China’s vice foreign minister rejects Yoon Suk-yeol declaring Taiwan a ‘global issue’ comparable to North Korea.Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong has lodged a complaint with South Korea’s ambassador to Beijing over “erroneous” remarks by the South Korean president about Taiwan, China’s foreign ministry says. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s remarks were “totally unacceptable”, Sun told the ambassador, and he also expressed “strong dissatisfaction”, according to a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement on Sunday. The diplomatic dispute between Beijing and Seoul stems from a recent interview with the Reuters news agency during which Yoon said increased tension around Taiwan…
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Canadian golfer Aaron Cockerill settled for a runner-up finish at the DP World Tour’s ISPS Handa Championship after losing a playoff to Australia’s Lucas Herbert on Sunday in Omitama, Japan. Herbert drained a 12-footer for birdie on the second playoff hole — the par-4 18th — to win after Cockerill missed a longer birdie putt. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Both players parred the first playoff hole — also No. 18. Herbert just missed chipping in for birdie and Cockerill then had a birdie putt lip out, denying the Canadian his first win as a professional. The 31-year-old…
Venetia Williams could well enjoy a good day at Plumpton with Ramo who looks to have found his stride in recent weeks, live on Sky Sports Racing. 4.00 Plumpton – Ramo could continue progressionThe Venetia Williams team have found the key to Branch and is likely to be a warm favourite for the attheraces.com Handicap Hurdle (4:00). The six-year-old struggled initially but looks to have found his feet and has Charlie Deutsch in the saddle for the hat-trick bid.Of the others, Neil King’s Sporting Ace can run well after a string of placed efforts, whilst Crossing The Bar has plenty…
Myanmar’s army blamed the killing on the anti-coup People’s Defence Forces who are fighting military rule in the country.The deputy head of Myanmar’s military-appointed election commission has been shot dead in the country’s commercial capital Yangon by rebels, authorities said, the latest killing of a high-profile individual linked to the country’s military rulers. Sai Kyaw Thu, deputy director of the Union Election Commission, was killed in the township of Thingangyun in eastern Yangon on Saturday, the army’s information team said in a statement. Local media reported that he was shot multiple times in the chest, neck and head. The army…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Memphis Grizzlies agitator Dillon Brooks was ejected from Game 3 of their first-round playoff series Saturday night after striking LeBron James in the groin. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Brooks committed the flagrant foul while guarding James near midcourt just 17 seconds into the second half, and James went down in obvious pain. Officials tossed Brooks after a brief video review, leading to a raucous celebration in the Los Angeles stands. Brooks had been booed every time he touched the ball in Game 3 because of his behaviour during and after Game 2 in…
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claims that it coordinated the evacuation with US forces on Sunday.Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has reported that a United States military mission consisting of six aircraft evacuated US diplomats and their families from the country. “The Rapid Support Forces Command has coordinated with the US Forces Mission consisting of 6 aircraft, for evacuating diplomats and their families on Sunday morning,” the RSF said in a tweet. The RSF also pledged “full cooperation with all diplomatic missions, and providing all necessary means of protection, and ensuring their safe return to their…
The April 15 front cover of weekly German magazine Die AktuelleThe editor of a German magazine that published an artificial intelligence-generated ‘interview’ with Michael Schumacher has been sacked.The magazine’s publisher has apologised to the Formula 1 legend’s family.Schumacher, a seven-time world champion, suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident in December 2013 and has not been seen in public since.Die Aktuelle ran a front cover with a headline of “Michael Schumacher, the first interview”.A strapline underneath a smiling picture of Schumacher read “it sounded deceptively real”, and it emerged in the article that the supposed quotes had been produced…
Plans by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to weaken the Supreme Court have outraged many in Israeli society.Tens of thousands of protesters have flocked to Tel Aviv and cities across Israel to express their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government and its divisive plan to overhaul the country’s judicial system. Crowds of Israelis held banners with the words “Crime Minister” overlaid on Netanyahu’s face in Tel Aviv at Saturday’s protest, the latest in a series of weekly actions since the start of the year. Plans by Netanyahu’s government to weaken the Supreme Court have outraged Israelis who see it as…
Thousands of protesters descended on Britain’s Parliament on Saturday as part of a four-day action, billed “The Big One”, designed to “highlight the environmental failures” of government. Environmental group Extinction Rebellion (XR) kicked off the event on Friday, promising less disruption and more inclusion than the blockades that became its trademark. The group says thousands of people protested outside government departments in London on Friday “to highlight the environmental and social failures across them all”. Saturday’s protest, which coincided with Earth Day, focused on nature and biodiversity. It started from Westminster Abbey with attendees, many of them children, wearing animal…
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — In Gee Chun of South Korea hit a million-dollar shot at the Chevron Championship. She won $1 million for charity with a hole-in-one on the 17th at the first major of the season on Saturday. Chun jumped around and high-fived members of her team after watching the ball curve and roll in at The Club At Carlton Woods. Chevron pledged to donate $1 million for the first hole-in-one on the par 3 17th to support partners in diversity, inclusion and education. The money won Saturday will be donated to the LPGA Foundation and Girls Golf of…