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Aubameyang missed Arsenal’s shock defeat at Brentford in their Premier League opener after he contracted Covid-19. The Arsenal captain came off the bench in Sunday’s 2-0 home defeat against Chelsea but could not spare his side from their worst ever start to a season. With the pressure mounting on Arsenal boss Arteta, Aubameyang rode to the rescue against Championship promotion chasers Albion at the Hawthorns. He scored Arsenal’s first goals this season with two close-range efforts in the first half before sealing his hat-trick with a curling strike after the interval. Nicolas Pepe, Bukayo Saka and Alexandre Lacazette also got…

Sports News of Thursday, 26 August 2021 Source: goal.com 2021-08-26 Crystal Palace striker Jordan Ayew Fifa president Gianni Infantino is calling on the United Kingdom government to reconsider its stance on mandatory quarantine for international players from coronavirus red-listed countries, a directive that currently rules Crystal Palace striker Jordan Ayew and Leicester City defender Daniel Amartey out of Ghana’s upcoming World Cup qualifier against South Africa.Brentford winger Tariqe Fosu will also be absent from the Black Stars trip to Johannesburg for the September 6 fixture under the standing guidelines.Infantino’s appeal comes a day after the English Football Association announced Premier…

Shopping centre is evacuated during lockdown after a bomb threat was madeBy Tita Smith For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:50 EDT, 26 August 2021 | Updated: 00:53 EDT, 26 August 2021 A shopping centre on the NSW Central Coast has been evacuated after a bomb threat was made.Police were called to Bateau Bay Square on Bay Village Road in Bateau Bay after a threat was made around 1.15pm on Thursday.Officers are on the scene investigating, with shoppers and staff forced to evacuate the centre. More to come.  Advertisement Share or comment on this article: Source link

The warning came hours after a US defense official had told CNN that officials were alarmed by a “very specific threat stream” about the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, which planned to attack crowds outside the airfield.Inside, thousands of troops are braving testing conditions and intense heat to fill cargo aircraft with US citizens and Afghans who helped American troops and officials and fear gruesome punishment by the Taliban.The question now is how long the Pentagon will give the evacuation operation before it transitions to a mission to extract thousands of troops and materiel, which could take several days and curtail…

General News of Thursday, 26 August 2021 Source: 3news.com 2021-08-26 Ketu South Member of Parliament Abla Dzifa Gomashie The Volta Region branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on its supporters to join Friday’s demonstration planned to impress upon government to open the country’s land borders.The demonstration, to be led by Ketu South Member of Parliament Abla Dzifa Gomashie, will be staged in Aflao.But before then, the MP for Jomoro Constituency, Dorcas Affo-Toffey, will lead her constituents on Thursday, August 26 to stage a similar demonstration at Elubo in the Western Region.“The NDC in the Volta Region wishes…

US international Turner pulled off superb saves from Liga-MX duo Rogeli Funes Mori and Salvador Reyes in the shoot-out to hand the MLS All-Star team their first victory in the showpiece since 2015. Turner’s display earned him Most Valuable Player honors and follows a dazzling performance for the USA in their CONCACAF Gold Cup victory earlier this month. FC Dallas teenager Ricardo Pepi struck the winning spot-kick for the MLS line-up after an entertaining game at Los Angeles’s Banc of California Stadium finished deadlocked at 1-1 after 90 minutes. The MLS line-up had gone close to taking the lead early…

Sports News of Thursday, 26 August 2021 Source: footballghana.com 2021-08-26 Ghanaian striker, Abdul Majeed Waris Ghanaian striker, Abdul Majeed Waris has stated that his team, Strasbourg, should not be conceding in home games after they were held to a 1-1 draw against Troyes in Ligue 1.Troyes netted the opener in the 19th minute through Touzghar and the hosts, Strasbourg, equalized in the 77th minutes via a strike from Thomasson.”I think the first goal we took didn’t put us in the right direction. We play at home, we can’t concede a goal like that, especially at home. We managed to equalize…

Premier Daniel Andrews has lashed out at ‘selfish’ Victorians infected with Covid-19 who waited days to get tested as the state’s current outbreak worsens.Victoria recorded 80 new cases on Thursday in a dramatic escalation to its outbreak, almost double the number of infections recorded a day earlier.Only half of the latest cases were in quarantine while infectious, while 13 are mystery cases not yet linked to the outbreak. Premier Andrews is frustrated about the high number putting off getting tested after symptoms develop and with some infectious in the community for up to eight days.He implored Victorians to stop making selfish…

“It looks heroic,” Atherton, of Singing River Ocean Springs Hospital, told CNN. “But that’s not what it is. It’s sweaty and hard and chaotic and bloody. And it’s hard to live in this every day and then go home and live a normal life.”Mississippi now has at least 2,000 fewer nurses than it did at the beginning of the year, according to the Mississippi Hospital Association’s Center for Quality & Workforce. The staff shortages add to the growing strain on the state’s hospital system — both due, in large part, to the Covid-19 pandemic.When asked if the health care system…

General News of Thursday, 26 August 2021 Source: www.mynewsgh.com 2021-08-26 Acting District Chief Executive for the Bongo District, Peter Ayimbisa Acting District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Bongo District Peter Ayimbisa is on record to have said that there is a story to suggest that water in Bongo has some aphrodisiac qualities hence making women fertile and men sexually active.The DCE has caught the attention of many Ghanaians after MyNewsGh.com’s report of him saying that he suspects the water the people of Bongo take plays a contributory role in the rampant teenage pregnancies in the District.Making this known in a…