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THIS STORY IS BREAKING, PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES Algeria army chief says the presidency should be declared vacant the latest move in efforts to get ailing president Abdul Aziz Bouteflika to leave office. Chief of Staff Gaid Salah’s call is thus seeking the application of article 102 of the constitution which stipulates that a president can be removed from ...

Algeria’s army chief of staff has demanded President Abdelaziz Bouteflika be declared unfit to rule after weeks of protests against him. “We must find a way out of this crisis immediately, within the constitutional framework,” Lt Gen Ahmed Gaed Salah said in a speech on television. The president has already agreed not to stand for a fifth term in upcoming ...

Portugal Captain, Cristiano Ronaldo left the field with a thigh injury in Portugal’s Euro 2020 qualifier against Serbia after half an hour of play yesterday on the same night that all the other big teams won their matches convincingly. Ronaldo’s Juventus play the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal at Ajax on April 10. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner, ...

UB40 saxophonist Brian Travers has been diagnosed with a brain tumour, forcing him to pull out of the band’s 40th anniversary tour. Scans revealed the founder member of the band, which formed in Birmingham, has two tumours after he suffered a seizure at home on 19 March. He will undergo surgery on the day he was due to begin the ...

Zinedine Zidane’s journey to the top of professional football has been a long and arduous one. The Frenchman spent the last five years of his playing career at Real Madrid, winning the Champions League and LaLiga Santander alongside greats such as Ronaldo, Raul and Luis Figo. However, but his first steps into the game weren’t quite as glamorous. “It was ...

US President Donald Trump’s campaign did not conspire with Russia during the 2016 election, a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report says. The allegation clouded the first two years of Mr Trump’s presidency and his allies see the report’s finding as a boost to his re-election chances. But Attorney General William Barr’s summary is inconclusive as to whether Mr ...

ROME (AP) The Italian soccer federation has signed a wide-ranging memorandum with the Chinese government to promote soccer between the two countries. The deal foresees playing the Italian Super Cup or Italian Cup in China within the next three years. The Italian Super Cup – which pits the Serie A champion against the Italian Cup champion – has already been ...

A math and physics teacher from rural Kenya, who gives away 80% of his monthly income to help the poor, has won a $1 million prize. Peter Tabichi, who is also a Franciscan brother, was awarded the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize on Sunday. He teaches at a rural Kenyan school in Pwani Village, with only one computer, poor internet ...

If you thought Jose Mourinho would simply vanish from the public eye of management after the highest-profile embarrassment of his career, being fired by Manchester United, think again. Not only does Mourinho expect to be back on the manager’s hot seat one day, he expects that day is fewer than three months away. Speaking this weekend, the 56-year-old Portuguese is ...

Jose Mourinho says he believes that Kylian Mbappe is far and away the most valuable player in the world, adding that the young French forward is currently “unbuyable”. Mbappe joined Paris Saint-Germain from Monaco in 2017 with the club paying €180 million (£166m/$212m) to acquire his services. The move made him the most expensive teenager ever as well as the ...