[ad_1] Women’s football is experiencing a surge, breaking attendance records, drawing new investment and inspiring a new generation of players and fans.World Sevens Football (W7F) , a new seven-a-side series, aims to take advantage of this boom. It brings faster, more dynamic matches to fans worldwide while giving players an opportunity for a significant financial […]
[ad_1] President Vladimir Putin visited Russia’s Kursk region for the first time since Moscow claimed that it drove Ukrainian forces out of the area last month, the Kremlin said Wednesday. Putin visited the region bordering Ukraine the previous day, according to the Kremlin. Ukrainian forces made a surprise incursion into Kursk in August 2024 in […]
[ad_1] South African President Cyril Ramaphosa WASHINGTON: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meets Donald Trump on Wednesday amid tensions over Washington’s resettlement of white Afrikaners that the US president claims are the victims of “genocide.”The Trump administration‘s admission of around 50 white South Africans last week — even as it halts refugee arrivals from most […]
[ad_1] Donald Trump’s rise from New York real estate notoriety to right-wing demigod has always danced awkwardly alongside celebrity culture. In the 1980s and ’90s, he was the ultimate tabloid mascot—hosting Miss Universe, starring in The Apprentice, and lingering at Manhattan galas he could buy into but never quite belong to.For the cultural elite, Trump […]
[ad_1] CULIACAN: A pack of veterinarians clambered over hefty metal crates on Tuesday morning, loading them one by one onto a fleet of semi-trucks. Among the cargo: tigers, monkeys, jaguars, elephants and lions – all fleeing the latest wave of cartel violence eclipsing the northern Mexican city of Culiacan. For years, exotic pets of cartel […]
[ad_1] HONG KONG: Crude prices surged Wednesday following a report that US intelligence suggested Israel was planning a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, which would send geopolitical tensions into overdrive and fuel regional conflict fears.While safe haven gold pushed almost two percent higher, the news from CNN appeared to be having little detrimental effect on […]
[ad_1] US health officials are investigating a new outbreak of salmonella illnesses tied to a Florida grower whose tainted cucumbers were linked to more than 550 illnesses last year. Cucumbers grown by Florida-based Bedner Growers and distributed by Fresh Start Produce Sales have been linked to illnesses in at least 26 people in 15 states, […]
[ad_1] Fascist. Autocratic. Tyrant. These are the words frequently used by Democrats to describe the erosion of American democracy under Donald Trump. Yet, as Bernie Sanders candidly acknowledged on a recent episode of the Flagrant podcast, the Democratic Party itself had long abandoned internal democratic norms. He admitted the party had “completely removed the democratic […]
[ad_1] UK PM Keir Starmer (File photo) Were Professor Henry Higgins of Pygmalion fame to stroll down Mornington Street in Leicester, he might well be tempted to throw in the phonetic towel. Here, in the heart of St Matthew’s, language is a tapestry of tongues — few of which, for a significant portion of residents, […]
[ad_1] EU seeks to relax rules on turning away asylum seekers (Photo: AP) The EU on Tuesday unveiled plans to make it easier to send asylum seekers to certain third countries, in the latest overhaul aimed at reducing migration to the bloc, sparking criticism from rights groups.The European Commission said it proposed broadening the so-called […]
