Author: Daily Sabah With Reuters
Barcelona advanced to their third consecutive Spanish Super Cup final with a commanding 2-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao in Jeddah on Wednesday, thanks to goals from Gavi and Lamine Yamal. Gavi set the tone early, scoring in the 17th minute, while Yamal sealed the win just seven minutes into the second half. The 14-time Super Cup champions now await the winner of Thursday’s semifinal clash between holders Real Madrid and Mallorca to determine their opponent in Sunday’s final. Barcelona’s earliest chances fell to Raphinha, who first acrobatically volleyed over and then struck a powerful free kick that keeper Unai Simon…
Barcelona advanced to their third consecutive Spanish Super Cup final with a commanding 2-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao in Jeddah on Wednesday, thanks to goals from Gavi and Lamine Yamal. Gavi set the tone early, scoring in the 17th minute, while Yamal sealed the win just seven minutes into the second half. The 14-time Super Cup champions now await the winner of Thursday’s semifinal clash between holders Real Madrid and Mallorca to determine their opponent in Sunday’s final. Barcelona’s earliest chances fell to Raphinha, who first acrobatically volleyed over and then struck a powerful free kick that keeper Unai Simon…
Barcelona advanced to their third consecutive Spanish Super Cup final with a commanding 2-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao in Jeddah on Wednesday, thanks to goals from Gavi and Lamine Yamal. Gavi set the tone early, scoring in the 17th minute, while Yamal sealed the win just seven minutes into the second half. The 14-time Super Cup champions now await the winner of Thursday’s semifinal clash between holders Real Madrid and Mallorca to determine their opponent in Sunday’s final. Barcelona’s earliest chances fell to Raphinha, who first acrobatically volleyed over and then struck a powerful free kick that keeper Unai Simon…
Dani Olmo and Pau Victor have been cleared to play for Barcelona after Spain’s National Sports Council (CSD) granted provisional approval for their registration on Wednesday, just four days after Spanish football authorities denied the club’s request. Barcelona signed Olmo and Victor during the offseason but, constrained by La Liga’s wage cap, could only register them for the first half of the campaign. On Saturday, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and La Liga rejected Barcelona’s bid to extend their registrations for the second half of the season. The CSD said its decision was “provisional until the final resolution of the…
Dani Olmo and Pau Victor have been cleared to play for Barcelona after Spain’s National Sports Council (CSD) granted provisional approval for their registration on Wednesday, just four days after Spanish football authorities denied the club’s request. Barcelona signed Olmo and Victor during the offseason but, constrained by La Liga’s wage cap, could only register them for the first half of the campaign. On Saturday, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and La Liga rejected Barcelona’s bid to extend their registrations for the second half of the season. The CSD said its decision was “provisional until the final resolution of the…
Dani Olmo and Pau Victor have been cleared to play for Barcelona after Spain’s National Sports Council (CSD) granted provisional approval for their registration on Wednesday, just four days after Spanish football authorities denied the club’s request. Barcelona signed Olmo and Victor during the offseason but, constrained by La Liga’s wage cap, could only register them for the first half of the campaign. On Saturday, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and La Liga rejected Barcelona’s bid to extend their registrations for the second half of the season. The CSD said its decision was “provisional until the final resolution of the…
The Kremlin on Thursday said it was seeking an objective, impartial investigation into the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane last month, which killed at least 38 people. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has demanded justice and transparency from Moscow over the disaster, which he says was the result of accidental damage by Russian fire. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare public apology for the incident, but the Kremlin statement did not say Russia had shot down the plane, only noting that a criminal case had been opened.
Chinese health authorities said on Thursday they had detected the new mutated mpox strain clade Ib as the viral infection spreads to more countries after the World Health Organization declared a global public health emergency last year. China’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said it had found a cluster outbreak of the Ib subclade that started with the infection a foreigner who has a history of travel and residence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Four further cases have been found in people infected after close contact with the foreigner. The patients’ symptoms are mild and include skin…
French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Lebanon very soon, the French presidency said on Thursday, after Macron spoke with Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army chief who was elected president, to congratulate him. The Elysee said in a statement that it would support Aoun’s efforts to form a new government, underlining that it must be capable of carrying out reforms necessary for Lebanon’s economic recovery and stability.
The number of untraceable privately-made “ghost guns” recovered at crime scenes surged nearly 1,600% between 2017 and 2023, according to the results of a new federal gun trafficking study released on Wednesday. The study’s results, announced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), come after President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland in April 2021 directed the agency to oversee a new research initiative to better understand how criminals in the United States obtain their guns. The study found between 2017 and 2023, 92,702 suspected privately made firearms or “ghost guns,” which can be obtained without…