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ZURICH — The laws on taking a penalty kick were clarified Tuesday after Julián Álvarez’s accidental double touch helped to eliminate Atlético Madrid from the Champions League.The new interpretation will take effect in UEFA-organized games Wednesday when Germany plays Portugal in a Nations League semifinal in Munich, the European soccer body said.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedThe update published by FIFA-backed rules panel IFAB means the kind of penalty Átletico forward Álvarez had disallowed after scoring in a shootout against Real Madrid in March should now be retaken.Álvarez slipped and kicked the ball against his standing left foot in the shootout in the…
Fran Kirby has announced her retirement from international football – only two days before the Lionesses’ Euro 2025 squad will be confirmed on Thursday.The 31-year-old Brighton midfielder was omitted from Sarina Wiegman’s matchday squad for Tuesday’s 2-1 defeat in Spain, and told her team-mates she was retiring with immediate effect after the game. Wiegman told her she was unlikely to make the Euro 2025 squad unless one of her team-mates got injured before Thursday’s deadline – which Kirby said made her realise she had “outstayed her welcome” on the international stage.She ends her Lionesses career with 77 caps and 19…
Spain’s Clàudia Pina came off the bench and scored twice as the reigning Nations League champions came back from a goal down to beat England 2-1 on Tuesday and claim victory in Group 3, booking their spot in the last four of this year’s competition.With Germany and France having already secured victory in Groups 1 and 2 respectively, world champions Spain and European champions England met to decide their group. Sweden took on Denmark in a winner-takes-all clash in Stockholm that kicked off half an hour later.”We have finished top of a group which also included England, a top team,…
Fans of the Star Wars prequel series Andor have taken to social media this week to draw comparisons between Israel’s war on Gaza and the show’s narratives of occupation, resistance, and authoritarian violence. Set as a prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the Andor series traces the formation of the Rebel Alliance and Cassian Andor’s role within it, focusing on the rise of resistance against the Galactic Empire. It provides context to the political and social conditions that shaped the early rebellion and expands on characters and events that influence the broader Star Wars narrative. Following the first…
CNN — It’s a dark chapter in Chile’s history. During the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990, thousands of babies were stolen from their biological mothers and sold into adoption, mainly to foreign couples from the United States and Europe. In Chile, they’re known as “The Children of Silence.” And now, for the first time in the country’s history, a Chilean judge announced he was prosecuting individuals alleged to have stolen babies in the country. Alejandro Aguilar Brevis, a Santiago Court of Appeals judge in charge of the investigation “determined that in the 1980s” there was a…
CNN — The Indiana Pacers’ journey to the NBA Finals was never going to be easy, but it got a little more complicated Tuesday, and it had nothing to do with basketball. The team’s flight bound for Oklahoma City for a Game 1 tilt with the Thunder was detoured by literal thunder and forced to land in Tulsa, Oklahoma, due to a tornado warning in the capital Tuesday afternoon. “The Pacers team plane circled due to the weather in Oklahoma City and subsequently landed in Tulsa to re-fuel,” a representative for the team said. The Pacers have since told CNN…
CNN — A Wisconsin man who investigators believe framed an undocumented migrant with threatening to kill President Donald Trump in order to have the immigrant deported has now been charged in the matter. According to state prosecutors, that man, Demetric Scott, admitted to framing the migrant, Ramon Morales-Reyes, whom Scott allegedly stabbed and robbed in 2023 and who was set to testify in the assault case against Scott. In an interview with Milwaukee police investigators, Scott “admitted that he wrote everything on the letters and envelopes himself,” charging documents say. “When asked what was going through his head at the…
When *Taufeeq Ahmed boarded a flight from New Delhi to Canada in early 2020, he wasn’t chasing a promotion, a degree or the promise of a better paycheque. Instead, he was trying to leave something behind – a heavy sense of unease that had been quietly building for years, and a fear that had finally become impossible to ignore. “I lived close to Jamia Millia Islamia,” he said, referring to the prominent university in New Delhi where he used to study. “During the anti-CAA protests, I saw police beating unarmed students, dragging them by their hair, firing tear gas into…
Sarina Wiegman says she is “close” to knowing her England team as she delivered updates on the fitness of Georgia Stanway, Millie Bright and Lauren James ahead of Thursday’s Euro 2025 squad announcement.England suffered a 2-1 defeat to Spain in their penultimate fixture before heading to Switzerland to defend their title after Alessia Russo’s opener was cancelled out by Claudia Pina’s double off the bench. The Lionesses face Jamaica in their final fixture at the King Power Stadium on June 29 before their Euro 2025 campaign begins against France on July 5.Speaking after the defeat, Wiegman said: “I’m close to…
KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives UAE Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan on June 3, 2025. – Amiri Diwan photos KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, in the presence of HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, received UAE Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan.Sheikh Mansour conveyed to HH the Amir greetings from UAE President Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan…