The Blues will host the Turkmenistani outfit in the first leg at the Sree Kanteerava stadium before travelling to Balkanabat for the return leg. The first leg will be held on 22 August 2018 and the return leg has been scheduled for 29 August 2018. Bengaluru qualified for the Inter-Zonal playoffs after winning the South Zone group which comprised of Aizawl FC, Bangladesh’s Abahani Dhaka and Maldives’ New Radiant SC....

“The Afghan nation has not and will never allow any foreign power to determine its fate,” Ghani’s office said in an official statement released on Tuesday. “Our cooperation and partnership with the world countries, particularly with the United States, is grounded on common interests and mutual respect. While the Afghan government supports the US efforts for ensuring peace in Afghanistan, the government underscores that foreign heads of state cannot determine Afghanistan’s fate in absence of the Afghan leadership....

The headless country is descending once again into chaos. Since U.S.-backed Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia in December 2006, overthrowing a Mogadishu-based Islamist coalition, fighting has raged. Last week came world headlines of a U.S. cruise-missile strike against suspected Qaeda insurgents in southern Somalia. Pirates off the coast discourage aid from reaching the 1 million people who have been displaced. While that’s less than half the number of refugees in Darfur, Somalia is much less safe for international organizations—only 2,000 aid workers operate there, while Darfur has six times that figure, and six workers have already been killed in Somalia this year....

The Chandler Street village, located on a one-acre plot of land in North Hollywood, has 39 tiny houses for homeless people. Each home is 64 square feet and includes two beds, heat, air conditioning, windows and a small desk. The village was developed and funded by Los Angeles and is operated by Hope of the Valley, a nonprofit. The project was spearheaded to help relieve the city’s growing homelessness problem....

The U.S. intelligence community had known some sort of terrorist attack was on the way but failed to focus or to act. After 9/11, there was finger-pointing at President George W. Bush and the White House, between the previous Bill Clinton and Bush administrations, at the CIA, NSA, FBI and even at the Pentagon. The government pledged to do better: to break down barriers to intelligence analysis and sharing, and to organize itself so that such a catastrophic event would never happen again....

Biden’s overwhelming election victory was viewed as a referendum on Trump’s administration and some championed the win as a rejection of the former president. However, Biden’s honeymoon phase with voters ended in the summer and problems with the economy and the ongoing pandemic has continued to drag down his approval rating. A year after being inaugurated, Biden’s average approval rating stands at just 42 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight. The president’s rating is lower than the approval ratings nearly all of his predecessors had at this point in their presidencies in the last 70 years....

The survey, published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center and obtained in advance by Newsweek, showed that some 93% in France and the U.S., and 88% in the U.K. and Germany want some degree of change in their political systems, according to data gathered in November and December of last year. Majorities among those in France and the U.S. sought dramatic action, with 47% in each calling for “major changes....

“White people make up just 8% of the world’s population so if you flood all white majority countries with nonwhites you eliminate white children for ever,” the Facebook ad from White Wellbeing Australia read. “There will still be a billion Africans in Africa a billion Indians in India and 2 billion Asians in Asia,” the ad’s copy continued alongside an illustration of a blue-eyed reddish-blond haired white woman lit by sunlight....

Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, squared off against the Kentucky Republican on Tuesday during a Senate hearing. While the pair have had other heated exchanges in the Senate, on Tuesday Fauci pointed out that Paul’s campaign has used his image along with calls to “fire Fauci” in fundraising efforts. A short time after the hearing concluded, a Paul fundraising email was sent to prospective donors with the subject line, “Fauci is hysterical,” according to a tweet shared by journalist Ariel Cohen....

T.J. Yates replaced Hoyer during the third quarter in Week 10 against the Bengals and scored the only touchdown of the game, putting his team ahead for good in a 10-6 win. He then started Week 11 against the tough Jets secondary and threw for 229 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. More important, he picked up a big win for his team. MORE: Fantasy QBs, ranked for Week12 | Best photos from Week 11...

Rodgers, speaking with the media for the first time since the 2020 NFC championship game loss to Tampa Bay, detailed his past grievances with the Packers’ organization. He addressed almost every rumor month by month leading up to training camp. He name-dropped a handful of Packers who finished their careers elsewhere. He relayed his frustration with not being involved in personnel decisions. He reinforced gratitude for the coaches, fans and players in Green Bay and renewed a personal commitment to mental health....

Doug Eddings, a veteran umpire who made his MLB debut way back in 1998, did not have his finest day calling balls and strikes. According to Ump Scorecards, the website/Twitter account that tracks umpire performance, Eddings missed 12 of the 108 ball/strike calls in the game, won by Cleveland. To put it another way, Eddings got 11.1 percent of the calls wrong. According to Umpire Auditor, another tracker of umpire performance, Eddings missed 18 calls, or 17....

State Rep. Michael Pedersen joined a host of other New Hampshire lawmakers in publicly endorsing Warren on November 21. His support of the senator wavered recently, with the Sanders dispute prompting the final push to Klobuchar, according to a Thursday NBC News report. “After the debate, I saw everybody pairing up. Sen. Warren and Sanders competition against one another, and then everyone else,” Pedersen told the outlet. “I just think those two as a team, Sanders and Warren, they don’t appeal widely across the nation as Sen....

On Tuesday, Wake Forest fired radio announcer Tommy Elrod after a weekslong investigation revealed that he shared game plan information to Demon Deacon opponents. The investigation began after game plan documents were found at Louisville’s football stadium before the Nov. 12 game between the teams, and a Cardinals spokesman said they wouldn’t comment on what appeared to be a “Wake Forest issue”. MORE: College football bowl schedule 2016-17 But on Wednesday, Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich admitted that the Cardinals used information provided by Elrod:...

Earlier, Pulisic made history by scoring for Chelsea, giving them their lone goal in the game up to the point of his injury. But early in second half play, Pulisic went down with an injury and was forced to leave after making an attempt on a second goal. He was replaced by Pedro Rodriguez. MORE: Live updates, highlights and more from FA Cup final Shortly after his injury, fans noticed some people on AFTV were caught celebrating Pulisic going down....

My interlocutor, the amiable lawyer and National Review writer Dan McLaughlin, offered a substantive defense of orthodox “Reaganism” and an attitudinal appeal for conservatives to remain the “grown-ups in the room.” According to this logic, it is incumbent upon conservatives—actually, right-liberals—to act as righteous stewards of civic decency and defenders of the sacrosanct norms of liberal proceduralism, no matter how much our political foes have strayed. To drive home the point, it was only a day after the Yale debate that McLaughlin and his National Review colleague Charles C....

Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez? Click here to see the countdown of the 50 best players in the world in the 2016 Goal 50 The 25-year-old was heavily linked with a move away from the Serie A outfit, with club president Aurelio De Laurentiis claiming Chelsea tabled a 58 million euro ($63.8M) offer for the defender, while Everton also showed an interest in luring him to the Premier League. Napoli refused to sell Koulibaly, though, and he eventually signed a new five-year deal to commit his future to the Stadio San Paolo side instead....

“Yesterday’s behavior was not legitimate protest,” Sinema wrote in a statement posted on Twitter. “It is unacceptable for activist organizations to instruct their members to jeopardize themselves by engaging in unlawful activities such as gaining entry to closed university buildings, disrupting learning environments, and filming students in a restroom.” Democrats and activists in Arizona have become increasingly angry with Sinema, whom they feel has become a roadblock to President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda and efforts to pass a $3....

Manchester City striker Aguero and Reid were involved in a scuffle during Sunday’s clash at Etihad Stadium, when the pair tangled while challenging for a long ball in the 76th minute. Referee Andre Marriner appeared not to see the incident, but after Reid hit the deck, television replays showed Aguero flailing an arm that made contact with the New Zealander’s throat. The West Ham defender was subsequently forced off with his injury, and the Football Association could now review video footage of the incident to decide whether any retrospective action should be taken....