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UEFA and Greece focus on soccer violence on day of Super Cup final outside Athens

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:54 GMT

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin is meeting with Greece’s prime minister on Wednesday as part of an effort to deal with organized violence in soccer in the wake of a deadly attack led by Croatian fans in Athens.Ceferin has started talks with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. They were to be joined later by representatives from Greece’s four major clubs.The meetings were held hours before the Super Cup match between Sevilla and Manchester City at Karaiskakis Stadium near Athens.A 29-year-old AEK Athens fan, Michalis Katsouris, was stabbed and killed last week after scores of supporters of Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb, many wearing masks and wielding wooden bats, staged an attack outside the Greek club’s stadium. More than a 100 people, mostly Croatian nationals, have been detained on charges of murder and membership of a criminal gang.Croatian President Zoran Milanovic accused Greek authorities of treating the arrested fans like “prisoners of war,” in re...

Ranieri’s Cagliari looking to beat the odds of Serie A survival along with Frosinone and Genoa

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:54 GMT

MILAN (AP) — At the age of 71, Claudio Ranieri will have to continue working his managerial magic if newly-promoted Cagliari is to avoid going straight back down to Serie B.Ranieri has already pulled off something of a masterstroke just to get Cagliari promoted. The Sardinian team is returning to Serie A a year after being relegated, as is Genoa. The other promoted side, Frosinone, is ending a four-year absence.The odds are highly stacked against all three teams still being in Serie A at the start of the 2024-25 season.Frosinone, Genoa and Cagliari will replace Spezia, Cremonese and Sampdoria — the teams relegated at the end of last season.Cremonese went straight back down to Serie B, a year after finishing runner-up in that division.Indeed, the last time that no promoted teams were relegated from the Italian top flight was in the 2007-08 season when Juventus, Napoli and Genoa survived their first season back in Serie A.FROSINONEFrosinone earned promotion by winning Serie B for the ...

El momento en que Ucrania usó un dron experimental para atacar un puente ruso

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:54 GMT

(CNN) — Los servicios de seguridad ucranianos publicaron imágenes exclusivas para CNN que muestran el momento en julio cuando utilizaron un dron marino experimental para atacar el puente de Rusia a Crimea anexada, brindando nuevos detalles sobre el ataque y advirtiendo que seguirán más ataques de este tipo.Es la primera vez que la SBU se ha atribuido abiertamente la responsabilidad de la operación.El ataque del 17 de julio causó daños en los carriles de la carretera del puente y, según funcionarios rusos, mató a dos civiles. Fue el segundo ataque al cruce vital y demostró lo difícil que es defender el único vínculo ruso independiente con la península.El puente fue inaugurado con bombos y platillos por el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, en 2018 y simboliza su deseo de apoderarse de Ucrania y unirla a Rusia para siempre. También es un enlace de suministro vital para la operación militar de Rusia en Crimea.Una vista del Puente de Crimea, también conocido como el Puente de Ke...

Flex LNG: Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:54 GMT

HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Flex LNG Ltd. (FLNG) on Wednesday reported earnings of $39 million in its second quarter.The Hamilton, Bermuda-based company said it had profit of 72 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to 52 cents per share.The liquefied natural gas shipping company posted revenue of $86.7 million in the period._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on FLNG at https://www.zacks.com/ap/FLNGSource

GOP bill would eliminate DC Home Rule, giving Congress operational power

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:54 GMT

House Republicans, citing D.C.’s rising crime problem, have resurrected a proposal to have Congress take over District government operations by eliminating D.C. Home Rule.The legislation is sponsored by Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles (R) and would take away District powers that are included in the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973, which gives D.C. residents the ability to govern their local affairs.The bill does not spell out exactly how Congress would take over the powers that now reside with Mayor Muriel Bowser and the 13 members of the D.C. Council.Ogles said this week that D.C. is “running rampant with crime.”The murder rate is up and the city is dealing with a surge in carjackings, which now number more than 600 this year — close to double the number there had been at the same point in 2022.Bowser has acknowledged the city’s need to get a grip on its crime problem. But she’s told Congress that it should be a matter for D.C. to address — not lawmakers from acr...

US internationals Pulisic, Weah and Musah are among the new players to watch in Serie A

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:54 GMT

Alexi Lalas was considered a pioneer when he joined Padova in 1994. Nearly two decades later came Michael Bradley, first at Chievo Verona, then at Roma. Then in 2020, Weston McKennie became Juventus’ first American player.There was a time when Americans’ soccer skills were not considered refined enough to join the highly technical Italian league.Now three United States internationals have joined Serie A during the same transfer window: Christian Pulisic and Yunus Musah at AC Milan and Tim Weah at Juventus. The three Americans are some of the new faces to watch in the Italian league this season.The league kicks off on Aug. 19.Here’s a look at some of Serie A’s top new players. CHRISTIAN PULISIC Pulisic will attempt to revive his sagging club career at American-owned Milan leading into a home World Cup in the United States in 2026.Pulisic signed a four-year deal with the club following a transfer from Chelsea, with the Rossoneri retaining the option for a f...

Sam Kerr to start for Australia in Women’s World Cup semifinal against England

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:54 GMT

SYDNEY (AP) — Star striker Sam Kerr was in Australia’s starting lineup for Wednesday’s semifinal match against England at the Women’s World Cup. Kerr has been limited the entire tournament with a left calf injury. Kerr, the captain of Australia’s team, did not play at all in the group stage. She played a small role in the round of 16 win over Denmark and declared herself fit to start ahead of Australia’s quarterfinal match against France, but was instead on the bench. She went on early in the second half, played all through extra time and made her penalty kick in Australia’s 7-6 shootout win. The victory put the Matildas in the semifinals for the first time in World Cup history and one game away from playing for the title. Kerr’s time on the field against France equaled nearly an entire match. Kerr, the 29-year-old superstar of the Australian team, plays for Chelsea and is beloved in her home nation. In another Australia roster move, defende...

Australia se atreve a soñar con ganar la Copa del Mundo mientras la “matildasmanía” arrasa el país

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:54 GMT

(CNN) — Dos partidos separan a Australia de una victoria histórica en el Mundial Femenino de Fútbol, y la nación, quizás prematuramente, está debatiendo los pros y los contras de un feriado nacional en caso de que el equipo derrote a España este domingo.La manía del fútbol se ha extendido por el país en una cultura donde el rugby, el cricket y el fútbol local de “reglas australianas” suelen dominar. Y mientras la nación hizo una pausa para calmar los nervios tras una larga tanda de penales contra Francia, los ojos ahora están firmemente puestos en despachar a Inglaterra este miércoles.El partido se transmite a las 8 p.m., hora local de la costa este de Australia, pero coincide con un día laboral en la casa de las Leonas, y se transmite incluso antes en la costa este de Estados Unidos, donde los entusiastas fanáticos del fútbol pueden ver el juego a la hora del desayuno.En Australia, más de cuatro millones de personas sintonizaron para ver la victoria de las Matildas por 7-6 so...

DC woman grapples with dog’s drowning death: ‘This could have all been prevented’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:54 GMT

For D.C. resident Jocelyn Lobos-Segura, Monday’s severe weather in the Rhode Island Avenue area of Northeast took an unimaginably tragic toll. Her one-year-old Labrador-Border Collie, Mona, was one of 10 dogs who died when a pet day care facility flooded.“I didn’t know anything was going on until I went to go pick up Mona,” Lobos-Segura said. “It was around 5:30 p.m., which is the typical time that I went to go pick her up after work, and I had noticed that the road was closed while I was driving up. So, I had to go a really long route to try to get to the parking lot.”Seeing ambulance and police presence outside of District Dogs, Lobos-Segura initially thought someone in the apartments above the facility might have had a health emergency — but she soon realized the truth would be much more heart-wrenching.“I had seen that the building inside was just completely destroyed,” Lobos-Segura said. “But I was really just hoping that my...

Kenya’s crisis is unique and driven by poverty, track and field’s anti-doping head tells the AP

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:54 GMT

In all likelihood, Kenya will haul in another good chunk of medals in distance races at this month’s track and field world championships, each one of them throwing more suspicion on a country with a reputational crisis because of doping.Kenya has achieved unparalleled success in modern distance running, but a wave of positive drug tests over the last decade has made it the sport’s latest doping pariah and pushed it to the brink of a sweeping international ban that would put it alongside Russia.Anti-doping authorities inside and outside the East African nation are grappling to get it under control.“We’re trying to clean up our country,” said Faith Kipyegon, the Kenyan middle-distance runner who broke three world records this year, has never failed a doping test, but was asked at a recent news conference — like many of her compatriots often are — to account for the more than 180 doping sanctions handed out to Kenyans since 2017.The root of Kenya’s problem is un...