Archive for the February 19, 2018
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Virat Kohli limped off the field before India completed another dominant performance over South Africa in the first Twenty20 international at the Wanderers Stadium on Sunday. Shikhar Dhawan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar were mainly responsible for
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Out of 300 participants, a promising 12-year-old Humam Ahmad of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa created a new national record by winning National Snow Hiking and Trekking Championship organized jointly by Directorate of Sports KP and the Alpine
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Martin Fourcade wrote himself into the French history books with a second biathlon gold at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Sunday, snatching victory by a whisker in a dramatic photo finish. The 29-year-old also won the
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World champion Nao Kodaira shook off the pressure of the biggest race of her life Sunday to become Japan's first female Olympic speed-skating gold medallist by capturing the 500m title. Coming off a silver-medal 1,000m
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Marcel Hirscher claimed his second Pyeongchang Winter Olympics ski title on Sunday as a doping case involving a Russian curler threatened to cast a fresh shadow over the Games. While America's Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey
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The United States has sketched out a path under which three key European allies would simply commit to try to improve the Iran nuclear deal over time in return for US President Donald Trump keeping
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Thousands of supporters of deported former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili marched through the streets of Kiev on Sunday, demanding the impeachment of the Ukrainian President. An AFP correspondent saw some 10,000 people taking part in
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Syrian forces readied Sunday for a ground offensive against the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus, a monitor said, as residents of the capital braced for retaliatory shelling. President Bashar al-Assad has in recent
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The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said Sunday that three of its foreign members were killed in Syria, including two in the northern enclave of Afrin. The Kurdish militia, the backbone of a US-backed force
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Turkey never used chemical weapons in its operations in Syria, and takes the utmost care of civilians, its foreign minister said, after Syrian Kurdish forces and a monitoring group accused it of carrying out a
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