Ruben Amorim at a press room after a match in 2024. Image: Agência Lusa.
On Monday, Manchester United football team fired its coach Ruben Amorim after fourteen months in the role. Amorim had met with Omar Berrada, chief executive officer of the team, and Jason Wilcox, the team’s director of football, on Friday morning. While discussing his preferred 3-4-3 style, the conversation reportedly quickly spiraled out of control, resulting in Amorim losing his job. Manchester United announced the news of the dismissal at around 10 a.m. on Monday.
After the team drawing against Leeds F.C. 1-1, the coach had said at a press conference that he came to be “the manager, not the coach” and said Wilcox should “do his job”. Wilcox intended the meeting to focus on the recent draw.
I thought they’d get through another couple of weeks
A street in Kyiv will be named after the former Speaker of the Parliament Andriy Parubiy, killed in Lviv. The initiative to commemorate the prominent Ukrainian politician was supported by 57% of participants in a public poll on “Kyiv Digital” application. On January 1, Maryna Poroshenko, the leader of “European Solidarity”, announced the street name in the Kyiv City Council and on Facebook. As the result, a section along Mariinsky Park – from Hrushevskoho Street to Parkova Road – will bear the politician’s name, named “Andrei Parubia Street”.
In December, former President of Ukraine and head of the European Solidarity party Petro Poroshenko asked the residents of Kyiv to support the vote to name the street after Parubiy. The street had no name at the time of the proposal.
“This place is significant for our team and for Andriy himself — a significant part of his journey is connected with it,” Poroshenko said.
On October 1, 2025, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree awarding Parubiy the title of Hero of Ukraine. A petition to award the title of Hero of Ukraine to Parubiy was registered on the presidential website on September 2, gaining 25,000 signatures, which was necessary for the proposal to be considered by President. The Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, also supported the request.
Parubiy was among several people who were conferred Heroes of Ukraine. Others were writer Volodymyr Vakulenko and student and footballer Stepan Chubenko. Poroshenko lauded the decision, recalling that “Parubiy dedicated his entire life to serving Ukraine”.
Andriy Parubiy, 54, who served as the Chairman of Verkhovna Rada from 14 April 2016 to 29 August 2019, was shot and killed in Lviv on 30 August 2025. He died at the scene from injuries. The killing happened amid the Russian invasion, which started in 2022.
The shooter managed to escape. Later, Ukrainian authorities detained a suspect, and allege there is a Russian link to the killing.
Parubiy was an active participant of Euromaidan. He also served as Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine from February till August 2014.
The suspected killer of Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Parubiy admitted on 2 September his role in the killing. He claimed to have comitted the crime in an act of “revenge” against the country’s authorities. He denied having worked with Russian special services.
Nicolas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima. Image: United States Department of Defense.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has been captured by the United States on Saturday at around 3 am UTC-4, according to post by US president Donald Trump on social media. Trump has told reporters Maduro had been “in a house that was more like a fortress”, in the country’s capital, Caracas. Trump justified this action by claiming that Maduro is the leader of the Cartel de los Soles, and pushing illegal immigration of dangerous individuals in the United States. Local authorities in Venezuela have requested a United Nations Security Council meeting to be held after the attack.
After the capture, the US Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Maduro in which Maduro and others were charged with “conspiracy to commit narco‐terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine”. Maduro has denied this and has said before that Trump’s actual goal is to get access to Venezuela’s oil reserves, as indicated by the United States’ confiscation of several oil tankers.
The BBC reports airstrikes in Caracas targeting La Carlota, an airbase and Fort Tiuna, a military base where the United States suspected Maduro to be located, and in other locations. According to local authorities there has been civilian deaths and injuries, but the exact numbers are still unknown. It was also reported by the BBC that the operation was orchestrated by a CIA infiltration of the Venezuelan government. France 24 reported that the CIA had been monitoring his “every movement since August”, despite Maduro’s efforts to change location regularly. It was also reported that the operation involved more than 150 military aircraft, including one helicopter that was to capture Maduro.
According to the United States authorities, the Delta Force special operation force, arrived at Maduro’s location at “2:01 a.m. local time” and were able to capture him before he could get into his solid steel safe room (sources contradict however, on his exact location at that point. Some sources reported that Trump said Maduro was almost in his safe room whilst others said he was sleeping in his bed). They then relocated the “indicted persons” on a ship by after crossing the coastline of Venezuela at 3:29 am. Trump later revealed that Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, was also captured, and both were on board the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) with destination the southern district of New York, ultimately to be prosecuted. Attorney General Pam Bondi was quoted by the BBC saying “[he will] face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts” and, according to CNN, announced an indictment for leading “state‐sponsored gangs” and supporting drug trafficking.
Venezuelan authorities also reported other strikes, said to be made with the intent of seizing their oil and minerals, and have declared national emergency. They, along with Cuba, Colombia, Iran and Russia, have denounced the action as a “serious military aggression”. Argentine’s president, Javier Milei supported the action. Yván Gil Pinto, Venezuela’s foreign minister, said the country sought an emergency UN Security Council meeting after the attack; and Venezuela’s vice‐president, Delcy Rodríguez called for Maduro and his wife to be released, saying the operation violated the country’s territorial integrity. The BBC stated that these strikes follow a string of more than 30 strikes on Venezuelan vessels, and a strike on a “dock area” in Maracaibo, resulting in the death of more than 110 people. The Trump administration stated that it is engaging in “non‐international armed conflict with […] alleged drug traffickers”. According to the BBC, legal experts doubt the legality of these actions, saying the strikes are not against “lawful military targets”. According to CNN, Trump also justified not advising Congress before the operation to avoid a “leak”, which drew criticisms from Democrat lawmakers.
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