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The club said the player was isolating in his home and was asymptomatic, adding that he had not been in contact with any of the players who are to travel to Lisbon for the Champions League.

Brent crude was up 52 cents, or 1.2%, at $45.02 a barrel by 0648 GMT, after falling around 1% on Tuesday. West Texas Intermediate oil was up 49 cents, or 1.2%, at $42.10 a barrel, having dropped 0.8% in the previous session.

Spot gold declined as much as 2% to a near three-week low of $1,872.19, resuming its free fall after a brief hiatus in early trade. It was down 1.1% to $1,889.59 by 0330 GMT, extending losses after a 6% plunge on Tuesday. US gold futures slid 2.4% to $1,900.

The mixed sentiment has led to choppy trade in Asia with the index of ex-Japan Asia-Pacific shares shedding 0.76% while Japan's Nikkei gained 0.2%.

The source of the outbreak has baffled health officials, who said they were confident there were no local transmission of the virus in New Zealand for 102 days and that the family had not travelled overseas.

Martin Scorsese joins Oprah Winfrey, Ridley Scott, Alfonso Cuaron, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and others who have reached agreements to make programming for Apple TV+

Even after squandering three match points in the third set, Simona Halep edged past Slovenia's Polona Hercog 6-1 1-6 7-6(3) in the first round of the Prague Open.

Daniel Sturridge has been without a club since March, when he terminated his contract with Turkey’s Trabzonspor after being banned for four months by the FA for breaching its betting rules.

Ben Stokes has been ruled out of the remaining two matches against Pakistan for family reasons and the ECB said he would shortly fly to New Zealand, the country of his birth.

The ongoing 2020/21 Scottish Premiership has been postponed after Celtic defender Boli Bolingoli played in a 1-1 draw at Kilmarnock on Sunday without quarantining after returning from Spain.

The ship, MV Wakashio, owned by Nagashiki Shipping and operated by Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd, ran onto the reef on July 25, and the resulting oil leak has raised fears of a major ecological crisis in the Indian Ocean island.

TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, is already under investigation over privacy concerns by U.S., European Union and Dutch authorities.

Valencia have announced that two members of their squad and coaching staff have tested positive for COVID-19, a day after returning to pre-season training.

Israeli media reported that more than 30 fires were set around border communities by balloons carrying incendiary devices launched from Gaza.

New Zealand has managed to largely contain the spread of the novel coronavirus and has held a national rugby competition in front of big crowds over the last couple of months.

Sinovac released details on Monday from mid-stage, or Phase 2, study in which it said the vaccine candidate appeared to be safe and induced detectable antibody-based immune responses in subjects.

The illuminated four-meter (13-ft) high replica by Cuban blacksmith Jorge Enrique Salgado lights up a corner of the otherwise dimly-lit Arroyo Naranjo southern residential district of the capital.

“I’m much more inclined to do it sometime after the election. ... We could do it through teleconference or we could do it through a meeting,” the Republican president said at White House news conference.

Manchester United reached the Europa League semi-finals as midfielder Bruno Fernandes scored a 95th-minute penalty to secure a 1-0 win over FC Copenhagen after extra time on Monday.

Biden, the former vice president under Barack Obama, has committed to picking a woman as his running mate and has come under increasing pressure from some Democratic leaders and activists for her to be Black.

Kuwait’s Armed Forces on Twitter denied the attack on one of the outposts on its northern boarder with Iraq, affirming that boarders are stable and secure.

"Further proof that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has eviscerated Hong Kong's freedoms and eroded the rights of its people," Pompeo said in a Twitter post.

The correspondence could fuel further criticism and public fury that the blast is just the latest, if not most dramatic, example of the government negligence and corruption that has already pushed Lebanon to economic collapse.

Three patients, all in critical condition, were rescued by firefighters, the Baltimore Firefighters IAFF Local 734 posted on Twitter.

Atletico Madrid revealed that the two players to test positive were Angel Correa and Sime Vrsjalko, who will miss the trip and were isolating at home, adding that the pair were both asymptomatic.