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Declaring that he feels “nice and fresh” after his injury break, Josh Hazlewood has delivered another fast-bowling masterclass for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League to consign Chennai Super Kings to a record home defeat.Silencing the famously noisy fans at Chepauk Stadium on Friday, the rejuvenated quick struck twice in his first over and ended with superb figures of 3-21 and 15 dot balls as he helped condemn the hosts to their landmark 50-run defeat.It was the second match running that the 34-year-old, looking back to something like his brilliant best after hip, side and calf injuries over…

ANKARA: Turkish authorities detained a lawyer for President Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest political rival, jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, an MP of the main opposition party, CHP, said on Friday (Mar 28). Imamoglu, a CHP member who leads Erdogan in some polls, was jailed on Sunday pending trial for graft, provoking the largest anti-government protests in a decade, which led in turn to mass arrests nationwide. Mehmet Pehlivan, a lawyer who defended Imamoglu in the latest investigation, was detained “for fabricated reasons”, CHP MP Turan Taskin Ozer said in a post on X, without giving details. Imamoglu, who has since been…

In SummaryIn Africa, the Travel & Tourism market is projected to reach a revenue of US$25.16bn by 2025. It is expected to grow annually at 7.45% resulting in a market volume of $33.54 billion by 2029.The largest market in this market is the Hotels, which is projected to have a market volume of $11.29 billion by 2025. The number of users in Hotels is expected to be 159.97m by 2029.Online sales are projected to generate 73% of the total revenue in the Travel & Tourism market by 2029.Deep Dive!!Africa is a vast and diverse continent, offering travelers an extraordinary array…

US President Donald Trump says the United States needs to take over Greenland for “world peace,” as he doubled down on his ambitions to annex the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory. “We are not talking about peace for the United States. We are talking about world peace. We are talking about international security,” Trump told reporters at the White House. Vice President JD Vance, his wife and other senior US officials visited an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original…

The Memphis Grizzlies fired head coach Taylor Jenkins despite being the No. 5 seed in the Western Conference on Friday. The Grizzlies’ shocking decision to part ways with Jenkins comes with just nine regular-season games before the NBA playoffs begin. “I’m genuinely appreciative of Taylor’s contributions to this team and this city over the past six seasons,” said Grizzlies president and general manager of basketball operations Zach Kleiman in a statement posted to social media. New Orleans Pelicans head coach Taylor Jenkins looks on against the New Orleans Pelicans during the first half at Smoothie King Center on March 9, 2025. …

In December 1967, when he arrived at a snowy farm on China’s northeastern border with the Soviet Union, Xu Chenggang carried with him an electron tube to help him assemble a radio.Mr. Xu, a 17-year-old Beijing native, would spend the next 10 years there, living in a horse stable and subjected to re-education and persecution for his anti-revolutionary thinking. One thing that got him through the cold, dark decade was the tube radio that brought him Voice of America programs.He learned about the Prague Spring, the Watergate scandal and President Richard Nixon’s resignation, as well as criticisms of Chairman Mao…

A second South Carolina death row inmate has chosen execution by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 41, will be put to death on April 11 after pleading guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004.  “Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices, Mikal Mahdi has chosen the lesser of three evils,” one of his lawyers, David Weiss, said in a statement. “Mikal chose the firing squad instead of being burned and mutilated in the electric chair, or suffering a lingering death on the lethal injection gurney.” Brad Sigmon chose to be shot to death in South Carolina on March 7, becoming the…

By Jeremy Simes The Canadian Press Posted March 28, 2025 1:20 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is travelling to Europe to promote the province’s agricultural, energy and manufacturing industries. Moe is to attend a trade show in Hanover, Germany, where he is set to connect with investors in the technology and advanced manufacturing sector. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. He says it’s more important now than ever to diversify the province’s trading…

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A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday, sending shock waves across Southeast Asia and leaving a trail of death and destruction.The military junta in Myanmar said that 144 people had died and 732 had been injured in just three cities. But it did not include any toll from Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, which lies near the epicenter. Many injured quake victims flooded Mandalay’s hospitals. The death toll seemed certain to rise significantly.Hundreds of miles from the epicenter, the earthquake collapsed a skyscraper under construction in Bangkok, killing at least seven people and leaving dozens missing. It also shook…