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However, despite all the criticism, what must be noted is that they have managed to grab six points. Some may refer to the first goal scored in Kolkata as a freak one when Jordi Figueras saw his clearance find the back of the net. Others may suggest that Miku’s goal came late in the game when Kolkata threw everyone forward in their search for the equalizer. One cannot discredit Roca’s team for they are mentally strong and manage to come away with a win even when they are not in the best of forms....

Bengaluru FC had to defeat Bagan in order to win the second I-League title while the visitors only needed a point. The Blues could only muster a point as Bagan romped to their first ever league triumph. “I still remember when we lifted the I league trophy in Bangalore! At Chennaiyin, we are a family. We play for each other. Playing for Mohun Bagan and Chennaiyin is special,” said Jeje....

Dal Colle agreed to a two-year deal, while Ho-Sang signed a one-year extension. As per CapFriendly, Dal Colle’s deal carries an AAV of $700,000, while Ho-Sang will make $874,125. NHL FREE AGENCY 2019: Tracker for all 31 teams’ RFAs, UFAs Both forwards, now 23 years old, are both Islanders 2014 first-round picks and have since remained in the organization’s farm system while other prospects — such as Mathew Barzal, who was drafted the following summer — developed more quickly....

Now it appears that was a strictly Eurocentric view. Over the past few years researchers have been tuning in love’s old, sweet song in remote hamlets and time zones. They are encountering it even in so-called primitive societies where prearranged marriage is the rule. One far-ranging 1992 study reported finding evidence of the phenomenon in as many as 147 of 166 different cultures. Its absence in the other 19, say study authors William Jankowiak of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Edward Fischer of Tulane University, probably reflects a deficiency of their study methods, not of local ardor....

In the first-ever revelation of the plan to the press, an Israeli security official discussed the strategy with Newsweek on the condition of anonymity. “We’ve done a very significant amount of work in the last two years to sharpen our soldiers in the face of these threats,” the Israeli security official told Newsweek. “The main tactic that we use is ‘Defense by Colors,’ which we use to defend against these threats on the border and help our soldiers prepare for every scenario....

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced Tuesday a preliminary study at the Sheba Medical Center found patients who received a fourth vaccine dose had five times more antibodies in their blood. So far, the fourth shot has only been distributed to immunocompromised people and to people over the age of 60. Israel is likely the first country in the world to provide some citizens with a second booster. Nachman Ash, director-general of Israel’s Health Ministry, said while the government could make second boosters available to more groups of people, he worries it will not come fast enough, as the Omicron variant has been spreading so quickly....

Nevertheless, the Israelis currently in power should use this opportunity to brief the president on the full scope of their efforts to thwart an emboldened enemy—Iran. And President Biden should listen carefully to what the Israelis have to say, as their actions have meaningfully pushed back Tehran’s ambitions. In the past, Jerusalem focused on targeted killings of Iranian nuclear scientists and striking at Iran and its proxy network abroad. No longer....

The new era of peace deals has already illustrated just how much hunger there was on both sides for these agreements. An estimated 50,000 Israelis flew to Dubai after flights began on November 26. I was one of the people who flew from Tel Aviv to Dubai on a packed Fly Dubai flight this month, and it was striking how normal it felt. This normality is natural, because Dubai is a city with hundreds of nationalities, hosting people from all over the world....

According to a Times of Israel reporter, the motorist drove into a Palestinian pedestrian after stones were apparently thrown at his vehicle near the Lions’ Gate. Video footage shows the vehicle got stuck after ramming into a person and hitting a barrier. Pictures of the driver showed he was bleeding following the collision. The condition of the person struck by his vehicle was not immediately clear. Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, tweeted aerial footage of the incident, saying Palestinians had attempted to “lynch the passengers” of the vehicle....

The president has devoted the first part of his trip to addressing Israel’s security concerns in the region, including Iran’s nuclear weapons program — an issue that has drawn far more attention in recent years than the long-running conflict to resolve the question of Palestinian statehood. Biden will turn to Palestinian issues Friday, his last day in Israel, before flying to Saudi Arabia to attend a politically fraught summit that has overshadowed the entire trip....

So Europeans can be forgiven for laughing out loud at the idea that Belgium has become chic–not at home, but in America. Belgian restaurants are springing up on the East and West coasts, Belgian beer is being chugged in three-star restaurants and Belgian designers Martin Margiela, Ann Demeulemeester and Dries Van Noten have attracted cult followings among the fashion conscious. More Americans are visiting Belgium, too. While tourism to Europe was up an average of 5 percent annually between 1993 and 1997, it was up 6....

In their haste to obsess over every detail and every implication of last night’s largely inconsequential Oregon and Kentucky primaries, the cable-news chatterati forgot the cardinal rule of political journalism: follow the money. As the returns were still rolling in, the campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain quietly filed their April financial reports with the FEC–and the stats told a more interesting story than whatever was happening in Beaver and Bluegrass country....

Harris, the Biden administration’s lead on “stemming the migration to our southern border,” was last seen at the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processing facility in El Paso, Texas, on June 25. When Biden tapped Harris to handle the border crisis on March 24, he said: “I’ve asked her, the VP, today—because she’s the most qualified person to do it—to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help—are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border....

The Egypt international has been in scintillating form for the Merseyside-based outfit this season, scoring 31 goals in 33 league appearances and just over 40 in all competitions under Jurgen Klopp. Salah was on Sunday named the PFA Player of the Year, becoming only the seventh Liverpool player to win the accolade. “It is early to compare him with Messi,” Pienaar told KweséESPN. “But he’s tough and he’s got the character to build on....

Tip: These are serious wheels with a sense of humor.

Voting for pro-choice Democrats this November is essential to enshrining the right to abortion into federal law, but it’s not the only action we can take. As chair of the New Democrat Coalition, a congressional pro-choice caucus leader, and former businesswoman, I know that protecting Americans’ freedom requires an all hands-on-deck approach with Congress, state legislatures, courts, and the private sector working to reverse the damage of the Supreme Court’s decision....

For speech, in particular, the consequences of tech’s growing power have become increasingly plain. In April, Facebook began removing content promoting anti-lockdown events. From ABC News to Politico, it was reported that this was being done at the behest of state governments. By the evening, Facebook clarified that it would only be removing from its platform content pertaining to groups whose activities violated governments’ social distancing guidance. In other words, Facebook is not removing protest content that is unlawful—but rather, content that goes against state government “advisories....

Equal parts “Star Search” and “The Gong Show,” “Karaoke Showcase” premiered this month on some 100 stations. The series’ contestants were culled from 3,000 audition tapes, most of which, unfortunately, featured balladeers warbling either “The Greatest Love of All” or " Unchained Melody." Sayonara, balladeers. “We want lively acts that evoke an audience reaction,” says executive producer Len DePanicis. “We want all the people that ‘Star Search’ rejects.” He seems to have gotten them: a male manicurist butchers “Play That Funky Music,” a waitress struggles through “Mony, Mony” and a car salesman gives us “Born to Be Wild” while gunning a motorcycle around the stage....

Will President Biden follow those words with action? The recent arrest and detention of leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has put this question front and center. He must now decide whether to formally determine that the Russian government used chemical weapons in August 2020 against Navalny. At the time, then-President Donald Trump declined to follow a U.S. law called the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination (CBW) Act, which requires the president to determine within 60 days that a state used chemical weapons against its own national and specify penalties....

Bianca Dobroiu arrived at the Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic hospital, a public hospital part of the University of Bologna healthcare system, on February 28. She was admitted to the hospital with a fever above 105 degrees and was diagnosed with COVID-19. “After four days she was fine, but the swabs are still positive,” infectious disease specialist Luciano Attard told local media. “As far as we know, no one else in Italy has remained positive for so long....