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Reuters  —  The most intense clashes for years rocked Tripoli for a second night and continued into Wednesday morning, witnesses in the Libyan capital said, after Monday’s killing of a major militia leader set off fighting between rival factions. The United Nations Libya mission UNSMIL said it was “deeply alarmed by the escalating violence in densely populated neighborhoods of Tripoli” and urgently called for a ceasefire. The latest unrest in Libya’s capital could consolidate the power of Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, prime minister of the divided country’s Government of National Unity (GNU) and an ally of Turkey. Libya has had little stability…

CNN  —  The Indiana Pacers fought back from a 19-point, second-quarter deficit to eliminate the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers from the NBA playoffs and reach the Eastern Conference Finals for a second straight year. Tyrese Haliburton, who struggled in Games 3 and 4, posted 31 points, six rebounds and eight assists to lead the Pacers to a 114-105 win and secure the series 4-1. “I’m certainly very excited for our fans, our ownership, our city,” Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle told reporters after the game. “Winning a closeout game on the road is extremely difficult. “We were down 19 and Ty’s…

May 14, 2025, 04:00 AM ETThe PFA Young Player of the Year award is broken; it doesn’t make sense. To be eligible, you must be aged 21 or under at the start of the season, which is why the heavily established names of Bukayo Saka, Phil Foden and Cole Palmer have walked away with it in recent years. Meanwhile, the Premier League’s Young Player of the Season version is even more generous and allows anyone up to the age of 23 to be in contention, which saw a then-22-year-old Erling Haaland take it home in 2022-23.Admittedly we’ve made progress since…

Finland are hoping to impress at Euro 2025 with the help of two Tottenham midfielders. HEIKKI SAUKKOMAA/LEHTIKUVA/AFP via Getty ImagesIt was on a freezing December night in the capital of Helsinki when Olga Ahtinen and Eveliina Summanen helped Finland reach one of football’s promised lands.Both Tottenham Hotspur midfielders starred as Finland secured a 2-0 victory over Scotland in the second leg of the playoffs (the first leg finished 0-0) to book their place at this summer’s Euro 2025 tournament. Temperatures on the night dipped as low as -5 degrees Celsius (21 Fahrenheit), with piles of snow lining the perimeter of the…

May 14, 2025, 03:34 AM ETOn the latest episode of The Football Reporters podcast, Mark Ogden, Rob Dawson and James Olley discuss Arsenal’s struggles and how Mikel Arteta’s side can become a title-winning team.After twice finishing second to Manchester City in the Premier League, Arsenal have fallen short in their pursuit of the title for a third straight season, this time to Liverpool.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedThe north London side were also eliminated from the Champions League in the semifinals this campaing, losing 3-1 on aggregate to Paris Saint-Germain.After the second leg, Arteta said the best team lost despite their failure to…

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. Tassili n’Ajjer National Park, Algeria CNN  —  “Labès?” (‘OK?”) asks Baba Atanof as a tourist struggles to get her leg over a large rock on a steep ascent in the Algerian Sahara Desert. Fighting jelly legs and vertigo, she can barely answer. This desert makes up 83% of Africa’s largest country. It’s the focus of a government master plan for tourism development by 2030 that aims to make Algeria a major tourist…

New York CNN  —  The Trump family’s crypto empire is expanding rapidly, and it’s making earlier ethics debates over his hotel and casino business interests look downright quaint. There are only so many rooms a foreign diplomat can book to curry favor with the president, and that might total into thousands of dollars, at most. And even President Donald Trump might have a limit on how many luxury Qatari jets he’d accept as gifts. But in the opaque world of cryptocurrencies, where transactions are often anonymous and unbound by national borders, there is virtually no cap on the amount of…

CNN  —  Armed assailants tried to kidnap the daughter and grandson of a French cryptocurrency boss in Paris, police said, in a brazen daytime attack that was caught on camera. Tuesday morning’s attack in Paris’s 11th district is the latest in a string of violent incidents targeting figures in France’s burgeoning crypto industry. Four masked men attacked the daughter, her partner and their child in the French capital, police sources told French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). Video footage shows three masked men jump out of a white van. The woman and her partner fight the attackers and loud screams…

CNN  —  No one knows the dangers of playing in the NFL more than former quarterback Alex Smith. In 2018, while playing for the Washington Commanders, the veteran signal-caller suffered a gruesome leg injury which would turn his entire life upside down. The severity of the injury was such that he underwent multiple surgeries to treat a spiral and compound fracture to his right tibia and fibula. But then came the real battle. Smith subsequently contracted sepsis – a life-threatening response by the body to infection that can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death – and nearly had…

The keffiyeh and watermelons are antisemitic symbols.  That’s according to training that the New York Police Department received in January from outfits closely associated with the pro-Israel community. The US magazine Jewish Currents, which obtained details about the training, questioned the focus of the presentation.  “They are actively conflating any care for Palestinian humanity or rights – and in some cases, Palestinian existence itself – with antisemitism,” Dove Kent, the US senior director for Diaspora Alliance, a group that battles antisemitism and its weaponisation, told Jewish Currents. “None of this does anything to increase Jewish safety.”  Barely a week goes…