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In a crucial opening game between two of the likely Premier League title contenders, Liverpool defeated Arsenal 1-0 thanks to Dominik Szoboszlai’s superb long-range free kick.

Manchester City’s 2-1 defeat at Brighton, for a second straight loss, was another indication that Pep Guardiola’s team has lost its sense of dominance, which was expected to challenge them for the championship this year.

Before Szoboszlai stepped up an 83rd-minute free kick and whipped it into the top corner from about 30 yards, little could have separated Liverpool and Arsenal at Anfield.

Szoboszlai told Sky Sports, “I thought I would take a chance.” I finally tried it because I was confident, so I did! When you practice constantly and Trent [Alexander-Arnold] was doing the free kicks, it’s been a while, but I finally had a chance, and I did it.

Because we were shooting from closer, I didn’t practice this particular shot in the previous few weeks, but I had to take a chance and shoot it a little harder.

The Hungary captain, who is typically an attacking midfielder, made his best impression of Alexander-Arnold with a top-notch strike that was out of step with the rest of the game when he was needed to play full back in an emergency.

Liverpool, the defending champion, has now won three straight games to begin the season.

It was Arsenal’s first loss and first goal conceded, extending its unbeaten run at Anfield since 2012 with a winless record.

“Arsenal had a fantastic season last year,” Szoboszlai continued.

It’s a compliment to keep going with City and Chelsea, “because it’s always really difficult,” to be honest. They both have incredible coaches and incredible teams.

Former Liverpool midfielder Milner scores an EPL record for Man City, who lost once more.

Tottenham, which showed the same vulnerabilities and brittleness last season when it lost the title to Liverpool for the fourth consecutive year, suffered a 2-0 home loss to City at the same time last weekend.

Rodri, the reigning Ballon d’Or winner, said: “This is the reality: we are not at the level we have been doing for a while.

The 89th minute winner for Brighton, which had already trailed to Erling Haaland’s first-half goal, his 88th Premier League goal since moving to England in 2022, came from Brajan Gruda, who surged through an open defense, round goalkeeper James Trafford, and slotted into an empty net.

After Matheus Nunes raised his arm in the area to block a shot, City gave up the equalizer in the 67th minute, and Brighton went on to become the second-oldest scorer in Premier League history at 39 years and 239 days. He also scored for Leeds when he was 16 years old, making him the second-youngest.

Before Gruda’s one, Brighton had a succession of chances as City slowly faded, before capturing the result of his team’s come-from-behind 2-1 victory over City last year.

The only points for City so far this season came from a 4-0 win over Wolverhampton, which caused pundits to declare Guardiola’s side was back. It currently trails Manchester United in points.

With a 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest, West Ham relieved manager Graham Potter of the pressure of late goals from Callum Wilson, Lucas Paqueta, and Jarrod Bowen.

West Ham was also eliminated from the English League Cup in midweek, losing its first two league games, scoring eight goals in the process.

The Brazil midfielder gave a fake answer to a call and put away a phone before kissing the badge on his jersey as a nod to being linked with a move to Aston Villa in the past 24 hours.

On Sunday, Crystal Palace travels to Villa to wrap up the third-round of the Premier League.

According to a recent study, Pakistan, one of the nations most vulnerable to climate change, has seen increased monsoon rains this year due to global warming. In recent months, flash floods and landslides have erupted in the mountainous north and northwest due to downpours and cloudbursts.

After India released water from swollen rivers and its overflowing dams into Pakistan’s low-lying regions, residents in eastern Punjab also experienced unusual amounts of rain and cross-border flooding.

The largest flood in Punjabi history occurred during this. Two million people have been affected by the flood. The senior provincial minister for the province, Marriyum Aurangzeb, stated at a press conference on Sunday that this is the first time the Sutlej, Chenab, and Ravi have carried such high levels of water.

According to her, local authorities have been evacuating residents and using security and educational facilities as rescue camps.

People were also seen clambering into rescue boats and sailing across completely submerged farmland on Pakistani TV channels. What remained from damaged homes that are now abandoned was loaded onto boats by other people.

Pregnant women have begun to seek refuge from the floods in a former classroom in the area, which is now a makeshift relief camp.

Shumaila Riaz, 19, endured cramps during her first pregnancy while spending the past four days at the relief camp. She is now seven months along.

She told the AFP news agency, “I wanted to think about the child I am going to have, but I am not even certain about my own future.”

Women huddled in the overcrowded school, which has hosted more than 2, 000 people, surrounded by mud and stagnant rainwater, clad in dirty clothes and had unbrushed hair.

While the region’s seasonal monsoon brings in farmers’ rely on rainfall, climate change is making the phenomenon more unpredictable and deadly.

Prior to a significant wave erupting from the Chenab River in Multan, authorities have also installed explosives on five important embankments to divert water away from the city, if necessary.

Amir Kareem Khan, the commissioner of Multan, claimed that teams tried to persuade residents who had not yet evacuated to do so while using drones to monitor low-lying areas.

Deputy Commissioner Wasim Hamad Sindhu appealed to people seeking shelter in government-run camps and declared, “We cannot fight it, we cannot stop it.

The Foreign Ministry is also “collecting data regarding India’s deliberate release of water into Pakistan,” Aurangzeb continued on Sunday. India did not respond right away.

The first official diplomatic exchange between the rival countries since a crisis in May brought them close to war with India last week, alerting Pakistan to the possibility of cross-border flooding.

Punjab, the nation’s top wheat producer, accounts for around 150 million people in Pakistan.

The Ukrainian president confirmed the new planned strikes on X after a meeting with his top general, Oleksandr Syrskii, on Sunday.

Moscow and Ukraine have increased their air strikes in recent weeks, with Ukraine attacking Russian oil pipelines and refineries, and Ukraine attacking Ukraine’s energy and transportation systems.

According to the private energy company DTEK, Russian drones flew over night into four energy facilities in the Odesa region of Ukraine. 29, 000 people were without electricity as a result of the strikes, according to local authorities.

Worst-affected location was the port city of Chornomorsk near Odesa, according to regional governor Oleh Kiper’s Telegram post. He claimed that “critical infrastructure runs on generators.”

Following the Ukrainian military’s all-clear, DTEK announced the start of urgent repair work. The report claimed that Russia had used 142 drones against Ukraine, with all but 10 of which it claimed had downed.

On Sunday, the Russian military claimed to have shot down 112 Ukrainian drones in the previous 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, blamed Europe for preventing US President Donald Trump’s peace efforts and for the continuation of the conflict.

He said, “The European warring party is continuing its fundamental course, it is not giving in,” in reference to the weapons deliveries made to Ukraine by the European Union on the sidelines of a summit in China.

His words were made shortly after a Russian airstrike in central Kyiv claimed the lives of at least 23 people and damaged EU diplomatic buildings.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed his concern that the conflict, which started more than three and a half years ago, would not end right away as Trump’s deadline calls for Russian President Vladimir Putin to consent to a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Zelenskyyi.

He stated to the public broadcaster ZDF on Sunday, “I am preparing myself for this war to last a long time.” He cited the cost of Ukraine’s capitulation as justification for diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.

Additionally, as part of her tour of the EU’s bordering states, Poland was visited by Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission.

Von der Leyen referred to Putin as a “predator” who could only be kept under control through “strong deterrence” while speaking alongside the Polish leader, Donald Tusk.

The president of the EU Commission also stated that the bloc would provide additional funding to member states along the borders of Belarus and Russia, and that protecting its borders is “shared responsibility”

According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a US think tank, the Kremlin has tried to embellish its military victories in an effort to make its victory in Ukraine seem inevitable.

ISW’s most recent assessment of the conflict found exaggerations in General Valery Gerasimov’s claims about Russian gains.

Since the beginning of March, the Russian general had suggested that the Kremlin’s forces have taken 149 settlements and 3,500 square kilometers of territory.

He said in his first speech on Sunday since the Israeli attacks that “the Israeli enemy, with its crimes and savagery, does not spare even children, women, and defenceless civilians,” according to Houthi media.

The Israeli enemy in the area’s criminal history is “adjusted to the crime of targeting ministers and civilian officials.”

According to a statement released on Saturday, the Houthis’ government’s prime minister, Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi, was killed in an Israeli attack on Sanaa on Thursday along with “several” other ministers.

At a workshop, Al-Rahawi, who served as prime minister in the country’s divided regions, was targeted along with other Houthi-led government members, according to the statement.

According to Al-Houthi, “the Israeli enemy’s history is one of horrific terror” because it murders civilians in Palestinian-held areas like Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. He referred to Israel as “a criminal foe that uses practices that have no laws, commitments, charters, and no considerations to demonstrate its savagery, criminality, and aggression.”

In solidarity with the suffering of the Palestinians, the Houthi commander declared that the organization would continue to act against Israel in support of the Gaza war, adding that “our people will not be weakened by the aggression they are facing.”

In recent months, Israel has repeatedly attacked Houthi positions as a result of Yemen’s attacks on Israeli and Western vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

Israeli media reported on Friday that the Israeli army attacked the entire Houthi cabinet on Thursday, including the prime minister and 12 other ministers, in a report quoting unnamed sources.

According to health officials, the attack occurred four days after Israeli attacks on the Yemeni capital on August 24. The attack resulted in the deaths of 10 people and more than 90 injuries.

Houthi office raids

At least one UN employee was detained in Yemen’s capital on Sunday as a glaring attempt to tighten security following Israel’s attacks across Sanaa.

Without providing further information, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson Ammar Ammar reported to the Associated Press that there was “an ongoing situation” involving their Sanaa offices.

The UN official claimed that several other World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF employees had lost contacts and that they were likely also being held hostage.

Security forces also raided the organizations’ offices in the Houthi-controlled capital on Sunday morning, according to Abeer Etefa, a WFP spokesperson, according to the Associated Press.

According to Etefa, “WFP reiterates that the arbitrary detention of humanitarian staff is unacceptable.”

The latest Houthi crackdown against the UN and other international organizations operating in Yemen’s rebel-held areas is the most recent.

Difficulty numbers of UN employees have been taken into custody, as well as individuals connected to aid organizations, civil society, and the now-closed US Embassy in Sanaa.