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MIAMI, USA: Inter Miami announced on Friday they are signing former Spain and Barcelona midfielder Sergio Busquets to team-up with Lionel Messi at the Major League Soccer club. Messi said earlier this month he was moving to Miami and he will now be re-united with his former Barca team-mate Busquets. Inter Miami posted a tweeted heralding the arrival of the player. “Si, Busi” read the twitter post, referring to Busquets’ nickname. The tweet included quotes praising Busquets from several people in the game including former Spain coach Vicente del Bosque.

Agreement would compensate victims who say JPMorgan ignored warnings about Epstein's abuse and kept him as a client.

TEL AVIV: Israelis kept up their months-old protests against the government’s judicial overhaul Saturday, days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to press on with the controversial program. Brandishing banners reading “Israel is burning” and deeming Netanyahu an “enemy of democracy,” demonstrators thronged the heart of the commercial hub of Tel Aviv. While there was no immediate turnout figure, the weekly rallies have regularly drawn tens of thousands.

PARIS: Stefanos Tsitsipas on Saturday denied making racist comments over bitter rival Nick Kyrgios, claiming his remarks that the Australian firebrand played “uneducated” tennis have been “misinterpreted.” The world number five also told Netflix’s Break Point series that Kyrgios brought “an NBA basketball attitude” to tennis. The remarks were recorded at Wimbledon last year after the two men fought out a controversial third round tie in which Tsitsipas claimed Kyrgios should have been defaulted for hitting the ball into the crowd.

DAMASCUS: A drone attack targeted Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ancestral town of Qardaha on Friday with two projectiles, killing one person and lightly injuring another, Syrian state news agency Sana reported. The strike came a day after Sana reported a drone attack on Salhab, another government-held town in northwest Syria near rebel territory, that killed a woman and a child.

Putin may yet suffer the fate of many czars before him: a military uprising fueled by the blowback of a failing war.

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Saudi Arabia’s Abdullah Al-Qahtani on Friday night claimed victory at his Professional Fighters League debut, which took place at the Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta. Fighting in the featherweight division, “The Reaper” wasted no time in defeating his opponent, American Lamar Brown, via a face-crank submission in just 95 seconds.