Mohamed Salah has been named on the bench for Liverpool's match against Brighton at Anfield on Saturday after talks with manager Arne Slot.The Dutchman insisted he would have the final say on whether to bring back the Egypt international, who was omitted from the Champions League trip to Italy in midweek following explosive comments about the club.Reports on Friday said Slot's decision has been taken in what he feels is in the best interests of the team.Salah accused Liverpool of throwing him
Several Syrian and American soldiers were wounded when shots were fired at a joint military delegation in Palmyra in central Syria on Saturday, state media said.The incident is the first of its kind to be reported since Islamist-lead forces overthrew longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad in December last year, and rekindled the country's ties with the United States.
Belarus has freed protest leader Maria Kolesnikova and Nobel Prize Winner Ales Bialiatski in a major US-brokered deal to release more than 100 of the country's political prisoners.Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has locked up thousands of his opponents, critics and protestors since an election in 2020 that rights groups widely said was rigged and triggered weeks of mass protests across the country.Rights groups, relatives and state media reported 123 people were freed, including foreign citizens, after a US envoy said that Washington was lifting some sanctions on Minsk, a close ally of Moscow.