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Buenos Aires: Angel di Maria could extend his international career after playing a key role in Argentina's dramatic penalty shootout victory over France in the FIFA World Cup final, according to local media reports.The 34-year-old Juventus winger had previously...

Washington: More than 4,000 US flights were canceled or delayed on Friday due to severe winter weather in most of the country, the FlightAware.com portal reported."Total cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today: 3,315," the tracker...

Juba: The UN humanitarian agency has provided 14 million U.S. dollars to support the provision of direct humanitarian assistance to 262,521 people in South Sudan, who have been affected by increased violence and severe flooding.The funds from the United...

Los Angeles: The increase in Covid-19 and drug overdose deaths have pushed US life expectancy to the lowest level since 1996, according to a new report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).There were 3,464,231...

Ljubljana:Natasa Pirc Musar, 54, took the oath of office during a ceremonial session of Slovenia's National Assembly on Thursday. She is the country's fifth, and first female, president.Musar, who ran as an independent, replaces Borut Pahor, who held the...

Zurich (Switzerland): The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 has just crowned a new champion in Argentina (2nd, plus 1), but that has not stopped Brazil (1st, -) staying out front in the last FIFA/Cola-Cola World Ranking of the year. A...

Jerusalem: Israel's Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has succeeded in forming a new coalition government."I have managed (to form a government)," Netanyahu wrote on Twitter on Wednesday, minutes before a midnight deadline.In a separate statement, Netanyahu's right-wing...

Los Angeles: NASA's InSight lander has ended its mission after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars, NASA announced.Mission controllers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were unable to contact the lander after...

Tunis: Tunisia's Maritime Guard rescued about 1,200 irregular migrants off the country's eastern coast in the past 48 hours, Tunisian National Guard announced.The rescue operations took place during the two nights of Monday to Tuesday and Tuesday to Wednesday,...

Abuja: The death toll from a cholera outbreak that hit at least 10 villages in Nigeria's southern state of Cross River rose from 20 to 51 on Monday, a local traditional ruler said.The additional 31 victims died between Sunday...