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http://ift.tt/2rej43m (FILES) This file photo taken on June 07, 2014 shows Russia's Maria Sharapova reacting after a point during her French tennis Open final match against Romania's Simona Halep at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Two-time champion Maria Sharapova has been denied a wild card for this year's Roland Garros, French tennis federation president Bernard Guidicelli said on May 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Miguel MEDINA Maria Sharapova vowed Wednesday to “rise up again” after she was told she would not be given a wildcard for the French Open following her 15-month ban for doping. The Russian former world number one had hoped to return to Grand Slam tennis at Roland Garros this month but French tennis officials on Tuesday said she would not be granted a wildcard for the event she won in 2012 and 2014. “If this is what it takes to rise up again, then I am in it all the way, everyday,” she wrote on Twitter, in her first apparent remarks on her snub. “No wor...

http://ift.tt/2qcqwLh A rebel soldier gestures as he stands near the entrance of the Ivory Coast's army headquarters, the Gallieni military camp, in Abidjan on May 12, 2017 as they fired shots in the air just hours after a spokesman for the protesters publicly apologised for an earlier mutiny. The gunfire erupted after disgruntled troops sealed off the area in the Plateau district of the Abidjan, the country's economic capital, an AFP correspondent said. The shots came just hours after national television broadcast a ceremony in which a soldier presented as a spokesman for 8,400 former rebels, many of them based in Bouake, said they wished to apologise to President Alassane Ouattara for the mutiny.ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP Defiant soldiers blocked access to Ivory Coast’s second-largest city on Saturday after firing guns into the air throughout the night, according to an AFP journalist at the scene. Rebellious soldiers had already taken to the streets Friday in Bouake, the econom...

http://ift.tt/2pAO8Fz Family and friends mourn the death of their loved ones during the massive wake in San Isidro Chilchotla, Puebla state, Mexico on May 9, 2017, after an explosion at a fireworks warehouse killed 14, all but three of them children, in a poor Mexican village as it celebrated a religious festival. / AFP PHOTO / JOSE CASTAÑARES Screams and tears burst forth in this Mexican village on Wednesday when small white coffins arrived for the bodies of nearly a dozen children killed in an accidental fireworks warehouse explosion two days before. In all, 14 people died in San Isidro, in the central state of Puebla, on Monday night. Eleven of them were children. The tragedy occurred five months after blasts in a fireworks market near Mexico City killed 42 people, highlighting the dangers of stocked pyrotechnics in the country, where families often poorly store explosives used to mark religious festivals. The national civil protection service said after the latest death...