Author: Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Dpa
Pep Guardiola expressed relief as Manchester City ended their winless streak with a commanding 3-0 victory over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday. The reigning champions had spiraled into turmoil during a seven-game drought – six losses and a stunning 3-3 draw in which they squandered a 3-0 lead. With four of those defeats coming in the Premier League, City’s hopes for a fifth consecutive title took a significant hit. However, they appeared rejuvenated, decisively brushing aside Forest at the Etihad Stadium. “We needed it,” City manager Guardiola said. “The club, the players, everyone needed to win. “But it is just one…
Pep Guardiola expressed relief as Manchester City ended their winless streak with a commanding 3-0 victory over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday. The reigning champions had spiraled into turmoil during a seven-game drought – six losses and a stunning 3-3 draw in which they squandered a 3-0 lead. With four of those defeats coming in the Premier League, City’s hopes for a fifth consecutive title took a significant hit. However, they appeared rejuvenated, decisively brushing aside Forest at the Etihad Stadium. “We needed it,” City manager Guardiola said. “The club, the players, everyone needed to win. “But it is just one…
Pep Guardiola expressed relief as Manchester City ended their winless streak with a commanding 3-0 victory over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday. The reigning champions had spiraled into turmoil during a seven-game drought – six losses and a stunning 3-3 draw in which they squandered a 3-0 lead. With four of those defeats coming in the Premier League, City’s hopes for a fifth consecutive title took a significant hit. However, they appeared rejuvenated, decisively brushing aside Forest at the Etihad Stadium. “We needed it,” City manager Guardiola said. “The club, the players, everyone needed to win. “But it is just one…
The Dutch Formula One Grand Prix, home to world champion Max Verstappen, will make its final appearance in 2026 before being removed from the race calendar, it was confirmed Wednesday. According to an F1 statement, a one-year contract extension for 2026 has been secured, but after careful deliberation, the promoter has decided not to renew the race beyond that year. The Dutch GP was reintroduced in 2021 at Zandvoort, and Verstappen has won it three times. The statement said the final edition in 2026 would include a sprint race. The future of the race was uncertain beyond the original contract,…
NATO fears new serious acts of sabotage and cyber attacks on alliance territory, a senior official said on the sidelines of a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels. The official said that Russia in particular appears to be becoming more willing to hurt or endanger lives through sabotage in NATO member countries. China, Iran and North Korea are also active in cyber attacks, according to the official. Beijing, like Moscow, is conducting an ongoing campaign to spread malware, the official said. The aim is to carry out espionage, but also to have the ability to cause disruption in the event…
The Bangladeshi government has strongly condemned an attack on its consulate in Agartala, the capital of the Indian state of Tripura, allegedly carried out by members of a Hindu group. In a statement issued on Monday evening, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka expressed deep concern over the incident, which it attributed to protesters from the Hindu Sangharsh Samiti, a Hindu religious advocacy platform. “The accounts received conclusively attest that the protesters were allowed to aggress into the premises by breaking down the main gate of the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in a pre-planned manner,” said the statement. During…
Workers at Volkswagen’s plant in the south-eastern German city of Zwickau began walking off the job at 9:30 am on Monday (0830 GMT), marking the start of nationwide strikes against the German auto giant. Workers at the rest of Volkswagen’s plants in Germany are expected to follow suit later on Monday morning. The IG Metall trade union, which announced the strikes to protest management threats of wage cuts and plant closures, has called for two-hour work stoppages on every shift. The strikes are meant to signal employees’ intense opposition to the company’s demands for across-the-board wage reductions, as well as…
The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Tomoko Akane, has accused the United States and Russia of threatening the court’s existence. The attacks were aimed at undermining its legitimacy and ability to function, the judge said in The Hague on Monday, at the opening of the court’s annual conference of state parties. The court president spoke of coercive measures, threats, pressure and sabotage. Pressure on the court had increased significantly following the issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. In the United States, leading Republicans have threatened to impose sanctions…
UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen stated that a lack of commitment to a peace solution in Syria has resulted in the renewed escalation of violence in the country’s long-running civil war. “What we see in Syria today is a mark of a collective failure,” said the Syria mediator. Pedersen said he has repeatedly warned of the risk of escalation and the danger of relying on conflict management instead of conflict resolution. The recent developments pose a threat not only to the Syrian civilian population, but also to regional and international security, he added. Pedersen, a Norwegian diplomat, also urged the…
Ukraine could agree to a ceasefire with Russia if NATO extends its protection to the parts of the country controlled by Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday. “If we want to stop the hot phase of the war, we need to take under the NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,” Zelensky said in an interview with the British TV channel Sky News. “We need to do it fast. And then on the [occupied] territory of Ukraine, Ukraine can get them back in a diplomatic way.” He said this plan hadn’t before been considered…