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FIFA appoints UN official as 1st female secy general

FIFA broke new ground by appointing a Senegalese United Nations official as its first female and first non-European secretary general on Friday. Fatma Samoura has no experience working in sports but FIFA President Gianni Infantino hopes that will help it try to regain the trust and credibility of the world. “We want to embrace diversity and we believe in gender ...

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Dravid, Jayawardene in ICC cricket committee

Rahul Dravid, the former India captain, and Mahela Jayawardene, the former Sri Lanka captain, have been appointed to ICC cricket committee for the next three years. Former India captain Anil Kumble was re-elected the chairman of the committee for another three-year term and Richard Kettleborough replaced the retired Steve Davis as the umpires’ representative. Kettleborough has won the ICC’s Umpire-of-the-Year ...

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50 wickets up for Mustafizur in T20 cricket

The 20-year-old lanky pacer from Satkhira and Bangladesh’s bowling wonder Mustafizur Rahman picked up his 50th wicket in T20 cricket when he dismissed Murali Vijay for six in the 46th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League on May 15, 2016 at Mohali, Chandigarh. Before the match against Kings XI Punjab, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s magnificent recruit Mustafizur had featured in 34 ...

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Rio 2016: Up to 31 athletes could be banned after Beijing retests

The Rio Games begin on 5 August and run until 21 August Up to 31 athletes from six sports could be banned from competing at the Rio Games, Olympic chiefs have said. The announcement comes after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) retested 454 selected doping samples from the 2008 Games in Beijing. The IOC said the retests were conducted using ...

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There wasn’t much we could have done: Shakib Al Hasan

When Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers are on song, there’s not much the opposition can do. And if Chris Gayle joins the party, the captain at the other end runs out of options pretty quickly. Gautam Gambhir and Kolkata Knight Riders learnt that when Royal Challengers Bangalore handed them a nine-wicket thrashing at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on ...

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Suarez hat-trick clinches La Liga title

Barcelona have protected their Liga title after a hat-trick from Luis Suarez secured a 3-0 victory over Granada on Saturday. Real Madrid’s victory away to Deportivo La Coruna was not enough as Barca sealed a comfortable victory to achieve a final points tally of 91 – one more than their fierce rivals – and claim a 24th top-flight crown, GOAL ...

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Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam ‘posted IS flag on Facebook’

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam posted the flag of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group on his Facebook page three weeks before the attacks, Belgian website RTBF reports. Authorities were aware of the flag but did not act upon it, it added. IS militants staged bomb and gun attacks on several targets in Paris on 13 November, murdering 130 people ...

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Canada wildfire: Oil workers urged to leave Fort McMurray camps

Around 12,000 people have been urged to leave Canada’s oil sands camps near the fire-hit town of Fort McMurray as a resurgent wildfire heads towards them. A regional official told the BBC that 8,000 people were given precautionary evacuation orders late on Monday, in addition to some 4,000 who had already been advised to leave. More than 80,000 people fled ...

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Cultural Revolution: China’s media breaks silence over anniversary

China’s state-run media has said the country can never allow a repeat of the “error” of the Cultural Revolution. The editorial in Communist Party mouthpiece the People’s Daily is the first official comment following Monday’s 50th anniversary of the start of the unrest. The campaign to “purge” society of Mao Zedong’s political opponents ushered in years of bloodshed and turmoil. ...

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Donald Tusk says only alternative to EU is ‘chaos’

The president of the European Council has said the only alternative to the EU is “political chaos” and labelled Boris Johnson’s recent comments “absurd”. Donald Tusk said he was speaking out to defend his “vision of Europe”. He said he could not “remain silent” after Mr Johnson compared the EU’s aims with Hitler’s, and said the ex-London mayor had shown ...

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