CAPE TOWN, Feb 7, (Millat + APP/AFP) – South Africa won the toss and opted to bat on a wicket expected to yield abundant runs in the fourth one-day international against Sri Lanka on Tuesday. With the five-match series already wrapped up after South Africa went 3-0 up, the home side gave left-arm wrist spinner […]
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Cricket: Run-hungry South Africa opt to bat
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Air strikes on Syrian ex-Qaeda branch kill 26: monitor
BEIRUT, Feb 7, (Millat + APP/AFP) – Air strikes on Syria’s former Al-Qaeda affiliate in the country’s northwest on Tuesday killed 26 people, including civilians, a monitoring group told AFP. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 10 air strikes battered at dawn headquarters of Fateh al-Sham Front in Idlib city. It was […]
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Artificial wetland to clean Shanghai factory water
PARIS, Feb 7 (Millat + APP/AFP): French wastewater treatment company Suez said Tuesday it had been awarded a contract to design an artificial wetland to clean water from a petrochemical industrial zone outside Shanghai. Suez said the 36-hectare “dragonfly zone” will use “the treatment capabilities of the natural environment” to remove micropollutants from water after […]
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Volkswagen mulls slashing executive pay
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Feb 7, (Millat + APP/AFP) – German car giant Volkswagen is considering a cap on executive pay and bonuses in the wake of its “dieselgate” scandal, AFP learned Tuesday. A salary cap “may be on the agenda” for a supervisory board meeting on February 24, a VW source told AFP, partially confirming […]
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Athletics: Russian coaches can’t work without doping – Mutko
MOSCOW, Feb 7, (Millat + APP/AFP) – Russian athletics coaches “don’t understand how to work without doping”, Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said Tuesday, after the IAAF extended a ban on the country’s team to the world championships. Russia has been barred from international track and field competition — including the Rio Olympics — since […]
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Trump dismisses ‘ridiculous’ court ruling suspending travel ban
WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (APP/AFP): US President Donald Trump lashed out Saturday at a court ruling suspending his controversial ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries, dismissing it as “ridiculous” and vowing to get it overturned. The order blocking the ban, issued late Friday by Seattle US District Judge James Robart, is valid across the United […]