Viktor Gyokeres’ Hat-Trick Shatters Manchester City as Sporting CP Thrash Premier League Giants 4-1
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Viktor Gyokeres’ Hat-Trick Shatters Manchester City as Sporting CP Thrash Premier League Giants 4-1

Sporting CP demolished Manchester City 4-1 in a thrilling UEFA Champions League encounter at the Estádio José Alvalade on Tuesday. Viktor Gyokeres was the star of the show, scoring a remarkable hat-trick as Sporting came from behind to secure a victory that will go down as one of Amorim’s finest moments in charge. Manchester City…

Liverpool Run Riot at Anfield: Díaz’s Hat-Trick Seals 4-0 Win Over Bayer Leverkusen
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Liverpool Run Riot at Anfield: Díaz’s Hat-Trick Seals 4-0 Win Over Bayer Leverkusen

Luis Díaz scored a sensational second-half hat-trick to lead Liverpool to a dominant 4-0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen, maintaining their perfect start to the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League. The win not only extended their flawless group-stage record but also left former Reds midfielder Xabi Alonso with a humbling return to Anfield as manager of the…

Russian rocket takes Iranian satellites into orbit as ties grow closer
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Russian rocket takes Iranian satellites into orbit as ties grow closer

A Russian rocket carrying a payload of satellites into orbit – including two from Iran – blasted off successfully, The Soyuz-2.1 spacecraft lifted off as scheduled from the Vostochny Cosmodrome launchpad in far eastern Russia and put its payload into a designated orbit nine minutes after the launch on Tuesday. Roscosmos said that two Russian…

Trump slams media in Pennsylvania as Harris stumps in Michigan
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Trump slams media in Pennsylvania as Harris stumps in Michigan

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has given a profane and conspiracy-laden speech two days before the presidential election, as his Democratic rival Kamala Harris spoke at a historically Black church in the battleground state of Michigan. In remarks on Sunday that bore no resemblance to his standard speech in the campaign’s closing stretch, Trump spoke…

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy urges allies to act before N Korean troops reach front
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy urges allies to act before N Korean troops reach front

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged its allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield, and the country’s army chief warned that his troops are facing “one of the most powerful offensives” by Moscow since the all-out war started more than two years ago. Zelenskyy raised…

Millions start Hajj in shadow of Israel’s war on Gaza
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Millions start Hajj in shadow of Israel’s war on Gaza

More than 1.5 million Muslim pilgrims have gathered in Saudi Arabia’s Mecca for the start of Hajj, taking place this year against the harrowing backdrop of Israel’s continued onslaught on the Gaza Strip.  The annual pilgrimage began on Friday with crowds of robed worshippers circling the Kaaba, the black cubic structure at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, many…

Greece shuts Acropolis, schools as it braces for 43°C heatwave
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Greece shuts Acropolis, schools as it braces for 43°C heatwave

Greece has shut the site of the ancient Acropolis to tourists, closed schools and stationed medics across Athens as it faces the first heatwave of the summer. Temperatures were expected to hit 43 degrees Celsius (109.4 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday and Thursday in parts of the Mediterranean country, driven by southerly winds bringing hot air…

Peace eludes India’s Manipur even after defeating BJP over ethnic violence
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Peace eludes India’s Manipur even after defeating BJP over ethnic violence

 Thangman Guite had just finished her dinner on the night of June 6 when she received a phone call. “They are coming, hide,” is all the 26-year-old school teacher heard Several other residents of Vengnuam, a village in Manipur state’s Jiribam district bordering Assam in India’s northeast, received a similar phone call. Within minutes, Guite…

Aircraft carrying Malawi vice president missing, search under way
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Aircraft carrying Malawi vice president missing, search under way

A military plane carrying Malawi’s vice president and nine others has gone missing and a search is under way, the president’s office has said. The plane carrying 51-year-old Vice President Saulos Chilima left the capital, Lilongwe, on Monday but failed to make its scheduled landing at Mzuzu International Airport about 370km (230 miles) to the…

North Korea sends more rubbish balloons to South after Kim sister’s threat
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North Korea sends more rubbish balloons to South after Kim sister’s threat

North Korea has floated hundreds more refuse-carrying balloons into South Korea after Kim Jong Un’s influential sister warned Seoul to halt propaganda broadcasts across their tense border. Pyongyang sent more than 300 waste-loaded balloons across the inter-Korean border overnight, South Korea’s military said on Monday, after Kim Yo Jong warned earlier that the loudspeaker broadcasts…