SOUTHAMPTON, England (Reuters) -A 98th-minute goal by Brighton & Hove Albion’s Neal Maupay cancelled out Southampton forward Armando Broja’s first-half strike as the south-coast rivals played out a 1-1 draw in the Premier League on Saturday. Brighton, down to 10 men after Leandro Trossard was carried off the pitch with an arm injury after the …
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By Andrew Cawthorne WOLVERHAMPTON, England (Reuters) -Liverpool’s Divock Origi came off the bench to score a brilliant injury-time winner and put his side second in the Premier League with a 1-0 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday. Origi picked up a cross from Mohamed Salah before swivelling and drilling the ball home in the 94th …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Chelsea paid a heavy price for a 3-2 defeat at West Ham United as first Liverpool, then Manchester City, leapfrogged them in the Premier League title race on Saturday, with City ending the day on top for the first time this season. Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea began the day with a narrow lead …
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By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will require all inbound travellers to take a pre-departure COVID-19 test and arrivals from Nigeria will have to quarantine in hotels to slow the spread of the Omicron variant, health minister Sajid Javid said on Saturday. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that travel restrictions are necessary to …
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SOUTHAMPTON, England (Reuters) – Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuettl criticised goalkeeper Alex McCarthy for not informing him that he was carrying a hamstring injury towards the end of their 1-1 draw against Brighton & Hove Albion, with their south-coast rivals equalising in added time. Armando Broja gave Southampton the lead in the 29th minute with a …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain reported 42,848 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, government figures showed, a drop in daily cases following two straight days where more than 50,000 cases were recorded. There were 127 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, down from 143 deaths reported on Friday. (Reporting by Alistair Smout; Editing by …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A green massage table seized from Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach estate was carried into a Manhattan federal courtroom on Friday, where British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is on trial for her alleged role in the sex abuse of underage girls. Prosecutors have said many of Epstein’s encounters with teenagers began …
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By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -A rise in the prevalence of COVID-19 infections in England in the latest week was driven by the dominant Delta variant rather than Omicron, Britain’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday. There have been 134 confirmed cases of the Omicron variant in Britain, which has mutations consistent with …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Health officials in Britain said on Friday they were investigating a rise this week in the number of COVID-19 tests results that have a trait that is associated with the newly identified Omicron coronavirus variant of concern. One of Omicron’s mutations produces S-gene target failure (SGTF) in about half the PCR tests in …
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LONDON (Reuters) – All members of Yorkshire’s coaching team have left, including director of cricket Martyn Moxon and coach Andrew Gale, the club said on Friday as it vowed to regain trust and rebuild after being rocked by allegations of institutional racism. First team coach and former captain Gale was suspended last month as part …
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