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Arsenal’s shock 2-1 defeat by Bournemouth Saturday blew the Premier League title race wide open as Liverpool beat Fulham to boost their chances of qualifying for next season’s Champions League. The Gunners could have opened up a 12-point lead at the top of the table, but a third straight domestic defeat for Mikel Arteta’s men has put the destiny of the title back in Manchester City’s hands. City have two games in hand on the long-time leaders, starting with today’s trip to Chelsea, and host Arsenal next weekend in a potential title decider. Just a few weeks ago the Gunners were dreaming of an unprecedented quadruple but they lost to City in the League Cup final and were dumped out of the FA Cup by second-tier Southampton. A wobble in the Premier League, which they have not won since 2004, raises major doubts about their staying power, with six matches to go. After suffering just three defeats in their opening 49 matches of the season in all competitions, they have lost three of their past four, ramping up the tension. “It’s a big punch in the face, that’s what I said to the boys, and now it’s about how we react to that,” said a downbeat Arteta, whose team remain favourites for the title. The Spaniard, whose side have finished as runners-up three times in a row, admitted Arsenal’s long title drought was playing on their minds. “We know what is at stake and the fact that as a club we haven’t done it for so long is a reason for that,” said the Spaniard. “It talks about the difficulty but I just want to focus on the things that we can control, dominate and we have done. It’s not that we have to do a lot of new things that we haven’t done, no, let’s keep doing a lot of it, or almost all the things that we’ve done for nine months because that’s what has taken us all the way there.” Junior Kroupi reacted quickest to Adrien Truffert’s deflected cross to give mid-table Bournemouth an early lead, silencing a nervy crowd at the Emirates. Viktor Gyokeres levelled before the break from the penalty spot, but a lack of creative spark in the final third was again the home side’s undoing. Arsenal’s fine defensive record has underpinned their title charge but they were cut open with ease when Alex Scott finished off a fine team move for the winner in the 74th minute.Arteta said he desperately needed all his first-choice players back. Absentees on Saturday included Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, Jurrien Timber and Riccardo Calafiori. “We need everything, first of all we need everybody fit and available,” he said. “So the ones that are not involved, the ones that are not with us, that are really big, important players, we need them immediately with us because then we’re going to be much stronger. And then the other ones, they need to stand up, me the first one, and embrace this challenge and go for it. So today we have to suffer. It’s painful, it’s a terrible feeling but tomorrow is a different day and if somebody would have said to me in August, we are in this position right now in April, I’m sure we would all take it.” Arsenal face Sporting Lisbon in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday after a 1-0 win in the first leg. Then four days later comes the summit meeting at City that could make or break their season. Five English sides will qualify for next season’s Champions League and fifth-placed Liverpool strengthened their case with a 2-0 home win against Fulham, easing the heat on manager Arne Slot. Teenager Rio Ngumoha scored his first goal at Anfield in the early evening match to put the Reds ahead, whipping his shot around the diving Bernd Leno after a jinking run.The recalled Mohamed Salah, departing at the end of the season, doubled Liverpool’s lead shortly before half-time with a sublime, arrowed finish. It is a desperately welcome three points for Liverpool and the beleaguered Slot, whose team had won just two of their previous eight games in all competitions. Heavy defeats by Manchester City in the FA Cup and Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League have piled the pressure on the Dutch boss a year after he led the club to Premier League glory. Brentford and Everton missed the chance to move level on points with Liverpool earlier in the day, drawing 2-2. Twice the Bees led through Igor Thiago, who took his tally for the season to 21 Premier League goals and within one of Erling Haaland in the race for the Golden Boot. Beto levelled midway through the first half for the visitors and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall struck in stoppage time to salvage a point. Brighton are also well in the mix for their first ever taste of Champions League football. Mats Wieffer scored twice as the Seagulls beat relegation-bound Burnley 2-0. A fifth win in six games for Fabian Hurzeler’s men takes them up to ninth and within three points of the top five. It was a third successive league win for Brighton while second-from-bottom Burnley look almost certain to be relegated as they are 12 points off the safety zone with six games left. Related Story
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Taiwan’s defence ministry said yesterday that it spotted 16 Chinese warplanes operating near the island the previous day, around the same time China’s president was meeting the Taiwanese opposition leader. Late on Friday morning, Chinese President Xi Jinping met Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan’s largest opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) in Beijing, where Xi said he “absolutely would not tolerate” independence for Taiwan, which China views as its own territory. Cheng has portrayed her visit as a reconciliation mission to lessen tensions, and told Xi she looked forward to the KMT and Communist Party advancing the “institutionalisation” of peace across the Taiwan Strait.Taiwan’s defence ministry, in its daily report on Chinese military activity in the previous 24 hours, said that 16 Chinese warplanes flew near the island from mid-morning to mid-afternoon on Friday. Xi and Cheng met at 11am (0300GMT). Shen Yu-chung, a deputy minister at Taiwan’s China-policy-making Mainland Affairs Council, told reporters in Taipei on Saturday that using military coercion against Taiwan as a means of applying pressure for political negotiations has always been China’s “go-to tactic”. “So on one hand we see them sending out messages of peace, while on the other hand they continue to use military force to pressure Taiwan without letup,” he added.China’s Taiwan Affairs Office did not respond to a request for comment. In Beijing, KMT Vice-Chairman Chang Jung-kung said that the key to promoting peace lies in offering Taiwan’s people a choice between peace and reconciliation, or war. Engaging with China and promoting cross-strait peace yields “peace with dignity,” not the bowing of one’s head to “shake hands” like Taiwan President Lai Ching-te has said, Chang added, according to a KMT statement. Lai’s office said on Friday night that what the Xi-Cheng meeting sought to highlight was that “Taiwan is part of the People’s Republic of China” and to advance “the annexation of Taiwan”. “Taiwan’s future can only be decided by the Taiwanese people themselves,” Lai’s spokesperson Karen Kuo said in a statement.
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Raymond Greene. (Reuters/File Photo) The top US diplomat in Taiwan said China should abandon its threats and military pressure against Taiwan and talk to the island's leaders as that would avoid misunderstandings and stabilise relations.Raymond Greene, the de facto ambassador as head of the American Institute in Taiwan, which handles relations in the absence of formal diplomatic ties, said the consistent US policy has been to support exchanges across the Taiwan Strait.He was discussing the visit of Taiwan's opposition leader to China on a Taiwanese political talk show on Saturday."However, we also expect China — Beijing — to maintain open communication channels with all of Taiwan's political parties, especially the leaders elected by the Taiwanese people, in order to avoid misunderstandings and to stabilise cross-strait relations," Greene said in Mandarin."We further expect China to abandon threats against Taiwan or military pressure. I believe this would help ease cross-strait tensions."China's Taiwan Affairs Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan's government rejects Beijing's sovereignty claims.Beijing refuses to speak to Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, saying he is a "separatist", but Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan's largest opposition party, the Kuomintang, during what she called a mission of peace to China.The Chinese military operates daily around Taiwan, activities that have continued while Cheng has been in China.Taiwan's opposition, which has a majority in parliament, has stalled government military spending plans, including an extra $40bn special defence budget which has provisions to buy US weapons and which Washington has backed.Despite the lack of formal diplomatic ties, the US is Taiwan's most important arms supplier and international backer.Greene said that while the US supports dialogue, that cannot replace deterrence."I don't think there is a conflict here, because if there is sufficient deterrence capability, it will lead to a more equal dialogue," he added."There are three ways to resolve cross-strait differences: the first is dialogue, the second is coercion and the third is war. So if Taiwan can have sufficient deterrence capability, it can take the option of war off the table." Related Story
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The Arab Parliament announced Sunday that it launched a broad international campaign across parliamentary, human rights, and international levels to confront the so-called execution law for Palestinian prisoners approved by Israel’s Knesset.In a statement, the Arab Parliament stressed that the discriminatory legislation represents one of the most dangerous forms of legitimising systematic political killing against the Palestinian people, describing it as a fully-fledged legislative crime that undermines international law and threatens the global justice system.Arab Parliament Speaker Mohammed bin Ahmed al-Yamahi sent a series of urgent official letters to UN Secretary-General, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as heads of regional and international parliaments, calling for immediate and decisive action to halt the implementation of the law and hold those responsible accountable before international justice.Al-Yamahi stressed in his letters that the adoption of this law constitutes an unprecedented escalation in Israeli occupation policies, effectively institutionalising a new phase of systematic executions of Palestinian prisoners under a false legislative cover.He described it as a blatant violation of Geneva Conventions, international humanitarian law, and all relevant international human rights instruments, warning that any international silence or inaction regarding this law would be considered direct complicity in a fully-fledged crime, would grant the occupying entity political cover to continue its crimes, and would open the door to a serious collapse in the international legitimacy system and entrench a policy of impunity.He called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities and take urgent measures, including activating international accountability mechanisms, referring the crime to competent judicial bodies, ensuring immediate international protection for Palestinian prisoners, and forming independent fact-finding committees to investigate serious violations committed against them in Israeli occupation prisons.He also renewed calls to suspend and freeze the membership of Israeli Knesset in the Inter-Parliamentary Union and other international parliamentary forums, affirming that the Arab Parliament It will continue its political, diplomatic, and parliamentary efforts until the discriminatory law is repealed and the occupying authorities are held accountable for their escalating crimes against Palestinian prisoners. Related Story
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President Donald Trump ordered the US Navy on Sunday to block the crucial Strait of Hormuz shipping lane, furious with Iran's refusal to surrender its nuclear ambitions after peace talks in Pakistan broke down without an agreement.In response to Trump's announcement, Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned they had traffic in the strategic waterway under their full control and would trap any enemy who tried to challenge it 'in a deadly vortex'.In a lengthy declaration on his social media platform, Trump said his eventual goal was to clear the strait of mines and reopen it to all shipping, but that in the meantime Iran must not be allowed to profit from its control of the waterway.'Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,' Trump said. 'Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!'Iran has itself been restricting traffic through the strait -- a key route for global shipments of oil, gas and fertiliser -- while allowing vessels deemed to be working for friendly countries, such as China, to pass. There have been unconfirmed reports that Tehran plans to charge tolls.'THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION,' Trump said. 'I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas. We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits.'The US military had said Saturday that two Navy warships transited through the strait to begin clearing it of mines and ensure it was a 'safe pathway' for tankers, a claim denied by Tehran.Iran's Fars news agency reported on Sunday that two Pakistani-flagged oil tankers heading for the strait had turned around.Fears of renewed fighting rattled an already tense region after the US-Iran talks collapsed.'I am worried about the continuation of the situation and the return of attacks again,' said Imam, an Egyptian housewife living in UAE capital Abu Dhabi.'I was making a great effort not to pass my tension on to the children.''Act of extortion' Trump later in a Fox News interview again threatened Iran's energy infrastructure, before warning he would impose a 50 percent tariff on Chinese imports if Beijing tried to help the Iranian military.'I could take out Iran in one day. I could have their entire energy everything, every one of their plants, their electric generating plants, which is a big deal,' he said.The president's latest ultimatum appeared to have been triggered by the failure of talks to secure a deal to end the six-week-old war, which began when the US and Israel launched strikes on Tehran and killed Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.Iran's refusal to give up its right to a nuclear programme frustrated the US delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance, White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.'I have always said, right from the beginning, and many years ago, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!' Trump said.'The Blockade will begin shortly. Other Countries will be involved with this Blockade,' he added, without specifying.Experts said blocking the crucial waterway in the middle of a two-week ceasefire, after the Islamabad negotiations, would further erode America's global credibility.'Imposing a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz right now -- even if it's implementable, which remains an open question -- is bewildering and seems self-defeating,' said Shibley Telhami, a professor of peace and development at the University of Maryland.Vance left Pakistan after the talks -- the highest-level meeting between the two sides since the 1979 Islamic revolution -- and warned that Washington had made Tehran its 'final and best offer' for a deal, adding: 'We'll see if the Iranians accept it.'Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the head of his country's negotiating team, said he had 'put forward constructive initiatives' but the US team did not win Iran's trust.Ceasefire efforts The failure of the talks will raise concerns that a return to fighting could drive world energy prices higher and further damage shipping and oil and gas facilities.Pakistan, which hosted the talks, urged both countries to continue respecting the temporary truce.UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tariq, and both leaders agreed it 'was vital there was a continuation of the ceasefire, and that all parties avoided any further escalation'.An EU spokesman said diplomacy would be 'essential' to securing peace and hailed Pakistan's mediation efforts, while Russia's President Vladimir Putin called Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to offer his services to the diplomatic effort.'Vladimir Putin emphasised his readiness to further facilitate the search for a political and diplomatic settlement to the conflict, and to mediate efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East,' the Kremlin said, in its readout of the call.
