Author: Daily Sabah With Reuters
Barcelona’s Dani Olmo scored inside the first minute of the second half to earn a hard-fought 1-0 home win against Mallorca on Tuesday, extending their lead over Real Madrid at the top of the table to seven points with five games to go. Barca dominated proceedings despite coach Hansi Flick deciding to rest several key starters ahead of Saturday’s Copa del Rey final against rivals Real, but Mallorca goalkeeper Leo Roman put on a show between the posts to keep them at bay. Barca finally managed to break the deadlock shortly after the interval thanks to a fine piece of…
Manchester City’s Matheus Nunes scored deep in injury time to salvage a crucial 2-1 Premier League victory over Aston Villa on Tuesday in their breathless chase for a Champions League berth next season. The teams appeared to be heading for a draw after Marcus Rashford’s penalty cancelled out Bernardo Silva’s goal in the first half, but Nunes fired home Jeremy Doku’s cross in the 94th minute to lift City two places to third in the table on 61 points. Pep Guardiola’s men, however, have played one more game than the three teams directly behind them, while Villa, who have lost…
Ukraine is ready to negotiate but not to surrender, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said on Wednesday as details emerged in media reports of a U.S. proposal for a deal which would see Ukraine give up almost all territory currently occupied by Russia. “There will be no agreement that hands Russia the stronger foundations it needs to regroup and return with greater violence,” Svyrydenko wrote on X. “A full ceasefire – on land, in the air, and at sea – is the necessary first step,” she said, adding that if Moscow instead opted for a limited pause, Kyiv would…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the crypto industry needs regulatory certainty and clear rules of the road that Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins will work on providing. “He’s the perfect man to lead this agency at a time when crypto innovators are urgently in need of and they want so badly, they want it to happen, regulatory certainty and clear rules of the road,” Trump said, speaking at Atkins’ swearing in as the SEC chairman.
China supports Iran in holding nuclear talks with the United States but opposes resorting to force and “illegal” unilateral sanctions in resolving the issue, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Iranian counterpart on Wednesday. Beijing is willing to deepen coordination and cooperation with Tehran on international and regional affairs, Wang told Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi during talks in the Chinese capital, according to a ministry statement.
Longtime NFL “Sunday Night Football” play-by-play announcer Mike Patrick has died. He was 80. Patrick reportedly died of natural causes on Sunday in Fairfax, Va. The City of Clarksburg, W.Va., Patrick’s hometown, confirmed his death on Tuesday. Patrick spent 36 years at ESPN from 1982-2018, including 19 seasons (1987-2005) on the NFL Sunday broadcast crew. He called ESPN’s first NFL regular-season broadcast in 1987. Among Patrick’s color analysts were Joe Theismann and Paul Maguire. Suzy Kolber was the sideline reports for several of those years. Patrick also handled play-by-play on college football and college basketball broadcasts as well as the…
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has no plans to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, but said he wants interest rates to be lower, remarks that could defuse tensions over the central bank chief’s future that have rattled investors. “I have no intention of firing him,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “I would like to see him be a little more active in terms of his idea to lower interest rates,” he added. Trump’s statement was the first de-escalation after days of withering criticisms he has lobbed at Powell for not further cutting interest…
Ukraine remains committed to working with the United States to put an end to Russia’s three-year war, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said after talks on Wednesday with European and U.S. representatives in London. “Ukraine wants the war to end more than anyone else in the world. We are committed to working together to achieve this goal,” Sybiha said on X, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump again lambasted Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Russia’s armed forces are still short of certain weapons, including drones, despite a big increase in production, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. Putin told a meeting of the state Military-Industrial Commission that almost all defence enterprises had met their orders in full last year. “For example, production of weapons, communications, reconnaissance and electronic warfare systems more than doubled. The troops received over 4,000 units of armoured weapons, 180 combat aircraft and helicopters,” he said in televised comments. More than 1.5 million drones of various types had also been produced, Putin added, including about 4,000 first-person view (FPV) drones -…
U.S. President Donald Trump is planning to spare carmakers from some tariffs, The Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter. Car parts would be exempted from tariffs that are being imposed on imports from China over fentanyl and tariffs levied on steel and aluminum, the report added.