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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Two senior staffers of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) have been put under investigation for suspected serious violations of discipline and law, China’s sports regulator said on Saturday. The staffers are Qi Jun, head of the CFA’s strategic planning department, and Tan Hai, director of the CFA’s technical department, China’s General Administration of Sports said in two statements. The administration did not give details of the investigations […]

LIMA (Reuters) – A Peruvian high court has ordered same-sex unions to be legally registered in public records, marking a victory for the LGBTQ community in a country that has been reluctant to recognize gay couples. The ruling, published on Friday, followed a case brought by a gay Peruvian citizen who sued the registration office for refusing to record her 2019 marriage overseas, saying her constitutional rights were violated. Representatives […]

(Reuters) – The Iraqi government sought to reassure diplomatic missions in the country of their security on Saturday, saying it would not allow a recurrence of the storming of the Swedish embassy. The statement from the Foreign Ministry came a day after hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, setting it on fire in protest against plans to burn a copy of the Koran in Stockholm. Iraq also […]

(Reuters) – The Norway national team said that forward Caroline Graham Hansen would not participate in the scheduled press conference on Saturday after feeling a sore throat. The news is potentially another blow to the Norwegian team, which might need a win against Switzerland on Tuesday to advance from Group A in the Women’s World Cup following a shock loss in the first round. The 28-year-old winger played in the […]

(Corrects month to July not June in last paragraph) (Reuters) -The Norway national team said that forward Caroline Graham Hansen would not participate in the scheduled press conference on Saturday after feeling a sore throat. The news is potentially another blow to the Norwegian team, which might need a win against Switzerland on Tuesday to advance from Group A in the Women’s World Cup following a shock loss in the […]

(Reuters) – The Norway national team said that forward Caroline Graham Hansen would not participate in the scheduled press conference on Saturday after feeling a sore throat. The news is potentially another blow to the Norwegian team, which might need a win against Switzerland on Tuesday to advance from Group A in the Women’s World Cup following a shock loss in the first round. The 28-year-old winger played in the […]

TUNIS (Reuters) – At least six migrants died after their boat sank off Morocco, the MAP state news agency said on Friday on its Facebook page. It added that the boat struck rocks and the six people drowned. Forty-eight others survived. Authorities launched search operations. (Reporting by Tarek Amara; Editing by Cynthia Osterman) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

There was a shake-up in the brackets as unseeded American Claire Liu knocked off eighth seed Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 7-5, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the Hungarian Grand Prix on Friday in Budapest. Liu had the edge in aces, 5-3, and saved 9 of 12 break points, to 5 of 10 for Schmiedlova of the Slovak Republic in the two-hour, 11-minute match. Liu reached her third career tour-level semifinal and […]

By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. stocks rally faces a potential inflection point next week as the Federal Reserve is expected to deliver what may be the final rate hike of its most aggressive monetary policy tightening cycle in decades. As the year began, many investors expected higher interest rates to bring on a recession that would further hurt stocks after 2022’s sharp decline. Instead, the U.S. […]