SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ’s kidney function has improved but he will remain in an intensive care unit because of pneumonia, a hospital in the capital, Brasilia, said on Sunday. The 70-year-old former leader has also been given more antibiotics since Saturday, according to a statement by his doctors. Bolsonaro, …
NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA said Sunday that the game between Argentina and Spain known as Finalissima that was supposed to be held in Qatar has been canceled after the widening Middle East war. The game between South American champion Argentina and European champion Spain was scheduled to be held in Doha on March 27. …
MUNICH (AP) — An unlikely run of injuries has sidelined Bayern Munich’s top three goalkeepers and could mean the German champion starts New York-born 16-year-old Leonard Prescott for its upcoming Champions League game against Atalanta. With first-choice Manuel Neuer recovering from a calf muscle tear, Prescott was on the bench in the Champions League last …
JERUSALEM (AP) — The man who attacked a Michigan synagogue was the brother of a Hezbollah commander killed earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike, Israel’s military claimed Sunday. Ibrahim Ghazali was killed in the March 5 strike in Lebanon along with three other relatives of the attacker in Michigan — a week before authorities …
BEIRUT/SIDON, March 15 (Reuters) – Hussain Murtada and his family are camping in the back of a small truck, a flimsy tarpaulin shielding them from a storm on Sunday, with no room left at shelters for displaced people in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. “We are putting tarp over it because we’re soaked,” said …
MIAMI (AP) — Michael Lorenzen will start for Italy and Keider Montero for Venezuela when the teams meet Monday night in a World Baseball Classic semifinal. “I faced him many times,” said Italy manager Francisco Cervelli, a former big league catcher. “This is the perfect guy.” Italy is in the semifinals for the first time …
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka beat Elena Rybakina 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6) in the Indian Wells final Sunday for her first title at the California desert tournament. Sabalenka, a runner-up in 2023 and ’25, finished off the win at the BNP Paribas Open with a big serve that Rybakina hit …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — John Calipari told his 17th-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks to use the Southeastern Conference Tournament title game to measure where they are before the NCAA Tournament. Nick Pringle disagreed, saying a league championship was on the line Sunday. “And I said, ‘If that’s what you need me to say, great, let’s go get …
JERUSALEM, March 15 (Reuters) – Israel and Lebanon are expected to hold talks in the coming days aimed at securing a durable ceasefire that would see Hezbollah disarmed, two Israeli officials said on Sunday, though the timing and terms have yet to be agreed. Beirut is forming a delegation for talks but no date has …
PARIS, March 15 (Reuters) – Leftist incumbent mayor Benoit Payan is virtually tied with National Rally lawmaker Franck Allisio in the first round of the mayoral election in Marseille, France’s second-largest city, two exit polls showed on Sunday. The far-right National Rally has targeted Marseille as a test of its strength ahead of the 2027 …