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Only Hungary and Turkey have yet to approve the dual accession of Finland and Sweden via parliamentary votes. Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, has said its legislature will vote in February. It is widely expected to ratify the decision. But Turkey looks set to delay NATO’s historic expansion indefinitely. “They won’t see any support from us on the NATO issue,” Erdogan said earlier this week, following anti-Islam protests organized by Swedish far-right groups in Stockholm....

Jakarta, Aug 19 (PTI) Indian swimmers Sajan Prakash and Srihari Nataraj finished a creditable fifth and seventh in the men’s 200m butterfly and 100m backstroke events respectively at the 18th Asian Games here today. Starting in lane 3, Prakash clocked 1:57.75 seconds in 200m butterfly final with Japan’s Seto Daiya winning it comfortably with a timing of 1:54.53 seconds. Prakash had qualified as third fastest swimmer in the heats....

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Ryan Lochte was a top dog in the U.S. Olympic swimming team in London four years ago, but he felt more like an ageing underdog as he celebrated his 32nd birthday at the Rio Games on Wednesday. As 31-year-old room mate Michael Phelps told a million followers on Instagram in a message accompanying a photograph of the pair of them, the friends and rivals are “the old dudes on the team now”....

Ishant Sharma missed the entire Australia tour because of his injury. The 32-year-old was declared fit along with Rohit Sharma last month. However, Sharma wasn’t sent to Australia due to lack of match fitness. But Rajkumar Sharma revealed Sharma has done the hard yards and is bowling at his best since the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy’s preparatory camp. Speaking to the Hindu, the Delhi coach said: Ishant Sharma is primarily seen as a Test bowler in Team India....

Kanishk Seth smashed five fours and three sixes in his knock and then returned with figures of 1/21 in the second innings to help the East Bengal Club win the match by 58 runs. He received the Man of the Match award for his all-round brilliance. Chennai Super Kings had signed Kanishk Seth 2018 IPL Auction Kanishk Seth’s talent had impressed the Chennai Super Kings management in 2018 as they signed him in the auction....

It’s quite hard to picture the fourth installment of The Expendables without the presence of Stallone. Yet, he has gone back and forth throughout the long waiting time in between as to whether or not he wanted to be a part of the project. In a more literal sense, Lionsgate’s The Expendables franchise would be virtually impossible without Stallone. Along with playing his role, he wrote and directed the very first 2010 film that would later become the massive franchise it is today....

UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham announced Thursday night (as reported by Raleigh, N.C., television station WRAL) that he accepted Hatchell’s resignation after receiving the results of an outside review of Hatchell’s program. Cunningham said in a prepared statement that the review “found issues that led us to conclude that the program needed to be taken in a new direction.” The review looked into allegations that Hatchell displayed racial insensitivity toward players, pressured medical staff to prematurely clear injured players and was responsible for a “breakdown of connectivity” with her team....

Sylvinho’s position plunged into dangerous territory after Lyon conceded a 90th-minute goal to lose 1-0 to rivals Saint-Etienne on Sunday. The result left Lyon – who finished third last season – winless in seven league matches and languishing in 14th position, only clear of the relegation zone on goal difference. Sylvinho was appointed as Bruno Genesio’s replacement in May but the 45-year-old Brazilian is facing the sack after nine Ligue 1 matches in charge....

It seems that sense of drive extends outside of just Sakurai’s work, however, with the beloved game director recently discussing his love of working out through his regular column in Weekly Famitsu. Yet, it seems the renowned director hasn’t always had the most positive of experiences while attending the gym, with Sakurai urging fans to be aware of their health while exercising due to once fainting after an intense workout session....

Though Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has included a lot of rather strange characters, some of which aren’t even Nintendo characters, this leak seems unlikely for a couple of reasons. Fans are understandably skeptical, though there are some that would be thrilled to see it true. RELATED: Super Smash Bros Ultimate Players Are Begging For Online Fix There are a few things about Bigby Wolf that seemingly disqualify him from joining Smash immediately, but everyone thought it was impossible for Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 to join the roster back when he did as well....

Charging Flare up one level creates Megaflare, a more powerful version of the initial attack. The result of fully charging Sephiroth’s flare attack is Gigaflare, one of the strongest moves in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. While players have been loving this technique for its huge range, massive damage, and powerful knockback, there’s a silver lining that adds a great deal of humor to the situation. Sephiroth’s most powerful technique in Super Smash Bros....

Leaked by French retailer Carrefour, this system and game bundle includes, at least, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a limited edition system, and a limited edition JoyCon controller set. Of course, Nintendo has yet to officially announce this bundle, so some may want to approach this with a grain of salt. However, considering the popularity of the game, this would be a great way to bolster sales, especially during the holiday season....

For Sgt. Matthew Villalpando, Tuesday wasn’t so Super in Baghdad. The California native has to be at the International Zone’s Checkpoint Two by 6 a.m. every day for work, so when the results of the primaries started rolling in late Tuesday night, he was sound asleep in bed with his alarm set for 4 a.m. He didn’t even have time to check on what had happened before heading out the door Wednesday morning....

Amnesty International was among the groups to criticise the plan to host the game in Saudi Arabia, blasting the country’s “truly appalling human rights record”. But the match will go ahead on January 16 at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium, it was announced on Wednesday, with a local kick-off time of 20:30. The game will be a repeat of the 2016-17 Supercoppa, which saw Milan prevail on penalties, with Juventus also beaten last season by Lazio....

In a post shared on the platform on Tuesday, the supervisor, who goes by the username OhGoodnessItsSoExhausting, explained that since the two joined, they have been extremely “sensitive and just plain annoying.” “I can’t give any feedback because they ‘know it already.’ I can’t say anything right because apparently I know nothing about transgender issues or decolonisation of the workplace and I need to hear them ’educate’ me on it all and lend me books because they (20 years younger with zero experience in this role) know how to resolve ingrained, inherent systemic racism and prejudice and clearly if they were in my role they’d have solved all the problems in society which impact the role, already....

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, isolationist conservatives like Tucker Carlson have questioned whether the United States should be wasting money on a foreign war. They and others, such as Tulsi Gabbard, a former member of Congress who recently left the Democratic Party, warn that present U.S. policy may lead to nuclear war with Russia. While McCarthy’s statement seems to support their position, it would be a strategic and political mistake....

Murthy, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, was speaking to CBS’s Anthony Mason and Gayle King about the recent decision to halt the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a joint statement on Tuesday saying they were investigating six cases of a “rare and severe” type of blood clot that reportedly occurred in six women who received the Johnson & Johnson shot....

New installments of Killzone and Resistance have been rumored for some time now. No concrete information has been released on either game, but these are both important titles for Sony. Resistance developer Insomniac Games has an impeccable record of delivering games on time. The studio dropped the stellar Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time last Fall. That pretty much makes this a Resistance year. Guerrilla Games, on the other hand, is notorious for the amount of time they took to get Killzone 2 out the door....

El esperado filme está dirigido por el director italiano Luca Guadagnino y escrito por David Kajganich. La película, cuya primera versión data de 1977, está basada en el ensayo de Thomas de Quincey, Suspiros desde las profundidades, escrito en el año 1845. Tras aceptar el proyecto de dirigir Suspiria en 2015, después de que David Gordon Green lo rechazara por conflictos de financiamiento, Guadagnino prefirió referirse a su obra como un “homenaje a la que sintió al ver la Suspira de 1977” en vez de un remake de la original....

Jose Mourinho’s side kicked off their league campaign in style last week, convincingly beating West Ham 4-0 at Old Trafford. A Romelu Lukaku double, as well as goals from Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial, ensured that the Red Devils secured maximum points against the Hammers and they will be determined to continue their impressive start at the Liberty Stadium. Swansea, meanwhile, escaped relegation last season, thanks, in no small part, to the intervention of Paul Clement and the English coach guided his side to an away draw in their opener against Southampton....