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France fighting Islamist extremism, not Islam: Macron

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ French President Emmanuel Macron has said his country is fighting “Islamist separatism, never Islam”, responding to a Financial Times article that he claimed misquoted him and has since been removed from the newspaper’s website. In a letter to the editor published on Wednesday, Macron said the British paper had accused him of “stigmatising French Muslims for electoral purposes and of fostering a climate of fear and suspicion towards them”. “I will not allow anybody to claim that France, or its government, is fostering racism against Muslims,” he said. An…

Ali Khan to skipper Maq Stars

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MARGATE/FL – USA: American star cricketer Ali Khan will be playing in the USA Nationals Maq T10 tournament and will captain the Maq Stars cricket team. This was revealed by the chairman and CEO of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) Muhammad Qureshi while speaking on MaqTv on Tuesday. According to Qureshi: “It is great that Ali Khan and Saad Zafar will be playing at the USA National Maq T10 tournament as it will lend so much.” Ali Khan who played for the Trinbago Knight Riders in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL)…

Shane Watson quits all forms of cricket

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COURTESY BY: https://www.cricingif.com/ Australian all-rounder Shane Watson retired from all forms of cricket on Tuesday, drawing the curtain on an injury-plagued career which he managed to extend by reinventing himself as a journeyman Twenty20 specialist. Watson ended his Test career in 2015 and quit international cricket the next year, surrendering in his battle against a litany of injuries that bedevilled his career. He quit Big Bash League last year but played this year’s Indian Premier League where his team Chennai Super Kings failed to make the playoff. “It really does…

Searches For Joe Biden Surpass Donald Trump, Google Trends

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ As online interest in both presidential candidates increases going into Election Day, the number of searches for Joe Biden surpasses those for Donald Trump. Google Trends reports that 50 percent of candidate searches are for the Democrat, with 44 percent for the Republican. Jo Jorgensen, Libertarian candidate is the subject of 5% of searches while 1% is for the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins. Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton never ranked higher than Trump in Google searches during 2016, after Trump became the Republican Party’s nominee. Earlier, Trump led…

US Election 2020: Trump Predicts ‘Beautiful Victory’

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that he will enjoy another victory in the election. He predicted a “beautiful victory” in his final re-election campaign stop hours before the main voting. “We’re going to have another beautiful victory tomorrow,” he told a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the same place where he held the climactic rally of his 2016 campaign when he upset the polls to beat Hillary Clinton. “We’re going to make history once again,” he said. US Election 2020 has begun. Voters in New Hampshire at the…

Turkey pulls 2 girls out of rubble three days after quake; death toll rises to 85

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ In what one rescue worker called a miracle, extraction teams brought two girls out alive on Monday from the wreckage of their collapsed apartment buildings in the Turkish city of Izmir, three days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece. Onlookers applauded in joy and relief as ambulances carrying the girls rushed to hospitals immediately after their rescues. The overall death toll in Friday’s quake reached 85 after teams found more bodies overnight amid toppled buildings in Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city. Close to 1,000 people were injured,…

Free speech has limits, Canada’s Trudeau says

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COURTESY BY: https://www.dawn.com/ Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free speech on Friday, but added that it was “not without limits” and should not “arbitrarily and needlessly hurt” certain communities. “We will always defend freedom of expression,” Trudeau said in response to a question about the right to show caricatures deemed blasphemous, as France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine did. “But freedom of expression is not without limits,” he added. “We owe it to ourselves to act with respect for others and to seek not to arbitrarily or unnecessarily injure those with…

USA National MaqT10 Nov 14

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MARGATE/FL – USA: The popular USA National Championships Maq T10 will bowl off on November 14. This is the news coming out of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA) headquarters at Margate in Florida.  The popular T10 tournament has been around for the past three years and, is now a fixture on the US cricket landscape. The first match of the tournament will see Maq All Stars against Global Warrior All Stars at Maq Cricket Stadium in Delray Beach on November 14 at 9.30 am. Two hours later Stars will come up…

Ali Khan to feature at US Open T20

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MARGATE/FL – USA: American cricket’s poster boy Muhammad Ali Khan is to feature at the US Open T20 tournament which will be played at the Central Broward Regional Park in Fort Lauderdale from December 15. Information reaching 925 News is that the Kolkata Knight Riders player will be lining up with the US All Stars/Falcons/Multan team at the cash-rich tournament. Khan has had a series of injuries which has affected him during the Caribbean Premier League and also the Indian Premier League. He left Abu Dhabi recently after he got…

Teams vie for $25K in Chicago Cup

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MARGATE/FL – USA: The 2021 Chicago Cup will carry a winning purse of $25,000 and will be played on July 4. The tournament which will be hosted by Midwest Cricket Conference is under the umbrella of Cricket Council USA (CCUSA). Interested teams can go to www.cricketerbook.com and register for this tournament or they can contact the president of Midwest Cricket Conference Shiraz Najam. Speaking about this tournament the chairman of CCUSA Mahammad Qureshi said: “We are all looking forward to this tournament and, we hope that by the time the tournament rolls…