The draw for this year's World Cup takes place in the shadow of Doha's skyscrapers on Friday, with the focus on the actual football after a build-up dominated by the many off-field issues surrounding the awarding of the tournament u.afp.com/wn32 #AFPSports
The draw is set to take place on Friday in Qatar's capital with the focus on the football after a build-up dominated by the off-field issues surrounding the awarding of the tournament u.afp.com/wn5A#AFPSports
#UPDATE Senegal will face Netherlands in opening #WorldCup game on November 21, FIFA says, with schedule showing Qatar vs Ecuador kick-off set for that evening #AFPSports
#UPDATE The United States and Iran go into the #WorldCup with political and football grudges that their coaches are keen to defuse before the teams meet in November u.afp.com/wnpg#AFPSports
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#BREAKING At least 20 bodies seen in one street in town near Kyiv: AFP
#UPDATE The bodies of at least 20 men in civilian clothes were found lying in a single street Saturday after Ukrainian forces retook the town of Bucha near Kyiv from Russian troops, AFP journalists said u.afp.com/wnxj
#BREAKING Almost 300 people buried in 'mass grave' in Bucha outside Kyiv: mayor
➡️ Kyiv has not denied conducting an air strike on Russian soil
➡️ Buses have carried some residents out of devastated Mariupol, Red Cross to try again Saturday
@dannyctkemp#BREAKING Ukraine's Zelensky says more than 3,000 people 'rescued' from besieged Mariupol
@dannyctkemp The Ukrainian commuter town of Irpin outside Kyiv held off the full force of Russia’s invasion, but that hard-fought victory came at a terrible price u.afp.com/wnpf
#BREAKING US economy added 431,000 jobs in March, unemployment rate fell to 3.6%: govt
#UPDATE The United States added 431,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, bringing the labor market closer to where it was before the Covid-19 pandemic began, the government said on Friday u.afp.com/wn5V
#BREAKING US economy has 'gone from being on the mend to being on the move': Biden on latest jobs figures
#BREAKING First international aid convoy in three months about to enter Ethiopia's Tigray region: UN
#UPDATE The first international aid convoy in three months will soon enter Ethiopia's war-stricken #Tigray region, the UN said on Friday, one week after the government and Tigrayan rebels agreed to a conditional truce u.afp.com/wn54
#BREAKING First aid convoy for three months arrives in capital of Ethiopia's Tigray: UN
#BREAKING German army reserve officer charged with spying for Russia: prosecutors
#UPDATE An officer in the German army reserve has been charged with spying for allegedly passing information to Russian intelligence services between 2014 and 2020, federal prosecutors said Friday u.afp.com/wniv
#BREAKING EU chief warns China of 'major reputational damage' if it backs Russia's Ukraine war