Japan’s Kagiyama recovers from early fall to defend title at NHK Trophy on November 10, 2024Yuma Kagiyama of Japan recovered from an early fall in his free skate on Saturday to defend his title at the NHK Trophy. The 2022 Olympic silver medalist fell on his opening quadruple flip but quickly recovered with a clean quad salchow and a quad toeloop-triple toeloop combination. First after the short program, Kagiyama added […]
West Indies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph suspended on November 9, 2024Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph has been suspended for two matches by Cricket West Indies over his very public disagreement with captain Shai Hope over field placements during a one-day international against England. While West Indies was bowling during the match Wednesday which the Caribbean side won by eight wickets to clinch the three-match series, Joseph […]
US believes Iranian-American journalist is detained in Iran on November 4, 2024Reza Valizadeh, an Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a U.S. government-funded broadcaster, is believed to have been detained by Iran for some months, The Associated Press reported on Sunday, citing authorities. The imprisonment of Valizadeh was acknowledged to the Associated Press by the U.S. State Department, the news agency said. Valizadeh previously worked for […]
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy urges allies to act before North Korean troops reach the front on November 3, 2024Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged its allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Koreans troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield. Zelenskyy raised the prospect of a preemptive Ukrainian strike on camps where the North Korean troops are being trained, and said Kyiv knows their location. But he said Ukraine can´t do it […]
UK Conservative Party picks Kemi Badenoch as its new leader in wake of election defeat on November 3, 2024Britain´s Conservative Party on Saturday elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader as it tries to rebound from a crushing election defeat that ended 14 years in power. Badenoch defeated rival lawmaker Robert Jenrick in a vote of almost 100,000 members of the right-of-center party. She is the first Black woman to lead a major […]
Hindus in Bangladesh rally to demand protection from attacks on November 3, 2024Tens of thousands of minority Hindus rallied Friday to demand that the interim government in Muslim-majority Bangladesh protect them from a wave of attacks and harassment and drop sedition cases against Hindu community leaders. About 30,000 Hindus demonstrated at a major intersection in the southeastern city of Chattogram, chanting slogans demanding their rights while police […]
Rain washes out Saturday’s 3rd round of the LPGA Japan tournament on November 3, 2024Heavy rain and storms associated with Typhoon Kong-rey washed out the third round of the LPGA’s Japan tournament on Saturday and reduced it to 54 holes. The LPGA said the tournament was scheduled to be completed on Sunday at Seta Golf Course. The tropical storm has most seriously affected the Philippines and Taiwan. In Taiwan, […]
James Harden becomes 20th player with 26,000 career points on November 2, 2024The points continue to come for James Harden, who became the 20th player in NBA history to reach 26,000 points in his career in the Los Angeles Clippers´ 125-119 loss to the Phoenix Suns on Thursday night. Harden was more worried about the points the Clippers have been giving up, having squandered double-digit leads in […]
Iran faces tough choices in deciding how to respond to Israeli strikes on October 28, 2024It’s Iran’s move now. How the Islamic Republic chooses to respond to the unusually public Israeli aerial assault on its homeland could determine whether the region spirals further toward all-out war or holds steady at an already devastating and destabilizing level of violence. In the coldly calculating realm of Middle East geopolitics, a strike of […]
Japan’s ruling party braces for a blow in parliamentary elections on October 28, 2024Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba´ s conservative ruling party braced for a blow to its majority in the lower house of parliament in Sunday´s elections as a result of public rage over financial scandals and discontent over a stagnant economy, According to exit polls by NHK public television, Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party is certain to […]