Chris Eubank Jr beats Conor Benn on unanimous points decision

After going the distance to win their middleweight grudge match on a unanimous points decision, Chris Eubank Jr. dealt fellow Briton Conor Benn his first career defeat.

After a pulsating 12-round slugfest, both fighters came out loud and went toe-toe in front of 65,000 spectators at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, scoring 116-112.

The conflict between Chris Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn, the sons of former world champions, and Chris Eubank Sr and Benn, who had previously met twice in the 1990s, was called off in 2022 when Benn tested positive for trace amounts of the fertility drug clomifene.

I simply needed to demonstrate that to myself. He was not the person I anticipated him to be, Eubank told DAZN.

The soul in you is brought out by our fathers’ previous actions.

He [Benn] had what he had in him, I did not know. I anticipated breaking him early. I didn’t do that in my training. ”

In his middleweight fight against Conor Benn Action, Chris Eubank Jr. [Andrew Couldridge/Reuters]

32 years after their most recent conflict, both fathers were present and embraced in the ring before the bell rang out.

The fathers’ generation’s dominance of the scraps that their fathers produced rolled back through the years in sheer aggression and energy.

Benn later said, “It was close. I must rewatch it,” she said. I believed I had won. I might have spent too much time on the ropes. It was a big welcome homecoming for me, and I enjoyed it.

We are always aware of Chris’s strong fighting style and approach. ”

Benn had increased his weight in response to a fierce adversary outside the ring.

On reflection, Benn said, “I think I can go back down a weight and win a title.”

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 26: Conor Benn looks dejected alongside Nigel Benn, Former Professional Boxer and Father to Conor Benn, after defeat to Chris Eubank Jr in the Middleweight fight between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn as part of the Fatal Fury - Fight Night at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 26, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Richard Pelham/Getty Images)
After the fight, Conor Benn appears dejected alongside his father, Nigel Benn.

Promoter Eddie Hearn made it clear that a rematch between the pair is required under their contract.

I was unable to divide them. Hearn told DAZN, “I initially believed Benn was winning the fight, but we lost in the final two rounds.”

Although it is what it is, Eubank didn’t manage to win by four games.

Benn rose to the position of the people’s champion. He took the kitchen sink when he rose to challenge a middleweight. He fought unabated until he won the fight.

One of the most dramatic fights I’ve seen was it.

What will the next chapter look like for the Roman Catholic Church?

How will Pope Francis’ successor wield power given that he left behind a reform legacy?

The world’s 1.4 billion Catholics are turning the pages of a reform and liberalism era with Pope Francis’ funeral.

There are now several inquiries posed by the Vatican. What will the chapter’s next chapter look like among them? And how will the Church’s successor pope exercise power?

Imran Khan, the presenter

Guests:

Kayode Akintola, Catholic Agency for Overseas Development’s Head of Africa region

Glenda Miro Antonio, president and founder of Spring Rain Global, a nonprofit organization.

Pakistan calls for ‘neutral’ investigation into Kashmir attack

Pakistan, which it has blamed on Islamabad for the killings of tourists in India-administered Kashmir, has demanded a “neutral” investigation and said it was in favor of peace.

Although Islamabad has denied any involvement in the attack on Tuesday that left 25 Indians and one national of Nepal dead, India has identified two of the three suspected attackers as Pakistanis.

Pakistan’s interior minister, Mohsin Naqvi, stated on Saturday that “Pakistan is fully prepared to cooperate with any neutral investigators to ensure that the truth is exposed and justice is served.”

Pakistan will not compromise its sovereignty, he declared at a press conference. “Pakistan continues to be committed to peace, stability, and the upholding of international standards.”

Shehbaz Sharif, the country’s prime minister, said, “This perpetual blame game must come to an end.

The attackers, according to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be pursued to “the ends of the earth,” and those responsible for planning and carrying out the attack will be punished beyond their imagination.

Meanwhile, Pakistani politicians and other parties are making increasingly hostile demands.

India and Pakistan took a number of measures against one another following the attack, including suspending the Indus River and its tributaries, and closing Pakistan’s airspace to Indian airlines.

After four years of relative calm, the two parties have exchanged fire across their de facto border for two straight days.

The Indian Army reported responding to “unprovoked” small arms fire from a number of Pakistan Army posts along the de facto Kashmir border, which is 740 kilometers (460 miles) long, that started at midnight on Friday. No injuries were reported.

The exchange of fire has not yet been commented upon by Pakistan’s military.

Former Pakistani diplomat Maleeha Lodhi claimed there was “a sombre mood” in Pakistan and that there was a lot of uncertainty about what might transpire next.

There are fears, especially given Prime Minister Modi’s speeches and the Indian media, because the nuclear neighbors are on the verge of a more dangerous conflict, according to Lodhi.

The former ambassador emphasized that India may engage in “kinetic action” against Pakistan as a result of this rhetoric.

She said that would necessitate a very strong, robust response from Pakistan.

According to Lodhi, “the fear and apprehension are really focused on the possibility that we may be in the middle of a serious crisis.”

As tensions between India and Pakistan escalate, residents of Jammu and Kashmir’s border village R S Pura have begun clearing out community bunkers.

“We live in border regions,” we say. Our communities will be the first to be affected by whatever happens in India, said Balvir Kaur, a resident.

“We are getting ready if there is a problem,” he says. Without having to consider the safety of its citizens living close to India, the government would not need to consider this. We don’t want them to suffer as a result.

It’s time to give diplomacy another chance, according to an editorial from Pakistan’s Dawn news outlet on Saturday, because neither Pakistan nor India can afford war.

The editorial continued, “These are dangerous times in the subcontinent, and Pakistan and India must show restraint and sense in handling the post-Pahalgam developments.”

At least five suspected rebels in Kashmir have been demolished, including one they believe was involved in the most recent attack, while Indian security forces have continued their search for the suspects.

One such house in Murram village in the Pulwama district was dumped with pieces of broken glass on Saturday. In the previous three years, locals claimed they had not witnessed Ehsan Ahmed Sheikh, a suspected fighter whose home had been destroyed.

Sameer Ahmed, a neighbor, told Reuters: “Nobody knows where he is.”

The home of Ehsan’s family has been destroyed. Not him, but they will suffer as a result.

UK activist group Just Stop Oil holds its last climate protest

Just Stop Oil, a British environmental activist group, staged its final demonstration in London to end three years of obscene climate protest stunts that had turned their attention away from civil disobedience.

Several hundred supporters walked peacefully from the UK capital’s parliament to Shell’s oil and gas headquarters, where they removed their well-known high-vis orange vests.

One of the most well-known protest organizations in the United Kingdom was the one that primarily fought for the country to end oil and gas extraction by 2030.

The organization announced in March that it would stop its attention-grabbing protests, claiming that it had succeeded in achieving its initial goal, which was to stop the UK from approving new oil and gas projects.

Since Just Stop Oil was founded in 2022, more than 3, 000 protesters have been detained, including 58-year-old co-founder Roger Hallam, among whom 11 are currently incarcerated. In May, five more are scheduled to be sentenced.

The group’s activists used tomato soup to paint Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting and sprinkled Stonehenge, a landmark, with orange paint powder, as well.

Additionally, they slowed down sporting and entertainment events like Wimbledon tennis matches.

Politicians, police, and some sections of the public have all condemned the actions over the years.

The group, however, triumphed as a result of the UK Labour government’s decision to halt new North Sea oil and gas exploration licenses.

However, Just Stop Oil has been taken away from by Labour. Keir Starmer, the prime minister, criticized the organization’s actions and warned that protesters should be subject to the law’s full force.

The protest group’s spokesperson Mel Carrington claimed that despite its efforts to “very effectively get press attention,” Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States had made their work more challenging.

She told the AFP news agency, “The external environment has changed and the repression makes it more difficult to mobilize.”

Just Stop Oil has been wary about its future plans, but it has stated that it will “continue to speak out for our political prisoners, call out the UK’s oppressive anti-protest laws, and continue to fight the truth in the courts.”

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appoints aide as PLO deputy

According to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed a close aide to the position of vice president.

Wasel Abu Yousef, a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, announced on Saturday that Hussein al-Sheikh had been appointed “deputy]vice president] of the PLO leadership.

Earlier this week, Abbas, 89, took over as vice president of Ramallah’s 32nd session.

According to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, Abbas reiterated his commitment to starting a “comprehensive national dialogue” that seeks to “align all Palestinian factions to achieve reconciliation and strengthen national unity.”

Abbas also provided an update on “upcoming political initiatives aimed at halting the Gaza Strip’s ongoing genocide and Israeli aggression.”

In addition to these, WAFA recommends ensuring the prompt arrival of humanitarian and medical aid, full Palestinian control of Gaza, and calling for the enclave’s total Israeli withdrawal as “a step toward launching a political process to end the occupation and establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

The appointment comes as Arab and Western powers consider the Palestinian Authority (PA) to play a bigger role in post-war governance in the Gaza Strip.

The PLO, which was established in 1964, is in charge of negotiating and signing international agreements with the Palestinian people, while the PA is in charge of governing the occupied Palestinian territory.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad are not included in the PLO, which is a group under one umbrella organization.

Sheikh, 64, is a former leader of Abbas’s Fatah movement, which is regarded as close to the president.

Sheikh is “in charge of security coordination with the Israeli occupation,” according to Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst.

Sheikh has endured “groomed for the past 18 years” due to the tensions between Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel, Bishara continued.

Israel has greater faith in him than it does in Abbas himself. And Abbas has been the Palestinian Authority’s ultimate pragmatic/moderate leader, much to the liking of the US and the EU, even if he and his cohorts, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Because of the numerous demands the Palestinian situation has, analyst Aref Jaffal claimed the new position was created to allow someone to succeed Abbas.

According to Jaffal, director of the Al-Marsad Election Monitoring Center, “the Palestinian political system is already miserable,” adding that all these arrangements are a step toward creating an Abbas-like leader.

4,000 COVID-19 Survivors to Donate Plasma for Research on Cure

According to Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a South Korea-based religious group, over 4,000 members of the church who recovered from COVID-19 are willing to donate plasma for developing a new treatment.

Mr. Man Hee Lee, founder of the Shincheonji Church, said that members of the church are advised to donate plasma voluntarily. “As Jesus sacrificed himself with his blood for life, we hope that the blood of people can bring positive effects on overcoming the current situation,” said Mr. Lee.

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