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Arsenal receive record £60m as Martinelli joins Al-Hilal
Arsenal have confirmed the sale of forward Gabriel Martinelli to Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal for £60m, a fee that sets a new record for the Premier League champions, surpassing the £40m they received for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain from Liverpool in 2017. The Brazilian, who joined from Ituano in 2019 and was part of Arsenal’s title-winning squad…
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Palestinian teens killed during settler attack on West Bank village, officials say
Two Palestinian teenagers, Omar al-Nassan, 19, and Khalil Abu Alia, 16, were killed in the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir after local officials said Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked while the pair tried to stop settlers stealing sheep. The Israeli military said its forces entered the village to protect an Israeli civilian and police retrieving…
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King Charles voices concern over worsening US-Iran conflict to Pakistani mediator
King Charles was overheard in a hot mic moment expressing private concerns that the US-Iran conflict, now in its seventh month, is worsening. He made the remark to Mohsin Naqvi, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board and Pakistan’s Interior Minister, who is also leading negotiations between Washington and Tehran, while hosting the Pakistan cricket team…
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Four Palestine Action thugs jailed for causing £1.2m worth of damage in Israeli-linked weapons factory raid to appeal sentences
Four Palestine Action activists jailed for a raid that caused £1.2million of damage at an Elbit Systems defence factory near Bristol are seeking to appeal against their sentences, arguing a judge was wrong to classify their actions as terrorism. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Fatema Rajwani used sledgehammers and crowbars to destroy computers,…
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Falling House depicts Iranian guard imprisoning his family
A review from the Venice film festival covers Falling House, Mohsen Gharaei’s domestic drama screening in the Orizzonti section, about an Iranian prison guard who imprisons his own family within their home. The film, starring Farhad Aslani as jailer Rashid Hafizhi, functions as a thinly veiled parable of life under the Islamic Republic, suggesting that…
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‘You weren’t there to help me’: Trump hints he wouldn’t back Britain if Argentina invaded the Falklands – as he jibes that the country ‘isn’t doing well’
Donald Trump has suggested he might not back Britain if Argentina were to invade the Falkland Islands again, breaking with decades of US neutrality on the islands’ sovereignty. In a GB News interview, the president jibed that Britain “isn’t doing well” and accused it of failing to support the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, remarks widely…
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Trump ‘is privately discussing whether to declare Iran war over’
Donald Trump is privately weighing whether to declare the war with Iran over, according to Wall Street Journal sources, as the conflict enters its seventh month. The president reportedly believes sustained economic pressure will eventually force Tehran to abandon its nuclear programme or collapse outright, even as advisers warn him that further escalation could damage…
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Blundering Canadian officials gave millions of taxpayer cash to son of Iranian vice president who helped Islamic Republic develop MISSILES
Canadian federal agencies awarded millions of dollars in contracts to a company founded by the son of a former Iranian vice president, even while intelligence officials were investigating him over alleged involvement in developing missile and jamming systems for Iran’s military. Mohammad Reza Ghafouri Fard, who operates under the name “Sal Ghafouri” in Alberta, secured…
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Trump says Pete Hegseth ‘knocked the hell’ out of Iran as Pentagon chief extends Mideast troop deployments into 2027
Donald Trump publicly praised Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth for recent US strikes on Iran, even as the Pentagon extended troop deployments in the Middle East in a move that could see American forces remain in the region into 2027. The comments come as Hegseth faces separate scrutiny following the departure of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll,…