The coach and 10 players from a Peruvian football team tested positive for the new coronavirus just before they were due to board a humanitarian flight, the ministry of health said on Friday.
The 11 members of the third division Credicoop San Roman have been placed in quarantine in a hotel in the southeastern city of Juliaca, near Lake Titicaca.  They were due to board a flight from Juliaca, where they are based, to the capital Lima.
"A total of 66 rapid COVID-19 tests were administered, 12 gave positive results, 11 are male patients that are part of a football team," the ministry said in a statement.
Amongst them is 52-year-old coach Juan Carlos Bazalar, a former player for Peru's two biggest clubs, Universitario de Deportes and Alianza Lima.
"We're isolated and ready to begin the two weeks (of isolation) as the protocols demand," said Bazalar, who won the Copa Sudamericana -- the South American equivalent of the Europa League -- as a player with Cusco's Cienciano in 2003.
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Coach and 10 players at Peruvian club have coronavirus

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Watford defender Christian Kabasele says restarting the Premier League on June 12 would be "impossible" because it would put players at risk of injury.
Premier League chiefs have set their sights on a mid-June resumption and clubs went back to training in small groups this week.
But Kabasele believes the timescale means players will not have enough time to get to peak fitness.
"We speak about June 12," he told the Counter Attack podcast. "I think it is impossible because it would be less than three weeks' training after a long period without doing anything. It's a risk for us.
"I'm not sure, I don't have any information but I think we are not going to start June 12.
"The most obvious choice for me is the end of June. Like this you have at least four weeks to train with the team if it's possible."
Premier League chief executive Richard Masters this week described the June 12 date as a "staging post" and said there would be flexibility in fixture scheduling.
Watford defender Adrian ...

Watford's Kabasele calls June 12 Premier League return 'impossible'

The UK government announced tough new measures on Friday for international travellers coming into the country as the coronavirus pandemic lockdown is gradually eased, including 14-day mandatory quarantines and possible fines for a breach.
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, who made the announcement at the daily Downing Street briefing in London, said the new measures will come into force from June 8 with penalties of up to 1,000 pounds for quarantine breaches enforced from mid-June.
We are introducing these new measures now to keep the transmission rate down and prevent a devastating second wave, said Patel.
I fully expect the majority of people will do the right thing and abide by these measures. But we will take enforcement action against a small reckless minority of people who endanger the safety of others, she said.
The Indian-origin Cabinet minister said spot checks would be carried out by the UK Border Force to ensure travellers abide by the rules, with those failing to comply ...

Priti Patel sets 14-day quarantine rule for international travellers from June 8

Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has become the world's highest-paid female athlete, making USD 37.4 million (34.3 million euros) in the past 12 months for an earnings record, Forbes magazine reported Friday.
The 22-year-old Asian star, a two-time Grand Slam champion, edged US rival Serena Williams by USD 1.4 million in prize money and endorsement income over the past year.
Both shattered the old single-year earnings mark of $29.7 million set in 2015 by Russia's Maria Sharapova, who retired in February with five Grand Slam titles, including a career Slam.
"To those outside the tennis world, Osaka is a relatively fresh face with a great back story," University of Southern California sports business professor David Carter told Forbes.
"Combine that with being youthful and bicultural -- two attributes that help her resonate with younger, global audiences -- and the result is the emergence of a global sports marketing icon."
Osaka, whose father was born in Haiti and whose mother is ...

Osaka tops Serena as world's highest-paid female athlete

A fiery head-on collision in Sudan between a truck carrying passengers and a tractor-trailer killed 57 people and left more than 20 injured on a highway in the country's Darfur region, state-run media reported on Friday.
A police statement said the crash took place late on Thursday in the town of Shangil Tobayi in North Darfur province.
A massive truck crashed into the tractor-trailer transporting a number of smaller cars, causing both vehicles to flip upside down and burn completely, the SUNA news agency reported. It did not provide further details on the cause of the crash. Traffic police laid out the bodies of the victims for a mass funeral in the town.
Some of the injured were in critical condition and taken to a hospital in al-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur, police said.
The truck, which was packed with passengers, was traveling from Shangil Tobayi when it collided with the trailer heading toward the town, located more than 1,100 kilometers (about 620 miles) west .

Sudanese media say 57 killed in fiery head-on vehicle crash

Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers sharply criticized China's move to take over long-stalled efforts to enact national security legislation in the semi-autonomous territory, saying it goes against the one country, two systems framework under which Beijing promised the city freedoms not found on the mainland.
The proposed bill, submitted Friday on the opening day of China's national legislative session, would forbid secessionist and subversive activity, as well as foreign interference and terrorism. It comes after months of pro-democracy demonstrations last year that at times descended into violence between police and protesters.
The bill, among the most controversial items on the agenda of the National People's Congress in years, drew strong rebukes from the U.S. government and rights groups.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned the move, saying the decision to bypass Hong Kong's well-established legislative processes and ignore the will of the people of Hong Kong would be a death .

Hong Kong opposition slams China national security law

Britain's competition watchdog has launched an investigation into misleading reviews on several big websites amid the surge in online shopping during pandemic lockdown restrictions.
The Competition and Markets Authority said Friday that it will look into how the websites detect, investigate and respond to fake and misleading reviews.
During lockdown, we're more dependent than ever on online shopping, so it's really important that the online reviews we read are genuine opinions, said Andrea Coscelli, the authority's chief executive.
If someone is persuaded to buy something after reading a fake or misleading review, they could end up wasting their money on a product or service that wasn't what they wanted.
The regulator said one of the issues it's examining is suspicious activity such as single users reviewing an unlikely range of products or services. It's also looking at how websites deal with reviews that the reviewer has been paid to review.
The authority didn't disclose which ...

UK regulators investigating misleading online reviews

There will neither be loo breaks during training nor the players will be allowed to hand over their caps or sunglasses to the on-field umpires as international cricketers will be required to let go of some of their intrinsic habits when play resumes in the post-COVID-19 world.
In its "back to cricket" guidelines issued for resumption of the game, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has effectively barred players from handing over their personal equipments (cap, towel, sunglasses, jumpers) to the umpire or his teammates as part of maintaining social distance.
"Players and umpires should maintain social distancing on the cricket field and that includes no handing over of player items (cap, towels, sunglasses, jumpers) to the umpire or teammates," read the ICC playing guidelines.
However there was no clarity on who will keep the players' items?
"Consider adopting a process that will assist the bowler in managing his/her items. Umpires may also be encouraged to use gloves when ...

Players not allowed loo breaks during training, can't give even cap to umpire: ICC guidelines

Condolence messages poured in on social media from many countries, including from India, for those who lost their lives in a Pakistan International Airlines plane crash here on Friday, just before Eid.
At least 45 people died when a plane of the national carrier with 99 people on board crashed into a densely populated residential area near the Jinnah International Airport.
Flight PK-8303 from Lahore was about to land in Karachi when it crashed at the Jinnah Garden area near the Model Colony in Malir, minutes before landing.
"Saddened to get the news of the Pakistan International Airlines carrying about 100 people in Karachi. In this time of sorrow my condolences to all Pakistanis. May Almighty give them Jannah in this Holy Month," Elif Ahmet from Turkey wrote on Twitter.
"Only 60 sec away to see their families for Eid... My heart is bleeding." Yazdan Haider wrote.
Twitter users from India also expressed their grief over the tragedy that happened just before the Eid festivities on ...

Netizens express grief over Pak plane crash

Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 mammoths at an airport under construction just north of Mexico City, near human-built 'traps' where more than a dozen mammoths were found last year.
Both discoveries reveal how appealing the area  once a shallow lake  was for the mammoths. The National Institute of Anthropology and History said Thursday there was no immediate evidence that the 60 mammoths newly discovered at the old Santa Lucia military airbase had been butchered by humans.
Institute archaeologist Pedro Snchez Nava said the giant herbivores had probably just got stuck in the mud of an ancient lake, once known as Xaltocan and now disappeared.
But the bones will be subject to further study, because Snchez Nava said humans might have carved up the mammoths once they got stuck. About 15 human burials with simple offerings were found nearby, but they probably dated from around 500 to 1,000 years ago, long after the mammoths had disappeared.
That was quite different from the ..

In Mexico City, experts find bones of dozens of mammoths

The presidents of Israel and Poland have sent birthday greetings to a 101-year-old Polish woman who is believed to be the be oldest living person recognised by Yad Vashem for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.
Reuven Rivlin of Israel and Andrzej Duda of Poland praised Anna Kozminska in separate letters for her courage in risking her own life to help Jews during the German occupation of Poland.
Rivlin expressed admiration and gratitude for your courageous acts of humanity and bravery during the dark days of the Second World War in Poland.
In his letter, Duda said he would bestow Kozminska with a special state medal.
The letters were delivered to her on her birthday Friday by Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, and the niece of a boy saved during the war by Kozminska and her step-mother, Maria Kozminska.
They wore masks and sat with her on her porch outside her Warsaw home due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Schudrich said that Kozminska expressed surprise at receiving letters from ..

Presidents of Poland, Israel honour 101-year-old WWII heroine

The UK government on Friday announced a further extension of all expiring or expired visas of foreign nationals, including Indians, unable to return to their home countries due to the coronavirus pandemic, until July 31.
The extension, initially announced until May 31, has been extended by two months and will apply to anyone whose leave to remain in the UK expired after January 24 and they are still unable to leave the country because of travel restrictions or self-isolation.
By extending people's visas further, we are giving them peace of mind that they are able to stay in the UK until the end of July if they are unable to leave the country safely, said UK Home Secretary Priti Patel.
This is one of a number of unprecedented measures the government has made to support people during this time, however, as we begin a cautious return to normality those currently in the UK on expired visitor visas should return home as soon as possible, the Indian-origin Cabinet minister said.
The Home ...

UK expands visa reprieve for COVID-19 stranded foreigners to July 31

Acclaimed Egyptian artist Adam Henein, who joined ancient pharaonic themes with sleek modernism in sculptures that often portrayed birds and other animals, died Friday, his family said. He was 91.
Henein recently suffered from age-related health complications and was taken to a hospital in Cairo where he died, said Essam Darwish, deputy director of Henein's foundation.
Henein was born in 1929 in Cairo to a family of silversmiths and jewelry makers from the southern province of Assiout.
He often said that a visit as a child to the Egyptian Museum was a turning point in his life.
At the age of eight, he modelled a clay figure of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton, setting himself on the path toward his sculpting career.
He was also entranced by birds and flight, which would become a frequent themes of his work.
I used to wake up and run to the windows and watch for a long time the birds, he said in a documentary produced by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It transports you to another ..

Egyptian acclaimed sculptor Adam Henein dies at 91

Scottish Championship side Dunfermline released 17 out-of-contract players on Friday as a British lawmaker warned that up to 10 lower-league clubs in England could be weeks away from going into administration.
The Scottish season is already over, with all four divisions decided on a points-per-game basis after the coronavirus pandemic stopped play in March.
Testing costs, the expiry of player contracts and a high reliance on gate receipts are among the reasons Scottish clubs have not tried to complete the campaign behind closed doors.
"As a consequence of this continued uncertainty, we are afraid to announce that unfortunately our club will not be in a position to offer new contracts, at this time, to any of the players who are out of contract over the coming days," Dunfermline said in a statement.
"As we don't know when we will be playing games again we have no other option but to protect the future of the club itself." In England, League Two clubs have agreed in principle to end ...

Dunfermline release 17 players as reality bites for lower-league football

The head of Pakistan's Bank of Punjab was among two passengers who miraculously survived after a PIA plane carrying 99 people crashed on Friday in a crowded residential area of this port city.
Bank of Punjab Chief Executive Officer Zafar Masud was among the 91 persons travelling in Karachi-bound PIA flight PK-8303 from Lahore, which crashed near the Jinnah International Airport minutes before landing, the Geo News reported.
Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar initially said all aboard died, but two civil aviation officials later said that at least two people survived the crash.
It is still too early to say if there are more survivors from the tragedy, as the update has offered a glimmer of hope to rescue teams racing to save as many souls as they can.
The rescue officials have so far recovered at least 45 dead bodies.
The BOP president has been shifted to the Darul Sehat Hospital after being recovered from the crash site and is reportedly out of danger, the report said.
He spoke to his mother .

Head of Pakistan's Bank of Punjab among two survivors of PIA plane crash

Novak Djokovic will gather some of the world's best players for a tennis tournament in the Balkans next month, with the professional season on a coronavirus-enforced hiatus.
In a statement, a spokesman for world number one Djokovic said that the Adria Tour will be held between June 13-July 5 in Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia.
Along with Djokovic, who was celebrating his 33rd birthday on Friday, world number three Dominic Thiem and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, ranked 19, will also participate in the tournament, the statement said.
The ATP and WTA Tours have been suspended since March and will not resume until at least the end of July, while Roland Garros was postponed to September and Wimbledon was cancelled for the first time since the Second World War.
The money gathered from the Adria Tour, which starts in Belgrade on June 13-14, will be used for various regional humanitarian projects, the statement added.
It is unknown if the tournament will be open to spectators or will be ..

Birthday boy Djokovic to organise Balkan tennis tournament

Iran's supreme leader on Friday called Israel a cancerous tumour that will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed in an annual speech in support of the Palestinians, renewing threats against Iran's archenemy in the Middle East.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's speech marked a subdued Quds Day for Iran, which typically sees government-encouraged mass demonstrations in Tehran and elsewhere in the Islamic Republic, as well as Iranian-allied nations.
Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Iran largely asked demonstrators to stay home.
Khamenei spoke to the nation in a 30-minute speech aired on state television, a rare address by the supreme leader as other officials in the past gave the keynote speech.
He repeatedly referred to Israel as a cancer or tumour during the speech, criticizing the US and the West for equipping it with various kinds of military and non-military tools of power, even with atomic weapons.
The Zionist regime is a deadly, ...

Iran leader says Israel a 'cancerous tumour' to be destroyed

A UK court on Friday directed Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani to pay nearly USD 717 million to three Chinese banks pursuing the recovery of funds owed to them as part of a loan agreement within 21 days.
At a remotely held hearing, in line with procedures in place for the COVID-19 pandemic, Justice Nigel Teare ruled at the Commercial Division of the High Court of England and Wales in London that a personal guarantee disputed by Ambani is binding on him.
It is declared that the Guarantee is binding on the Defendant (Ambani), Justice Teare's order notes.
It is declared that the sum payable by the Defendant to the Claimant (banks) pursuant to the Guarantee is USD 716,917,681.51, it reads.
A statement related to the judgment has been sought from the Reliance Group.
The banks  Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd Mumbai Branch, China Development Bank and Exim Bank of China  had taken their claim for a summary judgment to the UK High Court and in February were granted a ...

UK court orders Anil Ambani to pay USD 717mn to Chinese banks

The chairman of Nigerian top-flight football club Adamawa United on Friday criticised the planned restart of the country's league season as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise.
COVID-19 has infected more than 7,000 people and claimed 211 lives in Africa's most populous nation of 200 million inhabitants.
"Nigeria league to return under this pandemic? That will be shocking, it will be absurd," Emma Zira told AFP.
"Whoever is preparing for the league to return now does not love football.
"Do we have the facilities to restart the league especially when the pandemic is growing by the day and our health facilities are being stretched every day? "And we haven't even reached the peak (of the outbreak)."
Zira, whose club are threatened with relegation from Nigeria's top division, said his concern was the health and safety of players and officials.
"It's not football. I'm not even thinking of football now. Only the living can play football, the dead cannot," he said.
"Rather we ...

Nigerian club chief blasts league restart amid virus spike

The ICC on Friday recommended a slew of radical measures, including the appointment of chief medical officers, a 14-day pre-match isolation training camp and use of gloves by umpires while handling the ball, as international cricket plotted its return from the coronavirus hiatus.
As member nations ease restrictions imposed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Cricket Council issued comprehensive guidelines aimed at getting the sport up and running around the world while at the same time maintaining the highest safety protocols.
Among the guidelines, the ICC has recommended the appointment of a chief medical or a bio-safety officer to ensure all the respective government guidelines are followed as players return to training.
The sport's governing body recommended having a pre-match isolation training camp that will involve temperature checks and COVID-19 testing at least 14 days prior to travel.
"Consider appointing a Chief Medical Officer and/or Biosafety Official who ..

ICC recommends gloves for umpires, CMOs and 14-day isolation camps for post-COVID cricket

A deadly upsurge in intercommunal violence in South Sudan has to stop and those responsible must be swiftly brought to justice, the UN human rights chief insisted Friday.
Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations' high commissioner for human rights, slammed the "appalling" attacks that have reportedly left hundreds dead in the world's youngest sovereign state.
The former Chilean president's office said that while politically-motivated fighting in South Sudan had declined, intercommunal violence had surged this year.
During the first three months of 2020, 658 people were killed in intercommunal violence in the country, while 452 were injured, the rights office said.
Another 592 people were abducted and 65 reported being subjected to sexual violence, it added.
"This recurring pattern of violence, which continues to claim lives in South Sudan, has to stop," Bachelet said in a statement.
"I urge the government to ensure measures are in place to investigate this violence and to ensure that ...

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