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The United States and Saudi Arabia have condoled with Nigeria over the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) aircraft that crashed in Igbokoda , Ondo state on Monday, killing all the 2o personnel and five crew members on board. The aircraft was on a routine mission from Benin City to Lagos when it crashed in Igbokoda, headquarters of Ilaje LGA. Ehimen Ejodame, director of public relations and information at NAF, said the aircraft had 20 personnel and five crew members. No survivors were found. He added that Kelvin Aneke, the chief of air staff, had directed a comprehensive investigation to establish the circumstances  surrounding the accident. In a statement on Tuesday, the US mission in Nigeria condoled with the families, friends, and colleagues of the deceased NAF personnel. “We stand with the people of Nigeria and remain committed to our strong security partnership,” the statement reads. In a separate statement, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia also expressed its sympathies to Ni...

Portugal have surged into the top five of the FIFA world rankings released this Wednesday, the only side to force a genuine breakthrough inside the top ten and a sign of their footballing resurgence. Two places up in one go, Portugal now sit fifth, according to FIFA's updated national team rankings.  A perfect UEFA Nations League window did the damage, with four straight wins over Norway home and away, Wales and Denmark. Their climb cost Brazil and Morocco, who each slipped a place in the only other movement within the top ten after both stumbled to draws in friendlies. Spain soar at the summit Spain reign at the top. World Cup winners for a second time this summer, they stretched their lead with a blistering Nations League start of four wins on the bounce, the pick of them a 3-2 victory over England, plus two over Croatia and another against the Czech Republic. Argentina clung to second after an emotional 3-0 win over Benin on Tuesday evening, the night Lio...

OTTAWA, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel ​to Ankara and Istanbul from October 21 to 23, ‌his office said on Tuesday, in what will be the first dedicated bilateral visit to NATO ally Turkey by a Canadian leader. The visit, which was ​first reported  by Reuters, would mark Carney's latest break with Canadian ​diplomatic convention as he seeks to reduce the country's ⁠reliance on the United States, by far its biggest trading ​partner, after a collapse in trade talks in August. Carney will ​meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara and work toward bolstering bilateral relations in areas including energy and mining, climate, and defence and ​security, the prime minister's office said in a statement. He ​will meet with Turkish business leaders and investors in Istanbul and tout Canada ‌as ⁠an attractive destination for trade and investment. "The Prime Minister will emphasize opportunities to expand that growing trade re...

Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo has been handed an eight-point driving penalty and a financial fine after being caught driving his luxury £160,000 supercar without a valid licence or insurance near the club's training ground.  The incident places Caicedo just four points away from a potential ban, adding off-field drama to his current struggles with injury in the ongoing season. Legal trouble for Caicedo According to the Daily Mail,  Caicedo appeared at Crawley magistrates' court this week, where he was fined £1,444 and given an eight-point penalty. Caicedo was pulled over in his £160,000 Audi RSQ8 near the Cobham training facility back in April 2025. He was convicted of driving without a valid licence and having no insurance. The penalty puts Caicedo dangerously close to a six-month driving ban, which is automatically triggered if a driver accumulates 12 points within a three-year period. Club response and supercar details Caicedo has now...

Cristiano Ronaldo has accused Portugal coach Jorge Jesus of twice breaking his word, saying a failed agreement to publicly explain his omission against Norway drove him out of the camp but insisting he remained available after any punishment. In a lengthy statement, the 41-year-old gave his account of the dispute that prompted his departure from Copenhagen before Portugal's Nations League match versus Denmark last week. Ronaldo said Jesus had agreed a plan under which the forward would miss the Norway and Denmark matches to manage his fitness. However, on the day of the Norway game, the coach told him he would play for 30 minutes. "Everyone knows the rest. I warmed up from half-time onwards, watched the minutes tick by and wasn't called on," Ronaldo said. "The manager had broken his word to me." Portugal's captain and all-time leading scorer said a subsequent meeting with Jesus, attended by his club side Al Nassr's sporting d...

The United States moved all of its long-range bombers stationed in the United Kingdom back to their American home bases on Sunday after an unspecified new threat, officials said. It comes days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed. “We can acknowledge now that all US bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have re-deployed to their home stations in the United States,” one official told CNN. The statement did not include details on why the planes were moved. The source familiar called the latest threat a “real world incident.” It is unusual that the US military would move the bombers back to their home stations instead of deploying them to another base in the region, the official said. President Donald Trump also confirmed that a threat had prompted the move – though he did not specify what the threat was. “I think we can say that — I mean, they ...

United States President Donald Trump has said he will stop using taxpayer funds for television advertisements featuring him after widespread criticism of the campaign-style spots. In a post on his social media site on Monday, Trump defended the advertisements, which cost at least $1.5m in federal funds and were aired ahead of the US November midterm elections. Trump said he considered the advertisements to be “a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A.”, but that they would no longer be funded by taxpayers but by either him or his MAGA PAC, MAGA Inc. is Trump’s political war chest and had amassed more than $400m by the end of July. The announcement came as ethics experts and lawmakers from both ⁠parties have criticised the three nationally broadcast advertisements and called for independent investigations. The advertisements have run during football games as recently as Sunday and during other programming. One features Trump declaring that “America will never be a communist ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Cuba and the ​United States have maintained “channels of communication” but are not engaged in any formal negotiations, Havana’s top diplomat in Washington told ‌Reuters, as the Trump administration pursues a pressure campaign against the Communist-ruled island. In an interview on Monday, Lianys Torres Rivera, chargé d’affaires at the embassy in Washington, said Cuba remains open to a “respectful” dialogue but is “not naive” about President Donald Trump’s threats and has increased preparations to defend itself against any US military action. The latest US-Cuba diplomatic contacts ​have included meetings, phone calls and WhatsApp messages, but the two sides have made no progress toward a negotiating agenda or restarting ​official talks, she said. “What we have with the US is channels of communication,” Torres Rivera said. She declined to ⁠provide details on the timing, topics and participants. Her description of the communications appears to fal...