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MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -Bayern Munich conceded a 71st-minute free kick to draw 1-1 at home against Hoffenheim on Saturday at the end of a turbulent week for the champions but they stayed two points clear at the top of the Bundesliga with six games remaining. It was Bayern’s latest slip-up under coach Thomas Tuchel following last week’s German Cup exit to Freiburg and Tuesday’s 3-0 Champions League quarter-final first-leg loss […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur blew a gilt-edged chance to boost their hopes of finishing in the Premier League’s top four as relegation battlers Bournemouth snatched a last-gasp 3-2 away win on Saturday. Dango Ouattara’s superb finish in the fifth minute of stoppage time sent the south coast club’s fans into raptures and Tottenham’s heading for the exits. Third-placed Newcastle United’s defeat at Aston Villa opened the door for Tottenham […]

By Kai Pfaffenbach SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian missiles hit residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk on Friday, killing 11 people, wounding 21 and reducing parts of apartment blocks to a tangled mess of metal and concrete. Eleven people were killed and 21 wounded, Ukrainian public braodcaster Suspilne reported on Saturday, citing regional emergency services. Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of Donetsk Region, told national television earlier that seven […]

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -Bayern Munich conceded a 71st-minute free kick to draw 1-1 at home against Hoffenheim on Saturday at the end of a turbulent week for the champions but they stayed two points clear at the top of the Bundesliga with six games remaining. It was Bayern’s latest slipup under coach Thomas Tuchel following last week’s German Cup exit to Freiburg and Tuesday’s 3-0 Champions League quarter-final first-leg loss […]

(Reuters) – Fighters of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group have captured two more areas of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday. Wagner has spearheaded Russia’s attempt to take Bakhmut since last summer in what has been the longest and deadliest battle of the war for both sides. Reuters could not independently confirm the report. FIGHTING * A Russian missile strike killed at least nine people in […]

CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces shared a video on Saturday that they said showed Egyptian troops who had “surrendered” to them in Merowe, northern Sudan. This occurred as clashes erupted between the RSF, Sudan’s main paramilitary group, and the army on Saturday. There was no clear explanation for the presence of Egyptian troops in Merowe on Saturday, but Egyptian and Sudanese troops have periodically staged joint military […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s main paramilitary group and the regular armed forces exchanged gunfire in Khartoum and elsewhere in the country on Saturday in an apparent struggle for control. The army rejected assertions by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that they had seized the presidential palace, the army chief’s residence and airports in Khartoum and the northern city of Merowe. Sudanese army chief General Abdel […]

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s airports face two days of disruption from Monday as aviation workers stage a second strike this year in protest over working conditions and wages, unions said on Friday. The country’s aviation industry is facing problems, including poor facilities, jet fuel shortages that often ground domestic flights and a lack of foreign currency that has seen international carriers failing to repatriate their ticket sales. Unions representing pilots, […]

STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) – Borussia Dortmund conceded a stoppage-time equaliser from Silas Katompa Mvumpa to draw 3-3 at 10-man VfB Stuttgart on Saturday and miss the chance to go joint top of the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich. It all started well for the visitors when Sebastien Haller turned in Donyell Malen’s cutback in the 26th minute to put Dortmund ahead. They added another in the 33rd as Malen scored for […]