Mexico exit World Cup on goal difference despite beating Saudi Arabia

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DOHA: Mexico suffered an agonising exit from the World Cup on goal difference on Wednesday despite beating Saudi Arabia 2-1 in a dramatic finale to Group C.Second-half goals from Henry Martin and Luis Chavez secured victory for Mexico at Lusail Stadium but they finished third behind Poland after Salem Al-Dawsari's late strike. Mexico desperately pushed for a third goal in an effort to improve their goal difference as they faced elimination on FIFA fair play rules but they fell short. Mohamed Kanno whipped a free-kick just over for Saudi Arabia, who saw defender Ali Al-Bulayhi forced off with injury -- adding to their mounting casualty list. Mexico's second goal arrived just five minutes later when Chavez sensationally curled a free-kick into the top corner from 30 metres. Keeping an eye on the score between Argentina and Poland, Mexico pressed relentlessly for a third goal, with Lozano's effort ruled out for a tight offside.
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Juve crisis continues as Champions League elimination looms

MILAN: Juventus are staring at early elimination from the Champions League as they prepare to travel to Benfica knowing their fate is no longer in their hands. However should Maccabi draw both their matches and Juve win their two, three teams would finish on nine points and the stumbling Turin giants would actually take top spot on head-to-head record. - Troubled Juve -Such hypotheticals will be far from Allegri's mind before his team take the field at the Estadio da Luz on Tuesday. Benfica are unbeaten in all competitions this season and won their first 13 matches in the Portuguese Primeira Liga and Europe. The Europa League looks the likeliest destination and the question for Juve now is what they can salvage from a season which has already turned sideways.

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Iran’s supreme leader vows revenge for deadly attack on Shi’ite pilgrims

DUBAI: Iran’s supreme leader vowed yesterday to retaliate against those threatening the country’s security after the massacre of Shi’ite pilgrims, an assault claimed by the Islamic State (IS) which threatens to inflame tensions amid widespread anti-government protests. “We all have a duty to deal with the enemy and its traitorous or ignorant agents,” he said in a statement read on state television a day after the attack killed 15 people. Officials said they had arrested a gunman who carried out the attack at the Shah Cheragh shrine in the city of Shiraz. State media blamed “takfiri terrorists” – a label that predominantly Shi’ite Iran uses for hardline Sunni Muslim militants such as the IS. Iranian leaders may have hoped that the shrine attack would draw attention away from the unrest but there is no sign that is happening.

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Brazil, Portugal join France in World Cup knockouts

DOHA: Five-time champions Brazil and Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal joined France in the World Cup knockout rounds with a game to spare on a dramatic day of action in Qatar on Monday. Manchester United playmaker Bruno Fernandes starred for Portugal, scoring with a cross-cum-shot early in the second half before converting an injury-time penalty. Ronaldo wheeled away in celebration after the first goal but FIFA decided he had not touched the ball, denying him a ninth World Cup goal, which would have put him level with Portuguese great Eusebio. Gay rights and the use of the rainbow flag have been a simmering issue at the World Cup in Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal. Monday's pitch invasion in the second half of the Portugal v Uruguay match thrust the topic back into the limelight.

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Juve held by Atalanta in six-goal thriller after points deduction

MILAN: Juventus played out a thrilling 3-3 draw with Atalanta in their first match since being slapped with a massive points deduction for illicit transfer activity, Roma taking their place in Serie A's Champions League positions following a 2-0 win at Spezia. Juve are 14 points from the Champions League positions, a bad situation for a club whose last accounts were nearly 240 million euros in the red and have various bodies examining their financial conduct. “I think we’d need 71 points to get into the Champions League... We need to look at the reality who how things are,“ said coach Massimiliano Allegri. But the hosts were rocked again when Nigeria forward Lookman sent Joakim Maehle through to level seconds after the break. Spezia are 15th on 18 points, one ahead of Sassuolo who sit just above the relegation zone following their 1-1 draw at Monza earlier on Sunday.

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Japan Inc woos skilled workers as inflation, labour crunch bite

TOKYO: From inflation allowances to the reskilling of workers, firms in Japan are stepping up efforts to help employees fight rising prices and a labour crunch, even though some cannot afford pay hikes that do more than offset cost-push inflation. As annual “shunto” labour talks get into full swing, momentum from both labour and management is growing for firms to offer such increases to cushion, even if not beat, consumer inflation, which hit a 41-year high of 4% in December. About a quarter of Japanese firms have offered inflation allowances or plan to do so, said corporate credit research firm Teikoku Databank. “We always feel the need to respond to labour shortages of engineers, in particular,” said Yumika Nakane, the firm’s human resources head. Workers have high expectations from this year’s labour talks, which they hope will counter cost-push inflation while tackling the tight labour market to help boost the economy.

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Half a million strike in UK’s largest walkout in 12 years

LONDON: Half a million workers went on strike in Britain on Wednesday, calling for higher wages in the largest such walkout in over a decade, closing schools and severely disrupting transport. Europe is battling a cost-of-living crisis and the latest strikes come a day after more than 1.27 million took to the streets in France, upping pressure on the French government over pension reform plans. Britain’s umbrella labour organisation the Trades Union Congress (TUC) called it the “biggest day of strike action since 2011”. “Some of our members, even though they are working, still have to make visits to food banks,“ he told AFP. “It’s not feasible that they can sit back with this unprecedented amount of industrial action growing, because it’s half a million today,“ he told Sky News.

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Brazil town aspires to be champion of Bolsonaro vote

BRAZIL: On Holy Christ Avenue, in front of Bible Square, Brazilian businessman Gilberto Klais buoyantly hops out of an SUV decorated with a giant decal of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Now, as the president heads for a runoff Sunday against veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bolsonaro backers are pushing for an even bigger win. And the town of Nova Padua, in neighboring Rio Grande do Sul state, cast the highest percentage for him with 84 percent. “Bolsonaro lit our flame for Brazil,“ says Klais, who owns a local bakery. Opponents' criticisms of the president -- Brazil's 687,000 deaths from Covid-19, increasing hunger, destruction of the Amazon rainforest -- are mute here.

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‘Extraordinary mayhem’: Truss’s nightmare on Downing Street

LONDON: British Prime Minister Liz Truss has announced her resignation after a chaotic six weeks in the top job. The next day, she is confirmed as prime minister by the queen. Two days later, on a Sunday, Kwarteng vows “more to come” on tax cuts. Hours before his keynote speech at the party’s annual conference at the start of October, Kwarteng vows to “stay the course”. October 14With markets still rattled and pressure piling on Truss, the prime minister fires Kwarteng after just 38 days in the role.

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