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Al Rayyan and Al Wajba booked their places in the final of the third edition of the Al Thumama Ramadan Football Tournament at the Al Furjan Stadium in Al Thumama. In the semi-finals, Al Rayyan defeated Al Shaab 4-0 while Al Wajba secured a 3-0 win over Al Raya Medical. Al Shaab and Al Raya Medical will now meet in the third-place play-off. Al Rayyan’s run to the final gathered momentum late in the group stage. They had been sitting fourth before a crucial 3-0 win over Al Zaeem pushed them into the semi-finals, where they carried that form forward with a dominant display. The tournament, held for players aged 10 to 14, featured 13 teams split into two groups. Group A included Doha, Turki Bin Abdullah, Al Wajba, Al Zaeem, Al Rayyan and Al Thumama. Group B featured Al Dafna, Al Shaab, Al Waab, Al Raya Medical, Palestine, Al Shaqab and Al Shahaniya. Winners will receive QR7,000 along with the trophy and medals, while the runners-up will earn QR5,000. The third-place team will take home QR3,000. Individual awards will also be presented. The best player, top scorer and best goalkeeper will each receive QR500, while the best team award carries a prize of QR3,000. Related Story Source link
Ghana’s head coach Otto Addo reacts during the national anthem prior to the international friendly football match between Germany and Ghana in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany on…
Chelsea’s Marc Cucurella believes former manager Enzo Maresca’s departure and the club’s policy of signing young players is behind the London side’s recent struggles. Maresca left Stamford Bridge by mutual consent on New Year’s Day after just 18 months in charge following a breakdown in his relationship with the London side’s hierarchy. Chelsea were then fifth in the Premier League table – 15 points adrift of leaders Arsenal. The Italian was initially replaced by Under-21s coach Calum McFarlane before current manager Liam Rosenior arrived from Strasbourg – a club also owned by Blues supremo Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital. Chelsea, however, have won only four of their last 12 matches, suffering a humiliating 8-2 aggregate defeat by holders Paris Saint-Germain as they crashed out of the Champions League and slipping to sixth in the Premier League. While Chelsea and Spain defender Cucurella said Rosenior’s “football ideas are good”, he believes changing managers in mid-season has caused “instability” at Stamford Bridge. “These are decisions taken by the club. If you asked me, I would not have made this decision,” the 27-year-old told the Athletic. “To make a change like that, the best thing is to wait until the end of the season. You would give everyone, the players and the new manager, time to get ready, have a full pre-season. The instability around the club comes from this, in a nutshell. We had a caretaker manager first, then a new manager, with new ideas and no time to work on them. It is what it is.” Cucurella also believes Chelsea’s policy of primarily recruiting younger players has left them lacking the experience to compete for trophies “We have a good core of players,” he added. “The foundations are there. But to fight for major trophies such as the Premier League or the Champions League, you need more. Signing young players only might complicate achieving those goals. Against PSG, we lacked players that had gone through situations like that.” Related Story Source link
The Palestinian Authority condemned yesterday the adoption of a law by Israel’s parliament that would allow the execution of Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks, calling it a “dangerous escalation”. In a post on X, the Ramallah-based Palestinian foreign ministry said that “Israel has no sovereignty over Palestinian land”, adding that: “This law once again reveals the nature of the Israeli colonial system, which seeks to legitimise extrajudicial killing under legislative cover”. The Hamas group said the Israeli parliament’s approval of the bill reflects what it described as Israel’s policy of “killing and terrorism”. The approval of the bill “reflects the bloody nature of the occupation and its policy based on killing and terrorism”, Hamas said in a statement. Earlier, Israel’s parliament passed a law yesterday making the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks, fulfilling a pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right allies, Reuters reported. The legislation has drawn international criticism of Israel, which is already under scrutiny for increasing violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The measure includes provisions requiring an execution by hanging within 90 days of sentencing, with some allowance for a delay but no right to clemency and the option of imposing a life imprisonment sentence instead of capital punishment. Israel abolished the death penalty for murder in 1954. The only person ever executed in Israel after a civilian trial was Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, in 1962. Military courts in the West Bank can already impose a death sentence on Palestinian convicts but have never done so. The measure was promoted by Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right national security minister who has worn noose-shaped lapel pins in the run-up to the vote. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the legislation as a breach of international law and a doomed bid meant to intimidate Palestinians. “Such laws and measures will not break the will of the Palestinian people or undermine their steadfastness,” Abbas’ office said in a statement. “Nor will they deter them from continuing their legitimate struggle for freedom, independence, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.” Israel’s leading rights groups decried the law as “an act of institutionalised discrimination and racist violence against Palestinians.” The Association for Civil Rights in Israel said it filed an appeal against the law with Israel’s Supreme Court. Source link
File Picture: Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum holds a press conference with Ivorian President after a meeting at the presidential palace in Abidjan, on June 23, 2022.…
First responders work on the rubble of a building targeted by an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Hanouiyeh, east of Tyre, yesterday. (AFP)…
People check damaged cars, which Palestinians say was burned by Israeli settlers, near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 30, 2026. REUTERS/Yosri Aljamal Israeli airstrikes killed at least four people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, local health officials said, in the latest round of violence since a US-brokered ceasefire took effect more than five months ago. Israeli forces also killed two people in the occupied West Bank in two separate incidents, Palestinian health officials said. Medics said three people were killed and two others wounded when an Israeli plane fired a missile at a group of Palestinians near the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City. The Israeli military said it had struck and killed members of a Hamas armed cell it had identified in the northern Gaza Strip to remove the threat to its troops operating in the area. Later yesterday, another Israeli airstrike killed one person and wounded six others outside a local community kitchen in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, medics said. There was no immediate Israeli comment. More than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, local health officials say, following a storming of Israel by Hamas-led fighters. Hamas and Israel have traded blame for violations of a ceasefire agreed last October. The Gaza health ministry said Israeli fire has killed at least 700 people since the ceasefire. Health officials in Gaza say at least 50 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the Iran conflict began a month ago. WEST BANK VIOLENCE In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, health officials said Israeli forces had shot and killed a 22-year-old man near the city of Hebron yesterday. They said soldiers took the body away. Palestinian security sources identified the dead man as Ramzi Awawada and accused Israeli soldiers of leaving him to bleed to death and preventing rescuers from reaching him. The Israeli military said its forces had shot and killed a Palestinian who ran towards them holding a knife. Separately, it said forces operating near the city of Tulkarm fired at a Palestinian who accelerated his vehicle toward them, posing a threat to their safety. Later, the Palestinian health ministry confirmed the driver’s death, adding that the army had taken away his body. Rights groups and medics say Israeli settlers are taking advantage of curbs on movement imposed during the Iran war to attack Palestinians in the West Bank, with military roadblocks preventing ambulances from reaching victims quickly.Settlers have killed at least five Palestinians in the West Bank since the conflict began on February 28, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Source…
Women sit at a home damaged by a strike amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 30, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News…
In a night of further terror for civilians, on 28 March, a drone strike hit the Odesa Maternity Hospital No.5 with dozens of pregnant women and…
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation: Fire on Al-Salmi crude oil tanker extinguished, no oil spill reported
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) announced that the crew of the Kuwaiti crude oil tanker Al-Salmi successfully extinguished a fire that broke out early Tuesday following an Iranian attack that directly targeted the vessel while it was anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, outside the port of Dubai. No oil spill or marine pollution was reported in the surrounding waters.In a statement to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), KPC said the crew responded immediately and brought the fire under control before fully extinguishing it later in the day, in line with instructions from the corporation’s management and crisis response team, and in coordination with UAE authorities to assess the damage.The statement added that no injuries were reported among the 24 crew members.KPC affirmed that it continues to coordinate with the relevant authorities to assess the extent of the damage and take the necessary measures in accordance with established procedures. Source link
