Images of thousands of Afghans desperately trying to flee their country following a hasty U.S. withdrawal have provoked an international outcry.
As of Aug. 22, 2021, some 6,000 U.S. troops were working to evacuate U.S. military, American citizens (...)
Argentina's Lionel Messi and Colombia's Luis Diaz finished Copa America as the top scorers in the tournament with four goals each. Messi did not score in Saturday's 1-0 win against Brazil in the final, while the young striker Diaz led his team with (...)
Argentina will continue to trust that Lionel Messi finds a way to overcome Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina on Tuesday at Mane Garrincha Stadium in Brasilia to return to the Copa America final.
Beat the impressive Ospina and Colombia, and Argentina (...)
Argentina is enjoying the ``Barcelona version'' of Lionel Messi at the Copa America ahead of his 150th appearance for the national team.
The 34-year-old Messi is still seeking his first major success with Argentina, not counting Olympic gold in (...)
Lionel Messi scored his 76th international goal and is now only one shy of Pele for the South American record as Argentina beat Ecuador 3-0 on Saturday to progress to the semifinals of the Copa America.
Messi scored from a late freekick and earlier (...)
Brazil coach Tite had an emotional exchange with his Ecuador counterpart Gustavo Alfaro after the teams drew 1-1 on Sunday and started looking into the knockout stage of Copa America.
TV footage showed Alfaro praising his counterpart's ethics and (...)
President Joe Biden is expected to fall short of his commitment to shipping 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June because of regulatory and other hurdles, officials said as they announced new plans Monday for sharing the shots (...)
Brazil is starting Lucas Paqueta up front instead of the experienced Roberto Firmino against Venezuela in their Copa America opener on Sunday, coach Tite said.
Goalkeeper Alisson is also replacing Ederson, and left back Renan Lodi is in for Alex (...)
Striker Alexis Sanchez will not travel to Brazil with the rest of the Chile squad and will miss at least the group stage of Copa America due to a calf injury.
Chile's national team said in a statement on Saturday that 32-year-old Sanchez felt (...)
After a period of controversy over its fate, the 47th edition of the Copa America will kick off on Sunday, taking place in Brazil for the second time in a row.
The South America tournament will last until 10 July, and was supposed to be held last (...)
The interim president of the Brazilian soccer confederation said Monday that he will not fire national team coach Tite even though his players have yet to publicly say whether they will play in the upcoming Copa America.
The 82-year-old Antonio (...)
The captain of Brazil's soccer team said the players will wait until next week to comment on reports they are opposed to Brazil hosting the Copa America, with Casemiro saying any decision would be made jointly by the players and coach.
Brazil was (...)
Amid a possible player revolt, Brazil beat Ecuador 2-0 on Friday to win its fifth consecutive match in South American World Cup qualifying.
Brazil now leads the round-robin tournament with 15 points, four ahead of second-place Argentina. It appears (...)
Brazil's star players have debated whether or not they should play in the Copa America on home soil but don't plan to make any public statements on the matter until after their World Cup qualifying games against Ecuador and Paraguay.
The Copa (...)
South American soccer body CONMEBOL announced Wednesday that the historic Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro will host the final of Copa America on July 10. It also picked Brazil against Venezuela as the opener on June 13 at Brasilia's Mane (...)
The Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) has announced the appointment of former Ambassador Osmar Chohfi as its new President.
Chohfi, whose selection was formally confirmed by the ABCC Board recently, will replace Rubens Hannun, who led the (...)
On 26 March 1991, thirty years ago today, the presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay signed in Asunción, Paraguay, the treaty to establish the Southern Common Market (known as MERCOSUR in its Spanish acronym and MERCOSUL in its (...)
American University in Cairo
Mon 15, 7-8pm (GMT+2): Join this session of the Gerhart Center Webinar Series (GCWS) titled "Social Justice and Health Equity" featuring Professor Sir Michael G. Marmot, director of the Institute of Health Equity, UCL (...)
World soccer's governing body FIFA has relaxed its normal rules about player-release for internationals because of the pandemic and worries about the impact of long-distance travel to areas with high case-rates. Clubs are expected to keep their (...)
Australia and Qatar, the two non-South American sides due to take part in this year's Copa America, have pulled out of the tournament, the secretary general of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) said on Tuesday.
The two teams were (...)
Pyramids FC announced on Monday that they have signed Uruguayan striker Diego Rolan from the Spanish team Deportivo de La Coruña on loan without disclosing the financial details.
The 27-year-old striker started his football career in the Defensor (...)
Liverpool attempted to address its injury crisis in central defense by signing an unheralded player from England's second division on Monday.
It is a move Ben Davies, a 25-year-old left-sided center half who plays for Preston in the Championship, (...)
A coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was found to be safe and triggered immune responses in early and mid-stage trials, researchers said on Tuesday.
A late-stage trial of the ZF2001 vaccine, which CAS is (...)
More than 70.6 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,600,791 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases (...)
لقاء من العيار الثقيل في مشاهدة مباراة كولومبيا والإكوادور بث مباشر اليوم والتي ستكون في رابع جولات تصفيات قارة أمريكا الجنوبية المؤهلة لكأس العالم 2022 بقطر حيث تبدأ على ملعب أولمبيكو أتاهوليا الخاص بالمنتخب ecuador حيث من المقرر لها أن تكون في (...)
