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Evangelos Marinakis has spent the last week deciding if his relationship with Nuno Espirito Santo could be resurrected, before taking the decision to replace him with Ange Postecoglou. Sky Sports News has been told that the Forest owner was deeply hurt and angered by his manager twice speaking out against him, and the club, in public, in the space of seven days. In his pre-match interviews before the opening game of the season – which Forest won 3-0 – Nuno was openly critical of the senior figures at Forest overseeing their transfer strategy, saying his squad was “unbalanced” and “very,…

ESPNSep 9, 2025, 05:32 AM ETEmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsAlexander Isak has said people don’t have the “full picture” on the details of his move from Newcastle United to Liverpool.Isak joined Liverpool in a British-record £125 million ($170 million) deal on transfer deadline day following a long-running battle with Newcastle to let him leave.He was not involved in preseason with Eddie Howe’s side. In August, he released a statement saying promises had been broken and his trust in Newcastle had been lost.Speaking while on international duty with Sweden this week, Isak said people did not have the full story.”Not everyone has the…

When Keinan Davis was weighing up his options in summer of 2023, the striker was leaning towards a move to the Championship. It was a conversation with his former coach at Biggleswade United that persuaded him to plump for Udinese instead.”Dave Northfield is someone who is very important to me and I listen to him,” Davis tells Sky Sports. “When I was feeling a little bit apprehensive, he was just like, ‘you cannot turn down an opportunity to play against Inter at the San Siro’ and stuff like that.” On the last day of August in 2025 came spectacular vindication.…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United Nations is issuing an emergency appeal for nearly $140 million in desperately needed funding to help nearly a half-million people affected by the devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.Afghan authorities have said the 6.0 magnitude quake on Aug. 31 and ensuing aftershocks killed more than 2,200 people in the country’s mountainous and rugged east. Many of the most severely affected areas have been particularly difficult to get to, with some reachable only by helicopter.The U.N. said in a statement Tuesday that the $139.6 million, four-month emergency response plan would allow humanitarian organizations to help the…

Donald Trump isn’t the only U.S. president to appear in a collection of birthday messages that were sent to Jeffrey Epstein. An entry attributed to former President Bill Clinton is among some 50 greetings that appear in a 50th birthday book compiled for Epstein in 2003, years before the disgraced New York financier faced charges related to sexual exploitation of underage girls. Other notes appear to come from Epstein’s relatives, including his father, and from business executives and scientists. Some of the entries in the collection, which was released by a House committee on Monday, are strictly well wishes, congratulations…

Israel has issued expulsion orders for nearly one million Palestinian residents of Gaza City ahead of a planned ground offensive to occupy the famine-stricken city. On Tuesday, residents were ordered to move south to the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, a narrow coastal strip that represents just three percent of Gaza, and is already severely overcrowded with hundreds of thousands of displaced people. The Israeli military described al-Mawasi as a “humanitarian zone”, despite repeatedly bombing the area, including as recently as Monday. The order comes as Israeli forces continue to heavily bombard Gaza City, amid a shelling campaign that began nearly a…

Nebius, which was spun out from Russian internet giant Yandex, provides graphics processing units or GPUs for training artificial intelligence models.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence infrastructure firm Nebius Group soared in U.S. premarket trading on Tuesday, following the company’s announcement of a multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft.Nebius’ stock was up 55% at around 1:20 p.m. ET.The Amsterdam-based firm announced it had struck a multi-year deal with Microsoft worth $19.4 billion to provide cloud computing power for AI workloads. Nebius, which was spun out from Russian internet giant Yandex in 2023, provides graphics processing units — or GPUs —…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia on Tuesday inaugurated Africa’s largest dam to boost the economy, end frequent blackouts and support the growth of electric vehicle development in a country that has banned the importation of gasoline-powered vehicles.As reservoir waters flowed into the turbines of the Grand Renaissance Dam, Ethiopians dressed in colorful regalia viewed the ceremony on large screens across the capital, Addis Ababa, and celebrated the achievement with dancing to traditional music.“We will have enough power to charge our electric vehicles from the new dam,” said Belay Tigabu, a bus driver in Addis Ababa’s main bus terminal.The almost…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Moldovan President Maia Sandu warned Tuesday that her country’s democracy faces a “race against time” from what she said was attempts by Russia to influence parliamentary elections this month. In a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Sandu said the Sep. 28 vote to choose a new 101-seat legislature would be the “most consequential” election in the European Union-candidate country’s history.Sandu reiterated long-held allegations that Moscow is conducting a sprawling “ hybrid war ” against Moldova — through disinformation, vote-buying, illicit party funding, and myriad other tactics — to try to undermine the upcoming vote…

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with the media after a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders, amid negotiations to end the Russian war in Ukraine, at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 18, 2025.Yves Herman | ReutersFrance was thrown into further political chaos this week by the ousting of yet another prime minister after continued budget deadlock.Prime Minister Francois Bayrou and his centrist minority government lost a confidence vote Monday, with a total of 364 lawmakers voting against the government and only 194 in favor.The latest government collapse was widely expected…