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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J It took an 80th minute strike from the spot by Kelechi Iheanacho to rescue the Super Eagles from defeat to a less fancied Corsica side Both teams had to rely on strikes from the spot as the attack lines of both teams failed to deliver on the night. Host, Corsica took the initiative when debutant, Tryonne Ebuehi, handled the ball in the box and a penalty was awarded against Nigeria. Jean-Jacques Mandrichi converted the kick as he hit the ball past Ikechukwu Ezenwa who was in goal for the Super Eagles. The Super Eagles piled pressure on the Corsica team after falling behind but the Nigerian players continually fluffed their chances. Henry Onyekuru who has been in the news lately for a switch to Arsenal was among the biggest culprit on the night even as the likes of Iheanacho and home boy Alhassan Ibrahim all threw away glaring chances. A foul on Oghenekaro Etebo in the box gave Iheanacho the chance to level the scores and he did. The Super Eagles will be leav...

http://ift.tt/2qlEKud Police remove Michael Sandford as Donald Trump speaks at an event in Las Vegas on June 18. John Locher / AP<br /> A British man jailed after trying to assassinate Donald Trump said Tuesday that screaming voices in his head urged him to lunge for a policeman’s gun. Michael Sandford, 21, who has a history of mental health issues, told The Sun newspaper how he feared being shot dead himself after being flattened by officers, six metres (20 feet) away from Trump who was campaigning to become US president. Sandford, who is back at his family home in Dorking, south of London, after being released last Tuesday, said he decided to take action after feeling angry about Trump. “I was hearing voices telling me to kill Donald Trump,” he said. “They’d been coming on for a while and getting stronger and more frequent. At one point they were screaming at me. “My friends had said Trump needed to be stopped. They said he was going to destroy the country — but i...

http://ift.tt/2qPFhAR Canelo Alvarez (R) throws a left at Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in the third round of their 164.5-pound catchweight bout on May 6, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Alvarez won by unanimous decision. Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP Ethan Miller / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP Saul “Canelo” Alvarez cruised to a unanimous decision over Julio Chavez Jr. in a 12-round mismatch Saturday then announced in the ring that his next fight would be against Gennady Golovkin. After crushing Chavez, the World Boxing Organization light middleweight champ said he is set to face middleweight champ Golovkin on September 16. “Golovkin, you are next, my friend. Where are you? It’s on,” Alvarez said before bringing Golovkin into the T-Mobile Arena ring with him. Golovkin didn’t have to travel far to make the announcement as he watched Alvarez’s fight from ringside in Las Vegas. “Congratulations,” he told Alvarez. “I feel excited to be part of this big drama show.” With his win over ...

http://ift.tt/2pR4BXR This file screengrab taken on May 6, 2017 from a Boko Haram video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram shows the leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau flanked by two fighters at an unidentified location. PHOTO: THE GUARDIAN / BOKO HARAM / YOUTUBE Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has dismissed claims that he was wounded in an airstrike in a new video posted on YouTube . Shekau claimed the latest video, 14 minutes long, was shot on Thursday, May 4, barely 12 hours after military sources said he had been wounded. Wearing a military camouflage and flanked two of his fighters, the Boko Haram leader boasted that he’s alive and that the Nigerian military will never find him. Citing military and civilian sources, AFP claimed on Wednesday that the terror had been injured and and his deputy Abba Mustapha, alias Malam Abba, was killed in the attack along with another key lieutenant, Abubakar Gashua, a...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J US-led strikes aimed against the Islamic State group have “unintentionally” killed 352 civilians since the offensive began in 2014, according to the US military. The tally from the Combined Joint Task Force did not include findings from an investigation the coalition said it had launched into one allegedly particularly deadly strike on March 17 in west Mosul. US General Stephen Townsend had said coalition forces “probably had a role in those casualties.” The statement released Sunday by Operation Inherent Resolve — the coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria — said 42 reports of civilian fatalities were still under review. From November 2016 to March 9, 2017, coalition strikes killed 45 civilians, the statement said. Three separate strikes near Mosul in early March of this year left 26 civilians dead. The statement said the coalition had in February and March finished an audit of its civilian casualty report tracking. The Pentagon said ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Turkish police on Monday used tear gas to disperse a group of protesters as they sought to defy a ban and march to Istanbul’s Taksim square to celebrate May Day, an AFP journalist reported. Police tried to stop around 200 protesters in the Gayrettepe district on the European side of Istanbul who wanted to walk to the famous square in spite of the ban by city authorities. The protesters — made up of left-wing groups — unfurled anti-government banners as May Day comes after the April 16 referendum brought President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a narrow win to expand his powers. “Long Live May Day, No to dictator!” the banners read. At least one protester was detained, according to the AFP journalist. Turkish authorities imposed a ban on any demonstration at Taksim square, with police sealing off the avenue with barricades. Several thousand people attended celebrations in an officially designated area in Bakirkoy district near the international airport on the city’s wes...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Two Muslim men were beaten to death by stick-weilding Indian villagers who suspected them of stealing cows, police said Monday, the latest such attack over the animal Hindus consider sacred. Police in northeastern Assam state’s Nagaon district said they had registered a murder case over the deaths of Abu Hanifa and Riyazuddin Ali on Sunday. Two suspects have been detained for questioning. “They were chased and beaten with sticks by villagers who said the two boys were trying to steal cows from their grazing field,” Debaraj Upadhyay, Nagaon’s top cop, told AFP by telephone. “By the time we took them to the hospital at night they had succumbed to their injuries,” he added. Footage shot by local onlookers and aired by Indian broadcasters Monday showed the two badly beaten victims cowering with their hands tied as villagers surrounded them. The incident comes amidst a wave of rising tensions over the killing and smuggling of cows in Hindu-majority India, where th...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Police and fans were injured in clashes during the Tunis derby between arch-rivals Club Africain and Esperance Sportive de Tunis on Sunday, the interior ministry said. Police used tear gas following confrontations with Club Africain supporters at the Rades Olympic stadium, in the suburbs of Tunis. “More than 10 police and security agents were injured,” the interior ministry said in a statement. “A group of people believed to have been involved in the violence have been arrested.” CA president Slim Riahi blamed “provocation” by security staff towards supporters during the match which Esperance won 2-0. “It’s a scandal,” he told local radio. Interior Ministry spokesman Yasser Mesbah insisted security officials “had been targeted” by violent fans, with his office publishing photos of ripped up seats and bottles strewn across the pitch. “We have a problem of morals and mentality,” said Sports Minister Majdouline Cherni, referring to violent episodes during footb...

http://ift.tt/2oUFXU2 Bayern's team celebrates becoming the new German champion after the German first division Bundesliga football match between VfL Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich on April 29, 2017 in Wolfsburg, northern Germany. Bayern Munich won a fifth consecutive German league title.<br />John MACDOUGALL / AFP Bayern Munich were crowned Bundesliga champions for the fifth straight season on Saturday after Robert Lewandowski scored twice in a 6-0 thrashing of 10-man Wolfsburg. After second-placed RB Leipzig were held to a goalless draw by Ingolstadt, Bayern wrapped up the title with a thumping away victory that left them 10 points clear with three games left. “Five times in a row, that’s unbelievable. We completely deserve to be champions,” Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge told Sky. Carlo Ancelotti has delivered a 27th league title in his first season as Bayern’s head coach. “I am very happy, this win was important and it’s a fantastic experience,” said the ...