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Sep 23, 2025, 02:54 AM ETChelsea manager Enzo Maresca fears it could be “impossible” for any team to stop Liverpool from retaining their Premier League crown.Arne Slot’s champions have already established a five-point cushion at the top of the table following an unblemished start to their title defence.After a 2-2 draw at Brentford, and then a 2-1 defeat at Manchester United, Chelsea are already seven points off the championship pace.Liverpool secured the title last season with four matches to spare and then broke their transfer record twice this summer to sign Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen, in a deal which…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said that it shot down three dozen Ukrainian drones heading toward Moscow while Ukraine said that Russian missiles, drones and bombs killed at least two civilians, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy persevered with efforts to bolster international support for his country at a U.N. gathering of world leaders on Tuesday.With his troops under strain on the front line after more than three years of fighting Russia’s bigger invading army, Zelensky was due to begin meetings with leaders gathered in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly.Peace efforts set in motion by U.S. President…

LONDON (AP) — Jaguar Land Rover said Tuesday that its production lines, shut down after a cyberattack in August, will remain at a halt until at least Oct. 1.Britain’s biggest automaker sent workers home from its factories in central and northwest England on Aug. 31.The shutdown has rippled through the U.K. auto industry. JLR, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, employs more than 30,000 people, with its supply chain supporting tens of thousands more jobs.The company has disclosed limited information about the nature of the attack and says it’s investigating.JLR said in a statement that it had extended the…

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Ruling military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger say the three countries are withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, accusing the global tribunal of what they say is selective justice.The pullout was not unexpected in the wake of the coups that brought the juntas to power in the three western African countries. The ICC, based in The Hague, is the world’s permanent global tribunal for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.Since the coups, the three countries’ military leaders abandoned longtime partners, including the West and the West Africa regional bloc. They have established new…

Beijing is signaling a green light to American investors’ takeover of TikTok’s operations in the United States, a rare opening in the grinding US-China tech standoff. The breakthrough follows a September 19 call between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, during which the TikTok issue reportedly featured prominently. The control of TikTok’s algorithm is being addressed through a workaround. Media reports said that, under the arrangement, ByteDance will lease its algorithm to the US-based TikTok entity. At the same time, Oracle Corp will retrain it and secure a US-specific version “from the ground up.” US officials said…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained 13 people as part of a corruption investigation into concerts organized by the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality — the latest legal action targeting municipalities run by Turkey’s main opposition party.A statement from the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office said the suspects, including former municipal employees and owners of private event companies, were taken into custody on charges of abuse of public office and rigging of public tenders.The investigation centers on 32 concerts held between 2021 and 2024, which allegedly resulted in 154.4 million Turkish lira ($3.7 million) of financial losses, according to reports…

 NEW YORK: Kuwait’s Amir Representative His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah met on Monday with various American CEOs here in Kuwait’s Office at the UN, in New York. His Highness the Crown Prince met with CEO of Goldman Sachs David M. Solomon.His Highness Sheikh Sabah also received CEO Michael Rubens Bloomberg of Bloomberg Company. His Highness the Crown Prince received as well CEO Laurence Douglas Fink of Blackrock Company. During the meetings, His Highness the Crown Prince conveyed greetings and wishes on behalf of His Highness the Amir to boost global companies presence in the State…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A ship traveling off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden came under attack early on Tuesday, officials said, though no one was hurt. It was not clear who launched the attack.The captain of the vessel heard a splash and explosion in the vicinity of the vessel, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said in a statement. “Vessel and crew reported safe and proceeding to next port of call,” the center said in a statement. The attack happened about 225 kilometers (140 miles) off the coast of Aden, which…

Four European countries chose to unconditionally recognise Palestinian statehood in New York on Monday at the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with three other European countries saying they would recognise it at a future date once certain criteria had been established. France, Malta, Luxembourg, and Monaco formally recognised Palestinian sovereignty during the “Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” conference co-hosted by France and Saudi Arabia. Belgium, meanwhile, said it would conditionally recognise it after Hamas released Israeli captives and was removed from any governing position. Denmark and the Netherlands said they would…

ISE, Japan (AP) — Every two decades for the last 1,300 years, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, has been knocked down and rebuilt from scratch.The massive, $390 million demolition and construction job takes about nine years. It requires the country’s finest carpenters, woodcutters, builders and artisans to pour their hearts into the smallest details of structures that are doomed from the moment the work begins. The buildings at Ise will only stand for about a decade before the project starts all over again, but as the priests consecrate the construction, the workers shout: “A building for 1,000 years!…