The Kansas City Chiefs were huge favorites Christmas Day, but the games aren’t played on paper. The Las Vegas Raiders visited Arrowhead and pulled off a huge upset, taking down the Chiefs, 20-14. Travis Kelce was not pleased with the performance, saying his team “played Santa” and gave the Raiders …
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Somalia’s president on Tuesday rejected an agreement signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland to give landlocked Ethiopia access to its coast, calling it a violation of international law. “We will not stand idly by and watch our sovereignty being compromised,” President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told a joint …
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry says it’s “very concerned” by claims that Australian officials paid the crew of a migrant boat to return to Indonesian waters. Police in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province say the boat’s captain and five crew members detained on remote Rote island claim they were …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have opened fire at a tea house in southeast Turkey, killing a police officer and a civilian, an attack that comes amid renewed violence between the government and the autonomy-seeking insurgents. Violence has flared in the past week, with Turkey …
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DALLAS – Dirk Nowitzki passed Jerry West on the NBA scoring list from a familiar spot: behind the 3-point line. Nowitzki had 19 points, including consecutive shots from long range in the third quarter to move up to 16th in career scoring, and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Washington Wizards …
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As NASCAR stories go, absolutely none was more bizarre than Juan Pablo Montoya sending a jet dryer up in flames in the Daytona 500. Rained out for the first time in its history, the Daytona 500 was moved to primetime on Monday night, with a huge audience of television viewers …
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Russian officials said Ukrainian drones ignited an overnight fire at a nuclear plant in Russia’s Kursk region. The strikes coincided with Ukraine’s 34th Independence Day, marking its 1991 break from the Soviet Union. Russia said the strikes hit several power facilities. The plant fire was quickly extinguished, and although a …
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A New Mexico Lobos lineman wanted no part in a further skirmish with Michigan Wolverines players during their opening-week college football matchup on Saturday night. Michigan had a substantial lead in the third quarter when the Lobos ran the ball up the middle for a few yards. The play ended …
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Los Angeles Rams starting quarterback Matthew Stafford should be set for Sunday’s home opener against the Houston Texans, according to head coach Sean McVay. There had been questions about Stafford’s health throughout the offseason, as a back ailment had him starting off slower than the rest of his Rams teammates. …
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A head-on collision between a truck and a bus ferrying workers to a mine in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province left 20 people dead, authorities said Monday. Construction company Murray & Roberts Cementation said 17 of its workers, who were being transported to the Venetia mine in Musina close to …
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