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Ben Stokes set to return for England’s big game against South Africa at the Cricket World Cup

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:58 GMT

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Two weeks into the Cricket World Cup, Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium will finally see some real action.This is a most venerable city — and venue — for Indian cricket. The sport first found its roots in this city’s maidans (local parks) a century ago, and the crowning moment arrived in 2011 when India beat Sri Lanka to lift its second World Cup.This tournament arrives Saturday at a crucial juncture — defending champion England needs to win its next game against South Africa to improve its chances of advancing to the semifinals.Both teams are in a similar state of mind — shell-shocked at their recent losses to Afghanistan and the Netherlands, respectively.Afghanistan beat England in New Delhi by 69 runs to record only its second World Cup win. Two days later, the Netherlands beat South Africa in Dharamsala by 38 runs.England is worse off at this stage. It lost to New Zealand in the opening game by nine wickets, and is fifth in the standings with two points from three g...

ANÁLISIS | Tienen la tarea de ver “las peores imágenes imaginables” de la guerra entre Israel y Hamas. Están pagando un alto precio

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:58 GMT

(CNN) — Bebés quemados. Niños con ropas ensangrentadas. La gente grita de agonía.Los periodistas que informan sobre la guerra entre Israel y Hamas desde fuera de la región inmediata también se enfrentan cada día a imágenes gráficas de las que no pueden apartar la mirada mientras trabajan para verificar informes en línea sobre el conflicto en expansión y comunicar los hechos al público.Si bien los desafíos son eclipsados por la miríada de horrendos problemas que afligen a quienes residen en el Medio Oriente, sin duda están dejando marcados a muchos reporteros que trabajan en el campo de batalla digital, con escenas terribles grabadas para siempre en sus memorias.La tarea está cobrando un precio especial a los periodistas cuyas funciones específicas son sacar a la luz videos e imágenes de la guerra y el posterior desastre humanitario y autenticar las imágenes para su uso en la cobertura informativa.“Los desafíos que enfrentan nuestros periodistas palidecen en comparación con los...

Saints again fizzle out tantalizingly close to pay dirt in a 2nd straight loss

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:58 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When Derek Carr’s fourth-down pass fell incomplete in the end zone, the Jacksonville Jaguars celebrated and Carr and Co. left the Superdome field amid boos from spectators who had watched the New Orleans Saints stall out in virtually the same fashion in Houston last Sunday.“We will join them in that because we’re the ones out there doing it,” Carr said when asked about his message to frustrated fans. “We want to give them a great product. We want to give them wins. They deserve wins. They deserve to see a great product. Hopefully we get our stuff together and get it together quick and start to get on a run so they can enjoy some more moments.”New Orleans has lost four of five and the past two setbacks have come with the Saints threatening — but failing — to score a tying touchdown in the final minute. In Week 6, they stalled at the Houston 24 with four consecutive incomplete passes. On Thursday night, it happened 18 yards closer to the goal line. Carr guided...

Cincinnati plays Atlanta United following shutout win

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:58 GMT

Atlanta United FC (13-9-11, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. FC Cincinnati (20-5-8, first in the Eastern Conference)Cincinnati; Saturday, 6 p.m. EDTFANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLS LINE: FC Cincinnati -136, Atlanta United FC +306, Draw +313; over/under is 3.5 goalsBOTTOM LINE: A game after shutting out Inter Miami 1-0, Cincinnati plays Atlanta United.Cincinnati is 14-4-7 in Eastern Conference games. Cincinnati ranks sixth in the league with 163 shots on goal, averaging 4.9 per game.United is 8-8-9 in conference games. United is second in the league with 64 goals led by Giorgos Giakoumakis with 15.The matchup Saturday is the second meeting of the season between the two teams. Cincinnati won the last game 2-1.TOP PERFORMERS: Luciano Acosta has scored 16 goals with 12 assists for Cincinnati. Aaron Boupendza has four goals over the last 10 games.Giakoumakis has 15 goals for United. Edwin Mosquera has scored three goals over the past 10 games.LAST 10 GAMES: Cincinnati: 5-3-2, averaging 1.6 goa...

MLB playoffs 2023: Verlander vs Montgomery with ALCS tied 2-all; Diamondbacks look to even NLCS

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:58 GMT

It’s been straight A’s for the Houston Astros ever since they hit the road in the AL Championship Series.Meanwhile, rookie Brandon Pfaadt and the Arizona Diamondbacks passed a huge test against Philadelphia in the NLCS.José Abreu hit a three-run homer right after Yordan Alvarez’s go-ahead sacrifice fly, and the Astros pulled even in the ALCS with a 10-3 victory at Texas in Game 4 on Thursday night.Jose Altuve had three hits in his 100th career postseason game and scored three runs for a record sixth time. Alvarez drove in three, giving him 13 RBIs already this postseason, and Chas McCormick added a two-run homer for Houston, which led 3-0 only four batters into the game.Corey Seager and Adolis García homered for the streaky Rangers, who have dropped two games in a row at home after starting this postseason with seven consecutive wins — six on the road.Game 5 is Friday afternoon at Globe Life Field, where the defending World Series champion Astros are 8-1 this season. Thr...

American Logan Sargeant trying to hang on in F1 through difficult rookie season

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:58 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — It was one year ago this week that a Formula One team announced a future with an American driver.But Logan Sargeant’s rookie season with Williams has been seemingly on the skids ever since, with a series of expensive crashes and dismal results that have some wondering if that future is careening toward a quick end.Sargeant returns to the United States Grand Prix this weekend as the only full-time driver this season to not yet score a point. And Williams, despite some public assurances that it hopes to keep him in 2024, has felt the strain of Sargeant’s missteps.Williams officials have said Sargeant has “very clear targets” to hit over the final stretch of the season, but exactly what those are, the team and driver haven’t said. Sargeant said Thursday he hasn’t been told to “deliver anything special, but to be consistent and clean. That’s been the message. That’s all my goal is: to have consistent, clean weekends and try to be ...

Italian Premier Meloni announces separation from partner, father of daughter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:58 GMT

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni announced Friday that she is separating from her partner and the father of her young daughter after nearly a decade together.In a statement posted on social media, Meloni said her relationship with Andrea Giambruno had ended. She said their paths had diverged “for some time.” The announcement came after Giambruno, an on-air television personality, was caught on audio seemingly making lewd remarks to colleagues.An Italian satirical news program, Striscia la Notizia, aired two nights’ worth of programming on Giambruno this week, using backstage clips and audio. Striscia is a primetime program of the Mediaset broadcaster of the late Silvio Berlusconi, whose Forza Italia party is a junior partner in Meloni’s government.This week marks the first anniversary of Meloni’s government, Italy’s first headed by a woman and first hard-right-led administration since the end of World War II.Meloni, who was raised by a single mother after...

For author Haruki Murakami, reading fiction helps us ‘see through lies’ in a world divided by walls

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:58 GMT

OVIEDO, Spain (AP) — For Japanese author Haruki Murakami, the bloody conflict in the Gaza Strip is a horrendous example of how our world is divided by walls, both physical and metaphorical.But while admitting he can only pray for peace now, he also feels confident that fiction, rather than offering an escape, can help us understand, and survive, increasingly perilous times.“I have Jewish friends in Israel. And I’m also aware that the Palestinian situation that I saw when I visited Israel is miserable,” Murakami told The Associated Press in an interview. “So all I can say is to pray so that peace will prevail as soon as possible. I cannot say which (side) is right or wrong.”The clash between Israel and the Hamas militant group has resonated with the title of Murakami’s newest novel “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” which was published in Japanese this year and has yet to be translated into English.“In my novels, walls are real walls. But of course they are also metaphoric wal...

In the news today: Canada removes 41 diplomats from India after immunity threats

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:58 GMT

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today…Canada has pulled most envoys out of India due to diplomatic immunity threats: JolyCanada has removed most of its diplomatic presence from India after New Delhi threatened to strip diplomatic immunities from them and their families, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said Thursday.Officials said the move would slow down the processing of immigration applications, and Canada has issued a travel advisory for regions of India where it says it’s been forced to reduce consular staffing.Relations with New Delhi have hit a deep freeze since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a month ago that Canadian intelligence services were investigating “a potential link” between India’s government and the killing of a Sikh leader in British Columbia.Police liaison testimony continues in convoy trialA police liaison officer who was in touch with org...

Northern Europe continues to brace for gale-force winds and floods

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:58 GMT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities across northern Europe urged vigilance Friday as the region braced for heavy rain and gale-force winds from the east as a severe storm continued to sweep through.The gale-force winds are expected to hit hardest in the eastern part of Denmark’s Jutland peninsula and the Danish islands in the Baltic Sea. But the British Isles, southern Sweden, northern Germany and parts of Norway are also on the path of the storm, named Babet by U.K.’s weather forecaster, the Met Office.“It will probably be some kind of historic event,” Hans Peter Wandler of the Danish Meteorological Institute told the Ekstra Bladet daily. “But we’ll have to wait until it’s over to see if it’s going to be a two-year event or a 100-year event.” On Thursday, U.K. officials issued a rare red alert — the highest level of weather warning — for parts of Scotland, predicting “exceptional rainfall” in the following two days that is expected to cause extensive flooding a...