There are plenty connections between Saudi Arabia and Portugal in terms of high-profile players and coaches in the Roshn Saudi League and national team coach Roberto Mancini will need a little Portuguese inspiration on Friday. The Green Falcons have World Cup qualifiers and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup in the coming weeks and months and…
JERUSALEM: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday an “emergency government” with an opposition party leader, Benny Gantz, for the duration of the war with Gaza militants.“Following a meeting … held today, the two agreed on establishing an emergency government and war cabinet,” said a joint statement by the premier and Gantz, a former defense…
WASHINGTON: Israel got a warning from Egypt of potential violence three days before Hamas caught Israeli forces off-guard in a large-scale attack, the chairman of the powerful US House Foreign Affairs Committee said Wednesday.“We know that Egypt has warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen,” Republican Michael McCaul told…
WEST BANK: The Palestine soccer team has withdrawn from a tournament in Malaysia after a fresh crisis broke out between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas over the weekend, disrupting the team’s travel arrangements, the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) said on Tuesday.“The withdrawal came due to players being unable to travel because of the…
NYON, Switzerland: European football’s governing body UEFA said Tuesday it had abandoned plans to re-admit Russian under-17 teams into the youth European Championship next year.In September, UEFA reinstated Russian youth teams to its competitions, having suspended the country’s senior sides due to the invasion of Ukraine.UEFA argued that youth players should not have to pay…
New Delhi: South Africa kicked off their World Cup campaign with style as their opposition Sri Lanka succumbed way before the required target at the Arun Jaitley Stadium here on Saturday. South Africa broke the roof as records tumbled down one after another as they set a mammoth target of 429 runs to Sri Lanka…
LONDON: A British man serving in the Israel Defense Forces has been killed by Hamas. Corp. Nathanel Young, 20, from London, died after the Palestinian militant group launched a wide-scale attack on Israel on Saturday. In a Facebook post, his family wrote on Sunday: “Our little brother Nathanel Young was tragically killed on the Gaza…
DUBAI: US singer Bruno Mars will no longer be performing at Qatar’s Formula One after-race concert tonight, it was revealed earlier today. The singer-songwriter was scheduled to take to the stage on Sunday and will now be replaced by DJ Snake. “We are sorry to let you know that due to circumstances outside of our…
JEDDAH: Saudi authorities have recently arrested several people and seized large quantities of illegal drugs in operations carried out across the Kingdom. On Saturday, the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority at both Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport and Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport thwarted attempts to smuggle a total of 1.33 kg of heroin, which…
AHMEDABAD, India: The Cricket World Cup opened Thursday with New Zealand gaining a measure of revenge for how the last one ended four years ago. The rematch of the extraordinary 2019 final got a very different result as the Black Caps powered to a nine-wicket thrashing of England, whose title defense is off to an…
