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Scotland needed victory to secure second place in qualifying Group F, with the understanding rivals Slovakia would beat Malta. But a Roman Bezjak header cancelled out Leigh Griffiths’ opener before the Rijeka loanee scored again to end Gordon Strachan’s hopes of securing a playoff spot. Robert Snodgrass scored at the death but it wasn’t enough. […]
Kansas City’s Alex Gordon broke Major League Baseball’s season home run record with 12 days to spare, hitting the 5,694th long ball of 2017 on Tuesday night. Gordon’s home run off Toronto’s Ryan Tepera broke a mark set in 2000 at the height of the Steroids Era. The drive, which drove in the last run […]
Published time: 20 Aug, 2017 00:39 Edited time: 20 Aug, 2017 01:06 Iraq’s military have launched an operation to liberate the city of Tal Afar, some 80 kilometers west of Mosul, from Islamic State terrorists, the country’s prime minister has announced. “You either surrender, or die,” PM Haider al-Abadi said in a televised address, as […]
The head of the Libyan National Army, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, has told RT he is seeking Moscow’s support in lifting the “unfair” UN arms embargo in order to procure Russian weaponry to battle terrorism, human trafficking and to fully restore Libya’s sovereignty and statehood. In February 2011, in the wake of the Western-backed uprising […]
Thomson Reuters US-backed forces got ISIS fighters to surrender a Syrian town near Raqqa, and, surprisingly, it’s not the first time. The Syrian Arab Coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces “completed the liberation of the Tabqah Dam, as well as the city of Tabqah and its nearby airfield,” on Wednesday, according to a US Central Command […]
