No. 7 seed Alexander Bublik and No. 5 Ugo Humbert will meet in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships final after an eventful semifinal round Friday. Bublik was ahead 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-5 when No. 2 seed Andrey Rublev of Russia was defaulted for unsportsmanlike conduct after making comments to
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Coleman edges Lyles to win world indoor 60 title
Christian Coleman raced to his second global 60 metres title at the world indoor championships on Friday, exploding out of the blocks with his reliably fast start to edge American team mate Noah Lyles by three-hundredths of a second. The 27-year-old Coleman clocked 6.41 seconds, the world's fastest time this season. "I
Defending champ De Minaur reaches Acapulco final
Defending champion Alex De Minaur booked a return to the Acapulco ATP final on Friday as Britain's Jack Draper retired while trailing in the third set of their semi-final. Australia's De Minaur will face either second-seeded Holger Rune or sixth-seeded Casper Ruud in a bid for a title repeat. Third-seeded De Minaur
Lionel Messi, Inter Miami aim to topple Orlando City
Bayern Munich concede late equaliser in 2-2 draw with Freiburg
Freiburg's Lucas Hoeler scored an 87th-minute equaliser on Friday to snatch a 2-2 against visitors Bayern Munich, whose Bundesliga title hopes suffered a further blow. The result left champions Bayern, who have 54 points from 24 league matches, seven behind leaders Bayer Leverkusen, who have 61 and can pull further away
Pressure mounts for inquiry into Israeli troops firing on Gazans waiting for aid
Pressure mounted on Israel on Friday over the deaths of dozens of Palestinians during a confused incident in the Gaza Strip in which crowds surrounded a convoy of aid trucks and soldiers opened fire, with several countries backing a U.N. call for an inquiry. Gaza health authorities said Israeli forces had
Israeli strike kills 3 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon
Dutch PM signs security deal in Ukraine, promising artillery funding
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte signed a security deal with Ukraine in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Friday and said the Netherlands would help fund the supply of 800,000 artillery shells to hold back Russian forces. Rutte met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on a surprise visit to Kharkiv, just 40 km
Israel killed 25,000 Palestinian women, children: Pentagon chief
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers Thursday that Israel had killed more than 25,000 Palestinian women and children since October, but the Pentagon later clarified he was citing the overall toll from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. "It's over 25,000," Austin responded when asked during a House Armed Services Committee hearing
Hamas raises stakes in Gaza truce talks by calling for Ramadan march
Hamas called on Wednesday for Palestinians to march to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque at the start of Ramadan, raising the stakes in ongoing negotiations for a truce in Gaza, which U.S. President Joe Biden hopes will be in place by then. The call by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh followed comments by Biden