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Matthews guides West Indies to first win in World T20

Matthews guides West Indies to first win in World T20

West Indian captain Hayley Matthews guided her team to their first win in the Women’s T20 World Cup when they beat Ireland by six wickets with one ball to spare at Newlands in Cape Town on Friday.

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Qatar bid for Man Utd as Saudis linked with takeover

Qatar bid for Man Utd as Saudis linked with takeover

The race to buy Manchester United became a little clearer on Friday when a consortium led by Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani, chairman of Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), announced that it had submitted an offer to take full control of the Premier League club.

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Woods says tampon prank meant to be 'fun and games'

Woods says tampon prank meant to be 'fun and games'

Tiger Woods insisted Friday he didn't mean to cause offense when he pranked playing partner Justin Thomas by handing him a tampon in the first round of the Genesis Invitational.

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Woods's weekend in jeopardy after 74 at Riviera

Woods's weekend in jeopardy after 74 at Riviera

Tiger Woods blamed poor putting after a three-over-par 74 on Friday left him one stroke outside the projected cut line midway through the Genesis Invitational second round.

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Madrid offers citizenship to more Nicaragua dissidents

Madrid offers citizenship to more Nicaragua dissidents

Madrid on Friday extended an offer of Spanish nationality to another 94 exiled Nicaraguan opposition figures dubbed "traitors" by their government.

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Price sets world best in women's weight throw at US Indoors

Price sets world best in women's weight throw at US Indoors

DeAnna Price delivered a world best of 26.02 meters to win the women's weight throw on Friday at the US Indoor Track and Field Championships while world 200m champion Noah Lyles advanced easily in the 60m.

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Clashes at living cost protests in Suriname

Clashes at living cost protests in Suriname

Hundreds of people protested in Suriname Friday against rising living costs, clashing with security forces in the capital Paramaribo and looting city center shops, AFP observed.

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Rio carnival returns, celebrating 'life, democracy'

Rio carnival returns, celebrating 'life, democracy'

Rio de Janeiro's mayor declared the world's biggest carnival officially open Friday for the first full-scale edition in three years, calling it a celebration of life and democracy after the turmoil of Covid-19 and Brazil's bitterly divisive elections.

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Bulgaria finds 18 dead migrants suffocated in truck

Bulgaria finds 18 dead migrants suffocated in truck

Bulgarian authorities on Friday found the bodies of 18 people who suffocated in a truck smuggling them through the country.

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Barcelona facing more questions over refereeing chief payments

Barcelona facing more questions over refereeing chief payments

Barcelona are facing further questions about payments of millions of euros made to a former refereeing chief's company following revelations that the amount in question was four times bigger than the one originally declared.

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