Five players from Iran’s visting women’s football team claimed asylum in Australia on Tuesday, seeking protection after they were branded “traitors” at home for refusing to sing the national anthem. Iranian players fell silent as the anthem played ahead of a tournament match in Australia last week, an act seen as a symbol of defiance […]
Neymar will miss Santos’ Brazilian Championship match against Mirassol on Tuesday with lingering muscle fatigue, dealing a fresh blow to the forward’s hopes of forcing his way back into Brazil’s squad ahead of the World Cup. Santos said Neymar’s absence was precautionary but the timing is awkward, with Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti having organised a […]
West Ham moved into the FA Cup quarter-finals with a 5-3 penalty shoot-out win against Brentford, who paid the price for Dango Ouattara’s spot-kick blunder on Monday. Nuno Espirito Santo’s side twice blew the lead as Jarrod Bowen’s double was cancelled out by an Igor Thiago brace to force extra-time in the 2-2 draw at […]
Arne Slot hopes Liverpool can cope with the hostile Champions League atmosphere at Galatasaray on Tuesday after being shocked by the raucous crowd in Istanbul earlier this season. Slot’s side were beaten 1-0 by Galatasaray at Rams Park in the group stage in September in an ear-splitting environment that left a mark on his players. […]
Mirra Andreeva’s Indian Wells title defense met a bad-tempered end on Monday in round three as Katerina Siniakova stunned the talented Russian teenager 4-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3. The 18-year-old Andreeva opened her bid to retain her crown with an imperious 6-0, 6-0 demolition of Solana Sierra. But she was in trouble early and often against […]
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday that Iraq should not be used as a launch pad for attacks in the Middle East war. Iraq neighbours Iran, against which the United States and Israel launched massive strikes on February 28, as well as the Gulf, which the […]
Iran’s foreign minister said Tuesday that talks with the United States were not on the agenda as their war entered its 11th day. “I don’t think talking with the Americans would be on our agenda anymore,” Abbas Araghchi told PBS News, saying Tehran had a “very bitter experience” during previous negotiations with the US. Iran’s […]
Turkey said on Tuesday that a US Patriot air defence system was deployed to its southeast, near a NATO radar base, as part of steps by the alliance to boost air defences in the face of missile threats from Iran. It is being deployed to Malatya province, the location of the Kurecik NATO radar base, […]
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar spoke late Monday night with Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, to discuss recent developments in the Middle East, according to a post on X by the Foreign Office. According to the post, “They exchanged views on the developments in the Middle East and the wider […]
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed on Monday the war in Iran and prospects for peace in Ukraine, just hours after the Kremlin chief warned that a global energy crisis threatened the world economy. The US and Israeli attack on Iran triggered the biggest spike in oil prices since the […]