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Graham HunterSep 16, 2025, 03:40 AM ETCloseGraham Hunter is a Barcelona-based freelance writer for ESPN.com who specializes in La Liga and the Spanish national team.Dani Carvajal’s quest to become the greatest footballer in the 61-year history of the European Cup and UEFA Champions League begins this week.Not Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi Hernández, Andrés Iniesta, Clarence Seedorf, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Karim Benzema, Johan Cruyff, Gerd Müller, Sergio Ramos or Paolo Maldini.No, Dani Carvajal; the locally born kid with the warrior nature, a cop father and the youth team “Mirlo” — the nickname given to promising Real Madrid youth prospects –…

The UN’s top investigative body on Palestine and Israel ruled on Tuesday that Israel is guilty of the crime of genocide in Gaza, in the most authoritative pronouncement to date.  The 72-page report by the UN commission of inquiry on Palestine and Israel finds Israel has committed four of the five acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention, and that Israeli leaders had the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group.  The finding echoes reports by Palestinian, Israeli and international rights groups that have reached the same conclusion over the past year. But this is the first comprehensive legal…

Ryan O’HanlonSep 16, 2025, 03:00 AM ETCloseRyan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.”Welcome to Year 4 of the Champions League rankings, where I … rank all the teams in the Champions League.This year is notable for one specific reason: Manchester City are not No. 1. In fact, they’re not even close to being No. 1. City have been the favorites to win the European Cup in six of the past seven seasons, and they were second favorites the only time they weren’t No. 1.Without City leading…

The US Air Force has doubled its B-21 Raider test fleet, flying a second prototype in a milestone that signals faster progress toward its next-generation nuclear and conventional strike arm. This month, multiple media sources reported that the US Air Force confirmed the maiden flight of its second B-21  stealth bomber, marking a significant milestone in testing the next-generation aircraft. The bomber, built by military contractor Northrop Grumman, took off from Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, before landing at Edwards Air Force Base, where the B-21 Combined Test Force is based, the reports said. With two prototypes now flying, the…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng pose during U.S.-China trade and economic talks at Santa Cruz Palace, Spain’s main foreign ministry office, in Madrid, Spain, September 14, 2025. United States Treasury | Via ReutersLONDON — European stocks moved lower on Tuesday, as investors assessed developments in the U.S.-China trade talks.The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed 1.2% lower, with most sectors in negative territory. All major regional bourses traded lower, with Germany’s DAX shedding 1.8%.U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Tuesday that he expected further trade discussions between Washington and Beijing to take place before…

The People’s Republic of China is still the world’s biggest single source of environmental harm. China overfishes the world’s oceans, blasts mercury and nitrous oxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere, and dumps plastic waste into the sea. It has made progress on many of these problems, but when you’re the biggest global manufacturer, it’s very hard not also to be the biggest global polluter. China’s most devastating environmental impact has been its emissions of greenhouse gases. Thanks to its unprecedented use of coal, China releases more carbon every year than the United States and Europe combined: And yes, this is true even after you account for the offshoring of emissions.…

A U.S. judge said that she was powerless to stop the return of four men in Ghana’s custody to countries where U.S. immigration judges determined they faced torture or persecution, declining to intervene in a victory for the Trump administration.U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said that the administration appeared to be circumventing the U.N. Convention Against Torture by sending the West Africans to Ghana, but that her “hands are tied.” Chutkan wrote that she was “alarmed and dismayed by the circumstances under which these removals are being carried out, especially in light of the government’s cavalier acceptance of Plaintiffs’ ultimate…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Billions of dollars in public funds in South Sudan have been stolen over the past decade in massive government corruption while the vast majority of the country suffers from lack of food, a U.N. commission said Tuesday.The report by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan details several schemes allegedly used by political officials to divert huge chunks of public revenues since achieving independence from Sudan in 2011, after decades of civil war.Meanwhile, the impoverished country’s food crisis has deepened, and last year the government postponed for the second time what would have been…

GENEVA (AP) — A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, issuing a report Tuesday that calls on the international community to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible for it.The deeply-documented findings by the three-member team are the latest accusations of genocide against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government by rights advocates as Israeli carries on with its war against Hamas in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of people. Israel rejected what it called a “distorted and false” report.The Commission of…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian authorities said Tuesday that social media platforms should not demand age verification for all account holders starting from December, when a ban on children under 16 having accounts goes into effect in the country.The government released guidelines on how platforms such as TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram should apply the world’s first ban on children using social media from Dec. 10. It says verifying the ages of all account holders would be unreasonable.“We think it would be unreasonable if platforms reverified everyone’s age,” said Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, who drafted the…