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Attacker Connor Metcalfe has returned from injury for FC St. Pauli in a welcome boost to the Socceroos ahead of their World Cup send-off matches.Metcalfe, who had been sidelined with a knee issue, came on in the 75th minute of St Pauli’s 1-0 Bundesliga win over Hoffenheim on Saturday.Midfielder Jackson Irvine appears to have fully shaken the foot concern that plagued him earlier in the season, playing a full 90 minutes.Irvine has now started five league games – with St. Pauli winning four of those fixtures to leap out of the Bundesliga relegation zone.Metcalfe has become a crucial part of…

NEW DELHI: An explosion at a firecracker factory in India killed at least 21 people and injured eight others on Saturday (Feb 28), officials told local media.Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a post on X that he was “pained by the loss of lives” and extended his condolences after the blast in Kakinada, in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh.The Press Trust of India news agency quoted state minister Kandula Durgesh as confirming there were 21 deaths, out of around 30 people who were at the factory at the time of the explosion.”Another eight persons are undergoing treatment in…

NewsFeedNew York City residents converged on Times Square on Saturday hours after US President Donald Trump ordered a wave of deadly strikes on Iran. Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the strikes “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression”.Published On 1 Mar 20261 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A major public policy nonprofit co-led by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush praised President Donald Trump for ordering Saturday’s military strikes against Iran.United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI) was formed by Bush and Ambassador Mark Wallace – who held a United Nations-centered post in Bush’s brother’s administration and also advised Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s presidential campaign — to combat threats posed by the Islamic Republic. The group has been on the frontlines of highlighting Iran’s human rights abuses and attacks on Americans, and advising policymakers and the business community about…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man who was an escaped fugitive at the time of a 7-year-old Kentucky girl’s abduction has been charged in her killing 30 years later, according to authorities.Morgan Jade Violi was abducted while playing outside her apartment building on July 24, 1996, in Bowling Green, Kentucky — and for 30 years her case remained cold until recent advancements in forensic science linked Robert Scott Froberg to her killing.Froberg, who was already in the Alabama prison system, was charged Thursday with kidnapping resulting in death, United States Attorney for the Western District of…

A group of Queen’s University students is stranded at an airport in Doha, Qatar, after escalating hostilities in the Middle East prompted regional airspace closures and widespread flight disruptions. Claire Haffner, a fourth-year undergraduate biology student, said the group had boarded a flight to Toronto following a field course in Sri Lanka, with a stopover in Doha, when they heard an announcement.After being in the air for an hour and a half, “there was an announcement that the airspace was closed and we had to turn back,” she said.The disruptions follow major strikes by the United States and Israel on…

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Over the past few weeks, Trump has sent warships and dozens of fighter planes to the Middle East, raising fears of a US strike – even as US and Iranians diplomats held indirect talks on Iran’s nuclear programme. But early on Saturday, the tensions came to a head as Israeli and US warplanes began hitting targets in Iran, with Trump urging Iranians to stand up to their government and telling them: “The hour of your freedom is at hand.”Turkey, which shares a 500-kilometre border with Iran, currently hosts more than 74,000 Iranians with residence permits and some 5,000 refugees.While the unrest…

Interior Ministry official says 66 missiles were fired at Qatar, and there were 114 reports of falling shrapnel. Listen to this article | 3 minsinfoPublished On 28 Feb 202628 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2Shareplus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoDoha, Qatar – Eight people have been injured in Qatar after missile shrapnel landed in multiple locations across the country, authorities said, following a barrage of Iranian missiles that Qatar said were intercepted by its air defences.Brigadier Abdullah Khalifa Al-Muftah, the head of public relations at Qatar’s Ministry of Interior, said in a televised address on Saturday that 66 missiles were fired at…

Sen. Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Saturday that he believes that there could be “weeks, not days, of joint efforts” by the U.S. and its allies in Iran after the massive military mission launched overnight. “We’re probably looking at weeks, not days, of joint efforts by the United States, Israel and our Arab partners, who have also been attacked this morning,” Cotton told CBS News’ Major Garrett. “But the upshot of it will be, after 47 years of waging war against the United States and the civilized world, the ayatollahs are finally going to face justice.” The…