Manchester City bounced back from their midweek setback in Europe to maintain their perfect Premier League start with Erling Haaland’s double propelling them to a 3-2 home win over Ipswich Town on Saturday.

Paris Saint-Germain inflicted a first meaningful defeat on Enzo Maresca’s side in the Champions League on Wednesday but City shrugged off a gallant Ipswich side to make it seven wins from seven to cement their place at the top of the table.

Chelsea beat Everton 2-0 in Saturday’s early action thanks to Pedro Neto’s brace although the London club’s win was overshadowed by an injury to goalkeeper Emi Martinez.

Liverpool came from a goal down to beat Brentford 2-1 away although they were helped by the previously unbeaten hosts being reduced to 10 men shortly before halftime when Yehor Yarmolyuk was shown a straight red card for a head butt.

Victory lifted Liverpool above Brentford into fifth place with 12 points behind Chelsea in fourth on 13.

Fulham moved off the foot of the table with their first league win of the season — 1-0 at home to Hull City.

Dark clouds remain over the Etihad Stadium with Manchester City’s fate still unknown after they appealed a ruling that the club breached 114 Premier League financial rules.

City have always denied any wrongdoing.

But on the pitch it is very much business as usual, especially for Norwegian goal machine Haaland.

Phil Foden gave City a short-lived lead cancelled out by Daizen Maeda, but Haaland restored the home side’s advantage before halftime with a header from Mateo Kovacic’s cross.

Haaland then gave his side some breathing space with his second in the 69th minute, powering past Ipswich’s Abdoul Ouattara before a low finish into the corner.

He was denied a hat-trick by an offside decision and Ipswich got a lifeline when Zian Flemming tucked away a penalty in stoppage time but City bagged the points.

Feisty first half

Chelsea have had a knack of scoring early this season but were kept at bay by hosts Everton in a feisty and physical first half that produced five yellow cards.

However, Xabi Alonso’s visitors needed just 43 seconds after the restart to go 1-0 up when Jorrel Hato cut the ball back from the byline to find Neto who swept home.

Martinez’s clash of heads with Jarrad Branthwaite caused a lengthy stoppage with paramedics coming onto the pitch. The Argentina keeper was eventually strapped to a stretcher and taken off, leading to 11 minutes of stoppage time.

Chelsea doubled their lead in the 90th minute when Neto pounced on a loose ball after Jordan Henderson’s free kick was blocked by the wall, finding the bottom corner with a composed finish as Everton suffered their first defeat of the season.

“What we know is he (Martinez) left the stadium conscious and right now he is in the hospital doing precautionary tests,” Alonso said. “It was concussion but more than that I saw only one clip. Hopefully it won’t be too bad but we need to wait.”

Martinez’s knock gave 21-year-old keeper Mike Penders the chance to make his Premier League debut and he helped Chelsea keep a clean sheet in the league for the first time in 23 games.

“We need a clean sheet, to be honest. I think we did a very good game. Emi deserved this, Mike did as well,” Alonso added.

Liverpool deservedly fell behind at Brentford with Keane Lewis-Potter putting the hosts in front.

Brentford were good value for their lead but Yarmolyuk’s rush of blood to the head when he clashed with Jeremy Jacquet at a Liverpool corner changed the game.

After referee John Brooks was invited to check a VAR monitor he brandished the red card at Ukrainian Yarmolyuk who trudged off to applause from the home fans.

Liverpool huffed and puffed after the break but Victor Munoz finally levelled in the 62nd minute when he cut in to beat keeper Caoimhin Kelleher with a left-foot finish.

Alexander Isak won it for Andoni Iraola’s side eight minutes later with a clinical strike from Bradley Barcola’s assist.

Brentford ended with nine men after Vitaly Janelt got a second yellow card for a foul on substitute Rio Ngumoha.

Elsewhere, Alex Iwobi’s 33rd-minute strike for Fulham was enough to earn their new manager Alvaro Arbeloa a long-overdue league win and move Fulham up to 15th.

DUBAI, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Navy said on Saturday that two oil tankers had caught fire after hitting naval mines while crossing the Strait of Hormuz, the official Iranian news agency...

Trump-boosting billionaire was sued over promise to give away $1m per day to random signatories of petition

Elon Musk and his ⁠America Pac political action committee said recently that they agreed to settle two ⁠proposed class ⁠actions ​alleging the billionaire entrepreneur defrauded residents in closely contested states before the ⁠2024 US election by promising voters a lottery-style daily $1m giveaway.

The plaintiffs, Musk and America Pac ​told the ‌judge overseeing the two ‌related lawsuits in federal court in Austin, Texas, ‌on Thursday that they have reached settlements subject to court approval.

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India’s Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke was released from detention on Saturday, a day after he was detained during a police crackdown on protests against the election authority.

Dipke, 31, was detained on Friday in New Delhi as he headed to join a rally that the CJP protest movement had called in the capital’s central Connaught Place district. He was arrested to prevent a breach of the peace, broadcasters NDTV and ​India Today reported.

He walked out of a police station on Saturday afternoon, waving to the media and giving a thumbs up as he was driven away, an AFP photographer saw.

“Abhijeet Dipke released,” CJP legal affairs chief Ratna Singh said on social media.

Opposition parties and CJP activists have defied a security crackdown, rallying to demand the resignation of India’s Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar after accusing the poll body of manipulating voter rolls to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party.

More than 130 million voters were deleted ​during the revision. The Election Commission has denied favouring any party and said wrongly deleted voters can re-enrol. The BJP has accused rivals of trying to undermine democracy by wrongly questioning legitimate electoral processes.

Student activist Neha ​Bora, a prominent face of the protests, who was also detained on Friday as she ​tried to reach central Delhi with dozens of supporters, was released earlier on Saturday as well.

“Please, spare the people of India. ‌Impeach ⁠Gyanesh Kumar and halt SIR (special intensive revision), so that the ordinary citizens of this country can breathe a sigh of relief, feel at ease, and have their voting rights ensured,” Bora told ANI news agency after she was released.

Two other senior CJP leaders, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, were arrested on Oct 14 after entering Jantar Mantar, a decades-old protest site that police have declared off-limits for demonstrations. They remain in custody.

Members of Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party have long alleged that large numbers of undocumented Muslim migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh have fraudulently entered India’s electoral rolls.

Rights groups and critics, however, say Modi’s government has eroded democratic freedoms during more than a decade in power, citing pressure on journalists, civil society groups and political opponents — allegations the government rejects.

A weeks-long sit-in by supporters of the movement earlier this year forced then-education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over ​exam paper leaks.

Prosecution did not act in fair and impartial way in grand jury proceedings, judge rules, after West Wing actor charged with groping young boy on TV set

A state court ⁠judge in New Mexico has dismissed charges of child sexual abuse against West Wing actor and director Timothy Busfield, saying the prosecution did not act in a ⁠fair and impartial manner during grand jury proceedings.

Judge Joseph Montano said prosecutors could pursue new charges against Busfield.

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The cost ?of shipping oil on the largest tankers fell this week from record highs as demand eased following a wave of attacks on vessels in the Middle East and as the US considered easing sanctions on the so-called shadow fleet.

Iran has managed to export some liquefied petroleum gas and jet fuel since July, despite a US naval blockade, shipping intelligence showed and people involved in security said.

Um atirador de 16 anos abriu fogo nessa quinta-feira (15) em uma escola em Bend, no estado norte-americano do Oregon, matando quatro pessoas, incluindo três crianças. Ele foi morto por um morador da comunidade que o havia perseguido até dentro da escola, informou a polícia.

O atirador entrou na Escola Primária Silver Rail atirando nas portas trancadas, disse a polícia, sem fornecer mais detalhes além da idade do suspeito.

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As vítimas são crianças de 5, 8 e 11 anos e um professor. Além disso, um aluno de 7 anos e um professor de 54 foram levados ao hospital com ferimentos graves, informou o chefe de polícia de Bend, Mike Krantz, em entrevista.coletiva

A governadora do Oregon, Tina Kotek, que participou da coletiva, agradeceu ao integrante da comunidade que “interveio heroicamente para impedir mais perdas de vidas”.

“Nenhum pai ou mãe deveria passar por um dia assim, e nenhuma comunidade deveria ter que viver isso. E à medida que soubermos mais sobre as crianças e os adultos que foram mortos ou feridos, e sobre suas famílias e entes queridos, vamos chorar muito, vamos chorar juntos e, provavelmente, vamos chorar em particular”, disse Kotek.

Krantz afirmou que o membro da comunidade, cuja identidade ele não revelou, viu o suspeito entrar na escola e o perseguiu.

Tiroteios em escolas se tornaram um fenômeno recorrente na vida norte-americana, incluindo ataques de grande repercussão, como os ocorridos na Columbine High School em 1999, na Sandy Hook Elementary School em 2012, na Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School em 2018 e na Robb Elementary School em Uvalde, Texas, em 2022.

Cada tiroteio reacende os debates sobre as leis de porte de armas em um país onde o direito ao porte é protegido pela Segunda Emenda da Constituição. Defensores do direito ao porte de armas têm sugerido o armamento de professores como forma de defesa.

Krantz disse que todos os policiais de Bend passaram por um dia inteiro de treinamento para lidar com atiradores ativos em agosto.

“Infelizmente, isso é algo para o qual treinamos regularmente, e precisamos fazer isso”, declarou Krantz. “Essa será uma investigação longa.”

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The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia are about more than Yemen.

When the oil supertanker Esteem Explorer sails from the United States to Japan in late November, loaded with about 2 million barrels of crude, the journey will cost $81 million. The same journey would have cost $9.1 million last year, on average.

Another three pupils from al-Khair school in Peshawar in critical condition after search for survivors

At least 34 schoolchildren and a female teacher have died after the roof of a school collapsed during morning classes in the northern Pakistani city ⁠of Peshawar.

As panicked parents ​and relatives thronged the site of the privately run al-Khair school to search for their loved ones, rescue workers spent hours pulling children from the rubble.

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Rescuers were searching for seven missing crew on Thursday from one of two chemical tankers that caught fire overnight just outside Romanian territorial waters in the Black Sea, after Russian drones strayed into national airspace, Romanian officials said.

By Jonathan Saul and Renee Maltezou LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – A container ship and a dry bulk carrier have both sunk near the Strait of Hormuz in the past...

Yemen's Houthis vowed on Wednesday to press on with attacks on airports and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, a day after a strike that sources said caused extensive damage to the headquarters of oil giant Saudi Aramco2223.SE.

O presidente dos  Estados Unidos (EUA), Donald Trump, afirmou nesta quarta-feira (14) que “uma exploração em grande escala de petróleo, gás e minerais” está prestes a começar na Groenlândia — uma declaração polêmica sobre um território que tem resistido aos seus esforços para controlá-lo e proibiu novas perfurações em busca de petróleo bruto.

Trump descreveu a ilha dinamarquesa do Ártico, administrada por um governo semiautônomo, como “nossa nova e bela Groenlândia”. Ele divulgou mensagem nas redes sociais elogiando o que chamou de ganhos dos EUA, decorrentes de um acordo de segurança assinado em setembro.

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• Groenlândia e Dinamarca dizem que acordo com EUA não cederá soberania.
• Dinamarca se diz pronta para defender cada centímetro da Groenlândia.

O gabinete do primeiro-ministro da Groenlândia se recusou a comentar a declaração de Trump.

O Ministério das Relações Exteriores da Dinamarca e o Ministério de Recursos Minerais da Groenlândia não responderam imediatamente aos pedidos de comentário.

A Groenlândia está envolvida em uma disputa com Trump, que vem afirmando desde 2019 que os EUA deveriam comprar ou tomar posse da ilha, estrategicamente localizada e rica em minerais, por razões de segurança. Em várias ocasiões, ele se recusou a descartar o uso da força.

Juntamente com a Dinamarca, os EUA e a Groenlândia chegaram a um acordo no mês passado para permitir que os Estados Unidos reforçassem sua presença militar na ilha — um acordo que parecia ter resolvido o impasse.

O acordo não concedeu quaisquer direitos de mineração ou perfuração.

“Uma exploração em grande escala de petróleo, gás e minerais está prestes a começar”, escreveu Trump em postagem em sua plataforma Truth Social.

“Há especialistas que afirmam que a quantidade de petróleo facilmente acessível é muito maior do que a de praticamente qualquer outro território, em qualquer lugar do mundo”, acrescentou ele, sem citar nenhum acordo específico ou projeto de desenvolvimento concreto.

A Groenlândia proibiu a mineração de urânio em seu território, bem como toda futura exploração de petróleo, em 2021.

O governo afirmou que está analisando se uma empresa do Texas, a Greenland Energy, pode utilizar licenças anteriores a essa proibição.

A empresa informou, em agosto deste ano, que tinha planos de perfurar em busca de petróleo em 2027 em uma bacia ainda não explorada na costa leste da Groenlândia, embora não tivesse licença própria para tal. A proprietária anterior, a Arco, investiu pesadamente em trabalhos sísmicos na década de 1970, mas nunca chegou a perfurar.

O consultor independente dinamarquês em política de segurança Jacob Kaarsbo disse que os comentários de Trump poderiam ser vistos como um sinal de que seu desejo de controlar a Groenlândia permanece inalterado.

“É extremamente perigoso considerar esse acordo entre o governo Trump e a Dinamarca como algo que tenha alterado as intenções de Trump”, declarou.

O acordo de 10 páginas entre EUA, Dinamarca e Groenlândia abriu caminho para duas novas bases militares e para o sistema de defesa antimísseis “Domo de Ouro” de Trump, ao mesmo tempo em que reafirmou a soberania dinamarquesa e o direito dos groenlandeses à autodeterminação.

“Qualquer ataque futuro aos Estados Unidos terá que passar pela Groenlândia, onde nossa Defesa derrubará rotineiramente drones, mísseis ou qualquer outra forma de arma ainda nem sequer concebida”, disse Trump em postagem hoje.

“Isso nos dá tempo, localização e linha de visão como em nenhum outro lugar do mundo!”, acrescentou.

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A recuperação do papa Leão 14 após a cirurgia pulmonar está ocorrendo conforme o esperado. Ele já começou a caminhar em seu quarto no hospital e a se alimentar normalmente, informou o Vaticano nesta quarta-feira (14).

Exames de sangue e uma radiografia de tórax realizados hoje mostraram resultados pós-operatórios normais, disse o Vaticano, acrescentando que o pontífice, de 71 anos, passou por fisioterapia respiratória.

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• Cirurgia do papa foi bem-sucedida e conforme o planejado, diz Vaticano.

O papa foi diagnosticado na terça-feira com adenocarcinoma, a forma mais comum de câncer de pulmão, depois que os médicos removeram o lobo inferior do pulmão direito durante uma cirurgia.

De acordo com o Vaticano, o papa deverá passar cerca de uma semana em recuperação no hospital. Todos os seus compromissos públicos foram cancelados até 20 de outubro.

Eleito pelos cardeais de todo o mundo em maio de 2025, Leão XIV é relativamente jovem para um líder da Igreja. Ele gosta de esportes, incluindo tênis, e não é conhecido por ser fumante nem por ter tido problemas de saúde recentes.

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A container ship has sunk near the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by a projectile and a separate dry bulk vessel is sinking in another incident, maritime security sources said on Wednesday.

France's military was taking a tanker suspected to be part of Russia's "shadow fleet" skirting Western sanctions to Reunion island on Tuesday in what Moscow called another act of "piracy."

Dense heavy crude, which oil refiners around the world favor for its typically low cost, is piling up in the Americas as soaring freight rates have stifled exports and US refiners have been running close to their limits. 

DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) – The United States’ response to Iran’s seven conditions in a proposal to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz was “insufficient”, Iran’s security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, was quoted by state...