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Gabriel Cichero was sent-off in the 68th minute after picking his second yellow card of the evening after he fouled Adrian Colunga. He received his first yellow card in the sixth minute after bringing down Ferran Corominas from behind. Add to this, head coach Miguel Angel Portugal was also sent-off for his protests with the fourth official and the referee Palmson Moses Raj. Assistant coach Shakti Chauhan opined that Cichero didn’t deserve a card for either of the two fouls....

‘’We are scoring goals, we are trying to score. Even in the pre-season, apart from the first match, we had goals in every other game. And we will try to do the same but in football, you can never say what will happen,’’ he commented. With four fixtures (two home and two away) in a span of just 11 days, the gaffer believes that it is difficult for his side to regroup....

Diego played his youth football with famous Brazilian side Flamengo. He made his senior debut with Brazilian side Duque de Caxias and later moved to Corinthians Alagoano. The striker has also plied his trade in the Russian Premier League with FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod where he scored 10 goals in 31 matches. A year later he moved to FC UFA and helped the side to gain promotion to the top division playing a vital role....

The Highlanders are set to play a charity match against NEROCA FC with whom they have formed a five-year strategic partnership to develop football in the state of Manipur and surrounding regions. After training in Imphal, the club shall undergo the second half of the pre-season in Turkey where they are expected to play a few friendly matches. NorthEast United are one of the only two franchises in the ISL who have failed to qualify for the knockout rounds in the last three editions....

After pumping five goals in their own backyard the Pune City assistant coach was confident that his side could beat any team in ISL. “This team will play much better and we can beat any team in ISL. The players know that we play with discipline and have a specific plan against each team. Against Chennaiyin also we played good football. Yes, they won but we played well. The players are confident and we are satisfied with the way we are playing,” said a confident Grujic....

The 29-year-old joined the Magpies from Leicester City on loan during the January transfer window so as to get more playing time. But after three weeks, the Algeria international is yet to make his first appearance owing to a thigh muscle strain he picked up in training at Leicester. And having suffered a relapse to the injury, his gaffer has confirmed that the former Sporting CP striker will not be available when they face Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium....

The group’s Aamaq news agency announced the attack and said at least six Katyusha rockets were fired toward Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA). Some rockets hit a neighborhood near the airport. The U.S. military confirmed five rockets were fired toward the airport and were intercepted by U.S. forces on the airfield using a defense system. Despite the attack, U.S. military C-17 cargo jets continued to take off and land at Kabul’s airport....

As announced on June 5, long-time general manager Garth Snow is out, as is head coach Doug Weight. It can be argued those were the easy decisions, considering Snow’s track record of four post-season berths and one series win in 12 years on the job and Weight’s failure to lead the Islanders into the playoffs the past two seasons. Lamoriello assuming Snow’s duties as GM – at least for now – seemed to be a no-brainer, too....

Back in the day, there was heavier stigma around HIV. I felt ostracized. I felt that I wasn’t worthy of being around people because of my diagnosis. I pretty much became a hermit and never left my apartment, and I couldn’t get a job because who was going to let me take time off for my health? I knew I couldn’t live like this; it didn’t really feel like I was living at all....

In a statement sent to Newsweek on Thursday, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the Israeli Security Cabinet had “unanimously accepted the recommendation of all security officials,” including the directors of Israel Security Agency, Mossad and the National Security Council, “to accept the Egyptian initiative for a bilateral ceasefire without any pre-conditions to take effect at a time to be determined.” “The IDF Chief-of-Staff, the military and the head of the ISA briefed ministers on Israel’s significant achievements in the operation, some of which are unprecedented,” the statement said....

In the main event of UFC 276, middleweight champion Israel Adesanya retained his title via unanimous decision, proving too strong for challenger Jared Cannonier. But it was his pre-fight walkout that had plenty of people talking, with the Nigerian-born superstar coming out to the octagon with a WWE-inspired entrance. As the arena lighting went black and purple, Adesanya walked out to The Undertaker’s theme music - but he wasn’t done there....

But reports about the details of the deal quickly took the shine off the agreement, suggesting that the U.S. brokered talks included an agreement to allow the UAE to purchase advanced American weaponry; specifically U.S. F-35 stealth jets and cutting edge attack drones. Netanyahu and his allies quickly denied the suggestions—first made by Israeli news site Ynet—and said Israel remains committed to maintaining its qualitative military edge over its regional neighbors, whether relations with them are normalized or not....

As the attacks escalated, NEWSWEEK’s Kevin Peraino spoke with Uzi Arad, a former Mossad official and adviser to Israel’s right-wing former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: Do you think [former prime minister] Ariel Sharon would have responded to the kidnappings as vigorously as the current government has? ARAD: My suspicion is no. Sharon’s policy at the end of his term was very, very defensive. His last act of policy [before suffering an incapacitating stroke] was essentially to engineer the retreat from Gaza, which, in some ways, may have triggered this outburst of violence....

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett made no reference to Israel’s historic conflict with Palestinians in his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly, choosing instead to focus on Iran as a global security threat. “Iran’s nuclear program has hit a watershed moment, and so has our tolerance,” he said. “Words do not stop centrifuges from spinning.” For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below. After four inconclusive elections in two years, Bennett succeeded longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in June by forming a diverse coalition of small and midsize parties spanning the Israeli political spectrum....

Yet the furor around Ben-Gvir conceals a deeper truth by raising a larger question, namely, how fundamentally different are Ben-Gvir’s vision and values from those animating Israel’s mainstream anti-Palestinian policies for decades? Of course, there is no denying that Ben-Gvir, who heads the fanatical “Jewish Power” party and is set to be Israel’s next Minister of Public Security, is an odious character. He is a follower of Rabbi Meir Kahane, who created the Kach Party and the Jewish Defense League (JDL), both of which were designated by the U....

The 76,000-capacity venue in the Turkish city hosted the showpiece in 2005, when Liverpool triumphed on penalties against AC Milan after battling to a 3-3 draw from 3-0 down at half-time. UEFA confirmed the news at their Executive Committee meeting on Thursday, which took place in Kiev - where this year’s final will be held. As well as the Champions League final venue, the governing body revealed that Arena Gdansk in Poland will stage the Europa League final in the same year, with the UEFA Super Cup taking place at Porto’s Estadio do Dragao....

The sport is speed skating, which, at least in the United States, has always played the poor cousin to the glamour sport of figure skating. After all, the original speed skater, Hans Brinker, inhabited a 19th-century fable and could never compete on television with the real-life fairy tales of Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill and Kristi Yamaguchi. Yet oddly enough, speed skating has been this nation’s most successful winter Olympic sport....

Joshua Kimmich opened the scoring for the home side just before the half-hour mark, but a defensive lapse on the stroke of half-time, coupled with a fine strike from Real Madrid’s Marcelo, pulled the La Liga giants level heading into the break. Marco Asensio netted the winner just before the hour mark after a Rafinha turnover and despite a host of late chances, the Bundesliga champions were unable to find a reply....

That year, I turned 16 and got my driver’s license. Our family car was a dear old prewar Buick, and a dollar fed it three gallons of gas. Give-’em-hell Harry Truman was running for president, but no one thought he could win–except Harry. I got my first job that summer. The job title was hod carrier, although I worked with a road-construction crew. There was some red tape because I was only 16, but I can’t remember exactly what it was....

It definitely got personal. After a month of strikes against Serbia’s military and economic infrastructure, NATO last week began hitting the places that embody Milosevic’s regime. Just after 3 a.m. Wednesday at least three cruise missiles set Milosevic’s party headquarters alight. The following morning, just before 4, a missile gutted the official residence of Yugoslavia’s president. The RTS bombing was the bloody coup de grace. The bombing in Belgrade put a deadly exclamation point on the promises coming out of London, Washington and Brussels that NATO will not hesitate to punish the Serbian leader himself....