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Boxing: World champion Fury makes retirement U-turn
LONDON (AFP) – Controversial world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury made an abrupt U-turn on his retirement decision on Monday, tweeting: Im here to stay.Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy Im here to stay, Fury wrote on Twitter. TheGreatest just shows u what the Medea (sic) are like. Tut tut.He added: Soon as I get...
Russia demands loyalty or silence: Tatars
BAKHCHYSARAY: Crimean Tartar activist Ilmi Umerov walks slowly and has difficulty controlling his left arm but his voice is strong and his eyes are piercing as he reiterates his rejection of Moscow´s rule in the peninsula, an opinion for which he faces trial. The deputy head of the Mejlis — the Crimean Tatars´ elected assembly — was...
Boxing: Fury fights for future after cocaine test claim
LONDON (AFP) – Tyson Fury was fighting for his boxing future on Friday after a media report said he had tested positive for cocaine and faced being stripped of his heavyweight title belts.The 28-year-old Briton had been due to defend the WBA and WBO world titles against former champion Wladimir Klitschko in Manchester on October 29, but the...
Football: Ibrahimovic gets Man Utd moving in Europa League
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) – Zlatan Ibrahimovic headed in a 69th-minute winner as Manchester United got their Europa League campaign off the ground with a laboured 1-0 home win over Zorya Luhansk on Thursday.Beaten 1-0 at Feyenoord in their Group A opener, Jose Mourinhos side struggled to break down their unadventurous Ukrainian...
US weighs tougher response to Russia over Syria crisis: officials
WASHINGTON: Obama administration officials have begun considering tougher responses to the Russian-backed Syrian government assault on Aleppo, including military options, as rising tensions with Moscow diminish hopes for diplomatic solutions from the Middle East to Ukraine and cyberspace, US officials said on Wednesday. The new discussions were...
OPEC agrees on modest oil output curbs in first deal since 2008
OPEC agreed on Wednesday modest oil output cuts in the first such deal since 2008, with the group’s leader Saudi Arabia softening its stance on arch-rival Iran amid mounting pressure from low oil prices. Read more: OPEC agrees to limit oil output at 32.5 mn barrels per day “OPEC made an exceptional decision today … After two and a half...
Unlikely US-Russia outreach on Syria all but dead
WASHINGTON (AFP) – On Monday, John Kerry said it would be diplomatic malpractice to abandon talks with Russia on restoring a ceasefire in Syria. On Wednesday, he threatened to do just that.In a phone call to his sparring partner in a year-long diplomatic bout, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the US secretary of state demanded that Russia...
Mourinho ready to leave Rooney out again
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) – Jose Mourinho may leave Wayne Rooney out of Manchester Uniteds starting side for the second match in a row when they face Ukrainian side Zorya Luhansk in the Europa League on Thursday.Rooney was on the bench for Uniteds weekend game with Premier League champions Leicester City and didnt get on until very...
#MH17 was shot down from rebel-held encampment of Pervomaysk
A pro-Russian separatist stands during a pile-up site of Malaysia Airlines moody MH17, nearby a encampment of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Jul 18, 2014. PHOTO: REUTERS NIEUWEGEIN, NETHERLANDS: International prosecutors questioning a downing of a Malaysian airliner dual years ago have resolved it was shot down by a Russian-made...
MH17 downed by missile transported from Russia: inquiry
NIEUWEGEIN: The missile which brought down Flight MH17 two years ago over eastern Ukraine was transported into the area from Russia, a Dutch-led investigation found Wednesday, AFP reported. The missile was fired from the rebel held village of Pervomaysk. “Based on the criminal investigation we have concluded that flight MH17 was downed by a...
