JOHANNESBURG: Mohamed Salah scored twice as Egypt sealed qualification for the 2026 World Cup with a 3-0 win over Djibouti in Casablanca on Wednesday. Liverpool’s 33-year-old forward has now netted nine times in the qualifiers, guiding the Pharaohs to an unassailable five-point lead over Burkina Faso in Group A. Ibrahim
WASHINGTON: The US government shutdown entered its second week on Monday, with no sign of a deal between President Donald Trump’s Republicans and Democrats to end the crisis. Democrats are refusing to provide the handful of votes the ruling Republicans need to reopen federal departments, unless an agreement is reached
MOSCOW: Ukraine launched a major drone attack on Russia for the second day in a row, Moscow said yesterday, reporting that it had intercepted 209 drones overnight and in the morning. The attack is Kyiv’s second consecutive barrage on Russia as it steps up retaliatory strikes. Most of the drones
SIDOARJO (Indonesia): The search for victims of last week’s Indonesian school collapse ended yesterday with the death toll climbing to 67, an official said. Part of the multi-storey Islamic boarding school on Indonesia’s Java island caved in on September 29 as more than 170 students gathered for afternoon prayers. “Entering
BEIJING (China): One hiker died and hundreds of others were rescued after sudden heavy snowfall on the Tibetan Plateau and near Mount Everest on the Chinese side, state media and hikers reported on Monday. A young hiker nicknamed FeiFei, who was evacuated on Monday, told AFP she was on a
WASHINGTON: The inhalers people depend on to breathe are also warming the planet, producing annual emissions equivalent to more than half a million cars in the United States alone, researchers said Monday in a major new study. Using a national drug database, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles
SEVILLE: Spanish champions Barcelona suffered a shock 4-1 defeat to Sevilla in La Liga on Sunday, with veteran winger Alexis Sanchez scoring against his former club as Robert Lewandowski missed a penalty for the visitors. The result marked Barca’s first league loss of the season, leaving them two points behind
LONDON: Manchester United manager, Ruben Amorim, earned much-needed relief as his side secured a convincing 2-0 victory over Sunderland at Old Trafford on Saturday, easing mounting pressure ahead of the international break. The Portuguese coach, who had collected just 34 points from his previous 33 Premier League matches, saw his
LONDON: Brazilian starlet Estevao netted his first Chelsea goal to hand Liverpool a 2-1 defeat on Saturday, marking the Reds’ third consecutive loss and allowing Arsenal to climb to the top of the Premier League with a 2-0 win over West Ham. Arne Slot’s men, who began the season with
JAKARTA: Indonesia has lifted its suspension of TikTok’s local operating licence after the social media platform shared data requested by the government about recent protests, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs said. Indonesia has the second-biggest audience on TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, with more than 100 million users.
