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Brighton midfielder Alexis Mac Allister is set for a £55m move to Liverpool after the Seagulls gave permission for the player to have a medical. The Argentina playmaker, 24, played a key role for Brighton as they finished sixth in the Premier League last season and qualified for Europe. He …

Huge Soviet-era dam supplies water to nuclear plant, Crimea Russia, Ukraine blame each other for breach of dam UN atomic agency: no immediate nuclear safety risk Russia conducts more overnight air raids on Kyiv A torrent of water burst through a huge dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian …

Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema scored on his final Real Madrid appearance, just hours after the club confirmed he would leave as a free agent at the end of the season. After 14 trophy-laden years, Real announced the striker would be moving on after being linked with a switch to …

Football giants Dynamos and Highlanders bounced back to winning ways with sweet victories registered in two Castle Lager Premier Soccer League Match Day 12 fixtures played in different parts of the country on Sunday afternoon. In a match played at the National Sports Stadium, Donald Mudadi’s two long range efforts …

Former England midfielder Jesse Lingard is among six players released by Nottingham Forest after his contract expired. However, he fell out of favour at the City Ground, playing just 60 minutes of Premier League football after New Year’s Day. Keylor Navas, Dean Henderson and Renan Lodi have also left Forest …

Zimbabwean defender Jordan Zemura has posted a message of thanks to his English Premiership club AFC Bournemouth, as he prepares to make his move to Italy. The leftback signed with Serie A side Udinese in April, following a difficult few months for the Zimbabwean in his last few days with …

Max Verstappen set the pace in a first practice session that gave little insight into the true competitive picture at the Spanish Grand Prix. The world champion was a massive 0.768 seconds quicker than team-mate Sergio Perez, who trails the Dutchman by 39 points in the championship. Alpine’s Esteban Ocon …

Image caption, The justice department is investigating Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents after he left office US prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of Donald Trump in which he acknowledges keeping a classified document after leaving the White House. CNN first reported that investigators had the tape, and people …

Image caption, Tetyana Kraynyuk’s son Sasha was one of 13 children taken by Russian troops from his special educational needs school last September When 15-year-old Sasha Kraynyuk studied the photograph handed to him by Ukrainian investigators, he recognised the boy dressed in Russian military uniform immediately. The teenager sitting at …

Organisers of the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup, which starts in 50 days, say they are closing in on one million ticket sales. More than 850,000 have been sold for the event in Australia and New Zealand. “2023 is going to be a landmark moment for women’s football,” said Fifa …