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Corner, France. Conceded by Alexei Koselev.
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Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (France) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.
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Antoine Griezmann (France) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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Foul by Radu Ginsari (Moldova).
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Attempt saved. Kylian Mbappé (France) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.
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Hand ball by Eugeniu Cebotaru (Moldova).
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Attempt missed. Benjamin Pavard (France) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left.
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Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (France) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.
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Attempt missed. Alexandru Antoniuc (Moldova) right footed shot from long range on the right misses to the right. Assisted by Radu Ginsari.
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Alexandru Antoniuc (Moldova) wins a free kick on the right wing.
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Foul by Antoine Griezmann (France).
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Oleg Reabciuk (Moldova) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Countdown to the 2015 Academy of Country Music Awards Begins!
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The Academy of Country Music Awards are almost here, and this year, they're bigger than ever – literally!
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Co-hosted by Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, the 50th ACMs will host the biggest country stars at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, a space almost 55 times the size of the White House! ETonline has a super-cool time-lapse video of the gigantic stage being set up – and as part of our countdown to the big event, here are some of the most fascinating facts about the massive stadium and what we can expect to see on Sunday.
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1. The stadium can hold an impressive 78,000 people!
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2. Of the 78,000 people who will be in attendance on Sunday night, more than 60,000 will be actual ticketed seat holders watching the show. This leaves us wondering if the remaining 18,000 are all working.
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3. More than 7 million ACM Award tropies can fit inside the stadium.
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4. The stadium has 1,600 toilets, 800 concession stands, 22 escalators and 18 elevators.
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5. Arlington, TX is approximately 12 miles east of downtown Fort Worth and 20 miles west of downtown Dallas.
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6. There will be more than 20 live country music performances. Brooks & Dunn, Dierks Bentley, Garth Brooks and Miranda Lambert are just a few of the top names performing.
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7. Miranda Lambert leads this year's awards nominations with eight total nods, and Dierks Bentley comes in second with seven.
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ETonline will have complete coverage all weekend long. Tune in to the ACMs this Sunday, April 19 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT.
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Check out the video above to see an amazing time-lapse of the ACM stage!
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Hassocks joint-manager Phil Wickwar was left frustrated after their game against Eastbourne Town was called off, as his side look to improve their poor form.
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The Robins sit 19th in the table, after a run of nine league games without a win- stretching back to October.
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Wickwar acknowledges the poor run of form is a cause for concern but believes the players have the necessary fight to turn their season around.
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He said: “We were left frustrated with no game Saturday but most teams are in the same boat.
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“We have had a real tough run of fixtures against all the top sides and things are going against us but that is what happens when you are down there.
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“Player availability has been an issue but hopefully that is easing now.
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“The lads are up for the fight and thats what its going to be and if we apply ourselves we have a real chance of pulling clear.
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Next up for Hassocks is a trip to Crawley Down Gatwick and Wickwar wants to see a well organised display.
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He added: “We’ve now got a tough away game at Crawley Down Gatwick.
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Political turmoil, social unrest, civil war and terrorism could all be on the table unless the world boosts its food production by 60 percent come mid-century, the UN’s main hunger fighting agency has warned.
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The world’s population is expected to hit 9 billion people by 2050, which, coupled with the higher caloric intake of increasingly wealthy people, is likely to drastically increase food demand over the coming decades said Hiroyuki Konuma, the assistant director-general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization Asia-Pacific.
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Increased food demand comes at a time when the world is investing less in agricultural research, prompting fear among scientists that global food security could be imperiled.
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"If we fail to meet our goal and a food shortage occurs, there will be a high risk of social and political unrest, civil wars and terrorism, and world security as a whole might be affected," Reuters cites Konuma as saying at a one-week regional food security conference in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
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Several factors could exacerbate the potential for apocalyptic famines. In November, a leaked draft of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warned that climate change could cause a 2 percent drop each decade of this century. In the past three years for example, Australia, Canada, China, Russia and the United States have all suffered big flood and drought induced harvest losses.
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Exacerbating this problem is a convergence in diets worldwide, with reliance on an ever smaller group of crops leaving global food supplies increasingly vulnerable to inflationary pressure, insects and disease.
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"As the global population rises and the pressure increases on our global food system, so does our dependence on the global crops and production system that feeds us,” Luigi Guarino, from the Global Crop Diversity Trust, told the BBC earlier this month.
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"The price of failure of any of these crops will become very high."
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Progress has been made in the battle against global hunger, with vegetable production in Asia and the Pacific, where more than three-quarters of the world’s vegetables are grown, increasing by 25 percent over the last decade.
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The FAO estimates, however, that 842 million people in the world remain undernourished, with nearly two thirds of them living in the Asia-Pacific. One in four children under the age of five is stunted due to malnutrition.
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To combat the problem, the UN body has outlined two primary options: increasing arable land areas as well as productivity rates. A lack of available arable land and more sluggish growth rates in staple crops have complicated efforts to bolster these two pillars of food security.
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Over the past two years, productivity rates for rice and wheat have hovered around 0.6 to 0.8 percent. Those rates would have to stabilize around 1 percent in order to offset serious shortages, said Konuma.
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Environmentalists have also urged better food distribution methods. In February, the FAO, World Bank and World Resources Institute estimated that the world is losing 25 to 33 percent of the food it produces – nearly 4 billion metric tons.
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More efficient agricultural production, better means of storing food and biologically diverse, local food systems less susceptible to global changes have also been proposed as solutions to help tackle the growing threat of food insecurity.
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Tanzania needs to meet energy majors halfway or face falling further behind Mozambique in exploiting liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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Tanzania said in March that it plans to negotiate terms for developing a $30bn LNG project with international companies led by Norway’s Equinor. The country has an estimated 58 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves.
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In 2014, Tanzania was identified as the top destination for foreign direct investment in East Africa by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. That status has been undermined. The government of President John Magufuli has raised the bar by insisting that export projects have a strong focus on domestic infrastructure development.
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Tanzania has passed laws limiting foreign ownership of natural resources.
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In September 2018, it banned international arbitration as a method for resolving investor-state disputes.
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Negotiations between the government and international oil companies, which started in 2017, have so far failed to lead to a deal to export natural gas.
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Fitch in February downgraded Tanzania’s long-term political risk index score to 60.5 out of 100 from 64.4, largely owing to the government’s authoritarian policies. Sharp regulatory shifts will likely leave investors more wary of developing projects in Tanzania, Fitch said on 1 March.
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The Tanzanian government has a suspicious attitude towards international investors and taxes foreign energy operators too much, Okwi says. The result is that industry players have been deterred by a series of unsuccessful licensing rounds.
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In 2016, the discovery of undisclosed government loans worth up to $2bn led to the withdrawal of IMF aid and debt payments have since been missed.
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In February 2019, Anadarko Petroleum said a worker was killed near the construction site for its massive LNG project in northern Mozambique. Anadarko has said it will take the final investment decision on the project in the first half of this year.
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Still, Fitch at the start of March argued that the resumption of peace talks between Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi and the opposition Renamo party is “a positive signal for short-term stability” ahead of general elections in October.
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Eni’s floating LNG project in Mozambique, already under construction, is due to come onstream in 2022. Andarko and ExxonMobil both target first production in the mid-2020s. The Petroleum Economist argues that even if talks conclude quickly, any Tanzanian project is unlikely to be producing before the end of the 2020s at the earliest.
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Tanzania has already fallen behind Mozambique in exploiting its LNG resources. A willingness to accept international arbitration to disputes would be a first step to helping it catch up.
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MANILA, Philippines — Here is one lottery any priest and member of a religious group would definitely want to win.
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Citing the cramped space at the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros, organizers of Pope Francis’ visit in January 2015, have decided to make the papal Mass at the 2,000-seat capacity church a “by invitation only” event, limiting the number of guests to only 10 priests and five religious sisters per diocese.
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Cagayan de Oro Archbishop Antonio Ledesma said the papal visit steering committee has asked every diocese to send only 10 priests and five religious sisters for the Holy Mass, where Pope Francis will deliver his homily. There are 85 ecclesiastical territories in the country and a Military Ordinariate.
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The papal Mass with the bishops, priests and religious women and men will be held on Jan. 16, the second day of Pope Francis’ visit to the Philippines.
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To be fair in picking out who get to attend to the Holy Mass, Ledesma said priests were chosen by way of lottery in his archdiocese.
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“We were able to choose by lottery and section by the vicariates. [But] among the sisters, I think they just have to choose among themselves who will attend,” Ledesma told reporters in an interview.
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As for the lay members who want to have the opportunity to get a glimpse of the Pope or attend a papal event, Ledesma said they could attend the public Mass scheduled for Jan. 18 at the Quirino Grandstand in Luneta, Manila.
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“They will also have the chance since the Holy Father will also have a general Mass…it is an outdoor Mass [so] there will be more accommodation for everyone,” said the senior prelate.
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Earlier, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has explained that only a few delegates will be accommodated in some of the events during the papal visit due to limited space in some of the venues.
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“The public Masses, these are open to the public like the one in Tacloban and Luneta,” said Tagle.
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“But in some of the events, like the Encounter with the Families, because of the limitations also of the venue, only a certain number of delegates from different sectors or provinces will be accommodated,” said the cardinal at a press briefing last Friday.
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Pope Francis will arrive in Manila on January 15 from Sri Lanka. He will fly to Tacloban on January 17 to mingle with the survivors of Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). He will return to Rome on January 19.
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My mother lives in DC and needs someone good with a truck and a couple of guys who can move two beds from Silver Spring to the district. For understandable reasons, she's worried about hiring someone off Craigslist. Any suggestions?
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The Chicago Cubs finally ended a 108-year-long championship drought by defeating the Cleveland Indians in the 10th inning of Game 7 of the World Series Wednesday night. But while the team’s victory was a nail-biter to the very end, for the writers of Parks and Recreation, it should have come as no surprise.
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Although this episode aired in 2015, within the timeline of the show, Tom and Andy’s trip took place in the summer of 2017, meaning the Cubbies could only have pulled it off in none other than — you guessed it — 2016.
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Of course, the Parks team weren’t the only ones to predict this historical day would come to pass. Twitter user GIO shared an eerily accurate prediction about the outcome of this year’s series back in 2014.
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The following are extracts from reports by Aljazeera correspondents covering the evacuation of Israel's settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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This is the largest settlement in southern Gaza and extreme right-wing settlers have blocked the roads leading to it.
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Entering this settlement has been difficult despite its proximity to Gaza's borders.
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Even the Israeli army has not entered to hand over eviction orders because of the numerous barricades erected by Jewish settlers.
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The situation is calm at the main gate where the settlers have gathered to prevent the Israeli army from entering.
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About 2600 settlers are living in this settlement, but out of 500 families only 25% are expected to voluntarily evacuate.
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A number of young people and Jewish extremists have arrived here to hamper the Israeli army's efforts to evacuate the settlement.
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So far, no clashes have occurred between the Israeli army and the settlers.
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Some settlers have manhandled journalists but the Israeli army appeared reluctant to use force against settlers. The atmosphere is tense and strained.
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Wael al-Dahdouh from Kfar Daroum: The situation here is normal and calm. Here farming is a major income source, making evacuation more difficult.
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There are around 500 families in the settlement of whom 30% to 50% have voluntarily evacuated their homes. Palestinian security sources say that around 50% of those remaining will leave voluntarily, al-Dahdouh said.
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Samir Abu Shammala from Khan Yunus: Palestinian security forces have been deployed in the vicinity of Jewish settlements in southern Gaza. The Palestinian security forces will take control of the territories after the Israeli evacuation.
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The Palestinian security forces are responsible for the land and public property reclaimed from the settlers after evacuation. The atmosphere is positive and calm. Hamas has called for a prayer of thanks in the mosques because of the evacuation.
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Palestinian forces are deployed 150 to 200 metres away from the settlements.
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Other settlements set for evacuation are the Ghosh Qatif bloc which includes 15 to 16 settlements that take up a very large chunk of Palestinian land. Israeli troops have begun to dismantle checkpoints. This area is vital for Palestinians' freedom of access across the Gaza Strip.
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Clarl Collier watches his ball after he takes his putt on the 18th green Saturday during the Westwood Invitational at the Westwood Golf Club. The tournament continiues today and will wrap up Monday. To see more photos from the tournament visit photos.normantranscript.com.
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Feeling all the feels. Apparently, Friday was National Son's and Daughter's Day (it's okay if you didn't know), and to celebrate, Kim Kardashian penned a sweet essay about North and Saint on her website. We've all known that Kim loves her children to pieces, but hearing her talk about motherhood like this will definitely make you see her in a different light.
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In the essay about her kids, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star wrote, "Having kids changes everything -- in the best way possible. Thank you to my babies for choosing me and allowing me to be your mom. I have such an unconditional love for my kids. No matter what, I will always love them and support them in anything they choose to do in life."
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The makeup mogul also touched upon her own childhood, saying, "My family was so close growing up; now that I'm a mom, I understand the bond my mom and dad felt with us."
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Of course, as every parent knows, Kim admitted that "there can be ups and downs with kids," but she added that "no matter what [she] always [learns] so much from them."
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As all moms and dads can attest to, Kim revealed that everything changed for her once North was born. When she became a mother, her priorities shifted. "It's not about me anymore. After North was born, I wanted to be there and make memories together that we would share forever. North and Saint give me a whole new perspective and inspire me to be the best version of myself."
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Regardless of what you think of Kim, it's hard to deny the fact that she's a great mother who couldn't love her children more. And for all the crazy gossip that will live on forever about Kim, it's nice knowing her children will always be able to look back on sweet things like this, as well.
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The Srinagar unit of the Central Reserve Police Force took to Twitter to share a photo showing the camaraderie between two jawans on duty.
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Posted on July 29 on their official account (@crpf_srinagar), the image shows one jawan offering namaz while the other stands guard.
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