Новости за 14.11.2020

Ma'a Nonu may be 38 years of age, but the ex-All Black centre showed glimpses of his former glittering past in an assured comeback for Toulon in their comprehensive 38-9 Top 14 victory over Agen on Saturday. More than 900 days since he last turned out for Toulon, the two-time World Cup winner, capped 103 times by New Zealand, again proved a menacing presence in midfield, against an Agen side that has now lost all nine games this season. Nonu bossed Toulon's effective defence, producing a couple of turnovers and a solid tackling display... Читать дальше...

Stormers fly-half Damian Willemse kicked 15 points and was yellow-carded in a surprisingly comfortable 30-13 win over Cheetahs Saturday in a South African Super Rugby Unlocked match. The 2019 Rugby World Cup winner converted the three tries scored by the Cape Town outfit, slotted two penalties and kicked a monster drop-goal at Newlands stadium. His drop-goal from close to the halfway line was the first of the competition and came in the 16th match and after 1,239 minutes of rugby. It gave... Читать дальше...

Italian Franco Morbidelli will start in pole position for the Valencia MotoGP, with Joan Mir's closest challengers for the World Championship unable to capitalise on the Spaniard's underwhelming performance in qualifying on Saturday. Morbidelli of Petronas Yamaha recorded the fastest qualifying time of 1min 30.191sec at the Ricardo Tormo circuit while Australian Jack Miller and Japan's Takaaki Nakagami joined him on the front row for Sunday's race. "We will have to see what the conditions will... Читать дальше...

Four Buffalo Bills players have been ruled out of the team's trip to face the Arizona Cardinals after cornerback Josh Norman tested positive for Covid-19, the NFL team said Saturday. A statement from the Bills said Norman had been placed on the reserve/Covid-19 list following the test and would not travel for Sunday's game against the 5-3 Cardinals. Three players deemed to have been in close contact with Norman -- tight end Tyler Kroft, cornerback Levi Wallace and safety Dean Marlowe -- have also... Читать дальше...

Lewis Hamilton described the Turkish Grand Prix track at Istanbul as "terrible" after his first qualifying flop of the year on Saturday as Racing Point's Lance Stroll, flourishing in the slippy conditions, secured a maiden career pole position. Defending six-time champion Hamilton, who bids to capture a record-equalling seventh world title in Sunday's race, was only sixth in qualifying with his teammate Valtteri Bottas in ninth. The Finn is the only driver who can stop the Briton taking the title again... Читать дальше...

Eddie Jones warned England to get ready for their "most important game of the year" against a "cock-a-hoop Ireland" after they started the Autumn Nations Cup with a 40-0 thrashing of Georgia at Twickenham on Saturday. Jamie George became the first England hooker to score a hat-trick of tries as the Six Nations champions pounded the Lelos into submission with repeated line-out drives. But only one of England's six tries at a rainswept Twickenham came from a sustained handling move, with wing Jonathan... Читать дальше...

The number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases and deaths in France rose sharply in the last 24 hours, according to French health ministry data published Saturday as a number of European countries announced new restrictions to stem a deadly second wave.

Scotland manager Steve Clarke says his players will start competing for places in his Euro 2020 squad when they face Slovakia in the Nations League on Sunday. The Scots reached their first major tournament for 22 years when they defeated Serbia in a nerve-jangling penalty shoot-out in Thursday's play-offs. Footage of Clarke's players drinking, singing, dancing and doing a conga emerged from Belgrade dressing room as they celebrated a famous success. But Clarke insisted they had now set aside that... Читать дальше...

Two decades since Burhan Yussef left the Um Raquba camp where he had sought refuge from devastating famine in his homeland of Ethiopia, the 77-year-old is returning. Yussef this week arrived in eastern Sudan, after fleeing Ethiopia's northern Tigray region for a second time to save his life, joining long columns of thousands of others to escape intense fighting, air-strikes, rocket attacks and artillery barrages. "Returning is not a good feeling," Yussef said. He trekked out of Ethiopia in plastic sandals and leaning on a stick for support... Читать дальше...

A swathe of new restrictions to curtail a second wave of coronavirus infections were announced or came into force from Austria to Greece, Italy to Portugal on Saturday as the global death toll climbed above 1.3 million. More than 53 million have been infected worldwide by Covid-19, which is running rampant throughout America and Europe, forcing governments to take more drastic action despite the potential economic devastation. Austria joined a growing trend announcing schools and non-essential shops would close from Tuesday... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump's supporters gathered in Washington on Saturday for a protest to back his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud as he pushes ahead with a flurry of longshot legal challenges to overturn Joe Biden's election victory.

Lance Stroll retained his maiden pole position after a stewards investigation into an incident in which he allegedly ignored yellow flags during Saturday's qualifying at the Turkish Grand Prix. The 22-year-old Canadian's success was placed in doubt when he was summoned to see the stewards as they investigated a series of infringements of the rules during the prolonged and chaotic rainswept session. Stroll was cleared after being investigated for failing to slow sufficiently for waved yellow flags. Читать дальше...

Jamie George became the first England hooker to score a hat-trick of tries in a Test as they opened their Autumn Nations Cup campaign with a comfortable 40-0 win over Georgia at Twickenham on Saturday. Six Nations champions England were out of sight at half-time, leading 26-0 after scoring four of their six tries. Jack Willis marked his Test debut with the opening try before George crossed twice and full-back Elliot Daly went over. The second half saw George complete his hat-trick before replacement scrum-half Dan Robson snuck over. Читать дальше...

Austria will introduce a national lockdown on Tuesday in a bid to bring its soaring coronavirus infections under control, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Saturday.

Republicans suffered setbacks to court challenges over the presidential election in three battleground states on Friday. That same day, the law firm Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, which has been in the limelight for its work for President Donald Trump’s campaign, withdrew from a major Pennsylvania case.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in France Saturday at the start of a seven-nation tour of Europe and the Middle East, a trip that is certain to be awkward since all the countries on his schedule have congratulated Joe Biden over his victory in the US presidential race while the top US diplomat has not accepted the poll results.

Six months before the Iranian presidential election, Joe Biden’s victory in the US could influence the vote in Iran, where hopes to resume negotiations on the nuclear deal have prompted enthusiasm from moderates and even some hardliners. However, analysts expect that any future talks would be vexed.

The pro-independence Polisario Front said Saturday that clashes are continuing in the disputed Western Sahara after the Moroccan army launched an operation in the buffer zone on its southern border. "Fighting is continuing after the crime committed by Moroccan troops in Guerguerat," senior Polisario official Mohamed Salem Ould Salek told AFP. The ceasefire supervised by the United Nations since 1991 is a "thing of the past", added Ould Salek, who serves as foreign minister of the Polisario-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). Читать дальше...

Five years after the Paris November 2015 terror attacks, Sarah Gensburger, researcher at the CNRS, analyses the different ways to commemorate.

Villagers outside of Nagorno-Karabakh set their houses on fire Saturday before fleeing to Armenia ahead of a weekend deadline that will see disputed territory handed over to Azerbaijan as part of a peace agreement. Residents of the Kalbajar district in Azerbaijan that was controlled by Armenian separatists for decades began a mass exodus this week after it was announced Azerbaijan would regain control on Sunday. Fighting between the separatists backed by Armenian troops and the Azerbaijan army... Читать дальше...

Lebanon started a new two-week lockdown Saturday after coronavirus infections crossed the 100,000 mark in a country where hospital capacity has become saturated. The capital's roads were largely empty and police checkpoints had been set up at several locations, while the seaside promenade often thronging on weekends was deserted, an AFP photographer said. The airport however remained open, as did essential businesses. Under the measures announced, during the day people were to stay home unless they were granted an exception... Читать дальше...

Switzerland, the country that banned motor racing for 60 years, will on Sunday witness its only Formula One team joining an elite club of the sport’s grandee outfits. The modest Swiss Sauber team will start its landmark 500th race at the Turkish Grand Prix – a feat achieved by only three other teams, led by Ferrari. The Hinwil-based team, founded by Peter Sauber as a sportscar outfit, entered F1 in 1993 and has raced since under various identities including BMW Sauber and, more recently, Alfa Romeo. Читать дальше...

Fear of the coronavirus, mixed with chronic pollution, has spoiled the party for hundreds of millions of Indians celebrating the biggest Hindu holiday of the year on Saturday. Diwali is meant to be the festival of light, but the pandemic has clouded the future for many in the country of 1.3 billion. The smog-shrouded capital New Delhi has banned firecrackers because of sky-high pollution levels and, while people still thronged markets, traders said Covid-19 had scared them off spending. With 8.7 million cases... Читать дальше...

Iran on Saturday dismissed a US newspaper report that Al-Qaeda's second-in-command was killed in Tehran by Israeli agents as "made-up information" and denied the presence of any of the Sunni jihadist group's members in the Islamic republic. The New York Times said Abdullah Ahmad Abdullah, indicted in the United States for 1998 bombings of its embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, was secretly shot and killed in Tehran by Israeli operatives on a motorcycle at Washington's behest. The senior Al-Qaeda leader... Читать дальше...

Greece announced on Saturday the closure of its primary schools, kindergartens and daycare centres amid a surge in coronavirus cases that has saturated the national health system. "The Greek government decided the suspension of the functioning of schools until November 30," said a statement from Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias. "Closing elementary schools was the last thing we wanted to do. This is a measure of how serious the situation is," he added. Secondary schools have already closed... Читать дальше...