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Lee Kyung-hoon wins Korea Open

Lee Kyung-hoon shot a final round five-under-par 66 to win the 58th Korea Open by four strokes on Sunday. “The Korea Open is our biggest event and it is a great honor to win,” Lee said. Four shots is a nice margin but it was all much closer than that.” Lee’s countryman Kim Meen-whee also closed with a 66 to finish outright second while Wang Jeung-hun and Lee Dong-min finished

Golf-Lee Kyung-hoon wins Korea Open

Lee Kyung-hoon shot a final round five-under-par 66 to win the 58th Korea Open by four strokes on Sunday. “The Korea Open is our biggest event and it is a great honour to win,” Lee said. Four shots is a nice margin but it was all much closer than that.” Lee’s countryman Kim Meen-whee also closed with a 66 to finish outright second while Wang Jeung-hun and Lee Dong-min finished

Brilliant Bumgarner leaves Padres praying for mercy

(The Sports Xchange) – San Francisco’s Madison Bumgarner retired the first 23 batters he faced before settling for a one-hit shutout in an 8-0 victory over the San Diego Padres on Saturday, with the Giants ace admitting the result was more important than personal glory. “I’m not here to throw perfect games or no-hitters,” the reigning World Series Most Valuable Player assured after the third one-hit shutout of his career.

Struggling Germany seeks 'orderly' tackling of migrant crisis

By Michelle Martin and Michael Shields BERLIN/ZURICH (Reuters) – Germany appealed on Sunday for a rapid return to “orderly procedures” in dealing with Europe’s migrant crisis, as the continent’s most powerful nation acknowledged it could scarcely cope with thousands of asylum seekers arriving daily. A week after Chancellor Angela Merkel effectively opened German borders to asylum seekers, one senior minister said the country had reached its limits. Bild newspaper reported

Al Qaeda chief urges lone wolf attacks, militant unity

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on young Muslim men in the United States and other Western countries to carry out attacks inside there and urged greater unity between militants. It was not clear when the recording was made but references to former Taliban leader Mullah Mohamed Omar as being alive suggest it is at least two months old. Zawahri reiterated his position on Islamic State, repeating what he said

Russia's Lavrov says Moscow to continue military support of Syria: reports

Russia will continue with military supplies to Syria, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies on Sunday. Moscow has come under increased international pressure in recent days over what Washington and Gulf states say is a Russian military build-up in Syria, where the Kremlin has been supporting President Bashar al-Assad in a four-and-a-half-year war. “There were military supplies, they are ongoing and they will continue.

Exiled Yemeni government pulls out of planned peace talks

By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s exiled government pulled out of U.N.-mediated peace talks with its Houthi adversaries on Sunday as troops from the Saudi-led coalition that is seeking to restore it took part in ground fighting in a central province for the first time. Loyalists of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi have been battling the Iran-allied Houthis across Yemen since March, when the group forced him and his administration

Refugee crisis shows the changing soul of Germany

By Paul Carrel and Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe’s refugee crisis is revealing the changing soul of Germany. The same year, politician Thilo Sarrazin published his book “Deutschland schafft sich ab” (Germany does away with itself), warning that Muslim immigrants were ruining German society. “This is the moment where Germany has recognized it has a global role,” says Harold James, an economic historian at Princeton University.

Clashes, militant bombing kill nine in southeast Turkey

By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdish militants killed two police officers in a car bomb attack on a checkpoint in southeast Turkey on Sunday, as authorities imposed a curfew in the region’s largest city Diyarbakir where clashes broke out, security sources said. Turkish forces backed up by helicopters and commandos shelled a mountainous area where the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters had fled after the checkpoint attack in

GB and Ireland closing in on Walker Cup win

Great Britain and Ireland increased their lead over the United States to 10-6 on Sunday with just the closing singles matches to come on the final day of the Walker Cup. Leading 7-5 after Saturday’s play at Royal Lytham, the home side won three of the four morning foursomes and now need to take just three and a half points out of 10 to be sure of regaining the trophy.