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The two boards - PCB and the Afghanistan Cricket Board - had already negotiated their terms and waiting for the final nod from the Punjab and Sindh governments to finalize Karachi and Lahore as the venues for the proposed matches. Zimbabwe became the first team to visit Pakistan last year since the infamous 2009 saga when there was an armed attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team. The entire Zimbabwe series was staged at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore but this time, the PCB was keen on hosting matches in Karachi too....

They were self-taught and well-respected community leaders. These women provide emergency medical care in a country with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Their persistence and perseverance ignited a passion within my heart to pursue a career in medicine. As a teenager, I watched a woman bleed out during delivery, losing her life in the process. I wondered whether the outcome could have been different if the midwife had medical training....

The Bagram Air Base was the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan until it was abandoned on July 1. The military was ordered to leave the base in the middle of the night without the base’s new Afghan commander being informed beforehand, according to The Associated Press. The Taliban overwhelmed the base and took control of it earlier this month. GOP lawmakers contend that keeping the base and using it for evacuations may have prevented Thursday’s ISIS-K attack, which resulted in the deaths of at least 13 American troops....

Riot Games’ tactical shooter has developed a strong backstory behind every agent and map. Moreover, the short cinematic videos from “Duelist” to “Duality” reveal a lot more about Valorant’s lore to fans. However, with the recent release of Arcane, a Netflix animated series based on Riot Games’ League of Legends, many Valorant fans are also expecting a similar series based on the game. Should Riot Games consider an animated series on Valorant after Arcane?...

It came remarkably from Cameroon supporters who were far more graceful than some of their dissenting national team players earlier on Sunday evening in the humid cauldron of Stade de Hainaut. England players who had denied their country a place in the Women’s World Cup quarterfinals by winning 3-0 were applauded back into the Royal Hainaut Spa and Resort Hotel. The England traveling party led by Phil Neville welcomed the unexpected reception....

Mukasey was headed from New York to Washington to take the oath of office in a private Justice Department afternoon ceremony, followed by meetings and briefings with senior advisers. The retired federal judge has 14 months to turn around the demoralized department and its 110,000 employees after almost a year of scandal that forced the resignation of his predecessor and cast doubt on the government’s ability to prosecute cases fairly....

In Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb (208 pages. Little, Brown. $19.95), Ronald Takaki, a Berkeley historian, claims Harry Truman ordered the attack for all the wrong reasons: He was a racist who admitted to hating “Japs.” He had “an inferiority complex.” “Inexperienced and insecure in his role as president, he found himself unable to say ’no’,” Takaki writes. Instead, Truman tried to prove “that he was not a ‘sissy’....

RELATED: Every Age Of Empires Game, Ranked However, like the other game modes in Age of Empires 4, attaining a Sacred Victory requires a good deal of planning on the player’s part. There’s also the time factor, considering one’s foes aren’t going to sit idly by while the player makes their move. Nevertheless, with these steps, fans will possess a viable roadmap when it comes to securing that Sacred Victory....

As seen below in the introductory trailer for the Bombshells, Agents of Mayhem fans can get to know the likes of the group’s members Joule, Rama, and Redcard, with the clip highlighting their personalities, combat skills, and special abilities. Joule is described as a woman of “high fashion” who also happens to be a robotic engineering genius able to deploy deadly turrets, while Rama is an archer armed with a bow, arrows, and a Deadshot ability that becomes more accurate as she charges up her shots, and Redcard is a “futball-obsessed lunatic” with a Hooligan weapon to pierce enemies’ skin who also has the ability to clear crowds with a close-range charge attack....

City manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed the club’s all-time leading scorer did not travel with the rest of the squad to Merseyside ahead of Wednesday’s game at Anfield. The forward has instead remained in Manchester to undergo further treatment on a problem he picked up in training prior to the international break. Aguero has not featured since the 1-0 home win over Chelsea on March 4, sitting out away games against Stoke City and Everton, as well as Argentina’s recent friendlies with Italy and Spain....

In March, we published another cover on a story few others had scrutinized: the alarming spread of child pornography and pedophilia on the Internet. It reported that the Feds were closing in on the nation’s largest child-porn ring–a bust that was finally announced last week. We are also proud of two other cover stories we did this year before the rest of the media caught up: on the growing scourge of the addictive painkiller OxyContin and on the new AbioCor artificial heart, which led to the first human transplant in a NEWSWEEK subscriber who learned about the device from our story....

Authorities on Tuesday identified 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, of Arvada, Colorado as the gunman who allegedly opened fire inside the King Soopers supermarket on Monday, killing 10 people including a police officer. He has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said. Authorities revealed little about the suspected shooter in Tuesday’s news conference, but a Facebook page that appeared to belong to the suspect provided some further details....

Following his brace of assists against Amkar Perm on Wednesday, the Super Eagles attacker continued in his rich vein of form as Viktor Goncharenko’s men secured their second successive win. After a goalless affair in the first half, Yury Gazinskiy’s 53rd-minute goal put the visitors ahead but Musa’s efforts in the 73rd and 85th minute turned the tide around for the Red-Blues who clinched their 15th league of the season....

Until a few weeks ago, chronic fatigue syndrome was the only name for Stevens’s strange illness. Thousands, perhaps millions, of people have come down with CFS over the past decade. The debilitating flulike condition seems rooted in the immune system, but nearly everything about it is a mystery. Unlike most CFS patients, Stevens can also count herself among sufferers of the “AIDS-like illness” that publichealth officials are now scrambling to investigate....

Joining the Indian national football team in the fray will be South Africa, New Zealand and Chinese Taipei. The AIFF intends to make the tournament an annual fixture in the Indian footballing calendar. The four-nation tournament is being held to fine tune the Indian football team’s preparations for the AFC Asian Cup to be held in UAE in 2019. The AIFF has assured that the three other sides in the competition will be sending their first team squads to India....

But there’s always room for one, little duck. MORE: Race updates | Latest on Busch | Lineup breakdown At Sunday’s Daytona 500, the Aflac Duck showed up ready for racing wearing a custom-made press credential, single-handedly ensuring that this was at least the cutest Great American Race we’ve ever had. They say there’s no cheering in the press box. But are you allowed to quack?

They are on their way to missing the playoffs for the fourth time in six years, just sold off their top three forwards in a trade-deadline fire sale and, despite being dead last in the NHL, have no chance at a top-three pick in the draft because they included that in a deal last season. Gone in the past eight months are Erik Karlsson, Mike Hoffman, Mark Stone, Matt Duchene and Ryan Dzingel, and what’s left is uncertainty about how long the Senators’ long-term rebuild will take....

Lawyering today is an awkward blend of a business and a profession. Even conscientious private attorneys experience the tension between their economic obligations to their firms (to maximize revenues and profits) and their ethical obligations to their clients (to settle problems quickly and cheaply). Similar conflicts afflict many professions. Doctors often practice more medicine than their patients need, because it’s financially advantageous. Journalists, who are supposedly truth seekers, often take a selective and sensationalized view of the truth, because that’s what sells....