LES SABLES-D’OLONNE, France, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – French sailor Sebastien Destremau finished the gruelling Vendee Globe round-the-world race on Saturday, the organisers said, the 18th and last person to do so. Destremau, sailing TechnoFirst-faceOcean, spent 124 days at sea, crossing the finish line at 0040 GMT. Destremau, 52, told AFP he was “extremely proud” to have made […]
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Yachting: Frenchman last sailor to finish Vendee Globe
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Football: Vieira impressed by improving MLS
NEW YORK, (MILLAT/APP/AFP): New York City FC manager Patrick Vieira is impressed by the steadily improving standards in Major League Soccer and believes champions Seattle would not disgrace themselves if they played in France. “It’s hard to compare the MLS with Europe because the league is only 20 years old,” former France captain Vieira told […]
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CORRECTED: China expects ‘relatively stable’ yuan in 2017
– CORRECTION: CORRECTS headline to say 2017 sted as sent. BEIJING, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – China’s central bank governor said Friday the yuan should be “relatively stable” this year after losing seven percent of its value in 2016. People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said the world’s number-two economy was expected to stabilise after posting its […]
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China expects ‘relatively stable’ yuan in 2016
BEIJING, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – China’s central bank governor said Friday the yuan should be “relatively stable” this year after losing seven percent of its value in 2016. People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said the world’s number-two economy was expected to stabilise after posting its slowest growth in more than a quarter of a century […]
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Football: Russian deputy PM Mutko barred from FIFA post – source tells AFP
ZURICH, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – FIFA has barred Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko, chief organiser of the World Cup to be held in his country next year, from taking up a seat on the world body’s ruling council, a source close to FIFA told AFP on Friday. The source said the decision by a FIFA watchdog […]
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Brazilian army nabs phones, weapons in sweep of prisons
BRASMLIA, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Brazil’s army announced Thursday that it nabbed more than 2,000 knives, hundreds of cellphones, drugs, cash and alcohol during sweeps of prisons, including those involved in deadly violence earlier this year. Troops were sent to comb 10 prisons in the wake of the bloodletting in which 140 people were killed in gang […]