DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Phil Foden has “temporarily” left England’s Euro 2024 base and returned to the U.K. for a “pressing family matter”, the Football Association said Wednesday. English soccer’s governing body did not elaborate further on the reason for Foden’s departure. The Manchester City forward played in Tuesday’s 0-0 draw with Slovenia . England
LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — Thousands of tons of food, medicines and other aid piled up on a beach in war-torn Gaza is not reaching those in need because of a dire security situation and lawlessness on the ground, a U.S. aid official said Wednesday. Truck drivers are getting caught in the crossfire or have their
LONDON (AP) — The driver of a 4×4 who plowed into a school in southwest London in July, killing two children , suffered a seizure that could not have been predicted and will face no criminal charges, police said Wednesday. London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement Wednesday that they had been advised by the
Jeremy Allen White and the cast of “The Bear” reflect on the show’s fresh visual style at its season three premiere in Los Angeles, and cheer on co-star Ayo Edebiri, who makes her directorial debut with episode six. Jeremy Allen White and the cast of “The Bear” reflect on the show’s fresh visual style at
Lamine Yamal, Nico Williams and Pedri have not been included in Spain’s Olympic soccer squad for next month’s Paris Games despite being young enough to make the team. The trio are younger than 23 but are playing with Spain at the European Championship in Germany and will get some time off after that tournament ends.
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — At least one person died and 12 others were injured Wednesday when a cable car collapsed in Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, officials said. The manager of the cable car system, Tomás Elejalde, told reporters one person died as a result of the accident, but he did not say whether the individual
WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent watchdog within the IRS reported Wednesday that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases, delays that are “unconscionable.” Overall, the 2024 filing season went smoothly, according to the latest National Taxpayer Advocate report to Congress, especially after the IRS received
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pardoned potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, saying Wednesday that he is “righting an historic wrong” to clear the way for them to regain lost benefits. Biden’s action grants a pardon to service members who were convicted
BANGKOK (AP) — Thai banks have become the main supplier of international financial services for Myanmar’s military government, enabling its purchases of goods and equipment used to carry out its increasingly bloody war against pro-democracy resistance forces and armed ethnic minority groups, a U.N. expert said in a report issued Wednesday. The report by Tom
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis decreed Wednesday that an area of northern Rome, long the source of controversy because of electromagnetic waves emitted by Vatican Radio towers there, will now house a field of solar panels to fuel Vatican City. Citing the Vatican’s pledge in U.N. climate treaties to curb carbon emissions, Francis tasked a
