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AC Milan earned their third successive Champions League win with a 3-2 victory at Slovan Bratislava on Tuesday, hanging on after the home side scored a late goal. The first half ended level with Milan’s Christian Pulisic opening the scoring in the 21st minute before a quick counter-attack led to Slovan’s Tigran Barseghyan equalising three minutes later. Milan struggled to put Slovan away before substitute Rafael Leao put them back in front in the 68th minute and Tammy Abraham capitalised on a horror back-pass from David Strelec to extend their lead three minutes later. Slovan pulled a goal back through…
Max Verstappen declared 2024 his most impressive Formula One season yet – if not his best – after clinching his fourth consecutive title at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. The Red Bull star reflected on the season’s challenges, telling reporters he didn’t have the fastest car for 70% of the year – a stark contrast to his dominant 2023 campaign, where he won 19 of 22 races in one of the most lopsided seasons in championship history. This year, Verstappen has claimed victory a comparatively modest eight times in 22 races. With just two rounds remaining and stiff competition from…
Max Verstappen declared 2024 his most impressive Formula One season yet – if not his best – after clinching his fourth consecutive title at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. The Red Bull star reflected on the season’s challenges, telling reporters he didn’t have the fastest car for 70% of the year – a stark contrast to his dominant 2023 campaign, where he won 19 of 22 races in one of the most lopsided seasons in championship history. This year, Verstappen has claimed victory a comparatively modest eight times in 22 races. With just two rounds remaining and stiff competition from…
Max Verstappen declared 2024 his most impressive Formula One season yet – if not his best – after clinching his fourth consecutive title at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. The Red Bull star reflected on the season’s challenges, telling reporters he didn’t have the fastest car for 70% of the year – a stark contrast to his dominant 2023 campaign, where he won 19 of 22 races in one of the most lopsided seasons in championship history. This year, Verstappen has claimed victory a comparatively modest eight times in 22 races. With just two rounds remaining and stiff competition from…
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti expressed confidence that his tactical adjustment to Kylian Mbappe’s attacking role paid off as the French star ended his goal drought in Sunday’s commanding 3-0 victory over Leganes. The 25-year-old netted his seventh goal of the season, silencing critics who had questioned his fit as a center-forward since joining the La Liga champions. Ancelotti revealed that a straightforward positional swap with Brazilian striker Vinicius Jr. made all the difference, helping Mbappe rediscover his scoring touch. “Mbappe played on the left side, where he did well, and Vinicius on the inside. We have to highlight their…
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti expressed confidence that his tactical adjustment to Kylian Mbappe’s attacking role paid off as the French star ended his goal drought in Sunday’s commanding 3-0 victory over Leganes. The 25-year-old netted his seventh goal of the season, silencing critics who had questioned his fit as a center-forward since joining the La Liga champions. Ancelotti revealed that a straightforward positional swap with Brazilian striker Vinicius Jr. made all the difference, helping Mbappe rediscover his scoring touch. “Mbappe played on the left side, where he did well, and Vinicius on the inside. We have to highlight their…
The Israeli cabinet will convene on Tuesday to approve a Lebanon ceasefire deal, a senior Israeli official told Reuters on Monday. Another Israeli official told Reuters the cabinet would convene to discuss a deal that could be cemented in the coming days. U.S. news website Axios reported earlier that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to the terms of a deal to end the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
Britain and its allies will not be intimidated by Russian cyberthreats into stopping supporting Ukraine, British cabinet office minister Pat McFadden said on Monday, urging NATO to work closer together to stay ahead in “the new AI arms race”. In the latest Western warning about Moscow stepping up cyber attacks on nations backing Ukraine, McFadden said the U.S.-led military alliance, businesses and institutions must do “everything they can to lock their own digital doors” to protect themselves from what he called an increasingly aggressive Russia. Addressing a NATO Cyber Defence Conference in London, McFadden called for allies to double down…
Russian forces attacked energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern region of Mykolaiv overnight, its governor said on Monday. The engineers restored power to most of the consumers facing impacted by the power cuts in the attack’s aftermath as of the morning, governor Vitaliy Kim said via the Telegram messaging app.
Russian forces captured a British mercenary fighting with the Ukrainian army in Russia’s Kursk region, which is still partially controlled by Kyiv forces, a security source told Russia’s RIA state news agency. “A mercenary from Great Britain, who called himself James Scott Rhys Anderson, was captured. He is now giving evidence,” the Russian source told RIA in remarks published on Sunday. In a video posted on unofficial pro-war Russian Telegram channels on Sunday, a young bearded man wearing military clothing with what appears to be his hands tied in the back, says in English that his name is James Scott…