LIVERPOOL were back to their best as they dominated Real Madrid with an outstanding performance to secure a crucial Champions League victory at Anfield. Arne Slot’s Premier League champions ended a spell of six defeats in seven games with a win against Aston Villa on Saturday, and the revival continued as Real were overpowered. Liverpool’s victory was far more convincing than the scoreline suggests, with Alexis Mac Allister finally breaking the deadlock in the second half as former Reds defender Trent Alexander-Arnold watched from the bench with his new side strictly second best. Only the brilliance of Real keeper Thibaut…
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AID agencies are in “a race against time” to get food and other humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip, a United Nations official has warned, as Israeli restrictions continue to impede deliveries across the bombarded enclave. Speaking during a news briefing on Tuesday, a senior spokesperson for the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) noted that aid deliveries have increased since a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect last month. But only two crossings into Gaza are open, which “severely limits the quantity of aid” that the WFP and other agencies can bring in, said Abeer Etefa. “We need…
THE UK government on Tuesday ordered all poultry in England to be kept inside due to escalating cases of avian influenza. The order takes effect from Thursday. “The new measures mean bird keepers across the whole of England must house all poultry and captive birds if they keep more than 50… or if they sell or give eggs away,” a statement said. Similar limited restrictions were made in parts of north, central and eastern England last week. “Given the continued increase in the number of avian influenza cases in kept birds and wild birds across England, we are now taking…
AT least 40 people in Sudan have been killed in a drone strike that targeted a funeral that was taking place outside the army-held city of el-Obeid in North Kordofan state, officials and activists say. They blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for Monday’s attack on al-Luweib village as mourners had gathered in a tent. The RSF has not yet commented. Many reportedly died before getting to hospital in el-Obeid, a strategic city that connects the capital, Khartoum, to the western region of Darfur. Fighting has intensified in this oil-rich Kordofan area and around 20,000 people fled to el-Obeid…
TANZANIAN police have lifted a night-time curfew imposed since last Wednesday in the main city Dar es Salaam following deadly election protests, as life slowly returns to normal across the country. Following the unrest, the internet was cut nationwide and most shops in Dar es Salaam closed amid acute shortages of basic essentials and soaring prices. Schools shut and public transport came to a halt. On Tuesday, some shops reopened and traffic resumed but with queues persisting at some petrol stations in Dar es Salaam. Families continue to search for or bury relatives killed in the clashes between the security…
THE league phase of the 2025/26 UEFA Champions League hits its halfway mark on Tuesday and Wednesday. Matchday 4 arrives with drama scripted across Europe. Eighteen games, countless storylines, and a stage where heroes, heartbreak, and history are never far apart. From Anfield to Paris, Turin to Prague, the world’s greatest club competition enters its next act. These preview details were obtained from the UCL website on Monday. 1. Liverpool vs Real Madrid A rivalry defined by glory and grief from Kyiv to Paris to Anfield’s famous nights. Last season, the Reds finally broke their curse, a 2-0 victory ending…
ISRAEL has released five Palestinian prisoners as part of a fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas, offering a rare moment of relief for the families in Gaza. The five men, freed on Monday evening, were taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah for medical examinations, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reported from outside the facility. Relatives gathered at the hospital, some embracing the freed prisoners, while others anxiously sought information about missing family members. “This is the first time since the ceasefire that Israeli forces have released unknown Palestinian prisoners,” said Khoudary. Thousands of Palestinians remain imprisoned in Israel, many held without…
THE White House will send only partial food aid payments to 42 million low-income Americans, as the government shutdown crippling public services nears record length, officials told a judge Monday. Two federal courts ruled last week that President Donald Trump’s administration must use a $4.65 billion emergency fund toward the estimated $9 billion cost for November’s payments before cutting off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Officials for the Agriculture Department, which oversees the program, said in a filing to a federal court in Rhode Island they would not make up the shortfall with other funding sources, meaning “50 percent…
JUNTA leader Mamady Doumbouya officially entered Guinea’s presidential race Monday, submitting his candidacy for the December 28 elections that are meant to restore constitutional order following the general’s 2021 coup. Doumbouya has ruled the West African nation with an iron fist since first coming to power. Despite his initial promise to hand power back to civilians, he was largely expected to run for president. Arriving at the Supreme Court via armoured vehicle to formally hand in his candidacy, surrounded by special forces, the general then left without giving a statement. Thousands of supporters from across the country, who had travelled…
THE Netherlands has said it will return a stolen 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt. It is “highly likely” the stone head, dating from the time of the pharaohs, was plundered during the Arab Spring in either 2011 or 2012, according to the Dutch Information & Heritage Inspectorate. A decade later, it turned up at an arts and antiques fair in Maastricht and, following an anonymous tip-off, Dutch authorities determined it had been stolen and exported illegally. Dutch outgoing prime minister Dick Schoof made the pledge to hand it back as he attended the opening of the archaeological Grand Egyptian Museum in…
ERLING Haaland was back on the scoresheet with two goals to help Manchester City return to winning ways in the Premier League and leapfrog Bournemouth into second place. Pep Guardiola’s side had suffered their first defeat in 10 games at Aston Villa last Sunday, with Haaland not finding the net for only the second time this season. But the Norwegian’s double proved crucial against the in-form Cherries as City moved six points behind leaders Arsenal. Bournemouth almost made the dream start when they had the ball in the net after 46 seconds through Eli Junior Kroupi, but the goal was…
THE Israeli army is preparing to receive more bodies of captives killed during the war on Gaza after Hamas said it would hand over the bodies of three found today in a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel has killed a Palestinian man in northern Gaza’s Shujayea, claiming that he approached the so-called “yellow line” behind which Israeli troops remain. Israel has only allowed a fraction of the aid deliveries agreed on as part of the US-brokered ceasefire – an average of 145 trucks per day instead of the 600 it pledged to allow into the besieged Gaza Strip.…
UK police have said one person remains in life-threatening condition after the stabbing of 10 passengers on a London-bound train in eastern England, with “terrorism” ruled out, in what officials described as “an isolated incident”. Police initially said nine of the 10 people wounded on Saturday were in a life-threatening condition. On Sunday, British Transport Police said five of those had since been discharged. Two people were initially arrested over the attack, with one released without charge later Sunday, police said. Another suspect remains in custody. The Cambridgeshire police said they were called at 19:39 GMT on Saturday after reports…
THE Kenyan government has confirmed that 21 people have died following a landslide in the western part of the country after heavy rainfall. Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said the bodies had been transferred to a nearby airstrip after the landslide in Marakwet East late on Friday night. He said on X that more than 30 people were still unaccounted for after being reported missing by their families while 25 people with serious injuries had been airlifted to receive further medical attention. The Kenyan Red Cross, which is helping to coordinate rescue efforts, said that the most affected areas are still…
SOUTH African court has ruled that Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli’s 1967 death was the result of an “assault” by apartheid police, overturning decades of claims that it was an accident. An inquest held under the apartheid government concluded that Luthuli, the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died after being struck by a freight train while walking along a railway line. But activists and his family had long cast doubt on the findings, and South Africa’s government reopened the case this year. A judge on Thursday ruled that the anti-apartheid hero died as a result of a fractured…
AMAD Diallo lashed home a thunderous 81st-minute volley to earn Manchester United a point in a thrilling Premier League encounter with Nottingham Forest at the City Ground. The visitors thought they were heading for a fourth straight win and second spot in the table after Casemiro headed them into a half-time lead from a corner Forest were convinced should not have been awarded. But the game turned on its head in the space of two second-half minutes as Forest skipper Morgan Gibbs-White outmuscled Amad to reach Ryan Yates’ deep cross from the right. From their next attack, Forest scored again.…
AUTHORITIES in Gaza say that Israel has only allowed a fraction of the humanitarian aid deliveries agreed on as part of the United States-brokered ceasefire into the enclave since the agreement came into effect last month. In a statement on Saturday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said that 3,203 commercial and aid trucks brought supplies into Gaza between October 10 and 31. This is an average of 145 aid trucks per day, or just 24 percent of the 600 trucks that are meant to be entering Gaza daily as part of the deal, it added. “We strongly condemn the Israeli occupation’s…
UKRAINE has deployed special forces to the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk, the country’s top military commander said, as Kyiv seeks to maintain control of the area amid an intense Russian offensive. Russia has been trying to capture Pokrovsk, dubbed “the gateway to Donetsk”, since mid-2024 in its campaign to control the entirety of the eastern Donetsk region. “We are holding Pokrovsk,” Ukraine’s army chief Oleksandr Syrskii said on Facebook on Saturday. “A comprehensive operation to destroy and dislodge enemy forces from Pokrovsk is ongoing.” Home to more than 60,000 people before the Russia-Ukraine war began in February 2022, Pokrovsk…
PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has been declared the winner of Tanzania’s presidential election, securing another term amid days of unrest across the country. Samia won 98% of the votes in Wednesday’s poll, the electoral commission said. In her Saturday victory speech she said the election was “free and democratic”, accusing protesters of being “unpatriotic”. Opposition parties rejected the results, calling the vote a mockery of the democratic process as Samia’s main challengers had been either imprisoned or barred from running. International observers have expressed concern over the lack of transparency and widespread turmoil that has reportedly left hundreds of people…
CAIRO is set to open the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum that Egypt hopes will celebrate the nation’s heritage and also revitalise its struggling economy and tourism sector. According to a statement from the Egyptian presidency, world leaders – including monarchs, and heads of state and government were expected to attend the grand opening ceremony in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Saturday. It described the museum opening as “an exceptional event in the history of human culture and civilisation”. Massive statues and historical artefacts from the country’s ancient civilisation will be on display across the 24,000 square metres (258,000 square feet)…