Views: 5 US Open champion Emma Raducanu on Saturday pulled out of an Australian Open warm-up tournament next week as she continues to recover from coronavirus. © BARBARA GINDL US Open champion Emma Raducanu has pulled out of an Australian Open warm-up event The 19-year-old Briton was due to line up alongside defending Australian Open champion […]
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Views: 2 SYDNEY (Reuters) – Russian Daniil Medvedev’s 2022 season opened with a stunning defeat at the hands of Frenchman Ugo Humbert at the ATP Cup on Sunday, while Italy’s Matteo Berrettini suffered a straight-sets loss to Australian Alex de Minaur. © Reuters/ASANKA BRENDON RATNAYAKE ATP Cup© Reuters/ASANKA BRENDON RATNAYAKE ATP Cup World number two Medvedev had
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Views: 1 BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany wants to use its presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) to support the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and strengthen efforts to improve climate protection, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Saturday. © Reuters/SARAH MEYSSONNIER French Economy and Finance Minister Le Maire and German Finance Minister Lindner hold
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Views: 0 January 2, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s Abdallah Hamdok stepped down as prime minister on Sunday after months of political turmoil in the country. In a speech to the nation, Hamdok announced his expected resignation, telling the Sudanese that he decided to return them “the mission you had entrusted to me”. He announced his resignation after the killing of
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Views: 2 President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged Kenyans to unite in rebuilding the Country in 2021 after a difficult 2020 occasioned by the spread of COVID-19. Here is President Uhuru’s new year message to Kenyans. “As we come to the end of the Year 2020 and we usher in the New Year – 2021, my
Views: 2 Hundreds of mourners stood in long queues on Thursday, some singing, others carrying flowers and writing on tribute books in memory of Tutu – who requested to be buried in a cheap coffin and didn’t want a lavish funeral. Image:Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s simple pine coffin has been returned to a morgue ahead of
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Views: 3 Elections brought significant changes in 2021: E.U. stalwart Angela Merkel ended her 16-year leadership of Germany, Chile elected a millennial socialist; and Hondurans chose their first female president. But in 2022 leadership of major states on every inhabited continent will be contested in the thick of two global crises: the COVID-19 pandemic and
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Views: 5 Authorities in Iowa have arrested a man who was found during a traffic stop to be carrying a rifle and a “hit list” that included President Biden and Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, The Los Angeles Times reported. © (carlballou/iStock) Armed man with ‘hit list’ including Biden, Fauci arrested in Iowa
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Views: 2 President Joe Biden told Russian president Vladimir Putin that the US and its allies “will respond decisively” if Russian takes action to escalate its invasion of Ukraine. The two leaders spoke for roughly 50 minutes on Thursday afternoon in a phone call convened at Mr Putin’s request. A senior administration official said the
Views: 5 African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries to apply now for the 2021 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme on tefconnect.com LAGOS, Nigeria, December 30, 2021/ — The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) (www.TonyElumeluFoundation.org), the leading philanthropy empowering young African entrepreneurs across all 54 African countries, has opened applications for the 2022 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme on www.TEFConnect.com. African entrepreneurs with business
