BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Raphinha has agreed to a new contract with Barcelona that will keep the Brazil forward at the Spanish club through 2030.
Barcelona announced the new deal with its leading scorer on Thursday.
His prior deal was through 2028.
Raphinha, 29, has emerged as a world-class player since joining Barcelona from Leeds in 2022. He has helped Barcelona win three Spanish league titles, including the past two, excelling up front along with Lamine Yamal.
He is having an exceptional season after becoming the team’s striker. He has scored 19 times in 13 games across all competitions, including a La Liga-leading 15 goals.
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Barcelona's Raphinha celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Barcelona and Alaves in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
LONDON (AP) — A British man being treated for Ebola in Congo is being evacuated to the U.K., the government said Thursday.
The man, believed to be a healthcare worker, is the first British patient evacuated from the current outbreak of the deadly virus, and the third person to have tested positive to return to Europe.
The patient is expected to be taken to the Royal Free Hospital in London, which has a high level isolation unit that was used to treat patients from an Ebola outbreak in West Africa between 2014 and 2015.
The Foreign Office said the U.K.’s procedures for dealing with infectious diseases had been activated and the risk to the public from Ebola is low.
France confirmed a case in June in a doctor — since recovered — who had returned from a humanitarian mission in Congo. A Swiss woman believed to have contracted the virus in Uganda was medically evacuated to Geneva for treatment last month and her husband, a diplomat, was held in isolation in Zurich.
The disease spreading in some of Congo’s remotest provinces has infected 10,600 people, more than 5,100 of whom have died. It’s spread to 67 health zones across eight provinces, from three zones when it was first declared in May.
“The infection of a British healthcare worker with Ebola is deeply concerning, but it is not entirely unexpected,” said Dr. Damien Tully, an infectious disease expert at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. “Healthcare workers are on the front line of these outbreaks, often treating severely ill patients under extremely challenging conditions. Even with rigorous protective measures, accidental exposures can occur.”
A patient is being transferred in a isolation unit from a rescue aircraft to a rescue helicopter of Swiss Air Rescue at Zurich Airport on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, in Zurich, Switzerland. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)
A healthcare worker in protective clothing is disinfected by a colleague inside a treatment center for Ebola patients in Beni, North Kivu province, eastern Congo, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Sebastien Kitsa Musayi)
