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At least 18 people dead and 14 others missing in eastern province of Zhejiang after Lekima makes landfall, CCTV said. At least 18 people have been killed and another 14 missing in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, after Typhoon Lekima made landfall on Saturday, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Local authorities said the typhoon downed thousands of trees and forced...

Worshippers will spend the day in prayer at the site where Prophet Muhammad is said to have given his final sermon. More than two million Muslims have gathered at the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for an intense day of worship and reflection on what's considered the climax of the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage. They walked to the hill on Saturday, where the...

Military said the four men were heavily armed and one crossed into Israel. The Israeli army has said its troops shot dead four Palestinians near the boundary area between Gaza and Israel on Saturday morning. According to a statement by the military, the four men were heavily armed with assault rifles, anti-tank missiles and hand grenades, one of which was hurled at Israeli troops. The...

McLaren will return to full-time IndyCar racing in 2020 in partnership with Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and Chevrolet, the British company announced yesterday. The move could give Spaniard Fernando Alonso, the double Formula One world champion who remains under contract to McLaren, another chance to win the Indianapolis 500 even if the Spaniard is not interested in a full season. The...

Cuba’s Yarisley Silva won her third consecutive Pan Am Games pole vault title with a gutsy last-ditch attempt on Thursday. The 2015 world champion had fallen behind American Katie Nageotte after a second miss at 4.70 metres but after having the bar raised to 4.75 she cleared the height to claim victory. A miss and Silva would have lost to...

Baseball’s “Field of Dreams” next to an Iowa cornfield will host a 2020 Major League Baseball game between the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox, league officials announced Thursday. The ballpark made famous in the 1989 movie Field of Dreams will serve as the unique backdrop for major league teams at what has become a cultural touchstone for the...

Australia great Shane Warne believes Jofra Archer could be the man to stop Steve Smith’s Ashes run-spree as “no one likes to face tall 90mph (145kph) bowlers”. World Cup-winner Archer is set to make his Test debut at Lord’s next week after being included in England’s squad for the second match of the Ashes series. Australia batting star Smith made...

Sri Lanka recalled former captains Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews yesterday for the first test against New Zealand which starts in Galle on Aug. 14. Chandimal was dropped from the team for their tour of South Africa earlier this year due to poor form and did not make the squad for the World Cup either. Mathews, who missed the South...

Defending champion Rafael Nadal maintained his momentum in Canada and cruised to a 6-3, 6-4 win over Argentinean Guido Pella to advance to the Rogers Cup quarter-finals on Thursday. Nadal, who won this event for the fourth time last year, battled through the wind and broke Pella’s service four times in the triumph. Playing in his first action since losing to...

Troy Merritt matched the Liberty National course record with a nine-under par 62 Thursday to grab a one-stroke lead after the opening round of the US PGA Northern Trust tournament. On a day when Masters champion Tiger Woods struggled to a 75 and shared 116th among 120 starters, it was 33-year-old American Merritt who stole the show with a bogey-free...

The Premier League has made a big mistake in closing the transfer window before its European counterparts, Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino said yesterday. England’s top flight clubs can no longer sign new players after the deadline expired on Thursday, but those in Italy, Spain, Germany and France can still strengthen their squads. Tottenham midfielder Christian Eriksen and defender Toby Alderweireld...

The brother of Yemeni rebel chief Abdelmalek al-Houthi has been “assassinated”, the group’s TV channel Al-Masirah reported yesterday. “The martyr Ibrahim Badreddine Amir al-Din al-Houthi has been assassinated at the hands of traitors” working for the Saudi-led coalition, the Houthi rebels said in a statement carried by the channel. Yemen’s internationally-recognised government is backed by a Saudi-led military coalition against the...

Italy’s League has filed a no-confidence motion to bring down its own governing coalition, a move that the party’s populist chief, Matteo Salvini, hopes will trigger snap elections and install him as the nation’s new leader. With parliament in summer recess, Salvini has summoned all League lawmakers back to Rome on Monday and he is pushing for a vote on...

One year after Argentina’s Senate defeated a bill to legalise abortion, the country’s feminists are keeping up the fight and leading Latin America’s struggle for abortion rights. Apart from Cuba, Uruguay and Mexico City, voluntary abortion is illegal in Latin America, although it does take place, clandestinely, in conditions that are usually deplorable. At the same time, killings of women in...