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Tennis: Ferrer crashes out in first round in Doha
DOHA (AFP) – Defending champion David Ferrer crashed out in the first round of the Qatar Open on Tuesday, beaten in three sets by Ukraines Ilya Marchenko, ranked number 94 in the world.Ferrer, the number four seed, struggled throughout, losing his serve in the very first game and eventually going down 7-6, 3-6, 2-6 in an eventful clash...
Tennis: Serena out of Hopman opener with swollen knee
PERTH (AFP) – World number one Serena Williams suffered an early season injury setback Monday as she withdrew from the United States opening Hopman Cup tie with inflammation in her knee.Her withdrawal helped the Ukraine pairing of Elina Svitolina and Alexandr Dolgopolov record a 2-1 round robin opening win over the US in the mixed teams...
Tennis: Murray off to flying start
PERTH (AFP) – World number two Andy Murray blew away his training court cobwebs with a season-opening demolition of Frenchman Kenny de Schepper at the mixed teams Hopman Cup on Monday.Murray said his form in practice since arriving in Australia had been poor, but the dual Grand Slam winner looked in sparkling touch ahead of this months...
Serena Williams withdraws from Hopman Cup
World number one Serena Williams suffered an early season injury setback as she withdrew from her opening Hopman Cup tie with inflammation in her knee. Williams, 34, was scheduled to play Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina in the women’s singles on Monday morning in Perth, Australia, but she pulled out just minutes before the start. The match...
Putin names US among threats in new Russian security strategy
A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia’s national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the west have deteriorated in recent years. The document, “About the Strategy of National Security of Russian Federation”, was signed by President Vladimir Putin on New Year’s Eve. It replaces a...
Crimea loses power as Ukraine line cut
CRIMEA BBC Electricity supplies to Crimea from southern Ukraine have been cut weeks after power lines were sabotaged apparently by anti-Russian ac …read more Source: The Frontier...
Russian blogger jailed for 5 years for pro-Ukraine posts
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Russian blogger jailed for 5 years for pro-Ukraine posts
MOSCOW (AFP) – A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a blogger to five years in a Siberian penal colony for inciting hatred and extremism by posting videos online criticising pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, in a verdict condemned by rights activists.The court in Tomsk, western Siberia, also banned Vadim Tyumentsev, 35, from using the...
Power cuts in Crimea after new blast on Ukraine power line
KIEV (AFP) – An explosion on Crimeas main electricity line from Ukraine has left parts of the peninsula annexed by Russia in the dark, authorities said Thursday, weeks after power lines were sabotaged by anti-Russian activists.The only functional high-voltage wires providing electricity to Crimea was damaged after a nearby pylon fell...
Panorama of key world events in 2015
PARIS (AFP) – Here is a panorama of world events in 2015:January- 7-9: FRANCE – Seventeen people are slaughtered in attacks in Paris on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket two days later.Victims of Charlie Hebdo Paris attack- 26: SYRIA – The Daesh group is driven out of the Syrian town of Kobane on the...
