Новости за 25.12.2022

The 28-year-old swept to a maiden triumph at the majors at Brookline in June when he edged Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris by just one shot. "It was 10 million times better than I thought it would feel after winning a major. It was so incredibly rewarding," Fitzpatrick told the BBC in a Christmas review. However, he admitted to enduring mixed feelings in the aftermath of his breakthrough win. "It's very weird. I've done it and it's like 'perfect let's go and try and win more'... Читать дальше...

Thousands rallied on Sunday in Azerbaijan, in the Nagorno-Karabakh region's largest city Stepanakert, to protest the blockade of the only land link to Armenia, an AFP journalist saw.

Millions of people hunkered down in a deep freeze overnight and early morning to ride out the frigid storm that has killed at least 20 people across the United States, trapping some residents inside homes with heaping snow drifts and knocking out power to several hundred thousand homes and businesses.

King Charles III has hailed the "heartfelt solidarity" of people across the recession-hit UK struggling with a worsening cost of living crisis, in his first Christmas Day message as monarch.

Stepanakert's main Renaissance Square was flooded with protesters on Sunday, with a giant Armenian flag hoisted above the crowd. Armenia and Azerbaijan, who went to war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in autumn 2020, have recently argued over the Lachin corridor. For nearly two weeks Azerbaijani activists have blocked the corridor, the only land link to Armenia, to protest what they claim is illegal mining. Yerevan has accused Baku of staging demonstrations and creating a humanitarian crisis in the mountainous enclave. Читать дальше...

The 25 men from Egypt, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan had sought asylum in Tunisia after fleeing violence in neighbouring Libya in 2011, but their requests were denied, said Romdhane Ben Amor of the Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights (FTDES). He said their repatriation would "put their lives at risk". The Tunisian cabinet approved on Friday the expulsion "as soon as possible of a group of migrants residing illegally in Tunisia", the government said in a statement. Since 2017, the migrants have been living in a youth centre in Marsa... Читать дальше...

Three foreign aid groups, including Save the Children, announced on Sunday they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban ordered all NGOs to stop their women staff from working.

"For the players who played at the World Cup it's a big effort because they have never stopped and only now after one week, 10 days," he said in a preview posted on the club website. "I think that it is different for the players that played in the World Cup." He said he would give a chance to those who had to stay behind and train. "For the players who worked in these four weeks, for sure it is a new start, a fresh start like pre-season." Tottenham had players representing Wales, Uruguay and Denmark... Читать дальше...

Every year in France as elsewhere, people excitedly prepare well in advance for the Christmas and New Year’s festivities. As early as November, the avenues get all dressed up in tinsel and garlands of lights, and the streets are packed with holiday shoppers.

A French man suspected of shooting dead three Kurdish people in central Paris has confessed to a “pathological” hatred of foreigners, the Paris prosecutor said Sunday, a day after the suspect was transferred to a psychiatric unit.

The pick of the trio appears to be Bravemansgame, a course and distance winner at the meeting last year, who underlined his prospects with a winning comeback at Wetherby in October. The chosen mount of stable jockey Harry Cobden, Bravemansgame has headed the ante-post betting in the run up to the Grade 1 feature with Nicholls reporting: "We've kept him for this race, He won at this track last year and seems progressive. I'm very happy with him." The younger and improving Hitman and Frodon, who struck two years ago ridden by Bryony Frost... Читать дальше...

India needed just 145 to win the match and the series 2-0 but the visitors in the end won by only three wickets in a nail-biting morning's play on day four in Dhaka. Bangladesh overcame India in the preceding 50-over series but have never beaten them in a Test. India had won 10 of the teams' previous 12 Tests, including five victories by an innings. India won the first Test comfortably by 188 runs in Chittagong and were widely expected to romp home in the second game, cementing their position in... Читать дальше...

At least 17 weather-related deaths have been confirmed across eight states as heavy snow, howling winds and dangerously frigid temperatures kept much of the nation, including the normally temperate south, in a frozen grip for a third straight day. In hard-hit New York state, Governor Kathy Hochul deployed the National Guard to Erie County and its main city Buffalo, where authorities said emergency services have essentially collapsed in the face of extreme blizzard conditions. The National Weather... Читать дальше...