«Throughout the day, IDF troops fired to remove threats in the areas of Ayta ash Shab, Jibbain, and Tallouseh,» the press service noted

Additionally, the rebels attacked the Transworld Navigator bulk carrier with ballistic missiles in the Arabian Sea

The next Africa Cup of Nations will be played in Morocco from December 21 2025 to January 18 2026, Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe said on Friday. «I am confident that the CAF AFCON Morocco 2025 will be extremely successful and the best AFCON in the history of this competition,» he said. CAF held a virtual executive committee at their headquarters in Cairo on Friday evening after which Motsepe made the announcement. Originally scheduled for June and July 2025, the AFCON was moved to avoid a clash with the inaugural Club World Cup in the United States from June 15 to July 13 next year. An added challenge for CAF officials was the desire to avoid a clash of dates with the UEFA Champions League in Europe. Matchday six of the elite European club competition ends on December 11 2025 and matchday seven begins on January 21 2026. However, the new dates are sure to upset many Premier League clubs as the Christmas-New Year period is frenetic with teams playing many matches in a short period. English media reports have suggested clubs might not release African stars as they are compelled to do so for only one international championship per year and the next World Cup is in 2026. CAF could argue that it is the 2025 AFCON, although most of the tournament will be staged the following year. Finding suitable dates for the AFCON, a 24-nation tournament won by hosts the Ivory Coast last February, has become increasingly difficult. A switch to mid year worked for the 2019 edition in the searing heat of Egypt in so far as it avoided a clash with the European club seasons. - Dramatic profit increase - However, the two subsequent editions, in Cameroon and the Ivory Coast, had to be staged in January and February to avoid the rainy seasons in central and west Africa. The qualifying draw for the 2025 AFCON is scheduled for Johannesburg on July 4 with 48 hopefuls to be divided into 12 groups. Morocco will take part to gain competitive match practice, but are guaranteed a place at the 24-team finals as hosts. Unlike the four-yearly European Championship, Copa America and Asian Cup, the AFCON is held every two years because it delivers most of the CAF revenue. In a recent TV interview, Motsepe said CAF made an $80 million (€75 million) profit from the last AFCON, hosted by the Ivory Coast in January and February this year. This was a dramatic increase from previous editions, which produced an average profit of about four million dollars, according to the South African billionaire. The 2024 Women's AFCON (WAFCON) has also been postponed and will now be played in Morocco from July 5-26 next year. New dates will also have to be found for the African Nations Championship (CHAN), originally scheduled for Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda this year. Not even the qualifying draw has been made for a competition restricted to home-based footballers and won by Senegal in Algeria last year, and CAF have not explained the delay. There has also been no news from CAF on a second edition of the African Football League (AFL), initially called the African Super League. Planned to be a 24-club mini-league and knockout competition featuring the highest ranked clubs in the continent, it debuted last year with just eight sides involved in a three-round affair. Were the original format to be introduced, clubs would play between 14 and 21 matches in a continent where air travel presents challenges due to limited direct flights between countries. «You can turn the lights off on domestic football if this (AFL) goes ahead,» warned John Comitis, the chairman of top-flight South African club Cape Town City. © Agence France-Presse

A beam of sunlight poked through the log beam roof of Victoria's Mungo Martin House, creating smoky shadows as Indigenous dancers circled a fire in a celebration of wild salmon.

Traffic began moving again overnight on Highway 97 north of Lac La Hache, B.C., after a pair of crashes – one involving a school bus – left one person dead and sent 14 people to hospital Friday afternoon.

A toddler and a 40-year-old were killed in a quadruple shooting at a Vaughan, Ont. residence Friday morning, as police announce an arrest in what they're describing as a 'targeted' incident.

Mogadishu (HOL) - More than 37,000 Somali students from 736 schools are sitting for the 12th-grade national examinations for the 2023-2024 academic year on Saturday throughout the country.

Aides scrambled to foil a suspected plot to throw the nominating process into chaos as suspicions abound about potentially disloyal delegates

Critics have questioned whether the arrangement runs afoul of a ban on candidates directing money to super PACs that can raise unlimited amounts of money.

Video on social media showing what appeared to be a sleeping guard at the D.C. jail has prompted an internal investigation at the long-troubled city detention facility in Washington, D.C.

Communal violence erupted in Jodhpur over the construction of a gate at the backside of an eidgah, leading to injuries to two police officers and damage to vehicles.

Naxalite Nangsu Tumreti, known as Giridhar, surrendered with his wife in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. Giridhar, with a significant bounty on his head, decided to give up arms after being part of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) since 1996, impacting the region's security and aiming to restore peace and order.

Eighty-seven fisherfolk from Alligator Pond, Manchester have benefitted from grants totalling $5.2 million under the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining's Fishers Relief Programme. The support forms part of a $20 million allocation...

Ukraine says it wants to convene a second ‘peace summit’ later this year but will not cave in to Moscow’s demands Read Full Article at RT.com

Kiev’s forces targeted Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic with US-made, cluster warhead-equipped M26 rockets, Denis Pushilin has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Pro-migration politicians in Brussels are erasing the continent’s native population, the Hungarian prime minister has claimed Read Full Article at RT.com

With the West-centered world order in decline, the strengthening of a new ‘power triangle’ in the East is a logical development Read Full Article at RT.com

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A suspicious death in south London is being investigated by London police. Around 10 p.m. on Friday, officers responded to Southdale Road East and Millbank Drive for a disturbance call.

Calgarians continue to conserve water but the mayor wants city residents to try to do a little bit better.

After seeing her dog's body removed from a freezer a day after leaving him in the care of a petsitter, Jenuen Monroe wants answers.

A Superior Court judge has ordered the Quebec government to pay taxi drivers $143 million in compensation for its decision to abolish their permits nearly five years ago.

Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley has formally bid goodbye to the party that, on her watch, won government for the first and only time in 2015.

According to the governor, a Ukrainian air attack on the village of Komsomolsky damaged a private residence and an enterprise

Opposition political parties—namely Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP), Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)—together with the Leader of Opposition, George Chaponda, have raised their voices in demanding the unconditional and immediate release of Hon. Kamlepo Kalua and Activist Bon Kalindo who were arrested in conjunction to breaking some sections in […] The post Aford, MRP, DPP, Leader of Opposition unite is demanding immediate release of Kamlepo and Bon Kalindo   appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a group strike on Ukrainian energy facilities and warehouses of Western aviation weapons overnight

As a result of the attack, power outages occurred in Energodar and at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant facilities

At the same time, according to Head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin, the activities of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service are aimed exclusively at protecting Russia's interests

As of now, according to the agency, since the onset of Israel’s military operation, 37,551 Palestinians have been killed with 85,911 wounded

The Belgian finance minister has warned that the security of Russian frozen assets would have financial and legal consequences Read Full Article at RT.com

The Committee on the Surveillance of the Police considers that officers at the protest scene at Skuggasund on May 31 were careful at the scene and made sure that protesters would not be harmed, unfairly treated, or harmed beyond what was inevitable in the circumstances.

The traditional ceremony to pay homage to the Soviet military who perished during the Great Patriotic War that Russia fought against Nazi Germany in 1941-1945 took place in the Alexander Garden