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MADRID, April 26 (Xinhua) — Atletico Madrid will be without the services of Belgian international winger, Yannick Carrasco for at least the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid after it was confirmed he has suffered a twisted shoulder. Carrasco suffered the injury after entering Tuesday night’s 1-0 home defeat against Villarreal […]
Read MoreRIO DE JANEIRO, April 26 (Xinhua) — Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered footballer Bruno Fernandes to return to jail for the murder of his former girlfriend. Bruno, as he is known in Brazil, was granted a writ of habeas corpus in February after serving less than seven years of a 22-year sentence for killing Eliza […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE, April 26 (Xinhua) — Singapore’s manufacturing output increased 10.2 percent year-on-year in March, said the country’s Economic Development Board (EDB) on Wednesday. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output grew 12.4 percent in March, said EDB in the press release. On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, manufacturing output increased 5.0 percent compared to the previous month. Excluding […]
Read MoreSYDNEY, April 26 (Xinhua) — Western Australias newly-appointed Premier Mark McGowan said on Wednesday that it is time to “play hardball” with the federal government and the eastern states over plans of a possible gas pipeline that would stretch across the nation. McGowan said his state deserves a bigger share of the nation’s goods and […]
Read MoreJERUSALEM, April 26 (Xinhua) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that it is his policy not to meet diplomats who have met groups criticizing Israel, after he canceled a meeting with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel. Netanyahu canceled a meeting with Gabriel after the foreign minister met representatives of Breaking The Silence and […]
Read MoreTOKYO, April 26 (Xinhua) — Japanese fighter jets will conduct a joint drill with planes based on the United States aircraft carrier Carl Vinson on Wednesday afternoon, Kyodo News quoted Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force as saying. Two F-15s based in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, will participate in the drill with two carrier-based U.S. Navy F/A-18s over […]
Read MoreADDIS ABABA, April 26 (NsNewsWire) — The Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative is a golden opportunity to bring about regional integration and sustainable economic growth for Africa, said Berhane Gebre-Christos, special envoy of the Ethiopian Prime Minister, on Tuesday. The special envoy made the remarks at the opening of a seminar organized on the B&R […]
Read MoreLONDON, April 26 (Xinhua) — The Labour party is likely to do badly in local elections across the country before general elections on June 8, experts said Tuesday. A series of local elections will be held on May 4 using a variety of electoral systems. Campaigning for those elections, part of a scheduled pattern, began […]
Read MoreANKARA, April 26 (Xinhua) — More than 1,000 people were arrested over links to the Gulenist Group in simultaneous raids across Turkey on Wednesday, said Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. The operations were carried out as part of a probe led by chief public prosecutor’s office in Ankara, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. A total of […]
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