Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain became the final Juventus player to return to Italy as Serie A prepares to return to action on June 13.
Higuain arrived in Turin by private jet on Friday afternoon after a stopover in Las Palmas and was driven away by a waiting car.
The former Real Madrid, Chelsea and Napoli player will now spend two weeks in quarantine, according to media reports.
The 32-year-old international left Italy on March 19 to be with his sick mother in Argentina after a test confirmed he was negative for coronavirus despite three of his teammates testing positive.
Star attacker Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Turin from Portugal on May 4, the day individual training resumed in Italy, and has been in quarantine since.
Higuain was the last player to return after French midfielder Adrien Rabiot on Wednesday night.
Top-flight group training sessions will resume in Italy next Monday, with a return to competition slated for June 13.
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South Korean officials say they so far confirmed 162 coronavirus cases linked to club goers in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, but also expressed cautious hope that infections are beginning to wane.
Health Ministry official Son Young-rae on Saturday said the country may have ducked a major surge in transmissions in a region where half of its 51 million people live, pointing out that the daily increase in infections have been within 30 over the past days despite a jump in tests.
Son said 46,000 have so far been tested after health workers earlier this month detected a slew of infections linked to clubs and other nightspots in Seoul's Itaewon entertainment district.
It's notable there were no new transmissions in churches, call centers and gyms where virus carriers went to, Son said.
He said this was a sign that facilities and businesses are properly practicing hygiene and enforcing distance between people, which he said would be crucial as the country explores a more ...

South Korea links 162 cases to clubgoers

A Pakistani doctor has been indicted by a federal American grand jury on pledging allegiance to the Islamic State terror group  and expressing his desire to carry out "lone wolf" terrorist attacks in the US.
According to the indictment, Muhammad Masood, 28, a licensed medical doctor from Pakistan, was formerly employed as a research coordinator at a medical clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, under an H-1B visa.
The indictment against Masood was announced on Friday by US Attorney Erica MacDonald. Masood was initially charged by criminal complaint and has been in custody since his March 19 arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Between January and March this year, he made several statements to others, including pledging his allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) and its leader, and expressing his desire to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS.
Masood also expressed his desire to conduct "lone wolf" terrorist attacks in the United States, the court papers 

Pakistani doctor indicted on terrorism charge in US

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday blocked a lower-court order that had allowed residents to vote by mail if they cite concerns about catching the coronavirus at polling places.
Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton petitioned the court for the stay after an appeals court upheld a lower-court ruling last month that lifted restrictions on mail-in voting.
The stay prevents county election officials from formally taking mail-in ballot applications from voters afraid of coronavirus exposure, which they can do beginning 60 days before an election.
Texas held its primary in March, and it wasn't immediately clear whether the high court would hear arguments and issue a final ruling before Election Day in November.
Voting by mail in Texas is generally limited to those 65 or older or those with a sickness or physical condition that prevents voting in person. Paxton petitioned the Republican-dominated high court after officials in some predominantly Democratic areas approved measures to ...

Texas justices block plan to allow mail vote for virus fears

The Premier League's bid to restart the season in June is in danger of being derailed by a heated debate between players about the risks of playing amid the coronavirus crisis.
While Premier League chiefs believe completing the campaign is essential to safeguard the financial and sporting future of the game, some stars are not so convinced.
AFP Sport looks at both sides of the row: "I'm not going to put my family at risk"
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Watford captain Troy Deeney has been one of the loudest voices against returning to the pitch so soon.
Although the Premier League has agreed to fund regular testing for players and staff, there is no guarantee of keeping the virus at bay while vaccine trials remain in the early stages.
Adding to Deeney's concern, black and ethnic minorities are statistically more at risk of dying from the virus, leaving him adamant he will not gamble with his family's life just to satisfy the desire for football to resume.
"I'm not even ...

Player divide threatens Premier League's restart plan

Pakistan's anti-graft body has approved the filing of two additional corruption cases against embattled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is currently in London for medical treatment.
Five corruption cases have been launched by the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan previously against the 70-year-old supremo of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz since his ouster from the office by the Supreme Court in July 2017 in the Panama Papers case.
The National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) regional board, under the chairmanship of its Director General Shahzad Saleem, discussed the additional corruption cases against Nawaz, his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif, daughter Maryam Nawaz and 13 others in money laundering and possession of assets beyond known sources of income investigation.
Similarly, the board has also approved filing another case against the three-time premier, Geo Media Group founder Mir Shakilur Rahman and two others in a 34-year-old 54-kanal (6.75 acres) land case.
The ...

Pak's anti-graft body approves filing of 2 more corruption cases against former PM Nawaz Sharif

Novak Djokovic said he is confident he will end his career as the greatest Grand Slam title winner of all time and break the record for weeks in the world number one spot.
The Serb has 17 majors, three back from the record of Roger Federer's 20 and two behind the 19 of Rafael Nadal.
Before the coronavirus brought the 2020 season to a halt, Djokovic had captured an eighth Australian Open and was on an 18-0 winning streak for the year.
"I think that I still have things to do in this sport. I believe that I can win the most Slams and break the record for most weeks at No. 1. Those are definitely my clear goals," Djokovic told the 'In Depth with Graham Bensinger' TV show.
Djokovic has been on top of the rankings for a combined total of 282 weeks.
Federer leads the way on 310 with the long-retired Pete Sampras on 286.
However, time is comfortably on the side of Djokovic who will celebrate his 33rd birthday on May 22.
Federer will be 39 in August while Nadal turns 34 in June.
Djokovic even .

Djokovic: 'I can beat Slam titles and world number one record'

President Donald Trump has announced that the US will donate a lot of ventilators to India to help it fight the "invisible enemy", moments after he underlined the close partnership between the two countries and called Prime Minister Narendra Modi his "good friend".
Trump also said the US and India were cooperating to develop a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus that has claimed 307,666 lives and infected more than 4.5 million people globally since it emerged in China in December last year.
India's tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases crossed 85,000 on Friday, surpassing China's count of 82,933 infections.
"I am proud to announce that the United States will donate ventilators to our friends in India," Trump said in a tweet.
However, the White House did not say how many breathing devices would be sent.
"We are sending a lot of ventilators to India. I spoke to Prime Minister Modi. We are sending quite a few ventilators to India. We have tremendous supply of ventilators," Trump told ...

US to donate ventilators to India to fight coronavirus: Trump

Football in Germany returns to the pitch on Saturday as the Bundesliga becomes the first of Europe's top leagues to swing back into action since the coronavirus lockdown.
The German Football League (DFL) convinced Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country's regional leaders to allow play to resume by agreeing to submit to an extraordinary set of guidelines to prevent infection.
The stadiums will be empty and silent except for the players' shouts and the referees' whistles -- Germany has suffered far fewer deaths from coronavirus than other large European countries, but it is still too dangerous for crowds to return.
Borussia Dortmund will take on local rivals Schalke 04 in the Ruhr Derby on Saturday.
That fixture would normally have attracted an 82,000 crowd to Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park but supporters will be locked out.
On Sunday, Bayern Munich, who were four points clear at the top of the table when the season was suspended in March, will resume their quest for an eighth ...

German football returns under intense scrutiny

Federal and state regulators in the U.S. are preparing to file antitrust lawsuits alleging Google has abused its dominance of online search and advertising to stifle competition and and boost its profits, according to a report published Friday.
The Wall Street Journal cited unidentified people familiar with the probes in a story about the upcoming offensive by the U.S. Justice Department and the attorneys general from several states.
The Justice Department may file its case as early as this summer while Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may take action in the fall, along with his peers in other states, according to the Journal.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr has previously said he hoped to decide whether to pursue an antitrust case against Google by the summer. Texas and other states announced they were looking into Google's business practices last September.
Google acknowledged it has ongoing discussions with the Justice Department and Paxton without elaborating on the nature of .

Report: Google facing onslaught of antitrust cases in US

The coronavirus pandemic has pushed the storied but troubled department store chain JC Penney into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth major retailer to meet that fate.
As part of its reorganization, the 118-year-old company said late Friday it will be shuttering some stores. It said the stores will close in phases throughout the Chapter 11 process and details of the first phase will be disclosed in the coming weeks.
Penney is the biggest retailer to file for bankruptcy reorganization since the pandemic and joins luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus, J.Crew and Stage Stores.
Plenty of other retailers are expected to follow as business shutdowns across the country have evaporated sales. In fact, U.S. retail sales tumbled by a record 16.4% from March to April.
The coronavirus pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for our families, our loved ones, our communities, and our country," said Penney's CEO Jill Soltau in a statement.
As a result, the American retail industry .

Pandemic claims another retailer: 118-year-old J.C. Penney

US President Donald Trump has said that he does not want to talk to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping right now, indicating his displeasure at the Chinese leadership's handling of the coronavirus outbreak which has now spread across the world, killing over 4.5 million people.
"Just don't want to talk to him right now. We will see what happens over the next little while," Trump told reporters at the White House, when asked why he did not want to not speak to Xi.
China, as per the trade deal inked earlier this year, is buying a lot more of American goods than last year.
They are spending a lot on the trade deal, but the trade deal I don't know somehow I lost a little flavour for it, you can understand, Trump said.
Earlier in the day, Trump said he did not want to talk about the trade deal. "I don't want to talk about it.  I can say China is buying a lot of our products. But the trade deal -- the ink was barely dry -- when this (coronavirus) came in from China.  So, it's not like we're .

Don't want to talk to Xi Jinping right now: Trump

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has fired the State Department's inspector general, an Obama administration appointee whose office was critical of alleged political bias in the agency's management.
The ouster is the latest in a series of moves against independent executive branch watchdogs who have found fault with the Trump administration.
A senior department official said Pompeo removed Steve Linick from his job Friday but gave no reason for his removal. Linick had served in the job since 2013.
His office had issued several reports critical of the department's handling of personnel matters, including accusing some of President Donald Trump's appointees of retaliating against career officials.
Linick will replaced by Stephen Akard, a former career foreign service officer who has close ties to Vice President Mike Pence, said the official, who was not authorised to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Akard currently runs the department's Office of Foreign ...

Pompeo fires State Dept. watchdog critical of Trump moves

US President Donald Trump has lauded Indian-American scientists and researchers for their efforts in developing medicines and vaccines to treat the deadly coronavirus.
Trump said the US was closely working with India to tackle the pandemic.
"We have a tremendous Indian population in the United States and many of the people that you are talking about are working on the vaccine too. Great scientists and researchers," Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday.
He was responding to the Indian-American community's appreciation of his fight against the coronavirus. This is the first time that a president has recognised the scientific and research talent of the Indian-American community.
A large number of scientists are engaged in cutting edge research in various aspects of medical science, including at the National Institute of Health, universities, research institutes and bio-pharma startups.
There are an estimated 4 million Indian-Americans in the United States, 

Trump lauds Indian-American scientists, researchers

US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad has said there is no alternative to intra-Afghan negotiations for peace in the war-torn country, even as he asserted that the withdrawal of American troops was going on track.
In a conference call, Khalilzad told reporters that there is no military solution to the war in Afghanistan.
"There is consensus, both in Afghanistan and internationally, that there is no military solution to the war. A political solution, a peace agreement among Afghans is the only realistic option at present," the diplomat said.
"We also want a political settlement in order to reduce the burden on the United States -- and that is happening -- and also to make sure that Afghanistan never again becomes a platform to attack the United States or our allies," he said, adding that the United States-Taliban agreement opens a historic opportunity for moving forward on peace.
Khalilzad said the sooner the intra-Afghan negotiations begin, the ...

Intra-Afghan negotiations only realistic peace solution: Top US diplomat

Pakistan's anti-graft agency has approved the filing of two additional corruption references against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the accountability court.
The National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) regional board, under the chairmanship of its Director General Shahzad Saleem, convened here on Friday.
The board discussed the additional corruption references against 69-year-old Nawaz, his younger brother Shahbaz Sharif, daughter Maryam Nawaz and 13 others in money laundering and possession of assets beyond known sources of income investigations.
Similarly, the board has also approved filing another reference against Nawaz Sharif, Geo Media Group founder Mir Shakilur Rahman and two others in a 54-kanal land case.
NAB-Lahore has forwarded both references to its chairman justice (R) Javed Iqbal for his final approval before filing it in the accountability court.
The references against the Sharif family members in the two cases will be filed in the accountability court, Lahore, ...

Pak's anti-graft body approves filing of 2 more corruption references against former PM Nawaz Sharif

US President Donald Trump has lauded Indian-Americans scientists and researchers for their efforts in developing medicines and vaccine for the the deadly coronavirus.
Trump said the US was closely working with India to tackle the pandemic.
"We have a tremendous Indian population in the United States and many of the people that you are talking about are working on the vaccine too. Great scientists and researchers," Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday.
He was responding to the Indian-American community's appreciation of his fight against the coronavirus.
This is the first time that a president has recognised the scientific and research talent of the Indian American community.
A large number of scientists are engaged in cutting edge research in various aspects of medical science, including at the National Institute of Health, universities, research institutes and bio-pharma startups.
There are an estimated 4 million Indian Americans in the United States, .

Trump lauds Indian-Americans scientists, researchers

Hundreds of people in Aden, southern Yemen's main city, have died in the past week with symptoms of what appears to be the coronavirus, local health officials said in interviews with The Associated Press.
The officials fear the situation is only going to get worse: Yemen has little capacity to test those suspected of having the virus and a 5-year-long civil war has left the health system in shambles.
One gravedigger in Aden told AP he'd never seen such a constant flow of dead  even in a city that has seen multiple bouts of bloody street battles during the civil war.
Officially, the number of coronavirus virus cases in Yemen is low  106 infections in the southern region, with 15 deaths.
Authorities in the Houthi rebel-controlled north announced their first case on May 5 and say there has been only two infection, one of whom died, a Somali migrant.
But doctors say the Houthis are covering up an increasing number of cases to protect their economy and troops. And the surge in deaths in ...

Coronavirus spreads in Yemen with health system in shambles

As Mexico moves toward a gradual reactivation of its economy Monday, the number of new coronavirus infections grows higher every day, raising fears of a new wave of infections that other countries have seen after loosening restrictions.
President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador is straddling the issue, telling the public that the fight against the virus depends on continued social distancing in many places while describing how other areas will begin to return to work Monday.
We're at the point where we begin to have fewer cases, Lpez Obrador said Friday.
But in these days we have to be more careful, not relax the discipline, don't trust ourselves.
The comments came on the same day the government clarified guidelines for the construction, mining and automotive industries to return to work Monday.
The next two weeks will serve as a period to formalize their protocols to keep workers safe, but if they do so and get approval they can open any time before June 1.
There were 2,409 new COVID-19 ...

Infections soar as Mexico moves toward restarting economy

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr has submitted the final report in the panel's three-year Russia investigation to the intelligence community for a declassification review.
The move came hours before he was to temporarily step aside as chairman of the panel.
The report on the panel's counterintelligence findings  including whether President Donald Trump's campaign coordinated with Russia  marks the conclusion of its Russia probe, which it first launched in January 2017.
But the panel did not release any of the findings Friday, instead asking the intelligence community to quickly allow the release of a declassified version of the report.
Burr said Thursday that he would temporarily give up the position as chairman after federal agents examining his recent stock sales showed up at his home Wednesday with a warrant to search his cellphone. Friday was his last day in the position.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Burr exploited advance information when he .

Burr submits final Russia report before leaving chairmanship

The U.S. government imposed new restrictions on Chinese tech giant Huawei on Friday, severely limiting its ability to use American technology to design and manufacture semiconductors produced for it abroad.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Friday that the move aims to prevent Huawei from making a run around existing U.S. sanctions.
There has been a very highly technical loophole through which Huawei has been able to in effect use U.S. technology," Ross told Fox Business.
We never intended that loophole to be there.
Adam Segal, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the move "looks like a victory for the people who really want to drive the nail, or what they think will be the nail, in Huawei's coffin.
The new restrictions elicited an angry response from China, which threatened retaliation against U.S. companies.
Chip design and manufacturing equipment used in the world's semiconductor plants is mostly U.S. made, so the new rule aims to impact multiple foreign ...

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