The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
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A third club in the 10-team Swiss soccer league has gone into quarantine because of multiple...
BERLIN (AP) — France and Italy celebrated notable achievements on opposite ends of the age spectrum on Wednesday as both teams earned big wins in friendly games.
MIAMI (AP) — It was 2014 and Venezuela’s former treasurer Claudia Díaz was looking for a safe haven to store the unexplained wealth she had accumulated over the years. Then-president Hugo Chávez,...
MIAMI (AP) — In a story August 3, 2020, about a Venezuelan official allegedly hiding unexplained wealth by buying gold, The Associated Press erroneously reported some financial information about...
HELSINKI (AP) — Flag-waving Finland fans poured onto the field, embracing each other and mobbing the players as fireworks exploded outside the stadium.
After more than 80 years of trying, Finland has finally made it to a major soccer tournament.
Its neighbor, Sweden, will be at next year’s European Championship, too.
The temperatures are plummeting and the days are getting shorter as another harsh winter approaches in Finland.
Expectations around the country's soccer team are rising, though, like never...
With the Netherlands missing out on Euro 2016 and Italy absent from the World Cup in 2018, some of Europe's traditional soccer powers have surprisingly failed to advance to recent major...
MILAN (AP) — From soccer flops to the brink of making history, Italy has come a long way in the two years since its embarrassing failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
MADRID (AP) — With an equalizer in stoppage time, Spain earned the point it needed against Sweden to qualify for the 2020 European Championship on Tuesday, while Ireland missed its chance to seal...
VADUZ, Liechtenstein (AP) — An inexperienced Italy side eased to a 5-0 win at Liechtenstein in a European Championship qualifier on Tuesday to equal the record number of consecutive wins for the...
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Italy's squad for next year's European Championship will look much the same as the one used in qualifying, coach Roberto Mancini said Monday, denting the hopes of players...
ROME (AP) — Italy coach Roberto Mancini has recalled Roma youngster Nicolò Zaniolo to his squad for the upcoming European Championship qualifiers against Greece and Liechtenstein.
Attack-minded Italy and Belgium won in style while Germany made it two wins from two games in 2020 European Championship qualifiers on Saturday.
ROME (AP) — Moise Kean can't seem to miss lately.
Days after scoring two goals in his first two starts for Italy, the 19-year-old Kean came off the bench to secure injury-depleted Juventus a...
PARMA, Italy (AP) — Veteran forward Fabio Quagliarella became the oldest player to score for Italy as he converted two penalties to help the Azzurri beat 10-man Liechtenstein 6-0 on Tuesday in...
Italy and Spain both made easy work of low-ranked opposition on Tuesday as the two former European champions try to build some momentum after a disappointing year.
UDINE, Italy (AP) — Italy came away with hope for the future after Nicolo Barella and Moise Kean scored their first international goals in a 2-0 win over Finland to open European Championship...
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Nicolo Zaniolo had not played a match in Italy's top flight less than a year ago but could make his first appearance for Italy this week.
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on Britain's plans to leave the European Union (all times local):
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The British government has agreed to allow citizens of Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein already living in Britain to remain after Brexit even if the country leaves the European Union without a deal.
The agreement finalized on Friday should remove the uncertainty a "hard" Brexit scenario posed for some 15,000 citizens of the three non-EU nations who live in Britain.
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin won a World Cup super-G on Sunday while Lindsey Vonn failed to finish her final race in Cortina.
Taking advantage of a tricky course set by one of her coaches, Shiffrin finished 0.16 seconds ahead of Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein.
Tamara Tippler of Austria finished third, 0.18 behind.
SELVA DI VAL GARDENA, Italy (AP) — Now that she's no longer preparing her daughter's skis, Darja Crnko gets to spend more time on the hill admiring Ilka Stuhec.
And there's been plenty to admire recently.
Stuhec overcame a messy run to win a World Cup super-G on Wednesday and sweep a series of two speed races on the Saslong course.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria is sharply criticizing an upcoming event on the U.N. investigative body that is assisting in documenting serious crimes committed during the seven-year Syrian conflict, including possible war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Syria's U.N. ambassador, Bashar Ja'afari, said in a letter to General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak circulated Friday that the Sept. 27 event is another "destructive" action by its sponsors, Qatar and Liechtenstein.
CRANS MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Tina Weirather won a World Cup super-G Saturday to overtake Lara Gut for first place in the discipline's standings with one race left
The Olympic bronze medalist from Liechtenstein overtook Gut to go top of the standings. Weirather will carry a 46-point lead over her Swiss rival, who finished the race in seventh, into the final event on March 15 at the World Cup finals in Are, Sweden.
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — It's exactly what Lindsey Vonn was hoping for — a dominant victory one month before she goes for gold at the Olympics.
Vonn amped up her preparations for the Pyeongchang Games by winning a World Cup downhill by a large margin Saturday while Italian rival Sofia Goggia avoided a major crash with the help of a safety air bag.
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn dominated training for a World Cup downhill for the second consecutive day on the Olympia delle Tofane course.
Vonn finished a massive 0.96 seconds ahead of Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein and was 1.25 seconds ahead of American teammate Jacqueline Wiles on Thursday.
Sofia Goggia of Italy was fourth and overall World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin — racing this downhill for the first time — was fifth.
LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (AP) — Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein won the women's World Cup super-G on Sunday for her first Lake Louise victory.
Weirather finished in 1 minute, 18.52 seconds in sunny conditions. She won after finishing second five times in downhill and super-G races at the resort.
"Well, it really means a lot to me because I was here and on the podium so many times," Weirather said. "I think seven times and now the first win. I was so close a couple of times."
LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (AP) — Lindsey Vonn was the second-fastest in training Thursday for the season-opening women's World Cup downhill.
An 18-time winner at Lake Louise, Vonn is back at the resort west of Calgary after missing the stop last season because of a broken arm. The 33-year-old American star had a run of 1 minute, 48.29 seconds to finish 0.15 seconds behind Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic.
Downhills are set for Friday and Saturday, followed by a super-G race Sunday.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico brewery that uses the Route 66 in its name faces a lawsuit from a European company that says it owns the beer sales and marketing trademark for the famed American highway.
Spain and Serbia are on the verge of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia after wins on Tuesday, while Croatia and Iceland are top of a very tight Group I.
Spain followed up Saturday's 3-0 win over Italy by crushing Liechtenstein 8-0 to remain top of Group G, three points ahead of the Azzurri, who labored to a 1-0 win over Israel.
Serbia is similarly in control of Group D after beating Ireland 1-0 to go four points clear.
Spain cruised to an 8-0 win over last-place Liechtenstein to stay in control of Group G in European qualifying for the 2018 World Cup on Tuesday.
Alvaro Morata and Iago Aspas each scored two goals as Spain maintained its three-point advantage over second-place Italy with two matches remaining.
VADUZ, Liechtenstein (AP) — Spain cruised to an 8-0 win over last-place Liechtenstein to stay in control of Group G in European qualifying for the 2018 World Cup on Tuesday.
Alvaro Morata and Iago Aspas each scored two goals as Spain guaranteed at least second place in the group and repeated its 8-0 victory over Liechtenstein last year.
Spain also scored with Sergio Ramos, Francisco "Isco" Alarcon, David Silva and an own goal by Max Goeppel.
MADRID (AP) — Spain striker David Villa will miss Tuesday's World Cup qualifier against Liechtenstein after injuring a muscle during training.
Spain's team doctors had originally said Villa was doubtful after he pulled a muscle during Sunday's team practice. But the doctors ruled the 35-year-old striker unavailable hours later.
Villa played the final two minutes of Spain's 3-0 win over Italy on Saturday, his first appearance after a three-year absence from the national team.
MADRID (AP) — Veteran striker David Villa was summoned by Spain on Friday for the first time since the 2014 World Cup, and became the first Major League Soccer player to join the national squad.
The 35-year-old New York City FC striker was included in a 26-man squad by coach Julen Lopetegui that will host Italy on Sept. 2 and visit Liechtenstein on Sept. 5 in another World Cup qualifier.
GIJON, Spain (AP) — Spain and Italy both scored early on their way to comfortable home victories that extended their lead in Group G of European qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.
Spain defeated Israel 4-1 in Gijon, while Italy beat Albania 2-0 in Palermo in a match halted for nearly nine minutes after Albania fans threw flares onto the pitch.
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Dad has a crystal globe. Mom has several of them. Now Tina Weirather has one, too.
It will sure look nice in the family trophy case — once they assemble it again.
Weirather turned in a smooth run to win a super-G race Thursday at World Cup Finals and overtake Ilka Stuhec of Slovenia for the season-long discipline crown.
GENEVA (AP) — With Britain's exit from the European Union looming, Scottish officials have been visiting Liechtenstein to explore the tiny Alpine country's arrangements that give it access to the massive EU market.
Liechtenstein Foreign Minister Aurelia Frick says Scottish envoys have been "coming and visiting ... and trying to find out especially about the functioning" of the European Economic Area that allows Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway to be part of the EU single market.
Former champions Spain and Italy eased to comfortable 4-0 wins over weak opponents in European qualifying for the 2018 World Cup on Saturday.
A Spain side missing several players due to injury tacked on some late goals to trounce Macedonia while Italy eased up after a first-half barrage at Liechtenstein to remain tied atop Group G with 10 points each.
Ireland seized control of Group D with a 1-0 win over Austria, while rivals Wales and Serbia drew 1-1 after a dramatic end in Cardiff.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After missing out on the European Championship, forwards Victor "Vitolo" Machin and Andrea Belotti helped Spain and Italy move one step closer to World Cup qualification by leading their team's comfortable wins on Saturday.
Vitolo was Spain's most incisive player and put its 4-0 victory over Macedonia beyond doubt, while Belotti scored twice in Italy's 4-0 victory at Liechtenstein.