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Independiente del Valle’s coaching staff initially found the numbers hard to believe. Pre-season training had begun and senior players were being outshone by a 17-year-old whose physical output was off the charts. Piero Hincapie had arrived.”He was breaking the GPS data every single day,” Miguel Angel Ramirez, the club’s former manager, and the man who gave Hincapie his professional debut, tells Sky Sports with a chuckle. “Speed, sprints, accelerations, high-intensity actions…” Hincapie’s natural gifts had earned him promotion to the senior squad ahead of even Chelsea’s Moises Caicedo or Paris Saint-Germain centre-back Willian Pacho, both of whom were in the…

Independiente del Valle’s coaching staff initially found the numbers hard to believe. Pre-season training had begun and senior players were being outshone by a 17-year-old whose physical output was off the charts. Piero Hincapie had arrived.”He was breaking the GPS data every single day,” Miguel Angel Ramirez, the club’s former manager, and the man who gave Hincapie his professional debut, tells Sky Sports with a chuckle. “Speed, sprints, accelerations, high-intensity actions…” Hincapie’s natural gifts had earned him promotion to the senior squad ahead of even Chelsea’s Moises Caicedo or Paris Saint-Germain centre-back Willian Pacho, both of whom were in the…

United States men’s national team coach Mauricio Pochettino has admitted that he is “missing” the Premier League and plans to return to return to work in England in the future.Pochettino was appointed as head coach of the United States in September 2024, four months after parting ways with Chelsea. He is preparing to lead the USMNT into the 2026 World Cup which is hosted jointly between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.”The Premier League is the best league in the world,” he told the BBC.”Of course I am missing it. I am so happy in America but also thinking one day…

 KUWAIT: Kuwait on Thursday marks the 34th anniversary of extinguishing the last of 737 oil wells deliberately set on fire by Iraqi forces before their withdrawal in February 1991.The annual commemoration honors the efforts of Kuwaiti specialized teams and international partners who worked day and night for months to extinguish the wells and limit the environmental, economic, and social consequences of the fires.The final well, in Burgan field in Al-Ahmadi, was put out in 1991 in a ceremony attended by the late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, marking the end of heroic firefighting operations. During the occupation, Iraqi forces…

 KUWAIT: Kuwait on Thursday marks the 34th anniversary of extinguishing the last of 737 oil wells deliberately set on fire by Iraqi forces before their withdrawal in February 1991. The annual commemoration honors the efforts of Kuwaiti specialized teams and international partners who worked day and night for months to extinguish the wells and limit the environmental, economic, and social consequences of the fires.The final well, in Burgan field in Al-Ahmadi, was put out in 1991 in a ceremony attended by the late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, marking the end of heroic firefighting operations. During the occupation, Iraqi…

KUWAIT, Nov 6: 1956 — Kuwait Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah signed a decree banning export of rice, flour and sugar for 15 days after an increase in food prices following closure of Suez Canal because of the aggression on Egypt.1978 — Sinbad the Sailor was the first play for children performed in State of Kuwait. The play, written by Mahfoudh Abdulrahman and directed by Mansour Al-Mansour, starred Mohammad Al-Surayye, Istiqlal Ahmad, Khaled Al-Obaid and Abdulrahman Al-Aql.1991 — Kuwait Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah personally extinguished the last oil well fire. State of Kuwait succeeded in extinguishing over 700 oil…

The US Supreme Court has heard arguments overnight on the legality of President Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs on most countries around the world. The number of sceptical questions posed by the justices in the hearings was striking for a court that is dominated by conservative appointees by six to three. At stake is not only whether the sweeping tariffs will be upheld, but the extent to which the Supreme Court is willing to extend the limits of presidential power. So, what will the court have to consider? Where’s the emergency? Trump issued these tariffs in April claiming an economic…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Six leading Turkish journalists were summoned to testify to police Thursday in connection with allegations that they disseminated false information in reports about Istanbul’s imprisoned opposition mayor.The chief prosecutor’s office in Istanbul said police had been instructed to take the journalists’ statements as part of an investigation into the “Imamoglu criminal organization for profit,” a reference to Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.A statement by prosecutors said the journalists were questioned “on charges of publicly disseminating false information and aiding a criminal organization.” It did not make clear if the journalists were formally charged or face possible charges.Imamoglu and dozens…

Tariffs on imports have been at the heart of Donald Trump’s economic policy since the start of his second term in the White House. And while the president believes that tariffs will be beneficial to the US economy, many eminent economists disagree. Here are three reasons why. The first reason is that a US trade deficit should not necessarily be seen as a negative economic outcome. Trump certainly thinks it is. As he reportedly told Karin Keller-Sutter, president of Switzerland, earlier this year: “We have a US$41 billion deficit with you, madam….[and] we lose, because I view deficit as [a]…

Poland and Romania are deploying a new weapons system to defend against Russian drones, following a spate of incursions into NATO airspace in recent months that exposed the alliance’s vulnerabilities and put Europe on edge.The American Merops system, which is small enough to fit in the back of a midsize pickup truck, can identify drones and close in on them, using artificial intelligence to navigate when satellite and electronic communications are jammed.As well as being deployed in Poland and Romania, Merops will also be used by Denmark, NATO military officials told The Associated Press, part of a move to boost…