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Tennis: Top seeds lean first foes at Montreal event
MONTREAL (AFP) – Top-ranked Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Milos Raonic learned the identities of their second-round opponents on Monday after first-round matches at the ATP Montreal Masters tournament.Top seed Djokovic will start after the bye given to the leading eight seeds when he faces Brazils Thomaz Bellucci, who worked...
Tennis: Foes set for top seeds at Montreal
MONTREAL (AFP) – Top-ranked Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Milos Raonic learned the identities of their second-round opponents on Monday after first-round matches at the ATP Montreal Masters tournament.Top seed Djokovic will start after the bye given to the leading eight seeds when he faces Brazils Thomaz Bellucci, who worked...
Ukraine reports heavy tank battle with pro-Russians rebels
KIEV (AFP) – Ukraine on Monday said it had repelled a rare tank assault by pro-Russian rebels that threatened to erase a shacky ceasefire and dangerously escalate the 16-month war in its breakaway east.President Petro Poroshenko said about 200 insurgents used tanks to storm Novolaspa — a village halfway between the separatists de...
Tennis: Retirement not on Nadal radar
MONTREAL (AFP) – Rafael Nadal insisted Sunday that retirement is not on his mind despite a year in which he was dethroned as French Open champion and saw his ranking slip to its lowest in a decade.The 29-year-old former world number one and 14-time major winner said that he will hang up his racquet only when he has lost the thrill of...
At least 12 killed as Mali hotel siege ends
BAMAKO (AFP) – At least 12 people including four foreign UN contractors died in a hostage siege at a hotel in central Mali that ended early Saturday when government troops stormed the building.There are 12 dead in all, an army officer told AFP after the operation at the Hotel Byblos in Sevare, listing the fatalities as five terrorists, five...
At least 12 killed as Mali hotel siege finally ends
BAMAKO (AFP) – At least 12 people including four foreign UN contractors died in a hostage siege at a hotel in central Mali that ended early Saturday when government troops stormed the building.There are 12 dead in all, an army officer told AFP after the operation at the Hotel Byblos in Sevare, listing the fatalities as five terrorists, five...
Ukraine says one soldier killed in clashes in separatist east
KIEV (AFP) – Ukraine on Saturday reported the death of one soldier as clashes with pro-Russian separatists continue in the countrys war-torn east despite a shaky truce.Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said a further nine servicemen had been wounded in the past 24 hours of fighting.Ukrainian officials said three civilians were also injured...
Foreigners rescued as Mali hotel siege leaves seven dead
Bamako (AFP) – Five foreigners have been evacuated and a number of hostages freed after they were trapped by gunmen in a hotel standoff with soldiers in central Mali that left at least seven people dead, military sources said early Saturday.We can not say that everything is finished, but a number of hostages were freed by Malian forces...
Several foreigners held, at least seven killed in Mali hotel siege
BAMAKO (AFP) – Several hostages, including a number of foreigners, were caught in a standoff in central Mali Friday after gunmen stormed a hotel during a shootout with soldiers in which at least five troops and two attackers were killed, the government said.A Ukrainian hostage managed to escape from the four or five terrorists who were...
Arms smuggling on the rise on volatile Russia-Ukraine border
DONETSK, Russia (AFP) – Russian border guard Alexander Mishchenko was on patrol one July morning near the countrys frontier with Ukraine when he eyed two suspicious men.When he attempted to check their documents, one of the men took out a pistol and opened fire, wounding the 29-year-old officer. The pair then drove off to the border, where...
