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The transfer window is opening earlier than usual this summer ahead of FIFA’s newly expanded Club World Cup – but what can we expect?Cristiano Ronaldo and Trent Alexander-Arnold could be among those on the move with FIFA keen for its new-look tournament to have a star-studded cast in the United States. Premier League clubs Chelsea and Manchester City are competing with the likes of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan.Clubs can sign new players from June 1-10 before the tournament kicks off on June 15.And this is not limited to the 32 participating teams – which means…

AP  —  Spanish emergency services say four women and three girls died when a small boat carrying migrants capsized while arriving in a port at one of Spain’s Canary Islands on Wednesday. Spain’s maritime rescue service, which located the boat some 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) from shore, said the boat tipped over as rescuers started removing minors as it arrived at a dock on the island of El Hierro. The movement of people on the boat caused it to tip and then turn over, dumping the occupants into the water, the service said. Emergency services for the Canary Islands said…

CNN  —  A top Kremlin aide has accused Donald Trump of being “not sufficiently informed” about the situation in Ukraine after the US president said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was “playing with fire.” Putin aide Yury Ushakov was reacting to Trump’s Truth Social post on Tuesday, in which the president said: “What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!” Ushakov, a former Russian ambassador to Washington who was part of the negotiating team that Moscow sent…

PARIS (AP) — Clearly hampered by a bad left knee, two-time French Open finalist Casper Ruud dropped 13 of the last 14 games and lost 2-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-0 to Nino Borges in the second round at Roland-Garros on Wednesday, then revealed he had been playing in pain off-and-on throughout the clay-court season.The seventh-seeded Ruud reached at least the semifinals each of the past three years in Paris — he was the runner-up to Rafael Nadal in 2022 and Novak Djokovic in 2023 — and this exit is his earliest at the tournament since bowing out in the second round…

CAIRO (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Mohammed Sinwar, believed to be the head of Hamas’ armed wing, has been killed, apparently confirming his death in a recent strike in the Gaza Strip. There was no confirmation from Hamas.Sinwar is the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who helped mastermind the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that started the Israel-Hamas war, and who was killed by Israeli forces in October 2024.Israeli strikes have decimated Hamas’ leadership during the 19-month war, and Mohammed Sinwar was one of the last widely known leaders still alive in Gaza.…

The headline-grabbing tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhattan townhouse by captors seeking his bitcoin highlights a dark corner of the cryptocurrency world: the threat of violence by thieves seeking digital assets.The alleged attempted robbery is known as a “wrench attack.” It’s a name popularized by an online comic that mocked how easily high-tech security can be undone by hitting someone with a wrench until they give up passwords.Wrench attacks are on the rise thanks in part to cryptocurrency’s move into mainstream finance, Phil Ariss of the crypto tracing…

May 28, 2025, 07:01 AM ETArsenal legend Thierry Henry has said he believes the club should have won a trophy under Mikel Arteta, but made clear he is not disappointed with the club’s progress in recent years.”I’m not saying that I’m disappointed with Arsenal, but it’s normal that people are raising questions now about what the team is doing,” Henry told the Stick to Football podcast.”I understand that at the very beginning you arrive and it’s not your team. You need at the very least three or four transfer windows to change everything that you want to.”It takes time and…

Florian Wirtz is one of the best signings in Bundesliga history, according to a recruitment expert who saw him up close at Bayer Leverkusen.Wirtz has been subject to transfer interest this summer, with Sky Germany believing the player is leaning towards moving to Liverpool. The 22-year-old has spent his entire senior career so far at Leverkusen, joining the club’s youth ranks from Koln in January 2020 and making his senior debut four months later.Discussing Wirtz’s impact at the club, Devin Ozek – who left his role as executive CEO assistant at Leverkusen earlier this year – told Sky Sports News…

A car that began slowly nosing its way around pedestrians ended up ploughing into them – and a parade turned into panic.This was a terrifying and chaotic incident. Here’s what Sky’s Data and Forensics team has been able to reconstruct: exactly what happened, and when.This is what everyone was filling the streets to see – the Liverpool team bus on its victory parade. Image: Hundreds of thousands of Liverpool fans turned out to watch the Premier League champions’ bus parade on Bank Holiday Monday It began at 2.30pm on Bank Holiday Monday – here is the route the procession took.…

Fiorentina winger Nicolo Zaniolo could be facing a lengthy ban after Roma accused their former player of assaulting two youth team players.The incident allegedly happened after Fiorentina beat Roma 2-1 in the Primavera youth league title play-off semi-final on Monday, with Zaniolo watching the game from the stands. Zaniolo, who spent the 2023-24 season on loan at Aston Villa, denied any wrongdoing after Roma issued a statement on the “regrettable incident” but the Italian soccer federation reportedly opened an investigation on Tuesday.”On the evening of May 26, at the end of the Primavera Fiorentina-AS Roma semi-final played at Viola Park,…