October 2, 2023
Rogers, Arkansas – Japanese rookie Yuna Nishimura achieved her best LPGA result Sunday at the NW Arkansas Championship, finishing four strokes behind winner Ryu Hae Ran of South Korea in a tie for third. Nishimura carded a 3-under 68 with three birdies and no bogeys to finish at 15-under 198 in the 54-hole event at
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Key Points Slovakia’s SMER-SSD party scored almost 23 per cent of votes in Saturday’s parliamentary poll. Its pro-Russian leader Robert Fico has been given the green light to begin coalition talks. He hopes to make Slovakia the second EU nation that stops providing aid towards Ukraine. Slovakia’s pro-Russian and anti-liberal election winner Robert Fico was
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Your humble blogger had intended to write a longer post about the gradually emerging contours of the Ukraine endgame tomorrow. But the dramatic outcome of Republican dissidents successfully standing firm on the issue of not authorizing any funding Ukraine in the shutdown game of chicken is a huge blow for the Ukraines’s prospects for future
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Populist former prime minister Robert Fico and his leftist, pro-Russian Smer party have won early parliamentary elections in Slovakia. ADVERTISEMENT The party and its leader have staged a political comeback after campaigning on a pro-Russian and anti-American message, according to complete results announced on Sunday. It gained 22.9% of the votes, or 42 seats in
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WASHINGTON — The battle for working-class voters is on, and it could well decide the outcome of the 2024 election. Last week, President Biden and former President Trump hustled up to Michigan, where the United Auto Workers have gone on strike amid contract negotiations with GM, Ford and Stellantis, the company formerly known as Chrysler. Biden
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Slow Down Andy, who has always been close but never won a Grade 1 race, checked off that box with a win in Saturday’s Grade 1 $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita. The win gives him a free pass into the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 4 at the same track. The 4-year-old colt’s
READ MORETop-seeded Ons Jabeur won her fifth career title at the Ningbo Open with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over teenager Diana Shnaider on Saturday. The seventh-ranked Jabeur, a three-time Grand Slam finalist, saved her best performance of the tournament for the final and raced to victory in 78 minutes. The Tunisian had 18 winners to only
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PARIS: Airbus said on Friday that it had secured an order for 32 A320neo planes from Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, as the airline expands its flights to the Chinese mainland and elsewhere in Asia. Financial details of the sale were not disclosed, though at current list prices the deal would be worth $3.2 to $4.1
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The charity is believed to have saved 40,000 lives since 2015. ADVERTISEMENT A charity that’s been dedicated to saving those in peril on the sea since 2015 has won a 2023 Right Livelihood Award, dubbed an alternative Nobel Prize. SOS Méditerranée has saved the lives of 40,000 migrants attempting the perilous crossing from north Africa
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Newcastle Knights star Kalyn Ponga has won the 2023 Dally M Medal in a shock upset. Ponga wasn’t even on the leaderboard when votes went behind closed doors in round 12, but he came from the clouds to steal the top gong from New Zealand Warriors playmaker Shaun Johnson. Watch The NRL Women’s Premiership Grand
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