'Wagner is alive and will live in Belarus', says Lukashenko
Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday the Russian mercenary group Wagner will remain in Belarus, without specifying their purpose or how long they would stay.
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Record crowd for World Cup start in Philippines
MANILA : The FIBA Basketball World Cup got underway in three Asian countries on Friday, with co-hosts the Philippines losing to Dominican Republic 87-81 in a game that shattered the tournament's 29-year-old attendance record.
Ukraine war: Zelenskyy meets Turkey FM, Russia downs 42 drones over Crimea claim, US F-16 training
Turkey's foreign minister Hakan Fidan met with the Ukrainian president on Friday in a rare visit, the two countries announced.
Usyk weighs in 12 pounds lighter than Dubois
Ukraine's reigning world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk hit the scales 12 pounds lighter than British challenger Daniel Dubois at Friday's weigh-in for Saturday's title clash in Wroclaw, Poland.
Special Project: Director of the Starobilsk MVA Yana Litvinova: We are ready to resume work after deoccupation
An exclusive interview of Yana Litvinova, head of the Starobilsk city military administration, as part of a joint special project of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency and East Europe Foundation “Community Experience”. Its purpose is to show the experience of Ukrainian communities in the adaptation and integration of forcibly internally displaced persons in order to increase the efficiency of the work of local self-government bodies.
As Praggnanandhaa And Gukesh Shine, Is India The New Talent-Churning Machine In Chess?
For a long time, Viswanathan Anand was the lone flag-bearer of Indian chess, taking the world by storm with his exploits. Things have changed in the last decade or so, with numerous talented players emerging on the Indian chess scene, making the country a formidable force in the world. With the country producing Grandmasters almost on demand, Anand went so far as to say that the current lot happens to be the golden generation in Indian chess. Four Indian players -- R Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi, D Gukesh and Vidit Santosh Gujrathi -- reached the quarterfinal of the FIDE World Cup at Baku in a first for the country in a sport dominated for long by erstwhile Soviet Union and later Russia at various points.
Charles Oliveira eyes Islam Makhachev upset at UFC 294 in Abu Dhabi
Few MMA fights this year have been as eagerly anticipated as Charles Oliveira’s rematch with Islam Makhachev in Abu Dhabi on Oct. 21.
Ukraine war: Norway to donate F-16 jets, Ukrainians celebrate Independence Day, Crimea attack
Oslo has decided to donate combat aircraft to Ukraine, as reported by Norwegian broadcasters NRK and TV2. The channel did not cite its sources and did not specify how many F-16s would Oslo be providing Kyiv with.