Section: Pakistan Today (Pakistan)
Fans return 1,000 tickets as Champions League price hikes spell misery
MADRID: Real Madrid fans have returned 1,000 tickets for Saturday’s Champions League final against Liverpool as spiralling accommodation and travel costs deter supporters from travelling to Kiev. UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said the tickets could not be resold to Liverpool fans for security reasons but they would instead be put on...
Klopp seeks turnaround to five forgettable finals
LIVERPOOL: “We’ve won it five times,” Liverpool supporters sing to celebrate their five European Cup final victories, but Jurgen Klopp, manager of the English giants, is attempting to end a very different run of results in Saturday’s Champions League final. Klopp has lost his last five finals, three with Borussia Dortmund before...
Liverpool out to end Real hegemony in Champions League final
LIVERPOOL: A thrilling run inspired by Mohamed Salah has taken Liverpool to Saturday’s Champions League final in Kiev against Real Madrid, where now Jurgen Klopp’s side must stop the Spanish giants from winning the trophy for the third year running. Real have seen this as their competition ever since winning the first five European...
Salah won’t break Ramzan fast for Champions League final: reports
LIVERPOOL: Mohamed Salah is set to maintain his religious routine and fast on the day of the Champions League final, according to reports in his homeland. Egyptian newspaper Al Masry al Youm claimed that the Liverpool marksman will continue to adhere to the Islamic holy month of Ramzan, and therefore abstain from any food or drink during daylight...
Europe, Moscow making diplomatic overtures to save Iran deal
STREL’NA: French President Emmanuel Macron met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday outside Saint Petersburg, with the Iran nuclear deal as well as conflicts in Syria and Ukraine on the agenda. The trip is Macron’s first to Russia as president and follows a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week. Europe and...
Investigators: Russian military missile downed Flight MH17
BUNNIK: Detailed analysis of video and photos has unequivocally established that the Buk missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine nearly four years ago came from a Russia-based military unit, an international team of investigators said Thursday. It is the clearest link yet published by the team of the involvement...
‘I have biological age of 23’, says Ronaldo
MADRID: Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has no plans to slow down and feels a decade younger than his 33 years, the Portuguese declared ahead of the Champions League final with Liverpool, where he is targeting a fifth European Cup triumph. “Right now I have a biological age of 23,” the five-times world player of the year said in an...
Trump factor leaves Macron scrambling ahead of Russia trip
PARIS: Emmanuel Macron heads to St Petersburg on Thursday seeking to win concessions from Vladimir Putin, but with Europe-US ties strained over Iran, the Russian leader may have little incentive to offer the French president a diplomatic success. A year after hosting Putin in the regal halls of the Chateau de Versailles, Macron wants to find...
Ukraine tests US missile systems for first time
KIEV: Ukraine tested its Javelin missile systems on Tuesday for the first time since receiving the weapons from the United States to boost its defenses in its conflict with pro-Russian separatists. Washington has been one of Kiev’s staunchest supporters since Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the subsequent outbreak of...
Putin: The Tsar of Russia
Pakistan’s increasing proximity with China and consequently Russia, everyone wants to know who Putin is. Let us introduce Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is the incumbent president of Russia and is believed by several international affairs analysts to be the most powerful man in the world. To understand the 21st century...
