The Saudi Arabian team required an equaliser from Omar Khribin to ensure they did not lose at home, after Rafael Silva scored his eighth goal of the tournament in the 10th minute to send Urawa ahead temporarily. The crowd at the King Fahd International stadium were sent into shock as early as in the 10th minute Rafael Silva embarked on a solo run down the left flank before cutting in and firing a low strike at goal....

The star of the show for Esteghlal was striker Mame Thiam who scored a hat-trick as they won 3-1 on the night and 3-2 on aggregate. He was in sensational form for the Iranian team as Zobahan dreams were shattered. Esteghlal had the perfect start when they were awarded a penalty in the 11th minute. The Senegalese forward converted the spotkick to draw Esteghlal level on aggregate. Thiam was on target again in the 41t minute with a left-footed curler from outside the area that beat the Zobahan goalkeeper all ends up....

It was Home United who began the game well, surging into the lead as early as in the 11th minute when Fernando Rodriguez upended him inside the area and the referee was forced to award the penalty. Plazibat coolly slotted home the spotkick. A shocked Ceres Negros threatened to hit back immediately but saw two goals from Kevin Ingreso and Rodriguez ruled out for offside. But they kept chipping away throughout the first half and found their reward at the fag end of the half....

The Indian side has undergone a sea of changes in their squad this season due to their inclusion in the Indian Super League (ISL). Even though the club managed to retain quite a few players from last season, several new faces have joined their ranks. Spanish manager Albert Roca as such remains cautious ahead of this big clash in the continental tournament. “To be honest, I would like more time to prepare....

Having made the switch to the Indian Super League (ISL) this season, the Bengaluru outfit has been in the headlines recently after they announced the signing of the Indian Number 1 Gurpreet Singh from Norwegian side Stabaek FC for an undisclosed fee. Having pulled off a bit of a coup in capturing the signature of the top-notch custodian, Alberto Roca’s side will be taking on a Korean opponent for the first time in their three-year stint as participants in the AFC competition....

Maziya head coach Marjan Sekulovski was delighted to be in the country and expressed his happiness by mentioning about Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary, Mother Teresa. ‘‘Firstly, I am very happy to be in Calcutta. I am from Macedonia and this city is special to me because of the life and work of one of the best persons in the world, our and your Mother Teresa,’’ said Marjan....

About 21,600 people were safely evacuated from Afghanistan in the 24-hour period that ended early Tuesday, compared to about 16,000 the previous day. Around 12,700 evacuees were carried by 37 U.S. military flights, and an additional 8,900 people were aboard 57 flights by U.S. allies. Pentagon chief spokesman John Kirby attributed the quick evacuations due in part to coordination with Taliban leaders. “Thus far, and going forward, it does require constant coordination and deconfliction with the Taliban,” Kirby said....

Tolo News voluntarily removed music shows and soap operas after the Taliban has issued vague directives that media must not contradict Islamic laws or harm national interest. Instead, the dramas have been replaced by a Turkish TV series set in the Ottoman era featuring more modestly dressed actresses. Saad Mohseni, the CEO and chairman of Moby Group, which owns Tolo, said the network made the decision to replace the shows on its own because “we didn’t think that they’d be acceptable to the new regime....

Of course, since this is America, no question of pigment can have a purely scientific origin or resolution. The change in the exhibit was not prompted by new scientific evidence-which has been clear on the African origins of humanity since the 1970s-but from a complaint by members of the Tu-Wa-Moja (Swahili for “We Are One”) African Study Group in the District of Columbia. Along with Australopithecus, the ground-floor murals depicting the evolution of man will be revised to correct the impression that the earliest humans resembled the ones on the Mayflower....

As a naval officer, I have been encouraged by military leadership this past month, as they have embraced the Black Lives Matter movement and are actively seeking solutions to end systemic racism in the armed services. It feels different this time. It doesn’t just feel like empty platitudes as a result of another annual survey from the command managed equal opportunity program. From the secretary of defense down to tactical-level unit commanders, I am hearing calls for change and seeing solutions being offered and implemented....

That’s bad for the fossil fuel industry and the bad faith actors who do their bidding. They benefit from our ongoing addiction to fossil fuels. Public awareness of the dangers of climate change threatens business as usual—that is, our continued reliance on the burning of fossil fuels, oil, coal, natural gas, for energy and transportation, and the massive fossil fuel industry profits that go with it. Nothing offers greater potential to raise climate awareness than the sight of biblical fires engulfing our communities and countryside, people’s homes, our forested environs....

The New Mexico Department of Health released a statement Friday indicating that that three of seven people who ingested had sanitizer in May died from methanol poisoning; one was blinded permanently; and the other three remain in critical condition. Kathy Kunkel, the secretary for the state health department, said in the statement that those who have either consumed or ingested hand sanitizer containing methanol should “seek immediate medical care.”...

Whatever the writing may say on the wall for America’s backyard version of Eastern Europe, the message U.S. business sees is opportunity. That’s because the Soviet Union’s collapse last autumn cut Cuba’s rust-bucket economy adrift, and shellshocked Havana officials are now desperately seeking a new kind of benefactor: foreign capitalists. Officially, U.S. companies remain sidelined by Washington’s 30-year-old embargo-and there are no signs of that being lifted as long as Castro remains in power....

“LGBTQ rights are human rights,” she wrote in a tweet Monday night, “and we should condemn any effort to infringe upon them.” But Omar was adamant her support didn’t change her view on the Israeli occupation. “Pretending that this act somehow balances or mitigates Israel violating the dignity and rights of Palestinians—or undermines cases for defending Palestinian rights—is deplorable.” Earlier this month, the LGBT group al-Qaws announced it was holding a two-day “queer camp” at the end of August in Nablus, a city in the West Bank about 30 miles from Jerusalem....

This was precisely the plan. With the window for terminating pregnancies narrowed to roughly six weeks, the measure has the effect of limiting abortion availability while stopping short of an outright ban that would run counter to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court precedent. The probable extinction of Roe later this Supreme Court term has energized some states to expand protections for the unborn. But as we wait for the Court to hand down a decisive ruling, those states should not kid themselves....

The unexpected defeat of the party of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has significant implications for both Europe and the United States. On his first day as prime minister-elect, 43-year-old Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero quickly reiterated his past promises to withdraw Spanish forces from Iraq before June 30, unless the United Nations is given a mandate there. Calling the Iraqi adventure a “disaster” that had led to “nothing but hate and unrest,” he described Spain’s decision to commit peacekeepers to the country as an error....

In Tarzana, 73-year-old Norman Lee, a retired biochemist, had been having trouble sleeping and was reading at the kitchen table when he felt something akin to “a giant hand reaching down and shaking me.” He dropped to the floor and crawled to the bedroom where his wife, Marjory, was clinging to the sheets. She was untouched, but an eight-foot-high wooden bookcase had toppled onto his side of the bed. Sometimes, he reflected later, “insomnia is good for your health....

Nobody won in Moscow last week. The Russian president and his chief rival, parliamentary chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov, stepped back from confrontation with a last-minute compromise. Yeltsin dropped his earlier call for a “special rule” that would have allowed him to ignore the Parliament completely. Khasbulatov appeared on television demanding that the president form a “national reconciliation government,” but he refrained from holding proceedings to impeach the president-largely because he didn’t have the votes to win....

The survey broke down the responses of 1,204 registered voters across the party spectrums who were surveyed between November 8 and November 9. Forty-one percent of all respondents “believe most news stories, but do not trust certain sources,” while 26 percent believe “most news stories, not certain sources,” and 17 percent each say they “almost always” or “almost never” believe news stories. There is a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2....

But Tom Brady is not Jacksonville’s biggest problem in the next round. Nor is the historic challenge that comes with a road game at Gillette Stadium in January. The biggest obstacle in the way of the Jaguars reaching Super Bowl 52 is the Patriots’ status as the NFL’s most prepared team. The Steelers, who lost 45-42 on Sunday, don’t have that reputation. Otherwise they might have been better prepared in a rematch against the team that blew them out in Week 5 of the regular season....