Sports News roundup November 16

South Korea defeated Cuba by a score of 7-2 to reach the semifinals of the Premier 12 baseball tournament played on Monday.... More


Paris, November 16 (RHC)-- France has entered a third day of mourning after 129 people were killed in Paris in a series of suicide bombings and shootings. It was the deadliest attack on French soil since World War II. Hundreds were wounded in the attacks on Friday, 99 are in critical condition. ... More


Asunción, November 16 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Mario Ferreiro, of the Febrerista Revolutionary Party and the Together We Can alliance, won the Asunción mayoral race with 100 percent of the votes counted, beating his closest challenger by more than 10 points. ... More


Paris, November 16 (RHC)-- France has entered a third day of mourning after 129 people were killed in Paris in a series of suicide bombings and shootings. It was the deadliest attack on French soil since World War II. Hundreds were wounded in the attacks on Friday, 99 are in critical condition. ... More


Damascus, November 16 (RHC)-- French fighter jets have pounded positions belonging to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in its de facto capital of al-Raqqah​. ... More


Paris, November 16 (RHC)-- French authorities said they believed the Paris attacks were carried out by eight assailants working in three teams. Seven of the men died in the attacks and a massive manhunt is underway for the eighth—Salah Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national. Two of his brothers were said to have died in the attack. Several of the attackers were French nationals. ... More


Paris, November 16 (RHC)-- French President Francois Hollande plans to increase a 12-day state of emergency announced following the Paris attacks to three-months, say parliamentary sources. ... More


London, November 16 (RHC)-- Special forces have been deployed to back British police after Paris attacks that killed 129 people, British newspapers reported on Sunday, as part of a wider boost in security measures. ... More


Kabul, November 16 (RHC)-- Afghan authorities say at least twelve people have lost their lives in a U.S. drone strike in the Asian country’s troubled eastern province of Nangarhar. ... More


Antalya, November 16 (RHC)-- A top Kremlin official says differences remain between Russia and the United States over how to tackle the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group operating across Syria. ... More


Cairo, November 16 (RHC)-- Police in Egypt have discovered the bodies of 15 African asylum seekers in the area of northern Sinai Peninsula near Israel, sources say. ... More


Ramallah, November 16 (RHC)-- At least two Palestinians have been killed and three others wounded in clashes between Israeli military forces and a group of Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank. ... More


Beijing, November 16 (RHC)-- The death toll from a landslide in eastern China has risen to 25 as more than 2,000 rescuers continue to search for possible survivors in the buried homes. ... More


Antalya, November 16 (RHC)-- Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow's official investigation into a crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt is in its final stage. Putin made the remarks on Monday during a joint conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in the Turkish province of Antalya. ... More


Washington, November 16 (RHC)-- The United States has sent five inmates of America's notorious military prison at Guantanamo Bay to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). ... More


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