LIVERPOOL slumped to a shock 1-0 Champions League defeat to Galatasaray on Tuesday as Victor Osimhen’s 16th-minute penalty handed the Turkish giants victory. The English champions were punished for the latest in a series of poor performances in Istanbul as they suffered back-to-back defeats for only the second time under Arne Slot. Liverpool were beaten for the first time this season at Crystal Palace on Saturday, but a series of late winners have masked an unconvincing start since a summer transformation of the squad that strolled to the Premier League title last season. Slot responded by leaving Mohamed Salah and…
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UNITED States President Donald Trump says Hamas has “three or four days” to respond to his Gaza ceasefire proposal, telling reporters that Israeli and Arab leaders had already accepted the plan. “Hamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it’s not, it’s going to be a very sad end,” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday. Asked if there was room for negotiations on the proposal, he replied: “Not much.” The US president also thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met with Trump on Monday in Washington, DC, “for agreeing to the plan”. Trump’s…
AT least 26 people have been killed and almost 150 injured in a powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck off the coast of the central Philippine island province of Cebu, collapsing buildings, sending people running onto the streets, and knocking power out in some areas. The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake struck at 9:59pm local time on Tuesday (13:59 GMT) off Cebu Island’s northern tip near Bogo, a city of some 90,000 residents, and was followed by four earthquakes of magnitude 5 or higher in the area after the first tremor. The Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction and…
SOUTH Africa’s ambassador to France, formerly a long-serving cabinet minister, was found dead on Tuesday outside a Paris hotel after the window of his room in the high-rise building was forced open, prosecutors said. Nkosinathi Emmanuel Nathi Mthethwa, 58, usually known as Nathi Mthethwa, had “reserved a room on the 22nd floor whose secured window had been forced open”, the office of the Paris prosecutor told AFP. The body of Mthethwa, a close associate of former South African president Jacob Zuma, was found “directly by the hotel”, it added. A source close to the case, who asked not to be…
A MILITARY court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday sentenced ex-president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia for “treason”. Kabila, 54, who was not present at the trial in the capital nor represented, was found guilty of complicity with the M23 anti-government armed group, which has seized swathes of the resource-rich Congolese east with Rwandan help. He left the vast central African country in 2023 and briefly reappeared in Goma in the volatile east in May, causing disquiet in Kinshasa. Observers say the death sentence aims to remove the possibility he could unite the opposition within the country,…
MANCHESTER United legend Wayne Rooney has launched a scathing attack on his former club, declaring that the “soul has gone” from Old Trafford and expressing zero confidence in manager Ruben Amorim’s ability to revive the Red Devils. Speaking on The Wayne Rooney Show, a BBC podcast, United’s all-time record goalscorer said he attends games “expecting them to lose” and believes the team has sunk into an identity crisis. “Manchester United is broken. I don’t see anything giving me confidence right now,” Rooney lamented. “There needs to be big changes; manager, players, whatever it takes. Some players don’t deserve to wear…
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apologised to Qatar for the killing of a Qatari citizen during an unprecedented Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Doha this month, which drew global condemnation. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani received the apology on Monday in a joint call from United States President Donald Trump and Netanyahu during their meeting at the White House. “As a first step, Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his deep regret that Israel’s missile strike against Hamas targets in Qatar unintentionally killed a Qatari serviceman,” a White House statement said. “He further expressed…
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a law to pull Russia out of a European anti-torture convention, as Moscow extricates itself from Western bodies it was kicked out of or quit over its offensive on Ukraine. Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe, an international human-rights monitor, in March 2022, though it had technically remained a party to its European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. The landmark agreement aims to strengthen the rights of persons deprived of their liberty and empowers monitors to visit prisons and detention centres. On Monday, Putin signed a law denouncing the convention. Explanatory…
MADAGASCAR’s president, Andry Rajoelina, has dissolved his government in response to mass demonstrations over power and water shortages that turned deadly, with the United Nations reporting that at least 22 people have been killed and more than 100 others were injured. The protests, which began last week and continued into Monday, were led largely by young people, angry over deteriorating living conditions in the capital, Antananarivo. Experts say they represent the most serious challenge to Rajoelina’s authority since his re-election in 2023, and the largest wave of unrest the island nation has seen in years. Crowds gathered at Antananarivo’s main…
GABRIEL scored a 96th-minute winner as Arsenal came from behind to beat Newcastle United in the Premier League at St James’ Park. The defender got his head on the end of Martin Odegaard’s corner to send manager Mikel Arteta and his staff wild on the touchline. Mikel Merino’s late glancing header off the post cancelled out Nick Woltemade’s Newcastle opener in a tempestuous game. The Gunners took all three points to close the gap on league leaders Liverpool to two points and leave Newcastle floored. Newcastle were on course for victory after the towering Woltemade easily rose above Gabriel to…
AT least 40 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, including at least 10 displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp and 15 in Gaza City. Israeli forces are destroying “infrastructure, residential houses, buildings, neighbourhoods, which is making it difficult for medical teams to reach injured people and those trapped under the rubble”, according to our team on the ground. Two-and-a-half-month-old Eid Mahmoud Abu Jamma has died of malnutrition and lack of treatment in Khan Younis. Meanwhile, the Israeli army shelled al-Helou Hospital in Gaza City, hitting the facility with two artillery rounds, according to medical sources cited…
RUSSIAN Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has warned NATO and the European Union that “any aggression against my country will be met with a decisive response”. Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Saturday, Lavrov insisted that Moscow had no plans to attack the West, but that it was prepared to act if provoked. His comments came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed Russia for recent drone and plane incursions in Europe. “Russia is testing their ability to defend themselves and trying to influence societies so people begin to ask: ‘If we can’t protect…
NAMIBIA says it is sending in helicopters and hundreds of soldiers to battle a fire that has ravaged a third of a key nature reserve. Etosha National Park is one of southern Africa’s top tourist attractions, known for its vast salt pan that can be seen from space. It is also home to critically endangered black rhinos. The country’s environment ministry believes the fire broke out on Monday at a charcoal production outside the park’s borders. Almost a week on, it has spread into the park killing at least nine antelope and destroying wildlife habitats, as well as grazing pasture…
JAPAN’s foreign aid agency said it is cancelling an exchange programme with African nations following protests and a political backlash. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) initiative aimed to foster cultural and social exchanges between the four countries and as many Japanese cities. But inaccurate media reports and posts on social media platforms about the “Africa Hometown” programme suggested the scheme would lead to a “flood of migrants”. Officials say this resulted in an avalanche of complaints from residents in the Japanese towns paired with Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana, and Tanzania. Some critics seemed to believe that “hometown” status meant that…
MANCHESTER United head coach Ruben Amorim said he is not concerned about his job at the end of another day when a previous step forward was followed by another one back. The optimism generated by the victory over Chelsea seven days ago was lost in a 3-1 defeat at Brentford that keeps United firmly in the bottom half of the Premier League. United have collected 34 points from Amorim’s 33 league games in charge and have still to win successive matches. The promised improvement after last season’s woeful 15th-place finish is yet to materialise, and afterwards Amorim was forced to…
AT least 91 Palestinian people were killed on Saturday in relentless Israeli attacks throughout the Gaza Strip, including at least 45 in Gaza City, as the military intensified its widely criticised ground invasion. Gaza’s Government Media Office slammed Israel for misleading the Palestinian people with threats to evacuate to the central and southern governorates by portraying them as “safe humanitarian zones”, while continuing to strike those same areas. According to a statement issued on Saturday, 1,903 people have been killed in 133 attacks on central and southern Gaza since the forced displacement from Gaza City began on August 11, some…
THE US State Department said Saturday it would revoke the visa of Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro for his “incendiary actions” during a pro-Palestinian street protest in New York. “Earlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence,” the State Department said in a post on X. “We will revoke Petro’s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions,” it said. On his social media account, Petro shared a video of himself speaking Spanish to a large crowd through a megaphone Friday, with his translator then relaying his comments…
MORE than 20 people have been rescued in Kenya from a suspected human trafficking ring that lured them with job offers in Russia but intended to send them to fight in Ukraine, police said. It follows an intelligence-led raid on a residential apartment on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi, where officers seized recruitment materials, travel documents, and job offer letters. One suspect, accused of coordinating the victims’ travel to Russia in September and October, has been arrested. He was taken to court, which allowed him to be detained for 10 days while the police complete their investigations. There have…
THE BBC understands the boss of a degrading sex-trade ring that exploited vulnerable women in Dubai’s most glamorous neighbourhoods has been detained in the United Arab Emirates. Charles “Abbey” Mwesigwa, who was identified in a recent BBC investigation as running the network, was filmed telling an undercover reporter he could provide women for a sex party at a starting price of $1,000 (£750). He also said the women could do “pretty much everything” clients wanted them to and said he was a former London bus driver. It is not clear what charges – if any – Mwesigwa is facing in…
MANCHESTER United manager Ruben Amorim has confirmed Amad Diallo will miss Saturday’s trip to Brentford following the death of a family member. Amad has split his time between attacking midfield and a wing back role this season, starting five of United’s six matches across all competitions and establishing himself as an integral part of Amorim’s 3-4-2-1 setup. The 23-year-old will miss his first match of the campaign on Saturday after being granted compassionate leave by United. “Amad is not here because someone in his family passed away,” Amorim revealed. “We are giving all the support to Amad and understood he…