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24.9.2017 11:38 am
Latvia’s Ostapenko wins Korea Open tennis
Top seed Jelena Ostapenko clinched victory at the Korea Open on Sunday, defeating Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia in a closely contested three-set final.
The 20-year-old French Open champion from Latvia rallied from a set down to beat the debutante finalist 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4, in a match that lasted two hours and 15 minutes.
Latvia’s Ostapenko wins Korea Open tennis
Top seed Jelena Ostapenko clinched victory at the Korea Open on Sunday, defeating Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia in a closely contested three-set final.
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Five days on, hopes fade in Mexico City quake rescue operations
Hopes of finding more survivors after Mexico City’s devastating quake dwindled to virtually nothing on Sunday, five days after the 7.1 tremor rocked the heart of the mega-city, toppling dozens of buildings and killing more than 300 people.
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Merkel heads for German poll win, hard-right AfD for first seats
Germans voted in a general election Sunday expected to hand Chancellor Angela Merkel a fourth term while the hard-right nationalist AfD party is tipped to make history by winning its first seats in the national parliament.
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Paris once again the world’s undisputed fashion capital
When Paris fashion week begins on Monday, it will do so in a city that is once again the undisputed fashion capital of the world.
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NBA, NFL hit back after Trump tirade
President Donald Trump triggered a backlash from the US professional sports world on Saturday after withdrawing a White House invitation to the NBA champion Golden State Warriors and condemning NFL players protesting the national anthem.
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New Zealand leaders line up to woo kingmaker Peters
Both of New Zealand’s major political parties moved to open coalition negotiations with maverick MP Winston Peters Sunday after the country’s general election stalemate left him in the position of kingmaker.
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UK restaurant jobs unfilled as EU workers leave
As EU nationals leave Britain in ever greater numbers ahead of Brexit, restaurants like pizzeria chain Franco Manca are reporting shortages that could spell trouble for a sector that relies on immigrant labour.
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Gang rape horrors haunt Rohingya refugees
Shamila clutches her daughter’s hand so tightly it turns white as she recounts how soldiers broke into her home in Myanmar and gang-raped her in front of her children — a story heard over and over in Bangladesh refugee camps.
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US warplanes fly off North Korea coast in new show of force
US bombers and fighter escorts flew off the coast of North Korea on Saturday in a show of force against its nuclear weapons program, escalating already sky-high tensions.
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Blaak turns Olympic disappointment into world cycling triumph
A year ago Chantal Blaak was digesting the biggest disappointment of her career as she was left out of the Dutch Olympic squad.
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Frida, the four-legged heroine of Mexico’s quake rescues
With protective goggles fitted under her furry ears and boots on all four paws, Frida wags her tail as she scales the mountains of rubble left by this week’s devastating earthquake in Mexico.
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Psychologists help Mexico deal with double trauma of quake
Whether wearing white lab coats, red rescue worker vests or dressed as clowns, the psychologists standing by as Mexico picks through the rubble of this week’s earthquakes are ready to help a shaken nation deal with its trauma.
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Trump casts doubt over Iran nuclear deal after missile test
President Donald Trump gave a stark warning Saturday that cast growing uncertainty over whether a nuclear deal clinched with Iran would survive after the Islamic republic tested a new medium-range missile.
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3.5-magnitude quake rattles N. Korea near nuclear test site
A shallow 3.5-magnitude earthquake which hit North Korea near the country’s nuclear test site Saturday was likely an aftershock from the hermit state’s missile test on September 3, a nuclear test ban watchdog and other experts said.
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French left stages street showdown with Macron
Firebrand French leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon on Saturday vowed a lengthy battle against the labour law changes pushed through by President Emmanuel Macron as a tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate.
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New 6.2-magnitude quake sows panic in Mexico City
A strong 6.2-magnitude quake shook Mexico on Saturday, causing panic in traumatized Mexico City, where rescuers trying to free people trapped from this week’s earlier earthquake had to suspend work.
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Puerto Rico rushes to evacuate thousands amid fears dam will burst
Authorities in Puerto Rico rushed Saturday to evacuate tens of thousands of people living downriver from a dam said to be in danger of collapsing because of flooding from Hurricane Maria.
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Draw dampens Bayern’s Oktoberfest visit
Bayern Munich were in dampened spirits during their visit to the Munich ‘Oktoberfest’ beer festival on Saturday, after a shock Bundesliga home draw to mid-table Wolfsburg.
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China experts say 3.4-magnitude quake hits North Korea in ‘explosion’
China’s seismic service CENC on Saturday detected a zero-depth, 3.4-magnitude earthquake in North Korea, calling it a “suspected explosion.”
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Fires rage in Rakhine as Myanmar army blames Rohingya for mosque blast
Myanmar’s army chief on Saturday blamed Rohinyga militants for an explosion outside a mosque in Rakhine state, as a rights group accused the military of starting fires in the region to prevent refugees from returning.
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Six parties set to clear the threshold to parliament in German elections
The number of parties in the Bundestag could grow to six for the first time since 1949.
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Petrol prices pumped up in Pyongyang
Petrol prices are being pumped higher in Pyongyang in the wake of United Nations sanctions restricting exports of oil products to nuclear-armed North Korea.
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North Korea ‘more opaque’ after YouTube propaganda ban: monitors
North Korea has become “more opaque” to the outside world following a decision by YouTube to silence an official propaganda channel, a monitoring group has warned, as new sanctions over Pyongyang’s nuclear programme begin to bite.
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Polls close in New Zealand’s cliffhanger election
Voting has closed in New Zealand’s general election Saturday where pre-election polls indicated it was too close to call between the centre-right National Party of Prime Minister Bill English and the centre-left Labour Party of Jacinda Ardern.
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Mexico rescuers mounts last-ditch search for quake survivors
Mexican rescuers were working through the early hours Saturday in a desperate search for survivors of an earthquake that killed nearly 300 people, hoping to defy experts who say the chances of finding life in the rubble after 72 hours are bleak.
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North Korea triggers 2018 Winter Olympics security scare
Austria and Germany joined France on Friday in raising the spectre of staying away from the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea amid security fears over nuclear-armed North Korea.
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