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England punish sloppy South Africa to seal T20 series
England were solid if unspectacular in the opening T20 in East London on Saturday, but this was an utterly dominant victory. They made a poor start, slipping to 15-2 when Maia Bouchier chipped the ball to mid-wicket for 20, before Sophia Dunkley fell for a duck two balls later with a nervy prod that flicked…
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Bomb threats made against Trump cabinet nominees
Several of Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees and picks for his White House team have been targeted by bomb threats. The FBI said it was aware of “numerous bomb threats” as well as “swatting incidents”, in which hoax calls are made to attract a police response to the target’s home. Threats were made against Trump’s choices…
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Israel to appeal against ICC warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
Israel will appeal against the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. Judges last week issued warrants for the two men along with Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif, saying there were reasonable grounds to believe the three men bore criminal responsibility for alleged war crimes and…
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Jeremy Bowen: The Lebanon ceasefire is a respite, not a solution for the Middle East
BBC For most of the people of Lebanon, a ceasefire could not come quickly enough. A leading Lebanese analyst at a conference on the Middle East that I’m attending in Rome said she couldn’t sleep as the appointed hour for the ceasefire came closer. “It was like the night before Christmas when you’re a kid.…
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Lyse Doucet: Nowhere else on Earth are so many children fleeing war
Joyce Liu / BBC Mahmoud is a cheeky teenager who beams the biggest of smiles even though he lost his front teeth in the rough and tumble of kids’ play. He is a Sudanese orphan abandoned twice, and displaced twice in his country’s grievous war – one of nearly five million Sudanese children who have…
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Protest arrests after seven detained over links to Kurdish rebel group PKK
Reuters Protests continued into the night outside a Kurdish community centre in Haringey Seven people have now been arrested by counter-terrorism police in London for suspected activity linked to the banned militant group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The Metropolitan Police said two women, aged 59 and 31, and four men, aged 27, 62, 56…
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Missing hiker found alive after more than five weeks in wilderness
A hiker who was lost in the backwoods of British Columbia for more than five weeks has been found alive. Sam Benastick, 20, was reported missing on 19 October after he failed to return from a 10-day fishing and hiking trip in Redfern-Keily Park in the northern Rocky Mountains. Authorities had called off search and…
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Staff suspended at paedophile head's former school
Two suspensions have been made at a school where the former headmaster was jailed for sexually abusing girls, governors confirmed in a letter to parents. The suspensions were made at Ysgol Friars in Bangor, because of information brought to the attention of local authority Cyngor Gwynedd’s education department. Neil Foden was headteacher at Ysgol Friars…
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Cowboys Activate WR Brandin Cooks From IR
After a week back at practice, Brandin Cooks is ready to go. The Cowboys will have the veteran wide receiver for their Thanksgiving Day game. The team activated Cooks from IR on Wednesday, ESPN.com’s Todd Archer tweets. Cooks will certainly return to a team with a different outlook, as he has been out since Week…
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Chargers Claim S Marcus Maye
November 27th, 2024 at 3:25pm CST by Sam Robinson Marcus Maye will join a fourth NFL team, not reaching free agency after the Dolphins waived him. The veteran safety is on his way to Los Angeles. The former Jets, Saints and Dolphins defender did not make it past the Chargers on the waiver wire, per…