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The 30-year-old left Celta Vigo by mutual consent on the eve of the La Liga season, with both Pumas and Tigres mentioned as potential landing places for the smooth-passing midfielder. But, despite Tigres’ spending power, it’s the Mexico City side which was able to acquire his services, tweeting a video of Diaz signing on the dotted line. A news release said the club made “a great effort” to bring the player in, and Pumas president Rodrigo Ares de Parga also indicated the club moved quickly to add Diaz to a midfield that also includes Spanish veteran Abraham Gonzalez in the center and has young Mexico international Jesus Gallardo on the wing....

The Sounders look to be the first MLS team to ever win the CONCACAF Champions League trophy as they host Pumas UNAM. If it’s going to happen, now is the time. The Sounders have proven one of the strongest and most resilient MLS teams to start the season, and Pumas is a surprise finalist given its 11th place finish in the Liga MX Apertura tournament and its current 12th place standing in the current Liga MX Clausura (Pumas qualified to the Champions League as runner-up of the 2020 Apertura....

Puneri Paltan are currently placed tenth in the Pro Kabaddi points table with 21 points against their name from nine matches. They have four wins and five losses so far in the ongoing edition of the Pro Kabaddi League. Meanwhile, UP Yoddha find themselves in the sixth position with 28 points from ten matches thus far. They have registered three wins and draws each, while they ended up on the losing side in their remaining four games....

The context The 23rd edition of the Deaflympics, which is an International Olympic Committee (IOC)-sanctioned event held every four years, allows athletes with hearing impairments to compete at an elite level. Dating back to 1924, this is one of the most inclusive and celebrated events in Olympic history. Both the girls, hailing from Pune, made a visible mark in their respective disciplines at the national level, leading to qualification for this renowned event....

England’s James Willstrop defeated long-time rival Gregory Gaultier of France to win his maiden Punj Lloyd PSA Squash Masters here Sunday after a final that saw a marathon first set and the runner-up retiring in the fourth set. Willstrop was leading 19-21, 11-8, 11-4, 6-1 when Gaultier complained of pain in his left leg and eventually decided against playing. The triumph here rounded-off a great year for the Englishman, who ended the season with three back-to-back titles and will become the World No....

Perhaps, the weight of expectations told on Tamil Nadu who just could not come up with anything extra to trouble the sturdy Punjab players. Right through, the teams went neck and neck but Punjab stretched the difference with strong performances in the first (24-15) and third (19-13) quarters while Tamil Nadu could not really dictate terms in the two quarters that they won, the second (17-13) and fourth (14-17) as the deficit proved too much to make up....

In the footage, shared on TikTok earlier in December by the dog’s owner under the username Cashmear, the Cane Corso can be seen ignoring his owner’s calls as he casually walks on a frozen pond, before falling into the ice-cold water and instantly regretting his actions. Moments before the fall, the dog’s owner can be heard warning the dog saying “Cash you’re gonna fall in,” followed by “Come here, I’m warning you, buddy,” and when Cash fell he said: “I told you bud....

Oksana Markarova told CBS’ Face the Nation that “all” Russian troops and leaders involved in committing war crimes will face prosecution in international court. “We have the criminal cases opened in Ukraine, more than 4000 of individual criminal cases already by the prosecutor general. We have ten more countries that opened their own individual criminal prosecutions, and we are providing all the evidence to them,” the ambassador said. “All of them will be prosecuted, both military commanders, personnel, people who did it on the ground, the people who ordered it, and ultimately Putin....

In a post shared to her Telegram channel, all Simonyan wrote was “Good evening, 1962.” Her remarks came just hours after Russia launched one of the broadest aerial strikes on Ukraine since the war began—an attack that reportedly included two missiles that spilled into neighboring Poland, killing two people in the NATO country. The attack also affected Moldova, which suffered a massive power outage after a key power line was knocked out by the strike....

“The countries of the post-Soviet space should be sincerely interested in rapprochement with the union state, if, of course, they want to preserve their sovereignty and independence,” Lukashenko said, according to an English translation of a report from the Belarusian state-run BelTA news agency. “We are convinced that only together can we resist global challenges.” Lukashenko was meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Grodno, Belarus, as part of the ninth Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia when he made the comments....

This week, Russian state-run news agency Tass reported that separatists in four territories of the Donbas region will hold referendums on joining Russia from September 23 to 27. Such votes had previously been prohibited by law from taking place. Putin could use the referendums to find reasons for an attack that are in line with the conditions Moscow has set for the use of nuclear weapons. John Erath, the senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told Newsweek that the referendums from the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic could hand Putin the “legal pretense” to consider those separatist-backed territories as parts of Russia....

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday after weeks of warnings by Western European and U.S. officials that an attack was imminent. While many western officials predicted that Ukraine would fall quickly to Russia’s military might, the Ukrainian military and ordinary citizens who have joined the battles have thus far fought back the invasion—outperforming many analysts expectations. Daniel N. Hoffman served as a station chief and a senior executive Clandestine Services officer for the CIA, including stints in the now defunct Soviet Union....

Since illegal immigration at the country’s borders remains a major issue for President Joe Biden, the upwards trend of agents encountering Russian migrants represents another way in which Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has potentially affected Biden. CBP data shows there were 36,271 encounters with Russians in the year 2022. However, that data is based on a fiscal year that ended in September. In October, agents encountered 5,177 Russians at the borders, while the CBP recorded an additional 6,920 encounters with Russians in November....

Energy has always been Putin’s best weapon, and OPEC+ just handed Russia a massive win by announcing the biggest oil supply cut since 2020 amid soaring inflation in Eurozone and the U.S. If oil hits $100 a barrel—a real possibility now—Russia will make $1 billion a day, according to United Refining Company CEO John Catsimatidis. This will continue financing Putin’s war machine and enable him to deploy his energy weapon against Europe, as winter is approaching fast....

Putin held a meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council on Friday, attending the meeting in person for the first time since February 21, days before he launched a full-scale invasion against Ukraine. After the Russian leader’s February meeting, he announced that he had recognized the independence of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine and that he signed a decree recognizing the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) and the “Luhansk People’s Republic” (LPR) as independent....

Anatoly Antonov justified his nation’s “special military operation,” the term the Kremlin uses to avoid calling the invasion a war, by saying it is meant to halt the West’s expanding dominance worldwide, according to an interview published Monday by Politico. “It’s a very narrow approach to say the ‘Russian invasion of Ukraine,’” the ambassador told the news outlet. “We are talking about changing the world order that was created by the United States, by NATO countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union....

NEWSWEEK: What was your original motivation for working with the UNHCR, for doing these kinds of trips? Angelina Jolie: I started traveling about seven years ago with film. I would go to places like Cambodia and hear about the many refugees in Thailand and hear about the land mines and hear about the history….I remember sitting up for two days straight and reading everything obsessively. I read about the UNHCR and I realized it was an agency that I didn’t know anything about: that they were taking care of 20 million people....

NEWSWEEK: You pretty much single-handedly rolled back the legal justifications for some of the Bush administration’s most aggressive and controversial anti-terrorism policies. When was the first time you realized the scope and potential impact of what you were doing? Jack Goldsmith: Let me just preface this by saying I don’t think I single-handedly, I had a lot of help from a lot of people in the Justice Department. I would characterize it as trying to put important counter terrorism policies on a firmer legal foundation....

BAHARI: A few days ago the headline of your party’s newspaper was KARRUBI IS WORRIED. Why were you worried? KARRUBI: A large number of very good people who could be Majlis candidates were disqualified [by the Council of Guardians and the Ministry of Interior]. Nonetheless, we have lobbied high-ranking officials and different parts of the government and the situation has improved. So you are not worried anymore? I’m worried but less so....