Author: Daily Sabah With Reuters
Burnley beat Sheffield United 2-1 to seal automatic promotion to the Premier League on Saturday with the result also sending Championship leaders Leeds United up alongside them. Leeds had earlier thrashed Stoke City 6-0 to go top of the Championship on 94 points with two matches remaining and needed Burnley to then not lose to third-placed Sheffield United to make sure they would finish in the top two. Burnley duly obliged with Josh Brownhill scoring twice at Turf Moor either side of Tom Cannon’s equaliser. Scott Parker’s side, who were relegated last season, joined Leeds on 94 points to leave…
The Palestinian Red Crescent called on Monday for a “serious investigation” into the killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza last month, a day after the Israeli military admitted “professional failures” and disciplined two officers over the incident. Younish Al-Khatib, chairman of the Palestinian Red Crescent, said he did not consider the measures taken by the Israeli military, which reprimanded one officer and dismissed another from his position, as sufficient. “This looks like the management of a company taking administrative measures against its employees who made some kind of a mistake,” he told Reuters. “When you kill 15 medical staff…
Asian crime syndicates behind the multibillion-dollar cyberscam industry are expanding globally, including to South America and Africa, as raids in Southeast Asia fail to contain their activities, the United Nations said in a report on Monday. Criminal networks that emerged in Southeast Asia in recent years, opening sprawling compounds housing tens of thousands of workers, many trafficked and forced to scam victims around the world, have evolved into a sophisticated global industry, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said. Even as Southeast Asian governments have intensified a crackdown, syndicates have moved within and beyond the region, the…
Manchester United suffered their 15th Premier League defeat of the season on Sunday as Pablo Sarabia’s late free kick sealed a 1-0 win for Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford. Still riding the high of Thursday’s dramatic 5-4 Europa League victory over Olympique Lyonnais, United produced a flat first-half performance, managing just one shot on target to the frustration of the home crowd. Bruno Fernandes injected some life after coming off the bench, but United failed to capitalize – and paid the price when Sarabia curled a sublime free kick into the top corner with 13 minutes remaining. Mason Mount wasted…
Manchester United suffered their 15th Premier League defeat of the season on Sunday as Pablo Sarabia’s late free kick sealed a 1-0 win for Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford. Still riding the high of Thursday’s dramatic 5-4 Europa League victory over Olympique Lyonnais, United produced a flat first-half performance, managing just one shot on target to the frustration of the home crowd. Bruno Fernandes injected some life after coming off the bench, but United failed to capitalize – and paid the price when Sarabia curled a sublime free kick into the top corner with 13 minutes remaining. Mason Mount wasted…
Ukraine proposes that Russia abandon drone and missile strikes on civilian infrastructure for at least 30 days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday. “If Russia does not agree to such a step, it will be proof that it intends to continue doing only those things which destroy human lives and prolong the war,” Zelensky said on X.
North Korea denounced on Sunday U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent order to ease weapons exports and called the decision “war escalation measures.” “On one hand, the U.S. is pretending to be a ‘mediator’ by recommending dialogue and negotiation, while on the other hand, it is continuously handing over all kinds of weapons of mass destruction to encourage warmongers to further expand and prolong the war,” the Korean Central News Agency said in an unnamed commentary. Trump has been pushing for the peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow, and signed an executive order to ease exports of U.S. weapons on April…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has not issued an order to extend the Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, TASS news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Sunday. The ceasefire expires at midnight (2100 GMT) on Sunday.
Manchester City edged closer to securing Champions League football next season as Nico O’Reilly and Mateo Kovacic struck late to seal a 2-0 victory over Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday. City climbed to fourth with 58 points from 33 matches, four points clear of sixth-place Chelsea and seventh-place Aston Villa, although they have played one more game. The top five finishers qualify for next season’s Champions League. O’Reilly opened the scoring by tapping in from four meters after meeting Matheus Nunes’ low cross, while Kovacic added a second with a precise strike from the edge of the box to…
The United States is prepared to recognize Russian control of the Ukrainian region of Crimea as part of a broader peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.