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Lewandowski joins Ronaldo and Messi in Champions League 100-goal club. Haaland nets 2 but City draws

Nov. 26, 2024 17:56 PM EST

ROME (AP) — Robert Lewandowski joined Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi as the only players in Champions League history with 100 or more goals. But Erling Haaland is on a faster pace than anyone by boosting his total to 46 goals at age 24 on Tuesday. Still, Haaland's brace wasn't...

Slovak populist premier is in a spat with the UK ambassador to Bratislava over the war in Ukraine

Nov. 01, 2024 15:52 PM EDT

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico reacted angrily on Friday after the U.K. ambassador to Bratislava criticized his interview with Russia’s Rossiya 1 state-owned television, saying, “Slovakia is not Britain’s colony.” “I don’t...

Slovakia and former Czech leader settle lawsuit over collaboration with communist secret police

Oct. 21, 2024 12:35 PM EDT

PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia’s Interior Ministry agreed in a lawsuit settlement Monday that former former Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis did not knowingly collaborate with communist-era secret police in what was then Czechoslovakia The ministry said it acknowledged that any...