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Tennis: Halep roars back to reach Toronto WTA semis
TORONTO (AFP) – Romanian second seed Simona Halep advanced to the semi-finals of the WTA Rogers Cup on Friday by roaring back to defeat Polish sixth seed Agnieszka Radwanska 0-6, 6-3, 6-1.Halep next will face Italys Sara Errani, who defeated Ukraine qualifier Lesia Tsurenko 6-4, 6-4 in another semi-final at the hardcourt warm-up event for...
Tennis: Williams dominates Vinci to reach Toronto semis
TORONTO (AFP) – Three-time champion Serena Williams extended her Toronto match win streak to 14 with a 6-4, 6-3 dismantling of Italian Roberta Vinci in the quarter-finals of the WTA Rogers Cup on Friday.The 33-year-old Williams powered her way past Vinci by blasting 12 aces in the 78-minute match on center court.She moves on where she will...
Russian slaps food embargo on more European countries
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia on Thursday broadened a food embargo imposed in retaliation to Western sanctions over Ukraine to include Iceland, a significant fish importer, as well as Montenegro, Albania and Liechtenstein.Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Ukraine will be added to the embargo from January 1 next year when a landmark EU-Ukraine...
Tennis: Halep cruises past Jankovic at WTA Rogers Cup
TORONTO (AFP) – Second seed Simona Halep fended off all three break points en route to a 6-3, 6-4 win over former world number one Jelena Jankovic at the WTA Rogers Cup on Wednesday.Playing for the first time since Wimbledon, Halep held all 10 of her service games and won 80 percent of her first serve points in the 81 minute second-round...
Tennis: Halep cruises past Jankovic at Toronto tennis
TORONTO (AFP) – Second seed Simona Halep fended off all three break points en route to a 6-3, 6-4 win over former world number one Jelena Jankovic at the WTA Rogers Cup on Wednesday.Playing for the first time since Wimbledon, Halep held all 10 of her service games and won 80 percent of her first serve points in the 81 minute second-round...
US jets launch first anti-IS Syria strikes from Turkey
ANKARA (AFP) – US warplanes Wednesday carried out their first air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish base, kicking off a key new phase in the campaign against the jihadists.A US drone had last week executed a single lethal air strike against an IS target in Syria but this was the first time manned...
Athletics: Coe ready for Gatlin fall-out at worlds
LONDON (AFP) – British track great Sebastian Coe has said he will be prepared to present Justin Gatlin with a gold medal if the controversial American wins the 100 metres final at this months World Championships in Beijing.Last week Coe, a candidate for the presidency of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) hit out...
Tennis: Kyrgios wins one for Lleyton in new partnership
MONTREAL (AFP) – Nick Kyrgios began his US Open hardcourt run with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 victory over Fernando Verdasco Tuesday under the watchful eye of new mentor Lleyton Hewitt at the ATP Montreal Masters.Kyrgios, ranked 38th, is working alongside Australias double grand slam winner in an informal capacity, with the 34-year-old elder statesman...
MH17 probe finds ‘probable’ BUK missile pieces at crash site
THE HAGUE (AFP) – Investigators probing the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 said Tuesday they had found fragments probably from a Russian-made BUK missile at the crash site in eastern Ukraine.International and Dutch investigators are examining seven considerable fragments of some size… probably from a BUK (surface-to-air)...
US busts hacking/insider trading ring
NEW YORK (AFP) – An international team of computer hackers and stock traders was charged with pocketing more than $100 million in illicit profits based on stolen market-moving financial information, US officials announced Tuesday.The Department of Justice charged nine people in a criminal conspiracy with pocketing more than $30 million in...
