Day: 4 July 2018

Sevilla and Manchester United Each Tie a New Goalkeeper

4Jul

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Sevilla and Manchester United Each Tie a New Goalkeeper

Top clubs Sevilla and Manchester United have both secured the services of a new goalkeeper. Sevilla contracted the Czech goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik (FC Basel) for three seasons, Manchester United picked the 35-year-old Lee Grant away from the relegated Stoke City. The 29-year-old Vaclik, a twenty-time Czech international, stood 169 times in the last four seasons at FC Basel. Previously, he also defended the colours of Viktoria Zizkov (2010-2012) and Sparta Prague (2012-2014) in his own country. Three Swiss titles and one cup are on his list of achievements. Last season he achieved the eighth-finals of the Champions League with Basel surprisingly. At Sevilla, the previous season disappointing seventh in Spain, he will compete in goal with Sergio Rico. Manchester United had Lee Grant sign ...

Rain for Ruben Bemelmans at Wimbledon: Fifth Set is on Thursday

4Jul

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

News, Sports

Rain for Ruben Bemelmans at Wimbledon: Fifth Set is on Thursday

Rain for Ruben Bemelmans at Wimbledon: Fifth Set is on Thursday. The match between Ruben Bemelmans (ATP 104) and the American John Isner (ATP 10) in the second round of Wimbledon was interrupted by rain on Wednesday-evening in the fifth set. The party will resume on Thursday. The set positions were 1-6, 4-6, 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (7/3) and 4-3. Bemelmans had to acknowledge his multiple in Isner in the first set (6-1). In the second set, he bobbed fiercely, but the American still pulled the most extended end (6-4). Set three was the good one for Bemelmans, who won after a tiebreak (7-6 (8/6)). The Belgian pulled that line in the fourth set (7-6 (7/3)) and was also in the fifth with 4-3 in the lead when rain stopped the match. The battle will resume on Thursday, says GOK News. In the th...

Kuipers Leads Duel between England and Sweden

4Jul

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

International, News, Sports

Kuipers Leads Duel between England and Sweden

Kuipers Leads Duel between England and Sweden. The arbitration team of referee Björn Kuipers has been awarded the match between Sweden and England at the World Championships in Russia. The game in the quarter-finals takes place Saturday in Samara and starts at 16.00, posted by the Planet Blog. For Kuipers and co it is the fourth appointment at this World Cup. Earlier, the Dutch corps was in charge of the matches Russia - Spain (eighth finals), Egypt - Uruguay and Brazil - Costa Rica (two group matches). Kuipers (45) was also still active as the fourth official in the group match Argentina and Nigeria. Danny Makkelie is the regular video referee at Team Kuipers. The Argentinian Néstor Pitana flute Friday-afternoon France-Uruguay. The duel between Brazil and Belgium later that da...

Angela Merkel Warns Against The Outbreak Of Real Trade War

4Jul

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Business, China, Germany, International, News, US

Angela Merkel Warns Against The Outbreak Of Real Trade War

Angela Merkel warns Against the Outbreak of real Trade War. German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that a "real trade war" will arise if the US introduces additional import tariffs on European cars, reports The Greater. The German Chancellor does not yet want to speak of a "trade war", but calls it a "trade conflict", German media write Wednesday. "It is worth every effort to ensure that this dispute does not turn into a real war," said Merkel on Wednesday in the German Bundestag. The import tariffs on European cars are, according to her, "much more serious" than the previously added tax on imports of European steel and aluminium. According to the German Chancellor, the financial crisis shows that cooperation works better than unilateral measures. "The international financial c...

Business Activity in the British Services Sector is Increasing

4Jul

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Business, Local, News, US

Business Activity in the British Services Sector is Increasing

Business Activity in the British Services Sector is Increasing. The activity in the British services sector grew at a faster pace in June, reports Press Cube. This appeared Wednesday from the purchasing managers index of IHS Markit and CIPS. The index rose from 54.0 in May to 55.1 in June, the most substantial increase since October 2017. A decrease was expected to 53.5. Previously, the purchasing managers' index for British industry remained stable in June compared to May. An index of more than 50 indicates that there is growth, while a figure below 50 means that the industry is shrinking.

Two People Poisoned: British Anti-Terror Police Takes Over Research

4Jul

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Local, News, UK

Two People Poisoned: British Anti-Terror Police Takes Over Research

Two People Poisoned: British Anti-Terror Police Takes Over Research. In the English county of Wiltshire, two people were admitted to the hospital on Saturday night after being revealed to an "unknown substance" in Amesbury, more than ten kilometres north of Salisbury. In that city, on 4 March the former Russian double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Joelia were poisoned. On Tuesday afternoon it became known that the anti-terror units of the police had taken over the investigation. Experts in chemical weapons examine samples of the "unknown substance". The two patients, a man and a woman around the age of 40, were found unconscious in their home. They are being cared for in the Salisbury hospital, their situation is worrying, according to a spokesperson for the police, says th...

Turkish President Erdogan Re-Elected with 52.6 Percent Votes

4Jul

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Asia, International, News, Politics, Turkey

Turkish President Erdogan Re-Elected with 52.6 Percent Votes

Turkish President Erdogan Re-Elected with 52.6 Percent Votes. In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected with a total of 52.59 per cent of votes in the elections on 24 June. This is evident from the final results published today by the High Electoral Council (YSK). The candidate of the largest opposition party CHP ended with 30.64 percent in second place. The third was Selahattin Demirtas of the pro-Kurdish party HDP (Democratic Party of Peoples), with 8.4 percent of the votes behind his name, posts MAG Mania. The Electoral Commission also published the results of the parliamentary elections. Erdogan's conservative Islamic party AKP (Party of Justice and Development) won 295 seats in parliament, just not a majority. The AKP, however, forms an alliance with the extr...

Trump puts NATO Under Pressure Over Defence Budget

4Jul

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Europe, International, News, Politics, US

Trump puts NATO Under Pressure Over Defence Budget

Trump puts NATO Under Pressure Over Defence Budget. US President Donald Trump is putting NATO countries under pressure to spend more money on defence, writes Hope News. At the NATO summit, next week in Brussels, he will tell the participating nations that the United States is not the "biggest piggy bank in the world", his spokesperson said. Yesterday, it was already known through The New York Times that Trump sent several NATO countries, including the Netherlands, a firm letter urging the countries to increase their defence spending to 2 percent of the gross domestic product, as agreed in 2014. In the letter, Trump would implicitly threaten with a reduced US military presence in Europe. Just last week it became known that the Pentagon is investigating the reduction of American ...

Malaysian Ex-Prime Minister Sued in Corruption Case

4Jul

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Asia, International, News, Politics

Malaysian Ex-Prime Minister Sued in Corruption Case

Malaysian Ex-Prime Minister Sued in Corruption Case. In Malaysia, former Prime Minister Najib Razak has been formally charged with a large-scale corruption case, published by Express Paper. Najib, who was head of government from 2009 to 2018, is accused of eclipsing about $ 4.5 billion from the 1MDB government investment fund, of which nearly $ 700 million would have gone to his bank account. Najib had to appear before the court in Kuala Lumpur. He charged him three times with abuse of trust and one charge of abuse of power. For each of the charges a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison applies. His lawyer condemns the court's decision as "political revenge". The 64-year-old Najib surprisingly lost on 9 May the elections of his former mentor and former prime minister (1981-2003...