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De Bruyne to start for Man City in Leipzig after Covid setback

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Kevin De Bruyne will make his first Manchester City start for a month in Tuesday’s Champions League trip to RB Leipzig after Pep Guardiola revealed the Belgian was left feeling “empty” by coronavirus.

De Bruyne’s season has been heavily disrupted by injury and illness.

The 30-year-old suffered ankle ligament damage when representing his country at Euro 2020 that prevented him from starting a Premier League game until late September.

De Bruyne was just starting to find his form with an impressive performance in a dominant 2-0 City win over local rivals Manchester United when he tested positive for Covid-19.

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Guardiola used him sparingly in Saturday’s 3-1 win at Watford as a second-half substitute, but confirmed he would start in Germany even though his side have already secured their place in the last 16 as Group A winners.

“Kevin was growing in his physical condition and then he had the setback,” the City boss said on Monday. “People who have suffered coronavirus, after they feel empty,”

“Step by step he will play the minutes. Tomorrow he will start.”

De Bruyne is likely to be one of the more experienced heads in the City team as Guardiola has included youngsters Cole Palmer, James McAtee, Romeo Lavia, Joshua Wilson-Esbrand and Conrad Egan-Riley among his squad.

“It’s an incredible experience in Europe, maybe tomorrow some can play minutes,” added Guardiola. “We have five substitutions and maybe we can use them.”

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FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Arrested in Mexico and Deported to U.S.

Authorities in Mexico announced Thursday that Samuel Ramírez Jr., a U.S. citizen accused of murdering two women and listed among the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was arrested in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Ramírez Jr., 33, was detained Tuesday in Culiacán just 1 hour and 13 minutes after being added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Ten Most Wanted list, the agency said in a statement.

The suspect, who was born in California, has already been deported to the U.S. state of Washington, where he faces charges related to the fatal shooting of two women at a bar in Federal Way in May 2023.

A court issued an arrest warrant for Ramírez in November last year, and the FBI initially offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to his capture, later increasing the amount to up to $1 million.

“To protect individuals’ privacy and ensure continued cooperation from the public, the FBI does not confirm the identity of those who provide information,” the agency said in its statement.

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UN experts warn Nicaragua runs vast transnational network to monitor exiled dissidents

Nicaragua maintains an “extensive” transnational network to monitor and intimidate opposition figures living in exile, affecting “hundreds of thousands” of people, the United Nations Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua warned on Tuesday.

In a statement, the experts said their report “details an extensive transnational architecture of surveillance and intelligence used to monitor, intimidate and attack the hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans living abroad.”

The report, which will be presented on March 16 to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, states that the structure maintained by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo includes the army, the police, migration authorities and diplomatic missions.

According to the statement, “the government has arbitrarily stripped 452 Nicaraguans of their nationality, left thousands more exiled in a situation of de facto statelessness, and prevented many from returning to Nicaragua.”

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Trump: ‘We Think It’s True’ Amid Claims Iran’s Supreme Leader Was Killed

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he believes multiple reports claiming the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the U.S. and Israeli offensive against the Islamic Republic are likely true, though he stopped short of confirming the news.

“We have a feeling that the information is correct,” he said, according to NBC News. “I don’t want to say anything definitive until I see it, but we think that’s the case. And many of their leaders have disappeared,” he added.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there were “many indications” that Khamenei had died in an attack on his residential compound.