by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | Sports
Nick Kyrgios’s late withdrawal from the inaugural edition of the United Cup took his own team mates by surprise on Wednesday as they were left in the dark until minutes before their pre-tournament news conference. Kyrgios, who is ranked 22nd in the world and...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | News
An Iranian chess player on Wednesday took part in an international tournament in Kazakhstan without a hijab for the second day running, according to a Reuters journalist present. A Reuters witness at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in Almaty,...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | News
After an unprecedented mid-season shutdown because of the Qatar World Cup, the Premier League burst back to life over the festive holiday with a bumper fixture package. The 44-day stoppage allowed top-flight managers time to gather their thoughts while those players...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | News
Most Christmas ceremonies would be ruined if attendees threw a punch. But in Peru’s mountainous south, participants of one Dec. 25 festival have exactly that in mind. On Christmas Day, hundreds of residents of Chumbivilcas province in Peru’s Cusco region...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | Politics
Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has invited centrist Senator Simone Tebet to be his planning minister, a close Lula aide said on Tuesday. Future Institutional Affairs Minister Alexandre Padilha said in a press conference Tebet had not yet formally...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | News
Edgar Prado, 51, a mechanic and driver from the city of Ayacucho in southern Peru, spent most of the day on Dec. 15 in his garage tinkering on his white Toyota Hilux pickup, even as protests began to build in the airport just a block away. At 5.56 p.m. that day he...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | News
Police in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia, said on Tuesday that a backpack found near where President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was staying that had prompted a bomb scare contained only personal belongings. News of the bomb squad being called into action just...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | News
CIUDAD JUAREZ – Even before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday opted to keep in place a measure aimed at deterring border crossings, hundreds of migrants in northern Mexico were taking matters into their own hands to slip into the United States. The contentious...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | Sports
American Mikaela Shiffrin secured a giant slalom double in Semmering, Austria on Wednesday to claim her 79th World Cup victory, moving her within three wins of compatriot Lindsey Vonn’s women’s record of 82. Shiffrin clocked a combined time of two minutes...
by Delphia | Dec 28, 2022 | News
Storm-weary road crews and residents of western New York state struggled on Tuesday to dig out from a deadly weekend blizzard, with snow still falling and forecasts for rapid warming and rains that could cause flooding and turn the frozen landscape to slush. The...
