Football: World Cup winner Hoewedes retires at 32
BERLIN: Benedikt Hoewedes, a German World Cup winner, said on Friday that he is retiring aged 32 for family reasons....
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Football: Nigeria’s Osimhen joins Napoli from Lille
ROME: Victor Osimhen has signed for Napoli after the Serie A side splashed out a club record fee of up...
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Motorcycling: Three MotoGP races cancelled due to pandemic, one added in Europe
REUTERS: MotoGP races in Argentina, Thailand and Malaysia this year have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic but one...
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Tokyo Olympic Stadium to host athletics event in August
TOKYO: Tokyo's new Olympic Stadium will host its first track and field meeting on 23 Aug 23, exactly two weeks...
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Coronavirus impact will be felt far into the future: WHO
GENEVA: The global coronavirus outbreak is the sort of disaster whose effects will last far into the future, World Health...
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Tennis: US Open confident in health and safety plans
NEW YORK: US Open organizers say they are confident in safety plans a month ahead of the Grand Slam tennis...
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European Sentinel satellites to map global CO2 emissions
German manufacturer OHB-System has signed a €445m (£400m) contract to begin construction of a satellite network to monitor carbon dioxide....
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Huawei asks Germany not to shut it out of building 5G networks – Der Spiegel
Huawei's top manager in Germany has appealed to the government not to shut it out of building 5G mobile networks,...
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Ford will defer some quarterly payments on US Energy Department loan
Ford Motor Co said on Friday it had won approval to defer some quarterly payments due on its U.S. Energy...
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TikTok owner ByteDance considers listing China business in Hong Kong or Shanghai: Source
BEIJING: Chinese tech giant ByteDance is considering listing its domestic business in Hong Kong or Shanghai, people familiar with the...
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Russia pledges reciprocal steps after EU sanctions for alleged cyberattacks
MOSCOW: Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday (Jul 31) it would respond with reciprocal measures to European Union travel and...
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‘Payment sent’: Travel giant CWT pays US$4.5m ransom to cyber criminals
LONDON: U.S. travel management firm CWT paid US$4.5 million this week to hackers who stole reams of sensitive corporate files...
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US consumer spending rises for second straight month, income drops further
WASHINGTON: U.S. consumer spending increased for a second straight month in June, setting up consumption for a rebound in the...
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Teenagers sentenced to 42 years in jail for killing British policeman
LONDON: Three British teenagers were sentenced to a combined 42 years in jail by a judge on Friday (Jul 31)...
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Alstom gains EU okay to acquire Bombardier’s rail business
France's Alstom SA clinched EU antitrust approval on Friday to acquire Canadian rival Bombardier Inc's rail business in a deal...
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France swelters under heatwave, putting firefighters on alert
PARIS: Intense heat spread across much of France on Friday (Jul 31) ahead of a heavy holiday travel weekend, prompting...
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SAP, Deutsche Telekom to build corona app gateway for European Commission
The European Commission said on Friday it had signed a contract for SAP and Deutsche Telekom to build a software...
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South Africa produces its first ventilators to fight COVID-19
CAPE TOWN: The first of thousands of South African-designed ventilators rolled off a Cape Town assembly line on Friday (Jul...
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How inequality and poverty undermined South Africa’s COVID-19 response
JOHANNESBURG: When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africa's government-run Thelle Mogoerane Hospital, workers scrambled to set up isolation wards...
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Germany puts three Spanish regions hit by COVID-19 on high-risk list
BERLIN: Germany will force people returning from three Spanish regions, including Catalonia, home to Barcelona, to go into quarantine or...
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