GROUP F: Ceres Negros 2-0 Shan United (Reichelt 79’ Maranon 83') Ceres Negros took control of Group F with a 2-0 win over Shan United on Tuesday. It was side from Philippines who had the better of the initial exchanges but they could not force a goal in the first half. In fact, they had to wait until the 79th minute to get the go-ahead goal. Bienvenido Maranon’s cross into the box was spilled by the Shan United goalkeeper before the loose ball fell to Patrick Reichelt who converted....

Secretary General Oscar Igaida has told Goal that his side will have three grounds to host home matches depending on fixtures. Stadia closure to affect Gor Mahia, AFC Leopards The three grounds include Thika Sub-county Stadium, Machakos County Stadium and Mumias Complex. “We are aware that Kasarani is closed for renovation and we have decided to stage our 2017 home matches in the three stadiums (Machakos, Thika and Mumias).”...

The Indian eves had already crashed out of their group following heavy defeats at the hands of South Korea, North Korea and Uzbekistan. But they ensured they ended the campaign on the right note by consigning Hong Kong to a defeat. Indian Women dominated the tie from start to finish and created plenty of chances while also enjoying lots of possession. But the Blue Tigresses failed to open the scoring in the first half and had to wait until the 68th minute when Ratanbala was brought down inside the box, allowing Sasmita Malik to convert the penalty....

Amicus briefs filed in support of the argument that affirmative action practices should be outlawed reveal which relevant Biden administration positions and policies are being targeted by critics. The affirmative action cases involve Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC), and both were filed by the group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA). The nonprofit describes itself as a group whose members “believe that racial classifications and preferences in college admissions are unfair, unnecessary, and unconstitutional....

The child, Sohail Ahmadi, was two months old when his father handed him over to a U.S. soldier at the Kabul airport on August 19 as crowds attempted to rush through the gates. Fearing his newborn would be crushed by the influx of people, Mirza Ali Ahmadi thought handing the child to a soldier would be the safest way for the baby to pass through airport gates, where he could be reunited with the rest of the family minutes later....

When the Taliban held power over the country in the 1990s, Afghan women lived under repressive restrictions enforced by the group and were subject to severe punishments and separation from public life, the AP reported. Taliban fighters present at the Herat protest didn’t heed the demonstrators’ request to see the governor, but they didn’t disband the protest either. Since taking back power in the past few weeks, the Taliban looked to calm concerns of a regression of rights for women, including vowing to allow women and girls to get educations and people to travel freely....

“The amount of such cash remaining is close to zero due a stoppage of shipments as the security situation deteriorated, especially during the last few days,” Ajmal Ahmady, Economic Advisor to the Afghanistan president, tweeted. The next shipment of cash was not delivered, likely because Afghanistan’s partners “had good intelligence as to what was going to happen,” according to Ahmady. He said the lack of physical cash could lead to the depreciation of the afghani, Afghanistan’s currency....

In response, Afghan people across the diaspora are calling on the international community to increase its support, and asking that it prioritize the protection of their family members who are still living in the country. Nilofar Ayoubi is a journalist, activist and entrepreneur who spent most of her life in Afghanistan. As the Taliban took control of the country last year she was forced to evacuate. Now a refugee, she continues to advocate for her people, despite the trauma and pain she’s experienced after being targeted by its members and violently separated from her loved ones....

This time, however, the fighting was brief, and by Somali standards relatively bloodless (400 died). Afterward, for the first time, the warlords who had been running amok were chased from Mogadishu. A visitor last week was able to spend five days in the capital without hearing a single gunshot or negotiating a militia roadblock (there used to be 10 just on the road to the airport). The Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a popular movement built around traditional Islamic Sharia courts and financed by fed-up businessmen, collected the militiamen’s guns and rounded up their “technicals”–jeeps with gun mounts in the back....

Only one man has ever played more games in the G League than Ingram, who has spent 10 of the last 11 years of his life grinding in the NBA’s minor league system. But Ingram — who has played six seasons for the South Bay Lakers — is getting his opportunity at last, as the Los Angeles Lakers signed him for the final two games of the season. The 6-foot-3, 184-pound shooting guard’s career has been about much more than just longevity....

“We have specific rules around how many times you need to violate certain policies before we will deactivate your account completely,” Zuckerberg said. “While the offenses here, I think, came close to crossing that line, they clearly did not cross the line.” The video was part of his podcast War Room: Pandemic. Facebook removed the video, but kept up his Facebook page. Twitter, however, banned Bannon shortly after the video was live....

“If you want to vote the way I’m voting, rank Maya Wiley number one,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with Hot 97 on Tuesday. But she added that she also voted for other mayoral candidates using the city’s new ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank candidates by preference rather than just selecting their top choice. “Here’s the deal. This race, I think, has been really all over the place for a lot of people, to say the least....

After six consecutive monthly increases in gross domestic product (GDP) as the U.K. economy began to recover from the hit of the first wave, November GDP fell back to 8.5 percent below pre-pandemic levels in February 2020, compared with 6.1 percent below in October 2020, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Pubs and hairdressers were particularly badly hit as the service sector shut down when Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a second nationwide lockdown in England, alongside further restrictions in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales....

The court threw out Governor Kathy Hochul’s statewide order that required New Yorkers to wear masks in all indoor public spaces, except in businesses that implemented a vaccine requirement. Hochul has said she will seek to reverse the decision “immediately” but in the meantime, the court’s action means that just a handful of states now have stringent mask mandates. Eleven states other than New York had mask mandates of varying degrees as of January, 2022....

Newsom, fresh off a victory in his state’s gubernatorial recall election last week, is expected to run for reelection in California next fall. The fundraising email from Newsom’s reelection campaign suggested voters share a portion of their contributions to his reelection bid with McAuliffe’s campaign in Virginia, where Newsom’s campaign said a “critical election” is taking place. “In our recall, there were Virginians who donated and sent texts to keep California blue....

Official answer: “the country.” Go figure. Final Pre-Primary Polling Average: Fourth Place, 14.6 percent Current National Polling AverageFifth Place. 9.3 percent Thompson has staked his entire bid on South Carolina, so the only thing that keeps him in contention is a win. It would revive his moribund campaign and send him into Florida with unrivaled momentum. But it probably won’t happen. Thompson has only topped 20 percent in one recent poll–and it still showed him trailing Huckabee and McCain by five to 12 points....

The North African nation becomes the fourth nation in recent months to normalize ties with Israel, joining the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan as recent additions to the list. All were handed something to sweeten the deal, and in Morocco’s case Trump recognized Rabat’s claim over the disputed Western Sahara region. Reports also suggested the U.S. may have tied approval for the sale of advanced military drones to the country to the Israel deal....

Republicans Jeff Landry, attorney general for Louisiana, along with Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, filed a lawsuit in May against the Biden administration and other top-ranking government officials, accusing them of working with social media companies to “censor and suppress free speech—including truthful information—related to COVID-19, election integrity and other topics under the guise of combating ‘misinformation.’” Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert who recently stepped down as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was reportedly deposed for more than seven hours, according to a tweet from Landry, who referred to Fauci as “the man who single-handedly wrecked the U....