PARIS St-Germain have signed 27-year-old defender Lucas Hernandez from Bayern Munich for a reported £34m. A 2018 World Cup winner with France, Hernandez won a treble with Bayern in 2019-20 – his first season at the club. After winning the domestic league and cup double, Hernandez helped Hansi Flick’s team defeat PSG to win the Champions League. Hernandez, who played 107 times for the Bundesliga champions and scored twice, has signed a five-year deal. “I’m really excited,” Hernandez said. “I’ve been waiting to join PSG for a long time, and it’s finally happened. It’s a very special day for me…
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SIX people have been killed and one injured in a kindergarten stabbing in China’s south-eastern Guangdong province, police tell the BBC. Police said they have arrested a 25-year-old man with the surname Wu. The victims include one teacher, two parents and three students, AFP reported, quoting a spokeswoman for the city government. The attack happened on Monday at 07:40 local time (23:40 Sunday GMT), and the man was arrested at 08:00. Police have called this a case of “intentional assault”. Violent crime is relatively rare in China, but the country has seen a spate of knife attacks in recent years,…
FRANCE has banned the sale, possession and transport of fireworks during the July 14 national holiday weekend, following riots sparked by the police killing a teenager, the government said Sunday. Fireworks were among the weapons of choice during the unrest that exploded in France after a police officer shot dead a 17-year-old during a traffic stop on June 27 near Paris, rekindling long pent-up frustrations and accusations of systemic racism among France’s security forces. “In order to prevent the risk of serious disturbances to public order during the July 14 festivities, the sale, possession, transport and use of pyrotechnical articles…
SPANISH rescuers are searching waters off the Canary Islands for a boat carrying at least 200 African migrants who went missing more than a week ago. The aid group Walking Borders says the fishing boat sailed from Kafountine, a coastal town in southern Senegal that is roughly 1,700km (1,057 miles) from Tenerife. The group says many children are on board, Spain’s Efe news agency reports. Two similar boats carrying dozens more people are also said to be missing. The boat carrying about 200 people left Kafountine on 27 June, heading for the Canary Islands. Spain’s maritime rescue service told Efe…
A LITTLE after midnight on 6 September, 2022, Musah Mustafa emerged from his thatched-roof hut to relieve himself and saw four cars speeding towards his tiny village. Mogyigna was barely a village. With just a handful of family homes and two dozen people in total, it was more like a dot in the middle of an expanse of farmland in northern Ghana. Cars were a rare sight during the day, let alone at night. Musah hid behind a tree and watched. When he saw armed men from the cars approach the two homes, he shouted in an attempt to wake…
SUPER Eagles striker, Taiwo Awoniyi says the team is targeting the trophy at the Africa Cup of Nation’s 2023 tournament coming up in January 2024 in Ivory Coast. The Eagles disappointingly exited in the second round at the last edition in Cameroon in 2022, losing 1-0 to Tunisia after Alex Iwobi received a red card from the referee for a bad tackle. Speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Friday, Awoniyi said the team having achieved qualification for the next tournament, is determined to win it this time around. “I think everyone in the squad is happy, the first…
ENGLAND won the European Under-21 Championship for the first time in nearly 40 years after a dramatic last-minute penalty save by James Trafford ensured the Young Lions held on to beat Spain. Trafford, who is set to join Burnley from Manchester City in a deal that could be worth up to £19m, kept out Abel Ruiz’s low spot-kick in the 99th minute after a lengthy VAR check. The 20-year-old then produced another brilliant stop on the follow-up before being mobbed by his team-mates. The winning goal came with virtually the last kick of the first half when a Cole Palmer…
THE Syrian government has cancelled the BBC’s media accreditation over what it called “biased and misleading reports”. Syria’s information ministry said the broadcaster failed to adhere to “professional standards”. A recent BBC story linked the trade of an amphetamine called Captagon with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s family. The BBC said it provided impartial, independent journalism. “We speak to people across the political spectrum to establish the facts,” a BBC spokesperson said. Published last month, the BBC News Arabic Investigations found links between the Captagon drug trade, leading members of the Syrian Armed Forces and Mr Assad’s family. Captagon is a…
IT is more than four years since a Boeing 737 Max airliner crashed into remote farmland outside the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. One hundred and fifty seven people were killed. On Monday, an inquest in Horsham, West Sussex will finally take place into the deaths of three of the British citizens who were on board. For relatives of those who died, it is a landmark moment. Lawyers for the families will be seeking a verdict of unlawful killing. The inquest will look into the deaths of humanitarian workers Sam Pegram and Oliver Vick, as well as sustainability campaigner Joanna Toole.…
A SUDANESE army air strike on the capital has killed at least 22 people and injured many others, eyewitnesses and an official have said. Women and children were among the victims, the eyewitnesses told the BBC. The airstrike hit the Dar es Salaam district of Omdurman, on the opposite bank of the Nile to the capital Khartoum, early on Saturday. The army and a paramilitary force have been battling for control of the capital since April. The conflict began after the head of the army, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Gen Mohamed…
RIVAL sides in politically divided Libya have agreed to set up a committee to oversee the sharing of oil revenues. Eastern military strongman Khalifa Haftar had threated to force the shut-down of oil production unless the UN-backed Tripoli-based government agreed to address the issue. Libya sits on Africa’s biggest oil reserves but friction between administrations in the east and west have severely hampered production. Crude oil provides the main source of revenue for the country, which has been plagued by unrest since a Nato-backed revolt in 2011 toppled former leader Muammar Gaddafi.
SPANISH goalkeeper David de Gea said “it’s the right time to undertake a new challenge” as he confirmed he is leaving Manchester United. The 32-year-old was a free agent as his contract at the Old Trafford club ended last month. De Gea has been at United for 12 years and his 545 appearances and 190 clean sheets are club records for a keeper. “I just wanted to send this farewell message to all Manchester United supporters,” he wrote on social media. De Gea started his career at Atletico Madrid but joined United for £18.9m in 2011. The announcement of his…
MANCHESTER United are hopeful of concluding a deal for Inter Milan goalkeeper Andre Onana soon. United boss Erik ten Hag is keen to resolve concerns over the goalkeeping situation at Old Trafford amid uncertainty over David de Gea’s future. De Gea’s contract at Old Trafford expired at the end of last month with no agreement over a revised offer put to the former Spain international. Onana, 27, kept eight clean sheets in 24 games in Serie A last season. The Cameroonian also kept eight clean sheets in 13 matches in the Champions League last season – the most of any…
THERE is “no patience” in football and Chelsea must “deliver from day one”, says new manager Mauricio Pochettino. The former Tottenham boss, 51, has taken over at Stamford Bridge on a two-year deal with the option of a third. Chelsea endured a terrible 2022-23 season in which they had three managers and finished 12th in the league. “It is about delivering from now,” Pochettino said at his unveiling. “We cannot tell the people we need six months to create something.” Speaking at his first news conference at Stamford Bridge, he added: “I spoke with the owners in a really good…
A BBC presenter has been accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17, according to The Sun. The newspaper reported that the unnamed presenter had paid the alleged victim tens of thousands of pounds in total. It is understood that the BBC is looking into the allegations, and that the star is currently not scheduled to be on air in the coming days. The Sun said the young person’s family complained to the BBC on 19 May. The family is reported to have become frustrated that the star remained on air. The mother told…
AT least 50 people, including eight children, have been killed by floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains that have lashed Pakistan since last month, officials said Friday. The summer monsoon brings South Asia 70-80 percent of its annual rainfall between June and September every year. It is vital for the livelihoods of millions of farmers and food security in a region of around two billion people — but it also brings landslides and floods. “Fifty deaths have been reported in different rain-related incidents all over Pakistan since the start of the monsoon on June 25,” a national disaster management…
FRENCH football star Kylian Mbappé says he is “honoured” to be visiting Cameroon, his country “of origin”. “I’m so happy to be here,” he added, saying that people have shown him so much “love”. Earlier, football fans described to the BBC the excitement they felt about the trip. “We’ve all been awaiting the moment and its finally here,” one man told the BBC’s Newsday radio programme. “It’s a huge boost for Cameroon, not just for Cameroon but for the entire continent,” the fan added. “Having him around shows that home is home – you have to come back to your…
THE Tunisian authorities should to immediately halt what have been described as “collective expulsions” of sub-Saharan migrants, the New York-based organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) says HRW says that in the past few days Tunisia has expelled several hundred black African migrants and asylum seekers, including children and pregnant women from the port city Sfax, close to the Libyan border. It says they have been left stranded and in dire conditions in a remote desert area. “The Tunisian government should halt collective expulsions and urgently enable humanitarian access to the African migrants and asylum seekers already expelled to a dangerous…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms. This latest move the presidency says is in consonance with Tinubu’s promise to remove all barriers impeding business growth in Nigeria, According to a statement on Friday by the president’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Dele Alake, the committee will be chaired by Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Mr. Taiwo Oyedele. It will comprise experts from both the private and public sectors and have responsibility for the various aspects of tax law reform, fiscal policy design and coordination,…
REAL Madrid have completed the signing of 18-year-old Turkey playmaker Arda Guler from Fenerbahce. Dubbed ‘the Turkish Messi’, he has penned a six-year deal at the Bernabeu where he will team up with England’s Jude Bellingham. Guler scored four goals and supplied four assists last season, putting in a man-of-the-match display in the Turkish Cup final. Last month, he became the youngest player to score for Turkey. Guler made his Fenerbahce debut at just 16, provided an assist on his first Super Lig appearance and was handed the number 10 shirt last season. Having long been linked with a switch…