Sports from Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
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Dubai Basketball strengthens roster with top talent
Dubai Basketball have bolstered their roster with a double signing of French super star centre Jerry Boutsiele and top European talent guard Kosta Kondić.
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Spurs captain Son extends stay until 2026
Tottenham Hotspur captain Son Heung-min will remain at the club until 2026 at least after the Premier League club activated a one-year extension in his contract on Tuesday.
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Former Asian champions Guangzhou denied permission to play
Former Asian champions Guangzhou FC will not play professionally in 2025 after the Chinese Football Association did not grant the eight-times Chinese Super League (CSL) winners permission to play in the coming campaign due to the club's financial issues.
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Forest beat Wolves for sixth straight Premier League win
Chris Wood scored his 12th Premier League goal of the season as third-placed Nottingham Forest beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0 at Molineux, keeping them on course for an unlikely title challenge.
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H.H. Sheikh Abdullah meets with President of CyprusHis Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs has met with the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides in Nicosia.
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UAE leaders congratulate newly-elected Lebanon PresidentUAE leaders sent congratulatory messages to Joseph Aoun on his election as Lebanon's President, a role that has been been vacant since 2022.
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UAE takes critic Al-Qaradawi into custodyThe UAE has taken political critic Abdul Rahman Al-Qaradawi into custody on Thursday after being extradited from Lebanon at the request of Emirati authorities.
