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South Korean prosecutors have seized the house of former president Park Geun-hye and will auction it off after she failed to pay a $19 million penalty for corruption, they said Tuesday. Park was impeached in 2017 after anti-corruption protests centred on allegations she let a shadowy confidante meddle in state affairs, and was subsequently jailed for 20 years for bribery and abuse of power. She failed to pay fines and forfeits totalling 21.5 billion won by a deadline last month and authorities “have seized Park’s home”, a representative of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office told AFP. They have asked…

Mohamed Salah has urged Liverpool to make the best of their “tough” season by pushing for Champions League glory. Jurgen Klopp’s side is certain to surrender the Premier League title after a miserable run sent the champions crashing down to seventh place. The injury-hit Reds are 25 points behind leaders Manchester City and five points adrift of fourth-placed Chelsea. Qualifying for next season’s Champions League via a top-four finish will be tricky but not impossible. Liverpool have shown signs of getting back on track after beating Leipzig in the Champions League last 16-second leg and Wolves in the Premier League.…

Chad were disqualified from 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying Monday, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said in a statement. The move by the Cairo-based organisation follows the unexplained dissolution of the Chadian national football federation by the sports ministry in the central African country. Chad were already bottom of qualifying Group A. Namibia and Mali, who were scheduled to play Chad this week in the last two matchdays ahead of the tournament in Cameroon next January, were awarded 3-0 victories. Mali have already secured a place at the 24-nation finals while Guinea are two points ahead of Namibia…

Atletico Madrid stayed on course to win La Liga even as their rivals kept up the pressure, Kylian Mbappe reached a milestone and Juventus saw their Serie A title hopes surely come to an end. AFP Sport rounds up some of the main talking points from across the continent: Oblak keeps Atletico on course Atletico Madrid were grateful for goalkeeper Jan Oblak’s superb late save from Joselu’ penalty as they edged struggling Alaves 1-0 to stay on course for the Spanish title. Luis Suarez scored his 19th goal of the season as Atletico put their Champions League exit to Chelsea…

The Coalition of Igbo Progressive Youths Worldwide (CIPYW), a body of young industrious sons and daughters of South East extraction, has asked Nigerians to disregard a media statement credited to one Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, regarding Armed Forces Service Commission Bill, submitted to the Senate by the Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, for consideration last week. Isiguzoro, identified as President General of Ohaneze Youth Council (OYC) in the statement, had picked a hole in the bill, which the sponsor was asked by the leadership of the legislature to defer, describing it as an invitation of coup d’etat…

Jose Mourinho said Tottenham’s dressing room is divided by “selfish” players and agents who have their own relationships with the press. Mourinho was speaking after a vital win in the chase for a top-four Premier League finish. Spurs responded to an embarrassing Europa League exit at the hands of Dinamo Zagreb with a 2-0 win at Aston Villa on Sunday, courtesy of goals from Carlos Vinicius and Harry Kane. Captain Hugo Lloris had strongly criticised the underlying culture at the club in a stinging interview following Thursday’s loss in Croatia, pointing the finger at fringe players who were not fully…

Twenty Four political groups working for the actualisation of the governorship aspiration of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, under the aegis of All Soludo Support Groups (ASSG), held a prayer rally yesterday to mobilise support for him. The rally featured prayers from all Christian denominations, including the Catholic, Anglican and Pentecostal churches. Soludo is aspiring to emerge the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State. The groups have been wooing Soludo since 2019 to join the governorship contest on the premise that he has…

AstraZeneca has said that its vaccine is 79 percent effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in Phase III US testing with no safety concerns found. This is coming two days after Denmark reported that two people experienced brain hemorrhages after receiving the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, of whom one of them died while the other is critically ill. A report by New York Times had said Danish Medicines Agency was looking into whether the condition was a potential side effect. Denmark, Norway, Iceland and several European countries had held off AstraZeneca COVID-19 jabs following reports of blood clots and and abnormal bleeding…

Steve Collins has tipped Tyson Fury to defeat Anthony Joshua when the two heavyweights finally collide in their proposed two-fight unification series, reports talkSPORT.com. Eddie Hearn revealed last week that contracts were signed by the two men for the fight to finally take place, although neither a date nor a venue has been confirmed. The Matchoom Boxing supremo joined talkSPORT to dismiss claims the first fight could be delayed until later in the year to maximise the site fee, with multiple offers coming in from across the world to host the fight. Not since Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis crossed…

Amnesty International on Monday called on football’s global governing body FIFA to put more pressure on 2022 World Cup hosts Qatar to improve conditions for workers in the Gulf country. Doha has made a series of reforms to its employment regulations since being selected to host next year’s tournament, which has required a vast programme of construction dependent on foreign workers. But the rights group said Qatar was at risk of slipping backwards. “Qatar has made a number of positive reforms in recent years, partly in response to increased scrutiny after the World Cup contract was awarded,” it said in…