(as)- The France Football Federation has provisionally suspended Karim Benzema from the France national football team following his implication in a case of alleged blackmail against Les Bleus teammate Mathieu Valbuena. Benzema is being investigated by the French judiciary on suspicion of...

(as)- The Spanish Football Federation’s Appeals Committee confirmed Real Madrid’s disqualification from the Copa del Rey on Thursday, witth the club being eliminated from the tournament last week by the RFEF’s Competition Committee for illegally fielding Denis Cheryshev. The Appeals...

The European Union must unite in its response to dealing with the huge number of refugees surging into the bloc or else it will fail, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Thursday. Faced with an expected influx of around one million refugees this year alone,...

Iraqi security forces have made advances on two fronts in the city of Ramadi, clearing Islamic State militants from a key military command base and a sprawling neighborhood on its western edge, army officials said. Capture of the sprawling western Ramadi district of al-Taamim and the Anbar...