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PARIS Wholesale Devin Harris Jersey , April 20 (Xinhua) -- Top four seeds were halved in the third round of ATP Monte-Carlo Masters on Thursday, as top seed Andy Murray and third-seeded Stan Wawrinka were surprisingly blown out, while Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal managed to make into the quarter-finals.


In their first head-to-head, Spain's No. 15 seed Ramos-Vinolas denied Murray's hope for his first trophy of the tournament, as the top seed's best record was into the semi-finals in 2009, 2011 and 2016.


Murray squandered a 4-0 lead in the decider to hand Ramos-Vinolas one of the most memorable victories in his career.


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Ramos-Vinolas will face No. 5 seed Marin Cilic in the quarterfinals. The Croatian eliminated ninth-seeded and 2015 runner-up Tomas Berdych 6-2, 7-6 (0).


Wawrinka followed Murray's steps for a 6-4, 6-4 loss to Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay, who recorded his first victory over a member of the Top 4 at world rankings.


"For sure, it was disappointing for me because I wanted to play better and go further here," commented the Swiss star, adding that he felt a little bit slow and could not move at his best in the match.


Cuevas will fight for a semi-finals spot against home player Lucas Pouille Wholesale Wesley Matthews Jersey , whose fellow French Mannarino decided to retire due to a hip injury at 3-0 down in the first set.


Second-seeded Djokovic had to resist Pablo Carreno Busta's comeback for a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 victory, booking a quarter-finals clash with David Goffin of Belgium.


Facing German youngster Alexander Zverev, who spent his 20th birthday on Thursday, Nadal refused to replicate the five-set laboring victory in the third round of Australian Open, as he secured a last eight berth at 6-1 Wholesale Yogi Ferrell Jersey , 6-1 in just 69 minutes.


Nadal will meet Diego Schwartzman, the only unseeded player remaining in the quarter-finals.




by Hummam Sheikh Ali


DAMASCUS, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Time has forgotten Syria's northern city of Raqqa since the Islamic State (IS) group self-declared its caliphate there, claiming it as its capital in 2014.


Since then, the city's name has become infamous as it's become associated with IS and their violent acts when its name is mentioned.


Even the city's inhabitants became akin to aliens compared with other Syrians, particularly due to the blackout imposed by IS on the city, blocking photographs and videos from being taken or sent out of the city save for a few breaches now and again Wholesale Josh McRoberts Jersey , giving a meager glimpse of how people live there.


Several Raqqa inhabitants succeeded in fleeing the city over the past few years by paying large amounts of money to smugglers in order to scuttle them to government-controlled areas, where they are placed in government-run shelters.


In 2016, Xinhua visited one of the shelters near the southern province of Sweida, where reporters met with many of those fleeing Raqqa, and heard some of their stories.


A number of them spoke of being deprived of basic needs and simple pleasures, such as smoking a cigarette without fearing the tough reprisal of either paying a large fine, or losing their fingers.


Women were also exposed to a substantial amount of harassment if they were not completely covered from head to toe.


Bassem Wholesale Jose Juan Barea Jersey , a 25-year-old man, told Xinhua the horrible scenes he witnessed in al-Raqqa would turn a man's hair white from shock.


"I was arrested because they spotted a cigarette in my hand. People don't dare to smoke in public and those caught smoking are subjected to a brutal punishment."


Bassem recounted that IS police, called Husbah, arrested a woman on street and charged her with showing part of her foot.


"They put her in a cage in a cemetery and left her screaming all night long, until the woman went crazy," he recalled.


All such horrible practices and the ramped up military offensives against IS strongholds pushed people to flee the city.


These horror movie-like stories continue to be recounted.


When news about Raqqa is not about the practices of the terrorist-designated group, it is about an imminent military operation by U.S.-backed Kurdish groups to liberate Raqqa.


A few months ago Wholesale JaVale McGee Jersey , the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians, started an operation dubbed the Euphrates Wreath, against IS in Raqqa's countryside.


The operation started with offensives to isolate Raqqa from its countryside and other IS-held areas in eastern Syria.


After the operation's success, the SDF, heavily backed by the U.S.-led anti-terrorism coalition Wholesale Raymond Felton Jersey , declared the commencement of the fourth stage of the offensive against Raqqa, basically when the SDF and allied fighters stormed the city itself.


The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the SDF began the offensive's last stage of storming IS's heartland in Raqqa city on Tuesday.


Intense battles raged between the U.S.-backed SDF and IS militants on both Raqqa's eastern and northern fronts, according to the Observatory.


It said the SDF stormed the Mashlab, Raqqa's first eastern neighborhood, hours after announcing the operation's commencement.


The UK-based watchdog group said U.S.-backed forces captured the first building in the neighborhood, as IS fighters withdrew from neighborhood areas stormed by the SDF.


Commenting on the operation, the U.S.-led coalition acknowledged on Tuesday that the Kurdish-led forces began the "long and difficult" battle to recapture Raqqa.


Journalist and political analyst Wholesale Nerlens Noel Jersey , Maher Ihsan, said the IS is on the verge of falling apart, but it will not happen overnight.


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