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'We want to strike back strongly': Liverpool vow to bounce back to form after first loss in 45 games (VIDEO) While some sections of the football world – especially in North London – are taking joy from Liverpool's 3-0 defeat at Watford, the Merseyside club has vowed to complete the job and secure the Premier League title. Liverpool crashed to a 3-0 defeat to Watford as an insipid Reds performance saw their hopes of matching Arsenal's 2003/2004 "Invincibles" season was left crushed at Vicarage Road. Speaking after the match, Reds boss Klopp said: "I know people will suggest we cannot be the best-ever Prem team - but we can win more games next week and beyond. The boys have so many records, why would they want any more? We don’t want to be greedy!" ...

Putin says Russia should be ready for any scenario as oil market suffers steep decline The current crude prices are acceptable for the Russian economy, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after the price of oil dramatically fell to the lowest point in more than a year. “Today it is difficult to predict how long-term this trend [the drop in oil prices] will become, but in any case, we need to be prepared for different scenarios,” the Russian leader said during a meeting with finance and energy officials as well as the heads of Russian oil and gas majors on Sunday. Putin said that although last week was the worst for global markets since the 2008 financial crisis, Russia has enough reserves to stay afloat even if the situation continues to deteriorate...

Contact lost with Russian Sputnik news agency journalists who sought police help after Turkish nationalists attacked their homes Three employees of the Turkish branch of Sputnik News, whose apartments were attacked by Turkish nationalists on Saturday night, have been missing since going to file complaints about the incident to Turkish police. “We have not been able to contact our employees in Ankara for nine hours now,” Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT and Sputnik, said in a tweet on Sunday morning. The three employees of the Russian news outlet were apparently targeted in coordinated attacks on Saturday evening. Their homes were raided by groups of angry people who shouted nationalist slogans and accused them of betraying their country. ...

There is no commitment on the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners – Afghan president after US deal Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that releasing up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners cannot be considered a pre-condition of peace talks. His statement comes a day after the Taliban signed a peace deal with the US. The release of the militants cannot be considered a pre-condition, rather it “can be part of the negotiations,” Ghani said on Sunday, as cited by TOLO News. The Afghan leader confirmed that the US is facilitating the prisoners’ release but it is ultimately up to Kabul to “decide on it.” The US-Taliban deal says that Washington will work with all sides on a prisoner swap as a confidence-building step. According to the plan, the US with the Afghan g...

‘You can't win 'em al’: Sanders concedes defeat in South Carolina, says he ‘believes strongly’ in Super Tuesday success Senator Bernie Sanders has brushed off concerns over his second-place finish at the South Carolina primary, saying that he hopes to bring it home on Super Tuesday, when 14 states would be casting their ballots for a nominee. Sanders, who was busy campaigning in Norfolk, Virginia, when the South Carolina primary results came in, appeared upbeat about his campaign’s future, describing the Saturday vote result as a minor setback. “I’m very proud that in this campaign so far we have won the popular vote in Iowa, we have won the New Hampshire primary, we have won the Nevada caucus, but you cannot win them all.” Sanders said that what ...

One billionaire out: Tom Steyer bows out of Democratic presidential race after 3d place finish in South Carolina Billionaire activist Tom Steyer has given up on his presidential bid after failing to win any delegates in South Carolina, according to projections. Steyer has been accused of buying his way into the race, having spent millions. Steyer has dug deep into his own pocket, spending about $20 million of his own money in South Carolina alone in hopes to mount a 15 percent threshold, allowing him to win delegates in the fourth and final early voting contest before Super Tuesday. However, that was not to be, as Steyer is now projected to gain less than 12 percent of the vote in the primary, dominated by former Vice President Joe Biden. “I can’t s...

Trump calls on Bloomberg to end his ‘joke of a campaign’ not to chip away at Biden’s votes after former VP’s South Carolina win With former VP Joe Biden’s campaign back from the dead after a landslide South Carolina win, US President Donald Trump taunted another Democratic hopeful, Mike Bloomberg, urging him to drop out of the race in Biden’s favor. Shortly after South Carolina primary exit polls pointed to a convincing Biden’s victory in the fourth and final early voting contest ahead of the Super Tuesday, Trump took to Twitter to send a ‘congratulatory’ message of his own, taking aim at fellow billionaire Bloomberg in the process. “Sleepy Joe Biden’s victory in the South Carolina Democrat Primary should be the end of Mini Mike Bloomberg’s Joke of ...

Biden wins South Carolina primary, gets much needed boost after previous poor showing – projections Joe Biden’s campaign showed its first signs of life in South Carolina with the former vice president taking the lead above other Democrats in the state’s primary, including frontrunner Bernie Sanders. Multiple outlets called the South Carolina primary in Biden’s favor shortly after the polls closed at 7.00 pm ET. According to exit poll data by Edison Research, Biden is on course to win at least 28 delegates from 54 up for grabs in the fourth and final early voting contest. Looking forward to bag his first victory in the so far listless campaign, Biden relied heavily on black voters.  However, the exit poll data suggest that while Biden found favors wi...

‘Bernie or brokered’: Dems, media sweating as Biden makes last chance effort to challenge Sanders in South Carolina Joe Biden may have his first primary victory in South Carolina, something that is essential for his campaign to compete against frontrunner Bernie Sanders, who continues to weather attacks from the media and Dem establishments. After poor showings in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, Biden is looking to challenge Sanders’ frontrunner status with a comeback in South Carolina, a place where he is expected to win. Though his campaign has been riddled with gaffes and he’s struggled in previous states, polling in South Carolina shows Biden has a double digit lead over his competitors. An average of polls out of South Carolina gathered by Real...

Thugs break into homes of 3 Sputnik employees in Ankara, shout anti-Russian & nationalist slogans Groups of people descended on homes of three Russia’s Sputnik agency staffers in Ankara, Turkey, chanting “Turkey for the Turks” and accusing journalists of treason for working for Moscow, RT Editor-in-Chief reported on Twitter. What appears to be a coordinated attack on Sputnik employees in the Turkish capital was first reported by Margarita Simonyan, RT and Sputnik’s Editor-in-Chief on Saturday, and later confirmed by the agency itself. Simonyan tweeted that three separate groups, each numbering about 10 hooligans, swooped on the flats of three agency’s employees, hurling threats and accusing them of betraying their homeland, Turkey, for doing jou...