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Security & Justice
Watch: Israeli Army Blows Up Village Near the Border
The Israeli army is still blowing up entire villages or neighborhoods, especially those near the border.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Hezbollah Says Launched ‘Big Rocket Salvo’ at Israel’s Safed
Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group said it fired rockets at the northern Israeli city of Safed on Monday, the latest attack in more than a month of war.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Wednesday 14 February 2024 16:17:29
Manchester City Chasing £100 Million Champions League Payday
Manchester City’s prize-money for winning back-to-back Champions League titles will top £100 million, with their perfect group stage results putting them on course for record earnings to retain Europe’s biggest competition.
City were one of two clubs to win six out of six group games this season when they defeated RB Leipzig, Red Star Belgrade and Young Boys earlier in the campaign, setting up their last-16 tie against FC Copenhagen.
With each victory earning £2.4 million in prize-money, City maximised their earnings with a clean sweep of wins, even with qualification secured early and their last match a dead-rubber in Belgrade.
The European champions also receive payments for making the group stage and for each round they progress, then an extra £3.8 million for winning at Wembley on Jun 1 and another £3.8 million for winning the UEFA Super Cup in Athens in August.
In total, City will earn £104.6 million should they triumph this season and they will also get a further slice of the broadcast revenue from UEFA which will be decided later, which is expected to make it a record amount for a Champions League win. Last season they banked £95 million before TV money was taken into account.
Pep Guardiola will also match Carlo Ancelotti’s four wins in the competition if City win again and he has good memories of Wembley after winning Europe’s top prize there with Barcelona as a player in 1992 and a manager in 2011. With a run to the final, he can equal Sir Alex Ferguson’s record of 25 unbeaten matches in the Champions League from 2007-09.
City put one foot into the quarter-finals with their 3-1 win in Denmark, with Phil Foden wrapping up the victory with his stoppage-time goal. He is now targeting a second Champions League triumph after winning in Istanbul last season.
“I hope so yeah, we’ve got the squad of players for that. I look around the changing room and still see the determination and hunger – so I don’t see why not,” he said.
When asked after the Copenhagen win about his new hairstyle, Foden added: “I’ve been going to the same barber from the age of eight. Obviously I sort him out sometimes but I pay £20.”
