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Gianni Infantino eyes junior tournament in Dominican Republic as potential route out of crisis
Gianni Infantino, the Fifa president, is planning to attend a junior football tournament in the Dominican Republic this weekend in an apparent attempt to weaken the coalition of European and North American football bodies seeking to remove him. Despite being urged to stay away by senior figures in Concacaf, Infantino intends to attend the Caribbean…
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UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada condemn Israel’s West Bank settlement project
Israel’s decision to open tenders for around 1,200 settlement homes in the highly sensitive E1 area of the occupied West Bank has drawn sharp condemnation from the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada, who jointly called the move “unacceptable” and demanded it be retracted immediately. The E1 site, located between East Jerusalem and the settlement…
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Fugitive drill rapper who went on the run twice and fled to France ahead of deportation flight is jailed – as police admit they have no idea how he escaped the country
Daniel Boakye, a 21-year-old drill rapper known as Dsavv, has been jailed for 10 months after twice escaping police custody and fleeing to France while awaiting deportation to Ghana. Police have admitted they still do not know how he managed to leave Britain or enter France, raising questions about security lapses during his time in…
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Arctic power play gives top US adversary new opening with Russia as US stakes grow
China has launched a regular seasonal container shipping service to Europe via Russia’s Arctic north coast, in a move analysts say signals a deepening strategic and commercial partnership between Beijing and Moscow in a region Washington increasingly regards as critical to US security. Although the route remains modest in scale for now, China analyst Gordon…
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Why is US bond market turmoil hitting governments worldwide? | Richard Partington
Government borrowing costs around the world have surged to their highest levels in decades, driven by turmoil in the US bond market. Anxiety over Donald Trump’s handling of the economy, combined with fears that his conflict with Iran is fuelling inflation, has triggered a sell-off in US Treasury bonds, and because they underpin global financial…
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‘DAU’ Director Defends Film After Ukraine Backlash
Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky has publicly defended his film DAU after Ukraine’s government branded it Russian propaganda and demanded it be pulled from the Venice Film Festival next month. In a Facebook post, Khrzhanovsky rejected the accusations, stressing that he has renounced his Russian citizenship in protest at the war and that the film is “an…
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Moment one of Spain’s top matadors is gored through the testicle during bullfight
A prominent Spanish matador was gored through the testicle during a bullfight, according to video footage of the incident. Details of the fight itself, including the matador’s identity, the venue and the ultimate outcome for the bullfighter, were not included in the available report text, which consisted largely of unrelated site navigation and other headlines…
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Muse bring The Wow! Signal Europe Tour to Germany – Ad-hoc-news.de
Muse have announced German dates on their The Wow! Signal Europa Tour, supporting their tenth studio album of the same name. The concerts form part of a wider European arena run in late 2026, giving German fans three opportunities to see the band’s new live production. The German leg begins at Berlin’s Uber Arena on…
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Aigul Akhmetshina: Mujer Fatal album review – classy and sensual in music from Bizet to Britten and Bernstein
Akhmetshina/Pappano (Decca) The mezzo-soprano lends supple and elegant voice to opera arias and musical numbers that explore womanhood Acclaimed for embodying opera’s femme fatales such as Carmen and Dalia, Aigul Akhmetshina explores womanhood more broadly on her second album, Mujer Fatal. Accompanied on piano by Antonio Pappano, the repertoire ranges from Spanish, French and Russian…