Teams are heartbroken, fans are beyond caring – and it doesn’t even make anyone that much money.It’s the game that no one wants to play in, it’s the game few may even want to watch. The World Cup third-place playoff is settling for second best. Well, third best. These are teams who have gone all-out, who have trained for years to get to this tournament. These are players who touched down in Qatar with dreams. Not one of the squad members across the 32 teams in Qatar took the field just to show their face. They came to win, to…
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The UN estimated 2.9 million people have been displaced by severe flooding in west and central Africa.The death toll in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to rise following heavy rain and extreme flooding that have ravaged the country in recent days. At least 169 people have died as a result of destructive rains in the capital Kinshasa, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and officials said on Friday. The flooding left another 30 people injured and pulverised an estimated 280 homes across the capital of some 15 million people, in which approximately 38,000…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anthony Davis is missing the second half of the Los Angeles Lakers‘ game against the Denver Nuggets with a right foot injury. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Davis apparently got hurt Friday night when he landed awkwardly after a layup attempt under the basket in the first quarter, although he kept playing until halftime. Davis scored 10 points in the first quarter but went scoreless in the second while playing eight minutes. He didn’t return from the locker room with his teammates for the second half, with Thomas Bryant taking over at center. The…
UN acceptance of ambassadors from Myanmar’s military, the Taliban, and Libya’s eastern government would act as the first step towards their official recognition on the global stage.The United Nations General Assembly has approved postponing its decision on whether Myanmar’s military government and Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders can send ambassadors to the UN in New York, with the assembly also deferring its decision on rival claims to Libya’s UN seat. The 193-member General Assembly approved by consensus a recommendation by its Credentials Committee to delay the vote on the matters on Friday. The postponement means the current envoys of Myanmar, Afghanistan and…
DETROIT (AP) — Domantas Sabonis had 23 points and 13 rebounds and the Sacramento Kings used a dominant performance from their starters to beat the Detroit Pistons 122-113 on Friday night. Sacramento’s starting five outscored Detroit’s 99-66. De’Aaron Fox had 24 points and nine assists for the Kings and Keegan Murray added 20 points. Sacramento had seven players in double figures, including all five starters. Bojan Bogdanovic led Detroit with 22 points and rookie Jalen Duran added 15 points and 13 rebounds. Saddiq Bey scored 14 points and Marvin Bagley III had 13. Detroit closed to 106-100 midway through the…
Los Angeles, California – While the use of the death penalty continues to decline in the United States, a new report has found that “botched” executions reached a new high this year. In its annual report on the use of capital punishment in the country, the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) said on Friday that seven of the 20 attempted executions by US states in 2022 were “visibly problematic”. That included a case in which Alabama officials struggled to insert an intravenous (IV) line into a man for three hours, said the report, which defined a “botched” execution as one…
The Toronto Raptors announced Friday evening that guard Gary Trent Jr. will miss the team’s game with the Brooklyn Nets due to left quad soreness. In a corresponding move, the Raptors recalled Jeff Dowtin Jr. from the Raptors 905 of the G-League. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Trent Jr. has averaged 16.9 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game on 43 per cent shooting in 25 games for Toronto this season. He joins O.G. Anunoby, Precious Achiuwa and Otto Porter Jr. on the inactive list for Friday’s game. Dowtin Jr., meanwhile, has played in nine games with…
Lima, Peru – Nieves Huamani was visiting family in her village in the Peruvian mountains of Cusco when news of the impeachment and arrest of Peru’s former President Pedro Castillo reached her and “pained” her heart. Enrique Salazar, a radio host and native of Arequipa in the Andean south, said the political developments pushed him to make a 16-hour journey to the capital, Lima, to defend “an ordinary man from the countryside”, just like himself. And Teresa Ore, who is originally from the rugged highlands of Ayacucho and sells Christmas items on the streets of Lima, took to the pavement…
Ciro Gomez Leyva says he was saved by his armoured vehicle after gunmen shot at him near his home in Mexico City.A prominent Mexican radio and television reporter says two gunmen tried to kill him near his home in Mexico City, renewing concerns for the safety of journalists in the Central American country. Ciro Gomez Leyva, one of Mexico’s best-known journalists, said in a social media post early on Friday that the attack occurred shortly before midnight. “Two hundred metres [650 feet] from my house, two people on a motorcycle shot at me, apparently with the clear intention of killing…
The social scientist and daughter of Haitian immigrants says the university must ‘engage and be of service to the world’.Harvard University has appointed Claudine Gay, a social scientist and faculty dean, as its next president, making her the first Black person and second woman to lead the prestigious academic institution. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Ivy League school announced on Thursday that the Harvard Corporation, the university’s main governing board, elected Gay to serve as its 30th president starting on July 1. She will replace Lawrence Bacow, who had guided the university through the COVID-19 pandemic and this year announced his plans…