Marius Bülter scored at the death as promoted Cologne stole a 1-0 Bundesliga victory at 10-man Mainz on Sundeay. Bülter was completely unmarked in the 90th minute for a glancing header off Luca Waldschmidt's cross into the bottom left corner. The biggest drama had come half an hour earlier when Mainz screamed in vain for a penalty as Anthony Caci fell under a challenge from Tom Krauss, and their Paul Nebel was sent off seconds later on Cologne's immediate counterattack for a last-man foul on Jakub Kaminski. Mainz had chances to win it despite being one man down before the knock-out blow. Nelso...

Three sisters were found dead during a rescue operation involving a boat carrying more than 60 migrants in the central Mediterranean, German civilian rescue group Resqship said on Sunday. Water had already begun to enter the overcrowded rubber boat when the organization's Nadir sailing vessel reached the scene early on Saturday, it said in a press release. While the crew managed to rescue 65 people, survivors realized during the operation that three girls aged 9, 11 and 17 had drowned inside the boat, which set off from Libya on Friday. "While we were evacuating the people one by one from the ...

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Venezuela has released 13 dissidents from prison, opposition figure and former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles said on Sunday. Some of those released were transferred to house arrest, Capriles wrote on X. The government opponents were detained around the time of the country's presidential election in July last year, which the opposition and the international community has described as rigged. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in power since 2013, was declared the winner by the electoral authority considered to be loyal to the regime, handing him another six-year term. Security forc...

In Russia, they invented a new excuse why dictator Vladimir Putin is fleeing from a meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This time, Moscow blamed Western countries, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Lavrov attacked with accusations against Western countries, which allegedly are hindering negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. "They (Western countries – ed.) are just looking for a pretext so that negotiations do not take place. And they want it to happen not through their fault, not through the fault of Zelenskyy, who also ‘resists’ and put...