025 as part of a deal reached with another party.A former Maoist leader who led a decade-long rebellion against Nepal’s monarchy has been appointed prime minister for a third time, in alliance with the main opposition after last month’s election returned a hung parliament. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who still goes by his nom de guerre Prachanda – meaning “terrible” or “fierce” – will head the new government for the first half of the five-year term with the support of the opposition communist Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) party and…
Francis says during traditional ‘Urbi et Orbi’ blessing and message that the world is experiencing ‘a grave famine of peace’.Pope Francis, in his traditional Christmas message, has appealed for an end to the “senseless” war in Ukraine and other conflicts, calling for an end to the use of food as a weapon of war. Delivering the 10th Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) blessing and message of his pontificate, the head of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday also urged people to look beyond the “shallow holiday glitter” and help the homeless, immigrants, refugees and the…
Priyantha Kumarasinghe starts his day in the small Sri Lankan town of Maharagama with a breakfast of two biscuits and a small glass of tea, followed by a round of cancer medicines. The 32-year-old vegetable farmer was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2021 and started receiving treatment earlier this year, just as Sri Lanka’s economy went into free fall. Amid crippling fuel scarcity and weeks of unrest, Kumarasinghe said he was unable to travel the 155km (96 miles) between his home and Sri Lanka’s main cancer hospital on the outskirts of the country’s largest city, Colombo, for treatment. Kumarasinghe is…