CRISTIANO Ronaldo says Erik ten Hag’s attitude is too negative, urging the Manchester United manager to target the Premier League title even though the club need to “rebuild from the bottom”. The Portugal star, who now plays for Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia, fell out with Ten Hag before his second spell at Old Trafford ended late in 2022. Ronaldo believes his former club needs sweeping changes but that Ten Hag should not rule out winning major trophies in the meantime. The Dutchman has said he is “quite confident” of claiming more silverware this campaign after lifting the League Cup…
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ISRAELI strikes Wednesday killed eight Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry and Red Crescent said separately, with the Israeli military confirming air raids in two locations. The military said in a statement that its forces were engaged in a “counter-terrorism operation” in the northern West Bank’s Tubas area and later carried out a separate strike on Tulkarem, both targeted in major Israeli raids last month. In Tubas, a witness told AFP that Israeli forces were “storming the city” and the nearby town of Tamun early on Wednesday. The army reported exchanges of fire and an air…
MINUTES after being hustled by Kamala Harris during their US presidential debate on Tuesday, Donald Trump appeared in front of reporters to get the last word. As the debate drew to a close, cries of surprise went up at the entrance to the press room. Trump had made an unexpected entrance to the “spin room,” where the candidates’ spokespeople and supporters usually hurry to distribute talking points to journalists. Cameras and microphones in hand, dozens of reporters crowded behind thin ribbons to get as close as possible to the former president. “What about black voters?” a reporter asked, managing to…
CASES of the mpox virus have killed two people in Cameroon since April with six further and 40 other suspected cases, the health ministry said Wednesday. “Since the resurgence of this disease in April 2024, the country has recorded 46 suspected cases of mpox, six of which are confirmed, with two deaths reported,” Health Minister Malachie Manaouda said. However, the epidemic is “not linked to the new, more virulent strain (Clade 1b)”, the ministry said. The World Health Organization declared an international emergency over mpox four weeks ago after a surge in cases of the Clade 1b strain in DR…
HUNDREDS of passengers have been stranded at Kenya’s main airport after workers went on strike in protest at a planned takeover by an Indian business group. Large queues formed outside Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Wednesday morning as flights were delayed and cancelled. Union leaders on Wednesday evening said they would return to work and that normal operations would resume shortly. Workers launched their protest over proposals to lease JKIA to the Adani group for 30 years. The aviation workers union argues the deal is “opaque” and could lead to job losses. The unions agreed to return to…
FORMER Super Eagles Forward Victor Moses is targeting Premier League football once more after returning to England to join Luton Town. Moses has not played in the second tier since leaving Crystal Palace for Wigan in 2010, but after a trophy-laden career playing top-flight football in England, Italy, Turkey and Russia, the 2013 Africa Cup Of Nations Winner wants to eat at the top table once again with the Hatters. “I’m very excited and I can’t wait to get started,” said Victor. “I’m looking forward to it, it’s a pleasure to be here. It’s a good time for me to…
ISRAEL’s military says it is very likely its soldiers fired the shot that killed an American-Turkish woman at a protest in the occupied West Bank last week but says her death was unintentional and expresses deep regret. Turkish and Palestinian officials said on Friday that Israeli soldiers shot 26-year-old Ezgi Yegi, who had been taking part in a demonstration against settlement expansion during a regular protest march by activists in Beita, a village near Nablus. In a statement on Tuesday, the Israeli army said it had conducted an inquiry into the incident. “The inquiry found that it is highly likely…
A MAN in the United States has been awarded $50m in damages after being wrongfully convicted of murder in the largest such payout in US history. Marcel Brown, 34, was sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted of being an accomplice in the 2008 shooting of a 19-year-old man on the west side of Chicago. Brown served 10 years in prison before being released in 2018 after a court vacated his conviction and prosecutors dismissed all charges against him. After a two-week trial, a jury at the US District Court in Chicago on Monday awarded Brown the damages…
AT least 26 people have died after a boat carrying migrants capsized off Senegal’s coast. Authorities say more than 100 people were on board the wooden fishing vessel when it sank just 4km (2.5 miles) into its journey. Distraught relatives and friends have gathered along the beach, anxiously waiting for news of their loved ones. So far, four people have been rescued and search efforts are still under way. The boat had departed from Mbour, about 80km south of the capital city Dakar, bound for Spain’s Canary Islands, which are off the coast of West Africa. In recent years, the…
MEDICAL staff on the front line of the battle against mpox in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have told the BBC they are desperate for vaccines to arrive so they can stem the rate of new infections. At a treatment centre in South Kivu province that the BBC visited in the epicentre of the outbreak, they say more patients are arriving every day – especially babies – and there is a shortage of essential equipment. Mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – is a highly contagious disease and has killed at least 635 people in DR Congo this year. Even…
ARSENAL captain Martin Odegaard limped off as Manchester City forward Erling Haaland scored a late winner for Norway against Austria in the Nations League. Odegaard went down in pain after hurting his ankle following a foul by Christoph Baumgartner midway through the second half. The midfielder could now be a doubt for Sunday’s north London derby, with the Gunners already missing Declan Rice for the game against Tottenham through suspension. “It looked painful in the locker room,” Norway boss Stale Solbakken told TV2. “We know it was an ankle sprain. With luck it can turn out OK, if the ligaments…
AT least 40 people have been killed and 60 injured in an Israeli attack on a tent encampment for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, civil emergency authorities in the enclave have said. At least 20 tents in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis were struck in the early morning attack on Tuesday, Gaza’s Civil Defence said. Al-Mawasi has been overcrowded with Palestinians sleeping in tents since the Israeli army designated the coastal area a “safe zone” during its ground invasions of Khan Younis and nearby Rafah. Rescuers searching for survivors said they found craters of up to 9 metres (30…
CATHERINE, Princess of Wales announced Monday that she had completed her course of chemotherapy following a shock cancer diagnosis earlier this year. “I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed my chemotherapy treatment,” Kate, as she is often called, said in a message on X and Instagram. The princess, 42, said the last nine months had been “incredibly tough” for the family — her husband Prince William and their children Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six. “Life as you know it can change in an instant and we have had to…
TANZANIA’s Presdident Samia Suluhu Hassan has denounced the brutal killing of a senior member of the main opposition party Chadema, who was kidnapped, beaten and doused with acid. On Friday, Mohamed Ali Kibao, 69, was forced off a bus by suspected security agents while travelling from the country’s biggest city, Dar es Salaam, to his hometown Tanga. The post-mortem found that Mr Kibao had been “severely beaten and had acid poured on his face”, party chairman Freeman Mbowe told the AFP news agency. His death comes amid concern by the opposition and rights groups of a clampdown on political activity.…
AUTHORITIES in Guinea-Bissau say they have seized 2.63 tonnes of cocaine that was found on a plane at the capital’s international airport. The plane had come from Venezuela, the Reuters news agency reports citing a police statement. On Saturday, at least 78 bales of cocaine were discovered, which local reports say is the largest drugs seizure in the country’s history. The West African country is known as a key transit point in global drug trafficking. This has led to the UN to calling it a “narco-state”. A local newspaper has reported that the plane was registered in Mexico. All five…
A TRUCK driver shot dead three Israeli guards at a border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan Sunday before being “eliminated”, Israel’s military said, as it pounded Gaza with new strikes. Jordan’s interior ministry identified the shooter as Jordanian national Maher Diab Hussein al-Jazi, citing “preliminary investigations”. The rare attack at the Allenby Bridge crossing comes amid soaring violence in the West Bank with major Israeli raids and attacks by Palestinians, and against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas Gaza war, now in its 12th month. The military said “a terrorist” reached the crossing area, also known as the…
THOUSANDS of people have taken to the streets in the Pakistani capital, demanding the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been behind bars for more than a year on what his party calls are politically motivated charges. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party organised the rally in Islamabad on Sunday, marking its first show of strength since the disputed national and regional elections in February. Images and videos posted on the social media platform X showed Khan’s supporters marching towards the capital from various parts of the country. “We will not rest until Khan is released from jail,”…
SUDAN’s military-led government has rejected a call by a UN fact-finding mission for the deployment of an international force to protect civilians from the country’s ongoing civil war. Sudan’s warring parties had committed “harrowing” human rights violations against civilians, the UN mission reported. Thousands of people have been killed and nearly eight million displaced since conflict broke out in April 2023 between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The two had jointly staged a coup, but then fell-out, plunging Sudan into a civil war. “Given the failure of the warring parties to spare civilians, it is imperative…
ALGERIA’s incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, 78, has been re-elected to the position with an emphatic vote, says the country’s electoral authority. “Of 5,630,000 voters recorded, 5,320,000 voted for the independent candidate Abdelmadjid Tebboune, accounting for 94.65 percent” of Saturday’s vote, National Independent Authority for Elections (ANIE) head Mohamed Charfi told reporters in the capital Algiers on Sunday. Army-backed Tebboune’s challengers included conservative Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, who won 3 percent of the ballots, and socialist Youcef Aouchiche, who won 2.1 percent. Hassani Cherif’s campaign said polling station officials had been pressured to inflate results and alleged failures to deliver vote-sorting records…
LEE Carsley started his reign as England’s interim manager with a Uefa Nations League win against the Republic of Ireland, with Declan Rice and Jack Grealish both scoring against the country they used to represent. Carsley, also a former player for the Irish Republic, is in charge of England for at least two games following Gareth Southgate’s departure after Euro 2024. And he had a largely untroubled start as the Three Lions overcame a lively atmosphere at a sold-out stadium in Dublin. Rice, who played three senior friendlies for the Republic of Ireland before switching allegiance in 2019, silenced the…