Lautaro Martínez scores for Inter Milan and is closing in on club records

MILAN (AP) — Lautaro Martínez is closing in on more records for Inter Milan.

The Argentinian World Cup winner scored again on Sunday to set league leader Inter on its way to a 2-0 win at Cremonese in Serie A.

It was Lautaro’s 170th goal for Inter and left him just one behind Roberto Boninsegna, who is in third place in the club’s all-time scorers list. Ahead of them are only Alessandro Altobelli (209 goals) and Giuseppe Meazza (284).

Lautaro has scored 10 goals in his last 13 league matches to take his tally to 128 in Serie A and the 28-year-old is only 10 away from Benito Lorenzi, who is second among Inter’s top scorers in Serie A. Meazza tops that list as well, with 197 league goals.

Lautaro headed in a corner in the 16th minute and — after embracing his teammates — he lifted up his shirt to show a happy birthday message for his daughter.

Piotr Zielinski doubled Inter’s lead in the 31st minute with a fierce 30-yard strike that Cremonese goalkeeper Emil Audero appeared to have covered until it swerved in mid-air and went through his arms.

The match had to be halted for three minutes at the start of the second half after Audero was struck by a flare thrown by the away fans.

Audero was able to get up and continue but had a cut on his right leg and appeared to be telling the medical staff that he couldn’t hear from his right ear.

Inter extended its Serie A lead to eight points over second-placed AC Milan, which visits Bologna on Tuesday.

Juventus is playing the same kind of entertaining, attacking soccer under coach Luciano Spalletti as the Napoli team that he steered to the Serie A title in 2023.

And after crushing Napoli 3-0 last weekend, Juventus cantered to a 4-1 win at Parma on Sunday.

Bremer scored twice, while United States international Weston McKennie was also on target. Canada standout Jonathan David capped the scoring with his fourth goal in five matches.

Parma had briefly made it 2-1 with a comical own-goal from Juventus midfielder Andrea Cambiaso, who shinned the ball into his own net as he tried to clear.

Juventus moved to fourth, two points above Roma ahead of the capital team's match at Udinese on Monday.

Atalanta managed to draw 0-0 at Como despite playing almost the entire match with 10 men.

It was a dramatic start to the game. With less than eight minutes on the clock, Atalanta defender Honest Ahanor was shown a straight red card for shoving Máximo Perrone in the face during an off-the-ball incident after the Como midfielder appeared to say something to him.

Nico Paz should have won the match for Como deep in stoppage time when the home side was awarded a penalty following Giorgio Scalvini's hand ball.

However, Paz had missed his past two spot kicks and he made it three out of three as Atalanta goalkeeper Marco Carnesecchi was able to stop his fairly weak and central attempt in the 98th minute.

Como remained sixth, a place and five points above Atalanta.

Earlier, Torino beat relegation-threatened Lecce 1-0.

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Juventus' Jonathan David celebrates after scoring his side's fourth goal during the Serie A soccer match between Parma and Juventus in Parma, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)

Juventus' Weston McKennie, left, celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the Serie A soccer match between Parma and Juventus in Parma, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)

Inter's Piotr Zielinski celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the Serie A soccer match between Cremonese and Inter in Cremona, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 2026. (Alberto Mariani/LaPresse via AP)

Cremonese's goalkeeper Emil Audero lies on the pitch after fans throw a flair towards him during the Serie A soccer match between Cremonese and Inter in Cremona, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 2026. (Alberto Mariani/LaPresse via AP)

Fans throw a flair towards Cremonese's goalkeeper Emil Audero during the Serie A soccer match between Cremonese and Inter in Cremona, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 2026. (Alberto Mariani/LaPresse via AP)

Inter's Lautaro Martinez, right, controls the ball during the Serie A soccer match between Cremonese and Inter in Cremona, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 2026. (Alberto Mariani/LaPresse via AP)

Inter's Lautaro Martinez celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Serie A soccer match between Cremonese and Inter in Cremona, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 2026. (Alberto Mariani/LaPresse via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. service member who has been missing since Iran shot down a fighter jet has been rescued, President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post early Sunday.

A frantic U.S. search-and-rescue operation unfolded after the crash of the F-15E Strike Eagle on Friday, as Iran also promised a reward for anyone who turned in the “enemy pilot.”

A second crew member was rescued earlier.

“This brave Warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour,” Trump wrote.

Trump said that the aviator is injured but “will be just fine,” adding that the rescue involved “dozens of aircraft” and that the U.S. had been monitoring his location “24 hours a day, and diligently planning for his rescue.”

The fighter jet was the first U.S. aircraft to have crashed in Iranian territory since the conflict in late February.

Trump said last week that the U.S. had “decimated” Iran and would finish the war “very fast.” Two days later, Iran shot down two U.S. military planes, showing the ongoing perils of the bombing campaign and the ability of a degraded Iranian military to continue to hit back.

In Kuwait, an Iranian drone attack caused significant damage to two power plants and put a water desalination station out of service, according to the Ministry of Electricity. No injuries were reported from the attack, the ministry said.

In Bahrain, the national oil company said that a drone attack caused a fire at one of its storage facilities, which was extinguished. It said the damage was still being assessed and no injuries had been reported.

In the United Arab Emirates, authorities responded to multiple fires at the Borouge petrochemicals plant, a joint venture of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Borealis of Austria. They say the fires were caused by falling debris following successful interceptions by air defense systems, but production at the plant in Ruwais, near the UAE’s western border with Saudi Arabia, has halted.

The strike came a day after Israel struck a petrochemical plant in Iran that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said generated revenue that it had used to fund the war.

The war began with joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Feb. 28 and has killed thousands, shaken global markets, cut off key shipping routes and spiked fuel prices. Both sides have threatened and hit civilian targets, bringing warnings of possible war crimes.

The other jet to go down was a U.S. A-10 attack aircraft. Neither the status of the crew nor exactly where it crashed was immediately known.

Trump renewed his threats for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for global energy shipments that has been choked off by Tehran, by Monday or face devastating consequences, writing Saturday in a social media post: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out — 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.”

“The doors of hell will be opened to you” if Iran’s infrastructure is attacked, Gen. Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi with the country’s joint military command said late Saturday in response to Trump’s renewed threat, state media reported. In turn, the general threatened all infrastructure used by the U.S. military in the region.

But Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Tahir Andrabi, told The Associated Press that his government’s efforts to broker a ceasefire are “right on track” after Islamabad last week said that it would soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran.

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said that Iranian officials “have never refused to go to Islamabad.”

Mediators from Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt were working to bring the U.S. and Iran to the negotiating table, according to two regional officials.

The proposed compromise includes a cessation of hostilities to allow a diplomatic settlement, according to a regional official involved in the efforts and a Gulf diplomat briefed on the matter. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss closed-door diplomacy.

Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, issued a veiled threat late Friday to disrupt traffic through a second strategic waterway in the region, the Bab el-Mandeb.

The strait, 32 kilometers (20 miles) wide, links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. More than a tenth of seaborne global oil and a quarter of container ships pass through it.

“Which countries and companies account for the highest transit volumes through the strait?” Qalibaf wrote.

More than 1,900 people have been killed in Iran since the war began.

In Gulf Arab states and the occupied West Bank, more than two dozen people have died, while 19 have been reported dead in Israel and 13 U.S. service members have been killed. In Lebanon, more than 1,400 people have been killed and more than 1 million people have been displaced. Ten Israeli soldiers have died there.

This report has been corrected to show that Borealis is an Austrian company and not Australian.

Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Samy Magdy in Cairo; Munir Ahmed in Islamabad; Dasha Litvinova in Tallinn, Estonia; and Seung Min Kim, Will Weissert, Michelle L. Price, Lisa Mascaro and Ben Finley in Washington, contributed to this report.

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