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CNN — Jannik Sinner enjoyed a winning return to tennis on Saturday after serving a three-month doping ban, as he defeated Mariano Navone in front of a rapturous crowd at his home Italian Open. The Italian still holds the world No. 1 spot despite his enforced absence from the sport and he lived up to that mantle, overcoming an impressive Navone 6-3, 6-4 in Rome. But it was the reaction from his home crowd who gave him a standing ovation that “means much more than any result,” he told reporters. One fan held up a sign that read “Bentornato Jannik…
To cross the Tigris river from Iraqi Kurdistan into northeastern Syria is to journey between two different worlds. Over centuries, this has often been the way for this great river: the boundary between rival empires and a contested waterway that remains the key to life for millions. The rickety pontoon bridge gives an inkling of what is to come as you leave behind the largely well-developed and functioning Kurdistan Regional Government for an area of Syria that is isolated, vulnerable and economically destitute. The road up from the river is near-impassable, scarred with massive potholes. The Kurdish-dominated area of northern…
Palestinian factions in Lebanon’s refugee camps are uncertain about reported plans by Mahmoud Abbas to push for their disarmament during his upcoming visit to Beirut. With no official communication confirming such intentions in a region marked by escalating tensions, some factions remain unmoved by what they describe as media speculation rather than a concrete policy initiative. Last week, Middle East Eye revealed that Abbas is set to visit Lebanon on 19 May and call on all Palestinian factions to disarm, including his own Palestinian National Liberation Movement, more commonly known as Fatah. Sources said he has also agreed to back…
“I don’t want anybody talking about it.” Mikel Arteta is taking little solace from Arsenal’s first Champions League semi-final in 16 years. It has been a season of progress in Europe for his side, who not only reached that milestone – for only the third time in their history, too – but also saw off 15-time winners Real Madrid on their way. But it is not enough. When the curtain comes down on 2024/25 it will do so with Arsenal about to enter their sixth season since they last lifted silverware. What will likely be a hat-trick of Premier League…
Mikel Arteta has said Arsenal started this season aware they were “super short” in squad depth and possessed several players at risk of injury but “couldn’t do anything about it.”The Gunners travel to Liverpool on Sunday ready to perform a guard of honour for their opponents rather than compete for the Premier League title after the Reds were crowned champions two weeks earlier.Arteta’s side face a fifth consecutive season without a trophy after exiting the Champions League at the semi-final stage to Paris Saint-Germain in midweek.They have battled fitness problems all season with Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Ben White…
NEW YORK (AP) — News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological spectrum in Pope Leo XIV ’s homeland, raising the question of whether he might be able to ease some of the deep divisions within its ranks.From U.S. Catholics to the left of the ideological center, there is optimism that Leo will carry on Pope Francis’ outreach to poor and marginalized people, including migrants, and provide a counterweight to policies of the Trump administration that distress them. To the right, there is hope the new pope will faithfully…
CHICAGO (AP) — Growing up in the former Soviet Union, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez’s father and grandparents would listen to Voice of America with their ears pressed to the radio, trying to catch words through the government’s radio jamming.The U.S.-funded news service was instrumental in helping them understand what was happening on the other side of the Iron Curtain, before they moved to the United States in the 1970s.“It was a window into another world,” Spivakovsky-Gonzalez said. “They looked to it as a sort of a beacon of freedom. They were able to imagine a different world from the one they were…
Residents read morning Urdu newspapers with the headline ‘The ceasefire between Pakistan and India’ on a roadside in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on May 11, 2025. Sajjad Qayyum | Afp | Getty ImagesA fragile ceasefire was holding between India and Pakistan on Sunday, after hours of overnight fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours, as U.S. President Donald Trump said he will work to provide a solution regarding Kashmir.The arch rivals were involved in intense firing for four days, the worst in nearly three decades, with missiles and drones being fired at each other’s military installations and dozens of people…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Before they can name their next presidential nominee, Democrats will have to decide which state will weigh in first.In 2022, President Joe Biden forced a shake-up of the 2024 election calendar, moving South Carolina’s primary ahead of contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. Officials in those traditionally four early-voting states are now positioning themselves to get top billing nearly two years before the Democratic National Committee solidifies the order. Others may make a play, too.It’s a fraught choice for a party already wrestling with questions about its direction after losing November’s White House election…
CNN — A fourth round of talks between the US and Iran on Tehran’s nuclear program have begun in Oman, according to Iranian state media, with the two sides aiming to overcome divisions that could scupper the tentative negotiations. The talks, held indirectly and mediated by the Omani Foreign Minister, are aimed at addressing Tehran’s nuclear program and lifting sanctions. That they are happening at all is something of a breakthrough – the talks are the highest-level in years – but signs of firm progress are slim. Both countries have expressed a willingness to resolve their disputes through diplomacy. A…