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Sunderland have agreed a club-record fee of around €33m (£27.8m), plus €5m (£4.2m), for Jobe Bellingham to join Borussia Dortmund.The agreement also includes a 15 per cent sell-on clause, and will be the highest transfer fee Sunderland have ever received. Excluding add-ons, Bellingham will become the second-most expensive signing in Borussia Dortmund’s history.Bellingham, whose older brother Jude played for the Bundesliga club for three seasons, helped Sunderland secure promotion back to the Premier League through the Championship play-off final after eight years away from the top flight.Like his brother Jude, Jobe came through Birmingham’s academy and spent two years in…

CNN  —  Carlos Alcaraz mounted an extraordinary comeback to win the men’s final at Roland Garros on Sunday, defeating world No. 1 Jannik Sinner 4-6, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2). In the longest final in tournament history, the Spaniard demonstrated incredible resolve to fend off three championship points for Sinner in the fourth set and somehow go on to win in a fifth-set tiebreaker, the first ever time that any man has pulled off such a feat at Roland Garros, according to broadcaster TNT Sports. Five and a half hours after he faced Sinner’s first serve of the…

The expanded FIFA Club World Cup is about to get underway, with Chelsea, Manchester City and Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami involved.The new-look Club World Cup features 32 teams and will be played every four years from the summer of 2025. It is an expansion of the previous version of the tournament, which took place every year and involved just seven teams from around the world. When is the 2025 Club World Cup?The tournament starts on June 14, though the first game between Al Ahly and Messi’s Inter Miami kicks off at 1am UK time on June 15 at Miami’s Hard…

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, speaks during a news conference after a House Republican conference meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 4, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesHouse Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that he hopes President Donald Trump and Elon Musk can “reconcile” after their public fallout last week.”There’s a lot of emotion involved in it, but it’s in the interest of the country for everybody to work together,” the Louisiana Republican said on ABC News’ “This Week.”Johnson said that he has not spoken with Musk about the GOP-led…

BOGOTA (AP) — Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay, a conservative presidential hopeful, was in serious condition Sunday following surgery for a gunshot wound at a political rally a day earlier, Bogota’s mayor said.Mayor Carlos Galán visited the Fundación Santa Fe clinic to express solidarity with the family of the 39-year-old senator.“He survived the procedure; these are critical moments and hours for his survival,” said Galán early Sunday after receiving information from the medical staff at the clinic.The hospital said Sunday that Uribe Turbay was recovering in intensive care after undergoing neurosurgery and a procedure on his left thigh. His condition…

Jeff CarlisleJun 8, 2025, 10:58 AM ETCloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.In the past 30 years, the biggest debate in U.S. soccer circles has been whether leagues in this country should adopt promotion and relegation, or “pro-rel.” While leagues the world over have such a structure — whereby high performers of lower divisions move up to the tier above them, with the strugglers getting demoted to the league below — MLS has never seriously entertained the idea. The same was true of the alphabet soup of professional leagues that have dotted the U.S. in…

Wales international Aaron Ramsey has played in Italy and France during a journeyed club career. Robin Jones/Getty ImagesFormer Arsenal and Juventus midfielder Aaron Ramsey is set to complete a shock transfer to Mexican side Pumas UNAM, sources have told ESPN.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedRamsey, 34, finished last season in interim charge of hometown club Cardiff City as they were relegated from the Championship to League One.Sources told ESPN that Pumas are in advanced talks with Ramsey about moving to Mexico where he will work under coach Efrain Juarez. A verbal agreement is already in place.Juarez has been instrumental in the transfer as he…

Israel has ordered the military to block an aid boat headed for Gaza with 12 activists on board, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg. “I have instructed the military to prevent the Madleen flotilla from reaching Gaza,” Israel Katz said in a statement from his office. “To Greta the antisemite and her companions, Hamas propaganda mouthpieces, I say clearly: turn back because you will not reach Gaza.” Thunberg and 11 other activists set off from Sicily on 1 June, carrying urgent supplies for besieged and starving Palestinians.  The aid includes baby formula, flour, rice, diapers, women’s sanitary products, water desalination kits,…

Conservative Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot and seriously injured during a campaign rally in the capital, Bogota. The brazen attack captured on video shook a nation that decades ago regularly saw kidnappings and killings of politicians and high profile people.Uribe Turbay, 39, who has announced he intends to run for president next year, was in serious condition following surgery Sunday, a day after the shooting, and doctors said he was going through “critical hours.”Here’s what to know about the conservative politician: A conservative presidential hopefulA member of the right-wing Democratic Center party, Uribe Turbay launched his presidential bid…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries is set to take effect Monday amid escalating tension over the president’s unprecedented campaign of immigration enforcement.The new proclamation, which Trump signed on Wednesday, applies to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It also imposes heightened restrictions on people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela who are outside the U.S. and don’t hold a valid visa.The new ban does not…