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Denmark’s Markus Lauridsen, center, falls on Italy’s Matt Bradley, left, next to Denmark’s goaltender Mads Sogaard, right, during the 2026 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round group B game between Denmark and Italy in Fribourg, Switzerland, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Alessandro della Valle\/Keystone via AP)
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Denmark’s Markus Lauridsen, center, falls on Italy’s Matt Bradley, left, next to Denmark’s goaltender Mads Sogaard, right, during the 2026 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round group B game between Denmark and Italy in Fribourg, Switzerland, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Alessandro della Valle\/Keystone via AP)<\/p>\n
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Italy’s players celebrate their side’s first goal during the 2026 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round group B game between Denmark and Italy in Fribourg, Switzerland, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Alessandro della Valle\/Keystone via AP)<\/p>\n
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Denmark’s Markus Lauridsen, top, falls on Italy’s Matt Bradley, during the 2026 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round group B game between Denmark and Italy in Fribourg, Switzerland, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Alessandro della Valle\/Keystone via AP)<\/p>\n
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Latvia’s Player celebrate their side’s fifth goal during the 2026 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round group A match between Great Britain and Latvia in Zurich, Switzerland, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Andreas Becker\/Keystone via AP)<\/p>\n
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Latvia’s Rudolfs Balcers, left, scores his side’s third goal during the 2026 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round group A match between Great Britain and Latvia in Zurich, Switzerland, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Andreas Becker\/Keystone via AP)<\/p>\n
Britain returned to the top tier after a one-year absence but has failed to win a single point and scored only four goals and conceded 29 in its six games. Britain, which will play Germany on Monday in their final game, trails second-to-last Hungary by three points but lost their head-to-head encounter 5-0. <\/p>\n
Another newcomer, Italy, still has a chance to survive after earning the first point in a 3-2 defeat to Denmark in a shootout in Fribourg.<\/p>\n
Italy is two points behind Slovenia in Group B before they face each other on Monday. <\/p>\n
Group B leader Canada played Slovakia later Sunday and Finland faced Austria in Group A.<\/p>\n
AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/p>\n
Denmark’s Markus Lauridsen, center, falls on Italy’s Matt Bradley, left, next to Denmark’s goaltender Mads Sogaard, right, during the 2026 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round group B game between Denmark and Italy in Fribourg, Switzerland, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Alessandro della Valle\/Keystone via AP)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Italy’s players celebrate their side’s first goal during the 2026 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round group B game between Denmark and Italy in Fribourg, Switzerland, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Alessandro della Valle\/Keystone via AP)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Denmark’s Markus Lauridsen, top, falls on Italy’s Matt Bradley, during the 2026 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round group B game between Denmark and Italy in Fribourg, Switzerland, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Alessandro della Valle\/Keystone via AP)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Latvia’s Player celebrate their side’s fifth goal during the 2026 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round group A match between Great Britain and Latvia in Zurich, Switzerland, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Andreas Becker\/Keystone via AP)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Latvia’s Rudolfs Balcers, left, scores his side’s third goal during the 2026 IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship preliminary round group A match between Great Britain and Latvia in Zurich, Switzerland, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Andreas Becker\/Keystone via AP)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n ANKARA (AP) \u2014 Police stormed the offices of Turkey\u2019s main opposition CHP party on Sunday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at party supporters and officials who had been holed up inside for three days.<\/p>\n It was a violent end to a standoff between members of the Republican Peoples\u2019 Party, or CHP, and a leadership team appointed by an appeals court, escalating tensions between the opposition and the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n Supporters had barricaded the courtyard entrance with buses and the building with furniture. Footage taken by local media in the courtyard and inside the building showed clouds of tear gas as riot police stormed through the premises, before journalists were removed by the police. <\/p>\n Once the raid began, supporters attempted to resist the police by spraying them with fire extinguishers, but were quickly stopped. Doors, furniture and the ground floor windows were destroyed in the melee.<\/p>\n Among those inside the building was Ozgur Ozel, elected as party chairperson in November 2023 but dismissed by the court ruling. A video from inside his office at the start of the raid shows him being served the court order removing him, which he promptly ripped up.<\/p>\n Leaving party headquarters to cheers from supporters outside, Ozel told journalists: \u201cWe are leaving (the building) now only to reclaim it in such a way that no one will be able to meddle again. When we return, neither this administration nor the administration\u2019s collaborators will dare do this once more.\u201d<\/p>\n Ozel and his supporters then marched to Parliament about 8 kilometers (5 miles) away, joined by hundreds of passersby despite heavy rain and hail. Before arriving at Parliament, he stopped at the National Sovereignty Park where he asked the crowd if they were willing to rebuild the party for a third time. <\/p>\n The CHP was first established in 1923 by Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, but was shut down in a 1980 military coup, before reemerging in 1992. <\/p>\n Outside the legislature, Ozel rallied a crowd of hundreds, telling them that the CHP was \u201cde facto shuttered\u201d but would be reestablished. <\/p>\n Even if ousted as the chairperson of the CHP, Ozel is still an elected lawmaker from the western province of Manisa as well as the party’s group speaker.<\/p>\n The appeals court on Thursday nullified Ozel’s election as CHP chairperson, suspending him and members of the party\u2019s executive board. <\/p>\n The court ruling said Ozel should be replaced by Kemal Kilicdaroglu, his predecessor, who led the party for 13 years but never won any national elections. <\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ozel, in his first and only election as party leader, delivered a decisive blow to Erdogan\u2019s Justice and Development Party in the 2024 municipal polls.<\/p>\n The opposition says the decision was politically motivated to weaken the party as it struggles under waves of legal cases targeting its members and elected officials.<\/p>\n The next presidential election isn’t due until 2028, but Erdogan can call for an early vote. His main challenger, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a CHP member, has been imprisoned since March last year and is on trial on corruption charges.<\/p>\n Many observers have said the legal cases against the CHP \u2014 mostly centered on corruption allegations \u2014 are aimed at neutralizing the party ahead of the next election. The government insists that Turkey\u2019s courts are impartial and act independently of political pressure.<\/p>\n The vast majority of the party has rallied behind Ozel. He and most of the party had been inside the CHP headquarters in Ankara since Thursday\u2019s ruling, with the new administration unable to enter. The rival teams were supposed to meet Sunday afternoon to figure a way out of the impasse. <\/p>\n Early on Sunday, a crowd gathered outside the office, watched by a growing police presence. Kilicdaroglu\u2019s lawyer, Celal Celik, sent a request to Ankara police to assist in vacating the building, a move approved by the provincial governor. <\/p>\n The police raid comes at the start of a nine-day holiday for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, when many people are on vacation and out of the big cities. <\/p>\n Erdogan has ruled Turkey, first as prime minister and then as president, since 2003. His electoral record suffered a setback in 2019, when the CHP seized control of several major cities in local elections. In Istanbul, Imamoglu emerged as a popular and charismatic figure who many felt could successfully topple Erdogan.<\/p>\n Police officers stand at Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) headquarters after entering to evict supporters gathered inside for party leader Ozgur Ozel, in Ankara, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ali Unal)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Supporters of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) gather at the party’s headquarters in Ankara, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ali Unal)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Police officers storm Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) headquarters to evict supporters gathered inside for party leader Ozgur Ozel, in Ankara, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ali Unal)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Police officers arrive at Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) headquarters in Ankara, Sunday, May 24, 2026, to evict supporters gathered inside. (Ugur Yildirim\/DIA Photo via AP)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Supporters of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) shout slogans as they gather at party’s headquarters in Ankara, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Ugur Yildirim\/DIA Photo via AP)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Police officers arrive at Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) headquarters in Ankara, Sunday, May 24, 2026, to evict supporters gathered inside. (Ugur Yildirim\/DIA Photo via AP)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Ozgur Ozel, addresses supporters gather outside the party’s headquarters in Ankara on Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ali Unal)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Supporters of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, shout slogans as they gather outside the party’s headquarters in Ankara, Friday, May 22, 2026. (Gunsu Ozmen\/DIA Photo via AP)<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n
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