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Kyrgios, who is currently 671st in the men’s rankings, beat the four-time Grand Slam singles champion in straight sets.Published On 28 Dec 202528 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareNick Kyrgios has beaten women’s world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the “Battle of the Sexes”, a highly-publicised showdown with modified rules that divided tennis fans.Former Wimbledon finalist Kyrgios won 6-3, 6-3 in an exhibition match in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday that bore little resemblance to the era-defining 1973 encounter between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBack then, there was more…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the United States to meet with President Donald Trump as regional turmoil approaches a boiling point amid Israel’s attacks in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria and mounting tensions with Iran.Netanyahu is to hold talks with Trump at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday as Washington pushes to complete the first phase of the Gaza truce.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe visit comes as the US continues to pursue its 20-point “peace plan” in the Palestinian enclave despite near-daily Israeli violations of the truce.Israel is also escalating attacks in the occupied…

The Balkan nation votes again as PM Albin Kurti seeks majority to break the stalemate and form a government.Published On 28 Dec 202528 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareKosovo is voting to elect a new parliament for the second time in 11 months, as nationalist Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s party seeks a majority to end a yearlong political deadlock.Polls opened at 7am local time (06:00 GMT) and will close at 7pm (18:00 GMT) on Sunday, with exit polls expected soon after voting ‌ends.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe snap parliamentary vote was called after Prime Minister…

Polls have opened in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in a 2021 coup.The heavily restricted election on Sunday is taking place in about 102 of the Southeast Asian nation’s 330 townships, with a civil war raging between the military and an array of opposition forces and as ethnic armed groups.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listFollowing the initial phase, two rounds of voting will be held on January 11 and January 25, while voting has been cancelled altogether in 65 townships.In Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, polling stations opened…

The US president says air strikes are against ISIL, claiming the group targets Christians.“More to come”: Those are the words of United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after his country carried out a wave of air strikes against ISIL (ISIS) in northwestern Nigeria.Hegseth said the aim is to stop the group’s killing of what he called “innocent Christians”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBack in November, President Donald Trump warned the US would take action against the group if the Nigerian government continued to allow what he claimed was the targeting of Christians.Many say Trump was pressured by his…

Incursion follows Israeli defence minister’s order for military to ‘act forcefully’ against the Palestinian town.Published On 27 Dec 202527 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareIsraeli forces have carried out mass arrests and forced dozens of families from their homes in the town of Qabatiya in the occupied West Bank, on the second day of a sweeping military operation ordered by Israel’s defence minister.Israeli forces sealed off entrances to Qabatiya while rounding up and interrogating dozens of residents on Saturday, local sources told Al Jazeera. They converted several homes into military interrogation centres, displacing their occupants, according to the…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appeals for immediate truce as fighting intensifies in Darfur and Kordofan regions.United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan’s brutal civil war, which the UN says has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.Guterres’s appeal, made late on Friday, follows a peace initiative presented by Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris to the UN Security Council on Monday, which called for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to disarm.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe plan was rejected by the RSF as “wishful thinking”.The war erupted in April 2023 when a power…

North Korean, Russian leaders send New Year’s greetings hailing their ‘precious’ shared experience of ‘blood, life and death’ in Ukraine war.Published On 27 Dec 202527 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that his country’s ties with Russia had been strengthened through “sharing blood, life and death in the same trench” in the Ukraine war, as he sent a New Year’s greeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin.Kim’s message followed President Putin’s own New Year’s greeting to the North Korean leader on December 18, which praised the “heroic” role played by Pyongyang’s troops in…

Washington’s top diplomat says he thanked Asfura, who was backed by Trump, for ‘advocacy of US strategic objectives’.Published On 26 Dec 202526 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareUnited States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has congratulated Honduran President-elect Nasry Asfura, whom President Donald Trump had endorsed, for his victory in the Central American country’s contentious election.The Department of State said on Friday that Rubio and Asfura in a phone call discussed collaboration on issues such as trade and security.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“Secretary Rubio commended President-Elect Asfura for his advocacy of US strategic objectives, including…

Suspect is in police custody; no information about potential motive.Published On 26 Dec 202526 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareA man has carried out a mass stabbing attack at a Japanese tyre factory, also spraying victims with a chemical substance, according to local officials.Eight people were stabbed and seven others were injured after being sprayed by a bleach-like agent at the Yokohama Rubber Co tyremaker in Japan’s Mishima, southwest of Tokyo, on Friday, said the Fujisan Nanto Fire Department.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listJapanese media named the suspect as a 38-year-old who is now in custody.…