While the rest of the world revels in the tournament, Italians are purposefully ignoring it; ‘I don’t give a f—.’ Few bars in Rome are showing the World Cup and at the ones that are, only tourists are watching. ROME—The World Cup is in full swing and people the world over are having a ball….
TO A SLAVIC ear, 40 days is no accidental deadline. In Russia as in Ukraine, the 40th day after death is when the soul departs. So when Volodymyr Zelensky took to social media on June 25th to announce a new drone surge to “compel” Russia to negotiate for peace, he seemed to be telling Vladimir…
Only few outside Africa would have known of Cabo Verde, or Cape Verde, before the country qualified for Fifa World Cup 2026. When Cape Verde entered the 2026 World Cup, it was ranked 67th in Fifa men’s world rankings. (HT) The tiny island nation gripped the world’s attention as it pushed footballing giants to their…
Trump has been publicly critical of Netanyahu in recent weeks. (File) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump spoke on Friday and agreed to meet “soon” in the United States, the premier’s office said. The conversation comes after the United States and Israel fought alongside each other in their military campaign against…
A £75,000 scheme by a Reform-led council to hang union flags at sites across the county, which the party said would “not cost the taxpayer a single penny” as it would be sponsored by local businesses, has failed to attract a single sponsor, it has emerged. The plan to attach the flags to brackets on…
PARIS (AP) — Interpol on Friday identified a 39-year-old woman from Ukraine as the main suspect in a bombing in Monaco that reportedly targeted a Ukrainian tycoon with links to Russia. The police organization named Anastasiia Berezovska, who remains at large, in a Red Notice seeking her arrest on charges of attempted murder, placing an…
People listed under the sanctions programme are subject to an asset freeze. The Council of the EU said it had issued sanctions against six people – most of whom were scientists and researchers – who were involved in the development of the toxin that caused the death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. The EU said…
The moment the quake struck the coastal region of Caraballeda, Venezuela. @neracosu via TikTok Any large earthquake can be dangerous, but the residents of Caracas and Venezuelan coastal cities like La Guaira and Catia La Mar were victims of several unlucky factors. Two quakes in rapid succession, a fault that ruptured toward more populated areas,…
Tehran: Few analogues in history have been organised on such a scale, size, and import as the mass funeral that Iran’s theocratic regime is preparing to hold for its former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the US-Israeli strikes at the beginning of the war on February 28. Khamenei’s remains arrived in…
New Delhi: For eight days, 43-year-old security guard Hernan Alberto Gil Flores lay trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in Venezuela, unsure if he would survive. When rescuers finally reached him, his first request was heartbreaking: “He asked not to tell his wife that he was alive, just in case he wouldn’t make…