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CNN — Police on a Japanese holiday island have arrested three Chinese nationals after thousands of protected hermit crabs were found stuffed into multiple suitcases. The three suspects – Liao Zhibin, 24, Song Zhenhao, 26, and Guo Jiawei, 27 – were found to have 160 kilograms (353 pounds) of the live crustaceans in their possession on Wednesday, according to police on the Amami Islands, near Okinawa. Police said a hotel worker in Amami, a city on the island of Amami Oshima, alerted environmental authorities after spotting something suspicious about the suitcases the three men had asked hotel staff to watch.…
QUITO, Ecuador AP — Five fishermen who spent 55 days adrift at sea arrived Saturday at a port in the Galapagos Islands after being rescued by a tuna boat, the Ecuadorian navy said on X. The three Peruvians and two Colombians had been missing since mid-March and were found on May 7 by an Ecuadorian boat called Aldo. The fishermen had reported damage to the boat’s alternator two days after setting sail from Pucusana Bay, to the south of Peru’s capital Lima, the navy said in a separate post on Friday. The failure caused communication and navigation tools to malfunction,…
The top stories and transfer rumours from Sunday’s newspapers…SUN ON SUNDAY Brighton keeper Bart Verbruggen is a shock target for Real Madrid. Image: Could Brighton’s Bart Verbruggen be heading to Spain? Andre Onana is ready to fight for his Manchester United career – and show Ruben Amorim he can be his long-term No 1.Erling Haaland has bagged a yellow £320,000 Ferrari for his luxury car collection – totalling £8m. MAIL ON SUNDAY Manchester United are not handing free tickets to staff for the Europa League final – while Tottenham are offering a complimentary ticket to every full-time employee. Please use…
CNN — Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed holding “direct talks” with Ukraine on Thursday in Istanbul, as European leaders and the United States attempt to push Moscow to agree to a 30-day ceasefire to bring an end to the three-year conflict. “We would like to start immediately, already next Thursday, May 15, in Istanbul, where they were held before and where they were interrupted,” Putin said in a rare late-night televised address. He emphasized the talks should be held “without any preconditions.” “We are set on serious negotiations with Ukraine,” Putin said, adding they are intended to “eliminate the…
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday suggested the Trump administration could pursue arrests of the House Democrats involved in an incident at a New Jersey Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on Friday and accused them of assaulting ICE officers.“I think that we should let viewers know there will likely be more coming,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN on Saturday morning.“We actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body-slamming a female ICE officer,” McLaughlin said.Her comments were in response to a question from CNN’s…
The 2024-25 season has entered the closing stages, with the battles for the major honors, European qualification, relegation and promotion heating up.Here’s a roundup of what’s at stake and what could be decided this weekend in the English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Spanish LaLiga, Italian Serie A and French Ligue 1.This page will be updated through to the end of the European season.Newcastle meet Chelsea on Sunday in a huge Champions League showdown. Diego Souto/Getty ImagesPremier LeagueLast day: May 25TitleLiverpool (82) were confirmed as champions on April 27 with four games to spare.Champions League (5)CONFIRMEDPremier League tableGPPTSGD1 – Liverpool3582+452 – Arsenal3567+333…
Editor’s Note: A version of this story was originally published in September 2024. CNN — Sean “Diddy” Combs had just released a new album and was granted the key to New York City when he was accused of abuse and violence in a startling 2023 civil lawsuit from his former girlfriend. Combs denied the allegations, and the lawsuit was settled a day after it was filed. But the person behind that lawsuit, Cassie Ventura, is expected to soon be a key witness for the prosecution in his federal criminal trial. In nearly two years since Ventura’s lawsuit, much has happened:…
May 10, 2025, 05:24 PM ETAfter seven years of suffering, six-time German champions Hamburg SV finally clinched their return to the Bundesliga by routing Ulm 6-1 in Germany’s second division on Saturday.Ransford-Yeboah Königsdörffer scored twice and Daniel Heuer Fernandes saved a penalty as Hamburg moved to the top of the division, an unassailable four points clear of third-placed Elversberg with one round remaining.”We’re back!” said Hamburg coach Merlin Polzin, a Hamburg native who took over on an interim basis from the fired Steffen Baumgart in November and kept going.”When you put so much work in and you’re rewarded, then you’ll…
May 10, 2025, 04:14 PM ETAtlético Madrid striker Alexander Sørloth scored the earliest hat trick in LaLiga history as part of four goals in the first half hour to fuel a 4-0 rout of Real Sociedad on Saturday.The Norway international had a hat trick after scoring in the seventh, 10th and 11th minutes to the delight of the fans at Metropolitan Stadium in Madrid. His hat trick came four minutes earlier than Edmundo Suárez’s in 1941 and Carles Bestit’s in 1929.”I just had one of those days the ball just seemed to drop at my feet,” Sørloth said. “Everything went…
Madrid, Spain Reuters — An order was lifted on Saturday to confine around 160,000 people in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region after a fire at an industrial estate caused a toxic cloud of chlorine over a wide area, the regional government said. The blaze at a swimming pool cleaning products company started at 2.20 a.m. local time (8:20 p.m. Friday ET) in Vilanova i la Geltru, a town 48 kilometers (30 miles) south of Barcelona and caused a huge plume of chlorine smoke over the area. Authorities had told people in the affected zone to stay at home, but hours later…