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May 18, 2025, 10:16 PM ETFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Inter Miami captain Lionel Messi urged the team to stay strong and remain united after losing 3-0 to in-state rivals Orlando City at Chase Stadium on Sunday night.The result makes it five losses in the past seven games for Miami, which has conceded 20 goals since the first leg of the Concacaf Champions Cup semifinal series against the Vancouver Whitecaps on April 24.Editor’s Picks2 Related”[We need to] keep going. It’s a complicated time,” Messi told Apple TV after the game. “But we’ll all stay united. We’re a team in difficult times,…

For decades, India’s political leadership maintained a restrained approach towards Pakistan, especially in the aftermath of terrorist attacks.Whether it was the 2001 Parliament attack, the 2008 Mumbai carnage or the 2000 car bomb attack on the Jammu & Kashmir legislative Assembly complex, the response was largely limited to TV debates, diplomatic statements and temporary outrage. Action rarely followed. Pakistan, in turn, exploited this passivity by sheltering terror groups and intimidating India through nuclear blackmail, branding South Asia as a nuclear flashpoint to discourage retaliation. However, this paradigm of “long-standing strategic inertia” underwent a decisive change after Narendra Modi became Prime…

CNN  —  The murder of a 22-year-old model and influencer in Colombia has sent shock waves through the country and drawn parallels to the killing of a Mexican influencer last week, highlighting the high rates of femicide in Latin America. Maria Jose Estupinan, a university student in Colombia’s northeastern city of Cucuta, close to the Venezuela border, was killed on May 15, according to Magda Victoria Acosta, president of the National Gender Commission of the Colombian Judiciary. Speaking at a news conference, Acosta said the suspect, disguised as a delivery man, shot Estupinan in her home when she opened the…

CNN  —  Jasmine Paolini beat Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-2 in the Italian Open women’s singles final on Saturday to become the first Italian player to win the tournament in 40 years, before repeating the feat in the doubles final on Sunday. In doing so, Paolini became the first woman since Monica Seles in 1990 to win both the singles and doubles titles at the Italian Open, and the first player to do so in any WTA 1000 series tournament since Vera Zvonareva at Indian Wells in 2009. With Italian President Sergio Mattarella in attendance for the match against Gauff, Paolini…

A man walks past buildings at Central Business District (CBD) in Beijing, China April 8, 2025. Tingshu Wang | ReutersAsia-Pacific markets fell Monday as investors await a slew of economic data from across the region and parse Moody’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 0.54% at the open while the Topix lost 0.36%. South Korea’s Kospi declined 0.47% and the small-cap Kosdaq traded 0.77% lower.Australia’s benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.15% at the open.Futures for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index stood at 23,270, lower than its last close of 23,345.05.China is scheduled to release a slate of…

CNN  —  Make no mistake, the real battle in the Ukraine war right now isn’t in the skies over Kyiv or Dnipro where Russian drone strikes have intensified, dramatically, in recent days. Nor is the slow, grinding progress being made by the Russian army on the brutal frontlines of eastern Ukraine how the conflict, now in its third year, will be decided. No, the crucial fight being slugged out between the warring parties and their allies is for the ear of US President Donald Trump, who seems increasingly frustrated with efforts to broker peace. And that’s why his phone call,…

The Mexican Navy training ship that struck the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday was moving in the “wrong direction,” a senior city official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. The Cuauhtémoc had been docked at Pier 17 in Manhattan, just down the river below the Brooklyn Bridge. As it made its way out of the harbor, it was supposed to make a stop at a Bay Ridge fueling dock before heading out to sea on its way to Iceland, the official said. “It was the current that took it under the bridge,” the person said. “It wasn’t supposed to be headed…

Napoli’s hopes of securing the Serie A title on Sunday had to be put on ice after they were held to a 0-0 draw at Parma, leaving the title race to be decided on the final day of the season next weekend.With second-placed Inter Milan also playing out a 2-2 draw against Lazio in a simultaneous kickoff, Napoli will head into their final match against Cagliari with a one-point advantage.A win for Napoli on Sunday would have secured them the title if Inter had lost to Lazio.Napoli’s best chance to break the deadlock came just after the half-hour mark, when…

Gary Lineker is to leave the BBC after this season’s final Match of the Day and will no longer present its coverage of the World Cup next year, Sky News understands.It comes after he “apologised unreservedly” for a social media re-post featuring a rat, saying he would “never knowingly share anything antisemitic”.Lineker’s last appearance on the BBC will be on May 25, the final day of the season, with confirmation expected on Monday.The former England star announced in November he would step down from Match of the Day this year, but was set to return to front the World Cup…

CNN  —  The opulent ballroom of the Willard InterContinental Hotel is a regular stop on the high-dollar circuit of industry conferences that populate downtown Washington. But on a recent morning, mingling among the marble columns was an eclectic group of outsiders new in town. Food influencers, organic farmers and anti-vaccine advocates were among those gathered for the official launch of the MAHA Institute, the latest incarnation of the Make America Healthy Again movement that has become a key facet of Washington in the second Trump administration. Speakers took the stage to discuss medical freedom, school lunches, vaccine exemptions and above…