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Leicester City have sacked manager Claude Puel after Saturday’s 4-1 home defeat to Crystal Palace, the club has announced. Puel leaves the King Power Stadium with the club 12th in the Premier League table after a run of five defeats in their past six matches in the competition, with that run also including a 1-1 draw at Liverpool. The Foxes ...

The violence during Nigeria’s delayed presidential and legislative polls has claimed at least 27 lives and injured several others, an NGO closely following the election said. On Sunday, the Election Network group said the outbreak of violence was “worrying” and the authorities had been warned about the risk as another civil society group said the death toll could be as ...

Japan’s Olympics Minister, Yoshitaka Sakurada, has publicly apologised after arriving three minutes late to a parliamentary meeting on Thursday. Opposition MPs said his tardiness showed disrespect for his office and boycotted a meeting of the budget committee for five hours in protest. They have been highly critical of Mr Sakurada after a series of gaffes. Last week, he said he ...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was fined £45,000 ($59,000) by the Football Association on Thursday for suggesting referee Kevin Friend had favoured West Ham in his side’s 1-1 draw at the London Stadium earlier this month. Klopp, whose side are currently second on goal difference in the Premier League behind Manchester City, said he thought Friend realised he should have ruled ...

The 2019/20 English Premier League season will begin on Saturday, August 10, officials announced Thursday, with the transfer window closing two days earlier. The transfer window will shut at 5:00 pm local time (1600 GMT) on Thursday, August 8 — the second successive year where the summer window will close before a new season starts. The 2019/20 English Premier League ...

Paris St Germain forward Neymar will continue treatment on his foot injury in Brazil under the supervision of the club’s medical team, the French Ligue 1 side have said. Brazilian international Neymar was ruled out for 10 weeks in January after he injured a metatarsal in his right foot during a 2-0 French Cup win over Strasbourg on January 23. ...

Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone has apologised for any offence caused by his celebrations against Juventus, but said: “I did it from the heart.” Simeone turned towards fans and grabbed his crotch after Jose Maria Gimenez opened the scoring in a 2-0 win. “It’s not a nice gesture, I admit, but I felt the need to do it,” he said. ...

Rwandan president Paul Kagame has finally spoken about strained relations between his country and neighbouring Burundi. The relation is still the subject of mediation by Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, Kagame confirmed. According to him Burundi has hand and continues to grapple with internal issues that rolls on even if Rwanda was nonexistent. Responding to the impasse during an interview with ...

Nigeria opposition chief Atiku Abubakar says the delayed polls are crucial for the future of Nigerians and thus, voters should turn out and vote irrespective of their preferred candidates. With hours to the closure of a campaign period, the former vice-president who leads the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, said the result of the 2015 vote gave him hope and belief ...

German multinational automotive manufacturing company, Volkswagen plans to produce a record number of vehicles in South Africa. Despite a sluggish economy and other hurdles in the Southern African country, the German carmaker will increase its output by 28 per cent. According to Volkswagen Group South Africa managing director, the firm will manufacture 161,900 vehicles this year with 108,000 destined for ...