Phillies defeat White Sox 7-0 to extend their winning streak to four PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Spencer Turnbull carried a no-hit bid into the seventh inning, Alex Bohm hit a pair of three-run homers and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago White Sox 7-0 on Friday night ... 04/19/2024 - 4:04 pm | View Link
BenFred: Being more like Whitey Herzog would be great way to honor Cardinals legend's legacy Below Busch Stadium’s batter’s eye, a ring of cream roses adorned with a red ribbon paid tribute to Hall of Famer and World Series champion manager Whitey Herzog on Friday, before the Cardinals played ... 04/19/2024 - 1:12 pm | View Link
Red Sox bring rested bullpen into series finale vs. Guardians The Boston Red Sox will enter their Thursday afternoon game against the visiting Cleveland Guardians with a rested bullpen. Tanner Houck made sure of that. 04/17/2024 - 7:38 pm | View Link
Chicago baseball report: Adbert Alzolay’s bounce-back outing for Cubs — and Michael Kopech leaves White Sox teammates speechless The Chicago Cubs should have kicked off their nine-game West Coast trip with a series win in San Diego, yet Monday’s awful loss instead sent them into Thursday’s off day looking to regroup after ... 04/12/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
No relief for Red Sox as bullpen blows five-run lead in loss to Orioles The Sox had a comfortable 5-0 lead after Triston Casas tagged a two-run homer in the fifth, but everything quickly unraveled when Kutter Crawford exited after the inning. 04/10/2024 - 2:59 pm | View Link
Decorated Chinese athlete He Jie had been stripped of his Beijing half-marathon win Friday after an investigation found that the three African runners who competed alongside him had “actively slowed down” to let him cross the finish line first during the race on Sunday, April 14.
He won the 21 km.
ISLAMABAD — An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying on Friday that it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression.
The ban on X has been in place since February, when the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a nationwide protest against alleged election rigging ahead of the Feb.
BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U. S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time hosting the beloved animals long-term—the result of a yearlong advocacy campaign, Breed said.
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San Diego previously announced it was receiving two pandas back in February.
China is home to the only natural habitat for pandas and owns most of the black-and-white bears in the world.
Earlier this month, two Indian writers published an ode to their Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Written in lyric form and titled “Forever In Our Hearts,” it recounts his achievements while singing his praises in highly effusive language. “With courage and wisdom/you show citizens the way,” it gushes. “Oh Modi, oh Modi/their hopes never sway/A people’s beacon, in whom they see light/Oh Modi, oh Modi, guiding day and night.”
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Such reverence captures the essence of Modi’s popularity.
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.