INDIANAPOLIS – Philadelphia made all the right calls Monday night. In the end, Andrew Luck and the Colts made too many mistakes. The Eagles turned two second-half turnovers, including an inexplicable late interception of Luck, into 14 points and eventually made a 36-yard field goal as time expired to beat …
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Kannapolis, NC (SportsNetwork.com) – Tony Stewart has made the decision not to compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event this weekend at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn. Stewart, who struck and killed a fellow competitor walking on the dirt track during a caution in a sprint car race on …
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OAKVILLE, Ontario – Golf Canada said Thursday that the Canadian Open will return to Glen Abbey next year, marking the 27th time the national championship will be played at the Jack Nicklaus-designed course in Oakville. Brandt Snedeker won last year at Glen Abbey. The PGA Tour event will be played …
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ISTANBUL – A Turkish television station says it has obtained video showing three missing British teenagers at an Istanbul bus terminal before they boarded a bus to a city near Turkey’s border with Syria. A Haber news, which has close ties to the government, released the footage, which it says …
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia’s U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has indicted two more suspects, risking a confrontation with the country’s prime minister, who has warned against adding new defendants. The tribunal announced Tuesday that former Khmer Rouge navy chief Meas Muth and former district commander Im Chaem have been charged …
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KIEV, Ukraine – Authorities in Ukraine say the sole witness in the killing in Moscow of prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov has received death threats since returning to her family home in Ukraine. The General Prosecutor’s office in Kiev said in a statement Friday that Anna Duritskaya, the 23-year …
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STOCKHOLM – Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom says Saudi Arabia has blocked her from speaking to an Arab League meeting in Cairo. Wallstrom was invited to address the meeting on Monday but told Sweden’s public radio her speech was canceled because of Saudi protests. She said “they have reacted strongly …
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NAIROBI, Kenya – A Kenyan official says a drone strike in Somalia is believed to have killed a senior member of the al-Shabab extremist group who allegedly helped plan the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi. The official said Thursday that Adan Garar and two others are suspected to have …
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VIENNA – A spokeswoman for Austrian Airlines says the carrier has aborted a flight to the northern Iraqi city of Irbil and canceled another over security concerns. Kurdish fighters are battling IS extremists in the region. Sandra Bijelic says Monday’s flight was canceled “to be on the safe side” after …
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BEIRUT – The main Western-backed Syrian opposition group is calling on the United Nations to send a fact-finding mission to investigate an alleged poison gas attack on a rebel-held town. The Syrian National Coalition and activists inside Syria say the government carried out a chlorine gas attack on the town …
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