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USMNT star Christian Pulisic will wear the new kit with Milan next season. PUMAAC Milan have rolled out their new home kit for the 2025-26 season, and it is inspired by the diabolic image on which the club was founded some 125 years ago.The Rossoneri’s traditional colors were chosen in 1899 by their original founder, English businessman Herbert Kilpin, who sought to create a “team of devils” and therefore selected red-and-black stripes as a means to intimidate opponents.Milan’s latest home strip is a visual homage to Kilpin’s vision, with a fiery motif woven into the fabric to create an incendiary effect.…

After 19 months of being presented with dissembling accounts of Gaza from their governments, western publics are now being served up a different – but equally deceitful – narrative.  With the finishing line in sight for Israel’s programme of genocidal ethnic cleansing, the West’s Gaza script is being hastily rewritten. But make no mistake: it is the same web of self-serving lies. As if under the direction of a hidden conductor, Britain, France and Canada – key US allies – erupted this week into a chorus of condemnation of Israel.  They called Israel’s plans to level the last fragments of…

CNN  —  A limited amount of food was delivered to desperate Gazans for the first time since early March on Wednesday, but senior United Nations officials warned the supply was “nowhere near enough” to forestall the worsening humanitarian crisis. UN officials say they are hoping for more to be delivered on Thursday. Aid agencies warn that much of Gaza will be on the verge of famine if supplies are not allowed into the enclave in volume. Until this week, Israel had forbidden all humanitarian aid entering Gaza since March 2, saying Hamas was stealing and profiting from it. Tom Fletcher,…

As the nature of warfare evolves, so too must the capabilities of those entrusted with defending national sovereignty. For the Indian Air Force (IAF), this means looking beyond traditional airspace and venturing into the largely untapped domain of near space—a strategic zone stretching from 20 to 100 kilometers above the Earth’s surface.This region, often referred to as the “ignored middle,” lies above the reach of conventional aircraft and below the orbits of satellites, offering a unique opportunity for extended surveillance, communication and defense applications.In an era of multi-domain operations where seamless integration of land, air, sea, cyber and space is…

May 22, 2025, 03:06 AM ETAnge Postecoglou has said that his early-season promise that he always wins things in his second campaign “wasn’t me boasting, it was a declaration” after Tottenham Hotspur lifted the UEFA Europa League on Wednesday.Spurs’ 1-0 victory over Manchester United in Bilbao ended the club’s 17-year trophy drought and made Postecoglou the first Australian coach to win a major European trophy in history.”I always win things in my second year. Nothing has changed,” the Spurs manager said in September after back-to-back defeats in the Premier League.That narrative has followed him all season, yet eight months later…

May 22, 2025, 03:05 AM ETFormer Tottenham Hotspur player Gareth Bale has joked that ‘Spursy’ — a term used for the club’s habit of getting to the brink of victory only to lose — will become “Unitedy” after their Europa League final win over Manchester United.Spurs beat United 1-0 in Bilbao on Wednesday to win their first trophy in 17 years. The north London club immediately took to social media, posting a picture of the trophy celebrations with the caption “Spursy.”Bale, who played for Tottenham for six years before joining Real Madrid, reacted by joking: “It could be a ‘Unitedy’…

London CNN  —  A judge temporarily blocked the British government’s plans to hand control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius on Thursday, an 11th-hour legal twist to an effort that has been intensely controversial in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Prime Minister Keir Starmer intends to return the islands to the African country, while maintaining control of the US-UK Diego Garcia military base, and it had been expected that the deal would be signed off on Thursday. But shortly after 2 a.m. local time (9 p.m. ET on Wednesday), a judge blocked the government from…

Reuters  —  Manny Pacquiao will come out of retirement to face Mario Barrios for the WBC welterweight championship on July 19 in Las Vegas, the 46-year-old Filipino boxer said on Wednesday. Pacquiao is the only boxer to win world championships in a record eight weight divisions while he was also the oldest welterweight world champion in history at the age of 40 in 2019. A Filipino senator from 2016 to 2022, Pacquiao had retired from boxing in 2021 while he also ran for president in 2022. “I’m back. On July 19, I return to the ring to face WBC Welterweight…

CNN  —  Tottenham Hotspur defeated Manchester United 1-0 to win the Europa League final on Wednesday in Bilbao, Spain. The victory secured Spurs their first title in 17 years. Athletic Bilbao’s Estadio de San Mamés was full of tears of joy from Tottenham fans clad in white and players alike at the full-time whistle as the team abolished the reputation for not finishing big matches. It’s a major moment for Spurs as they win the club’s first trophy since 2008 and first continental silverware since the 1983-84 season. The north London club has struggled to shake off the reputation of…

Echoing Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” and reviving Cold War fears, US President Donald Trump’s US$175 billion Golden Dome missile defense initiative is being billed as America’s ultimate defense.But will Trump’s big-ticket plan offer real protection against Chinese, Russian and North Korean long-range missiles or is the Golden Dome more Trumpian political theater?Modeled loosely on Israel’s Iron Dome but far more ambitious, Golden Dome would integrate ground-based and space-based systems to detect and intercept missiles, including hypersonics, multiple media sources reported.The plan, initiated by executive order in January and formally unveiled by Trump this week, envisions a “system of systems” involving…