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A supporter of River Plate cheers at the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires, on November 24, 2018. Photo: Juan MABROMATA / AFP River Plate said Saturday they have refused to play the Copa Libertadores final against Boca Juniors in Madrid, casting uncertainty over the December 9 fixture. The match between the Argentine arch-rivals has been moved to Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium after it was twice postponed last weekend after River Plate fans attacked the Boca Juniors team bus. The match is due to be played in the Spanish capital on December 9, but River Plate said they “confirmed their rejection of the change of location”. In a statement on the club’s website, River said it was “incomprehensible” that the game had been moved to Spain. River said the club bore no responsibility for the “faults in the security operation” for the high profile fixture in Buenos Aires. “It is incomprehensible that the superclasico cannot take place as normal in the same country where ...

The Super Falcons celebrate after winning AWCON for the ninth time. Photo credit: @NGSuper_Falcons/Twitter Nigeria’s Super Falcons have defeated South Africa to win the Africa Women’s Cup of Nations title. The Super Falcons overcame the South Africans in penalties after both sides failed to score in regulation time. This is Nigeria’s ninth Africa Women’s Cup of Nations title, consolidating their place as the most successful team in the tournament. Photo credit: @NGSuper_Falcon/Twitter Saturday’s final was arguably the toughest the Falcons have played with the South African’s putting up a brave fight. As the first 90 minutes ran down with both sides failing to find the target, Nigeria was presented with a solid opportunity to take the lead when Francisca Ordega was brought down in the box and the referee awarded Nigeria a penalty. The joy that came with the sight of the referee pointing to the spot, faded shortly after as Asisat Oshoala, failed to convert the penalty. E...

MAGALIA, CA – NOVEMBER 09: A Cal Fire firefighter pulls a hose towards a burning home as the Camp Fire moves through the area on November 9, 2018 in Magalia, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP The death toll in northern California’s so-called “Camp Fire” rose to 87, officials said late Saturday, adding that the blaze was almost fully under control. Cal Fire, the state fire authority, said in its latest bulletin that the fire – which broke out on November 8 – was 98 per cent contained. The office of the Butte County Sheriff said that 249 people remained unaccounted for – a steep drop from 474 missing reported earlier in the day. It added that only 54 of the fatalities have been identified. More than 153,000 acres have been torched, with nearly 14,000 homes and hundreds of other structures destroyed by the powerful blaze, California’s deadliest and most destructive fire ever. Previously the death toll had been put at 84. The rain that soaked the Butte Count...

Prime Minister Theresa May made a dramatic direct appeal to the British public to support her deal to exit the European Union on Sunday even as backing from her own party for the agreement appeared to elude her. May is meeting the other 27 EU leaders in Brussels this weekend to sign off on a divorce treaty and political declaration to end more than 40 years as part of the world’s biggest trading bloc. In an open letter to the nation, May said she would campaign “heart and soul” to get her Brexit deal through Britain’s parliament – an increasingly unlikely prospect given stiff opposition from some of her own Conservative Party lawmakers and allies in Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) alike. “It will be a deal that is in our national interest – one that works for our whole country and all of our people, whether you voted “Leave” or “Remain,” she said. Sunday newspapers said different factions in her own party were preparing alternative Brexit plans t...

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May / AFP European Union leaders formally agreed to a Brexit deal at a Brussels summit on Sunday, urging Britons to back Prime Minister Theresa May’s package, which faces furious opposition in the British parliament. The 27 leaders took barely half an hour to rubber-stamp a 600-page treaty setting terms for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union on March 29 and a 26-page declaration outlining a future free trading relationship. May joined them shortly afterwards for what will be a brief meeting to seal the accord. “This is the deal,” European Union chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters on his way into the meeting, saying he believed May would get it through parliament and ruling out big new concessions. “Now it is time for everybody to take responsibility — everybody,” said Michel Barnier, the Frenchman who has ground out the withdrawal treaty over the past 18 months. Juncker called it “a sad day”, saying Brexit was...

A Syrian boy receives treatment at a hospital in the regime-controlled Aleppo on November 24, 2018. Official Syrian media accused the armed opposition of launching an attack with “toxic gas” on the northern city/ AFP Around 100 Syrians have been hospitalised with breathing difficulties in Aleppo, state media and a monitor said Sunday, after allegations rebels fired “toxic gas” into the regime-held city the previous day. State news agency SANA reported “107 cases of breathing difficulties” in an updated toll on Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said a total of 94 people were hospitalised, but most had been discharged and the 31 cases that remained were not critical.

European Union’s President Donald Tusk The leaders of the 27 other European Union members states on Sunday approved the terms of a historic Brexit deal with Britain, at a special summit in Brussels. “EU27 has endorsed the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on the future EU-UK relations,” EU Council President Donald Tusk announced on Twitter. Donald Tusk ✔ @eucopresident EU27 has endorsed the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on the future EU-UK relations. 2,745 3:03 PM - Nov 25, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy 3,156 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy It follows more than 18 months of negotiations between the two sides, which began when the UK triggered Article 50 in the wake of the 2016 referendum. The UK is scheduled to leave the EU on 29 March 2019. The UK Parliament is expected to vote on the deal in early December but its approval is by no means guaranteed, ...