Portugal’s football icon Cristiano Ronaldo bid an emotional farewell to the World Cup after his side suffered a 1-0 defeat to Spain. The 41-year-old confirmed this was the final World Cup of his career, though he has not announced full retirement from international football.Ronaldo played six World Cups in his career — a record in…
DAMASCUS (International Desk) — More than a year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria, prosecutions of officials and supporters of the former regime continue. Among those now facing trial is former Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun, whose first court hearing was held recently at the Palace of Justice in Damascus.The 77-year-old cleric…
Australian national football team forward Thiti Yenki has announced his conversion to Islam, making the declaration just days before his team’s crucial FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 32 match against Egypt. The news quickly drew widespread attention on social media.In a statement shared via Instagram through “Qalby Studios,” Yenki said his journey toward Islam…
DAMASCUS (International Desk) — Loud explosions were heard in the Syrian capital Damascus on July 7 while French President Emmanuel Macron was on a visit to the country. The trip is being described as the first visit to Syria by a major European Union leader since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad government.Reports indicate that…
Kirk was addressing a crowd from under a tent on 10 September as part of his American Comeback tour of college campuses, during which he invited attendees to debate him. A shot rang out as he was speaking about gun violence; Kirk slumped over to the side. Chris Bagley, one of four law enforcement witnesses…
The campaign targets have been high profile. An oil terminal in St Petersburg was hit with drones ahead of Putin’s showpiece economic forum in the city in June. Then there were strikes on a refinery in Moscow itself, creating explosion videos that went viral. Now there’s a confirmed hit on an oil refinery in Omsk,…
A reservoir wall broke in Nanning in China, sending out a torrent of water after rivers swelled from the passage of a typhoon. At least two people have been killed by flooding due to Typhoon Maysak, while another 480,000 have been evacuated across the southern Guangxi province, officials say. The province’s emergency flood control response…
At the site of one missile strike, in the Podilskyi district of Kyiv, rescue teams have been working in the ruins of an apartment block with a big hole blown through its middle. Specialists have been using sniffer dogs to try to find the missing among the wreckage as cranes lift giant slabs of concrete…
President Donald Trump has confirmed he asked Fifa to review United States striker Folarin Balogun’s one-match suspension at the World Cup. Balogun, 25, was set to miss his side’s last-16 tie against Belgium after being shown a straight red card for a foul on Bosnia-Herzegovina defender Tarik Muharemovic in the previous round. But Fifa made…
PRAIA: Cape Verde’s national football team received a rousing homecoming on Sunday, a day that coincided with the country’s Independence Day, making it doubly historic.Thousands of fans had already gathered at the airport in the capital, Praia, before the team’s arrival, waving the national blue flag with its red-and-white stripes and six stars. Crowds also…
