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Football
Soccer-England cruise past hosts Greece 3-0 to go top of Nations League group
ATHENS (Reuters) -England eased past hosts Greece 3-0 in their Nations League match on Thursday to go top of their Group B2 and head into their last matchday against Ireland playing for promotion.
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Football
Soccer-Five more countries book places at Cup of Nations finals
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Gabon, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda all booked spots at the next Africa Cup of Nations finals on Thursday, some without even playing in the latest qualifiers.
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World
Egypt signs 2 MoUs for producing 5,200 MW of electricity from new, renewable resources
CAIRO, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Egypt signed on Thursday two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) for producing 5,200 megawatts of electricity from new and renewable energy sources, according to a statement from the cabinet.
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World
Malta gets Sicily's green light for second interconnector project
VALLETTA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The regional authority of Sicily, Italy has given its go-ahead for Malta to develop its second interconnector (IC2), according to Interconnect Malta, the consortium tasked with the IC2 project.
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World
Russian drone attack kills one, damages energy installations in Ukraine's Odesa
(Reuters) -Russian drones struck a residential building and energy installations on Thursday evening in and near Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa, killing one person, injuring at least two and knocking out a boiler plant used for heating, the regional governor said.
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World
Ford fined with U.S. second-largest penalty in history for delaying recalls
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. auto-safety regulators on Thursday hit Ford Motor with a hefty civil fine of 165 million U.S. dollars for delaying the recall of more than 600,000 vehicles with defective rearview cameras.
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World
QatarEnergy signs 10-yr sulfur deal with Morocco's soil nutrition solutions company
DOHA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- QatarEnergy signed on Thursday with OCP Nutricrops, a Moroccan company specializing in soil nutrition solutions, a 10-year sulfur supply agreement.
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World
Mexico's Sinaloa state probing killing of 14 people, prosecutors say
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The prosecutor's office of Mexico's Sinaloa state is investigating the killing of some 14 people, whose bodies were found around the city of Culiacan, it said in a statement on Thursday.
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World
U.S. Florida schools pulled hundreds of books last year
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- School districts in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida axed about 700 books from school libraries in the 2023-2024 school year, according to a Florida Department of Education list.
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World
Nicaragua expels lead bishop in crackdown on Catholic Church
(Reuters) - Nicaragua has expelled Bishop Carlos Herrera, the head of the country's episcopal conference, a lawyer tied to the Catholic Church told Reuters on Thursday, amid an extended state crackdown targeting the Church.
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World
U.S. dollar ticks up
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar advanced in late trading on Thursday.
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World
Nigeria reports 15,000 AIDS-related deaths annually: official
ABUJA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria records at least 15,000 deaths related to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) every year despite efforts by the government to curb the spread of the deadly disease in the most populous African country, a local official said Thursday.
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World
Austrian prosecutors ask parliament to lift far-right leader's immunity
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian prosecutors have asked parliament to lift far-right leader Herbert Kickl's immunity over an allegation that he committed perjury testifying to a parliamentary committee, the office of the lower house's speaker confirmed on Thursday.
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World
UN expert alarmed over allegations Ecuador ex-VP Jorge Glas tortured
QUITO (Reuters) - United Nations special rapporteur for torture Alice Edwards said on Thursday she is alarmed over allegations that Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas was suffering torture while detained at the Andean country's La Roca prison.
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World
Slovenia prolongs electricity price cap till end of February
LJUBLJANA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Slovenian government announced on Thursday that electricity prices for households will remain capped until the end of February 2025.
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Rugby
Rugby-Italy's Capuozzo and Cannone ruled out of clash with Georgia
(Reuters) - Fullback Ange Capuozzo and number 8 Lorenzo Cannone have both been ruled out of Italy's match against Georgia this weekend, the Italian Rugby Federation said on Thursday.
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World
EU to assess Booking's compliance with DMA
BRUSSELS, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission announced on Thursday that it will evaluate whether Booking Holdings, which operates the online platform Booking.com for short-term real estate rentals, complies with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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World
Over 520 mln euros seized in VAT fraud clampdown in Italy, Europe
ROME, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Assets worth 520 million euros (550 million U.S. dollars) have been seized during a cross-border operation launched by Italian magistrates in coordination with the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO).
