India 109-2 in Kohli's 100th Test
India lost their openers including new captain Rohit Sharma as they reached 109 for two at lunch against Sri Lanka in superstar cricketer Virat Kohli's 100th Test on Friday.
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US should diplomatically recognise 'free' Taiwan: Pompeo
The United States should diplomatically recognise Taiwan as "a free and sovereign country," former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a speech while visiting the island.
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Lions, tigers evacuated from Ukraine to Poland
Six lions and six tigers evacuated from near Kyiv arrived at a zoo in Poland on Thursday following a two-day odyssey skirting battle frontlines and coming face to face with Russian tanks, a zoo spokesman said.
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'Star number one' Kohli raises fan fever in 100th Test
Cheering fans in Virat Kohli shirts and face paints jostled to get inside India's Mohali stadium on Friday for the superstar cricketer and national hero's 100th Test match.
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Russian forces attack Ukrainian nuclear plant, blaze extinguished
Russian troops attacked Europe's largest nuclear power plant on Friday, setting part of the Ukrainian facility ablaze in an assault the country's leader branded "nuclear terror" and said could endanger the continent.
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Beijing Paralympics to open in storm of controversy over Ukraine invasion
Tensions in the athlete villages, threats of competition boycotts and an eleventh-hour reversal to ban Russian athletes have marred the lead-up to Friday's opening of the Beijing Winter Paralympics.
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Melinda French Gates criticizes ex-husband Bill for Epstein meetings
Melinda French Gates on Thursday criticized her ex-husband Bill Gates for having met multiple times with Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of child sex crimes who committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial.
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Long road ahead for Iraq pledge to phase out gas flares
In the oilfields of southern Iraq, billions of cubic feet of gas literally go up in smoke, burnt off on flare stacks for want of the infrastructure to capture and process it.
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Cyberdog and robo-barman: Spotted at Spain tech congress
Phone makers and telecoms firms unveiled a series of gadgets and innovations at one of the industry's biggest get-togethers this week in Barcelona.
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The agent and the comic: Putin, Zelensky in fight for Ukraine
One is a former comic actor who became president in 2019 as a political novice. The other a one-time KGB agent now in power for over two decades.
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