The Iraqi Kurdish people “have resisted with steadfastness and courage in the face of all forms of pressure and tyranny” and “regret was the fate of the tyrants,” he said.
It wasn’t the only nod to Trump’s latest appearance at a UFC fight.UFC fighter Kevin Holland choked out Vicente Luque to win the first fight with Trump in the building. He scaled the cage and shook hands with Trump. He briefly chatted with Trump and White before he returned for his post-fight interview.
Joe Pyfer draped himself in the American flag after he defeated Kelvin Gastelum in a middleweight bout by unanimous decision.“We’ve got the President of the United States! We’ve got Mike Tyson,” Pyfer bellowed inside the cage.PARIS (AP) — Jannik Sinner faces defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in the
final on Sunday in a match pitting the world’s top two men’s players.They share seven major titles, four for Alcaraz and three for Sinner, who is in the French Open final for the first time.
The top-ranked Sinner has not dropped a set at Roland-Garros, while the No. 2-ranked Alcaraz has dropped four sets.
Sinner is on a 20-match winning streak in Grand Slam tournaments, after winning the U.S. Open and the Australian Open.Bakeni said it was difficult to determine if the priest was specifically targeted, given the number of travelers caught in the ambush. Other travelers were also abducted, he said, although it was unclear how many.
Nigerian authorities haven’t publicly commented on the abductions and didn’t respond to requests for comment.Rev. Robert Fath, the vicar general of the diocese of Fairbanks, Alaska, told the Anchorage Daily News on Thursday that he had received a phone call from Boko Haram confirming they had Afina.
Afina served in Alaska from 2017 to 2024 before returning to Nigeria, where he works with the Justice, Development and Peace Commission, a Catholic social justice group.Nigerian authorities are struggling to stem rising violence in the north and central regions where armed groups, including Boko Haram, target rural communities, killing thousands and abducting people to ransom.