In contrast to the Trump administration’s pressure to avoid a leaders’ declaration in the absence of an American delegation, world leaders quickly broke with tradition and adopted a new declaration at the G20 summit.
Published On 22 Nov 2025
What is expected to be Europe’s largest football stadium reopened on Saturday at roughly half capacity with 45, 000 fans present.
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The indebted club anticipates that Camp Nou will increase revenues after it had been closed for more than two years as a major overhaul.
In the fourth minute, Robert Lewandowski capitalized on an error in Athletic’s defense to set the tone. When Alex Berenger attempted to play the ball out of the back, Unai Simon’s low effort was slashed past the Polish striker who mishandled it.
Barcelona relentlessly exerted control over an underperforming Athletic side throughout. Six of Ernesto Valverde’s team’s last nine league games have been lost, and they have only managed three victories so far this month.
Athletic, who sits eighth with 17 points, never threatened to host them.
In stoppage time in the first half, Barcelona once more struck. Torres was found by Lamine Yamal’s skillfully delivered long ball into space, and the Spanish forward quickly and skillfully tapped the ball past Simon.
Barcelona punished another Athletic defensive error by three minutes into the second half. The visitors gave possession to the alert Fermin Lopez, who fired a bullet into the net as the visitors attempted to play it out from the back.
Oihan Sancet was shown a straight red card in the 53rd minute for a careless challenge on Lopez, which added to Athletic’s frustrations.
Torres added his second in the closing stages, drawing in Yamal, who added a third sublime assist, to complete another counterattack.
Before Madrid travels to Elche on Sunday, the win brought Barcelona’s lead to a point with Real Madrid at the top.
The key is returning to Camp Nou, Lewandowski said, “We played well from the beginning and gained three more points.” There is another game to be played here. We are a little bit stronger when we play at Camp Nou, in my opinion.
Despite the chilly weather, Barcelona’s fans pumped up the club song before kickoff.
They were even more happy than they were. In May of 2023, they last had the opportunity to watch a game at Camp Nou. The municipally owned 55, 000-seat Olympic Stadium, which was situated atop a hill overlooking Barcelona’s city that was more difficult to reach, hosted the team for the following 900 plus days.
The 36-year-old fan Carlos Narváez told The Associated Press, “It has been two years at the]Olympic Stadium], and it wasn’t easy, the atmosphere wasn’t the same, and it wasn’t Camp Nou.
“This is like going home,” he says. The players will likely feel that way, just like our supporters do. Everyone seems to be getting excited, can you tell?
Despite the welcome homecoming, there is still work to be done before the brand-new Camp Nou is finished and ready to welcome 105, 000 fans.
Large construction cranes loom over the stadium and are visible from the stands, and there are areas that appear to be construction sites. The top tier of Camp Nou is mostly composed of metal and concrete beams and pillars.
In order to repair, modernize, and expand a venue that had formerly had a capacity of 99, 000, construction work began in June 2023. To carry out the remodelling project, the club secured 1.45 billion euros (then $1.6 billion) from a number of investors.
Barcelona had originally intended to return to Camp Nou to play games in November 2024 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the organization. The club has not yet disclosed when it anticipates finishing the stadium work, which has been repeatedly postponed. As the work gets closer, the club said it intends to ask the city for permission to expand its seating options.
At the UN climate conference in Brazil, world leaders have come to terms with a deal that addresses the crisis, but it makes no mention of phasing out fossil fuels that are to blame.
After negotiations lasted the night well past the two-week COP30 summit’s scheduled conclusion in Brazil’s city of Belem, the text was approved on Saturday afternoon amid intense disagreements over the fossil fuel phase-out.
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The agreement calls on developed nations to “at least triple” the funding provided to developing nations to help them withstand extreme weather events, and pledges to review climate-related trade barriers.
It also urges “all actors to work together to significantly accelerate and scale up climate action worldwide,” with the goal of keeping the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degrees Celsius (2. 7 degrees Fahrenheit) target for global warming “in reach.”
The European Union’s climate commissioner, Wopke Hoekstra, praised the outcome as a step in the right direction, but the bloc would have preferred more.
Hoekstra told reporters, “We’re not going to hide the fact that we would have preferred to have more ambition on everything.” He said, “We should support it because at least it is going in the right direction.”
It is also a “rather flat text,” according to France’s minister of ecological transition Monique Barbut, but “there is nothing extraordinarily bad in it.”
Although the outcome “fell short of expectations,” Cuba’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, added in a social media post, underscored the value of multilateralism in addressing global issues like climate change.
In Belem, there were disagreements between nations regarding a number of issues, including the opposition from oil-producing nations and those that depend on oil, gas, and coal, such as the push to phase out fossil fuels, which had been the biggest contributors to the climate crisis.
Additionally, climate finance-related issues sparked heated debates among developing nations demanding that wealthy nations share the financial burden.
However, Brazil, the host country of COP30, had urged for a show of unity because the annual conference is primarily seen as a test of the world’s resolve to deal with a growing crisis.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stated earlier this week, “We must show society that we want this without imposing anything on anyone, without establishing deadlines for each nation to decide what it can do within its own time and possibilities.”
Andre Aranha Correa do Lago, president of COP30, acknowledged that several nations and civil society organizations “had greater ambitions for some of the issues at hand” during the closing session on Saturday afternoon in Belem.
We need roadmaps so that humanity can overcome its dependence on fossil fuels, stop and reverse deforestation, and mobilize resources for these purposes, according to Correa do Lago, President Lula said at the COP’s opening address.
As COP30 president, he said, “I will therefore create two roadmaps: one for stopping and reversing]reversing] deforestation and the other for transitioning away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner.”
The first international conference on the phasing out of fossil fuels is scheduled to take place in Colombia in April, according to Correa do Lago.
Asad Rehman, the organization’s chief executive director, told Al Jazeera that wealthy nations “had to be dragged – really kicking and screaming – to the table” at COP30.
In an interview with Belem, Rehman stated, “They have tried to bully developing countries and have weakened the text. However, overall, from what we’re hearing, we will have taken a step forward.”
The United States is exerting intense diplomatic pressure on Kyiv and its European allies to accede to its proposed 28-point plan, which has a strong lean toward the Kremlin’s demands, by Thursday, while Russian forces continue to report advancements in eastern Ukraine.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, its soldiers “liberated” the settlement of Zvanivka in Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, allegedly causing Ukrainian forces “significant losses.”
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Additionally, it released video of Russian forces using glide bombs and tactical ground incursions to close Ukrainian positions in the Zaporizhia region.
The Defense Ministry claimed that a “major enemy defense node” covering more than 14 square kilometers (5 square miles) was established in the Novoe Zaporozhye region, which included a “major enemy defense node” under Russian control.
As Russian troops have been attempting to retake control of the Ukrainian military and threaten energy infrastructure as another brutal winter of war approaches, there are now more than 100 villages in the southeast of Ukraine.
As the Russian military command redeploys its forces to strengthen its offensive, Ukrainian soldiers are also facing fierce attacks in the Pokrovsk region, where fighting is said to be fierce.
In response to Russian air attacks, regional Ukrainian authorities have reported at least one fatality and 13 injuries over the past day. Governor Vadym Filashkin reported that the fatal strike occurred in Donetsk.
Russian forces reported that 89 drones were downed overnight from annexed Crimea and 104 rockets fired from various areas towards various Ukrainian regions, including a ballistic missile launch from Iskander-M ballistic missile, according to Ukraine’s air force. The majority of the drones, according to the report, were Iranian-made.
The Yany Kapu electric substation in northern Crimea was targeted overnight, according to Ukrainian media, with video and images of explosions and strikes appearing on social media. Six fixed-wing Ukrainian drones were shot down by the Russian Defense Ministry early on Saturday, but no confirmed ground hits had occurred.
Despite Washington’s ominous Thursday deadline approaching, Ukraine’s allies have not been supportive of the plan put forth by the administration of US President Donald Trump without consulting them.
Western leaders gathered for the G20 summit on Saturday in , South Africa , to discuss the US’s unilateral plan to end the conflict in Ukraine, according to a statement released on Saturday.
The leaders of important European nations, as well as Canada and Japan, made a joint statement, saying, “We are clear on the principle that borders must not be changed by force.
The proposed restrictions on Ukraine’s armed forces, which would make it vulnerable to future attacks, “we are also concerned,” they said, adding that any member state approval would be required for any implementing measures of the plan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin could only end its conflict with Ukraine’s “unconditional consent,” according to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
On the summit’s sidelines, he said, “Wars cannot be put on by major powers over the heads of the affected nations.”
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Saturday that real peace is based on guaranteed security and justice that guarantees sovereignty and territorial integrity, and that its allies continue to emphasize the need for a “just and lasting peace.”
However, Zelenskyy approved of a Ukrainian delegation’s appointment to lead negotiations with US counterparts in Switzerland on ending the war and appointed his top adviser Andriy Yermak to do so.
Rustem Umerov, the head of Ukraine’s Security Council, confirmed in a post on Telegram that discussions will begin regarding “possible parameters” of a possible future agreement.
He thanked the Trump administration for its mediation and said, “Ukraine approaches this process with a clear understanding of its interests.”
Sergey Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister of Russia, stated in an interview with the state-run International Affairs magazine on Saturday that he would not rule out the possibility of another meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has supported the US proposal.
Despite the indefinite suspension of another planned round in Budapest and the lack of a consensus at a Trump-Putin meeting in August, he said, adding that Moscow and Washington continue to pursue dialogue.
Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani engaged in a wild but friendly exchange, saying he had no idea Mamdani had previously called him a “fascist.” At their Friday Oval Office meeting, Trump, who once referred to Mamdani as a “communist,” gave him praise.
Published On 22 Nov 2025
During a meeting with US President Donald Trump on Friday, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani claimed that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. If Mamdani attempted to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu detained in New York, Trump omitted a question about whether he would intervene.
Published On 22 Nov 2025