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Marcelo Vieira: A proper Real Madrid legend

Marcelo Vieira: A proper Real Madrid legend

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-06-14 12:50:21

Marcelo dribbling past a few opposition players and looking for a cross into the box has been one of the most common scenes that could be seen in any Real Madrid match from 2007 to 2022.  The Re...

Britain defies EU with 'relatively trivial' Northern Ireland law

Britain defies EU with 'relatively trivial' Northern Ireland law

-- 2022-06-14 12:13:54

Britain published plans on Monday to override some post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland by scrapping checks and challenging the role played by the European Union's court in a new clash with Br...

Hundreds of Ukrainian civilians shelter in chemical plant

Hundreds of Ukrainian civilians shelter in chemical plant

-- 2022-06-13 21:12:18

Russian forces swarmed into the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk and pounded a zone where hundreds of civilians were sheltering, a Ukrainian official said on Monday - a scene that mirrored Mo...

Wikipedia challenges Russian order to remove Ukraine war information

Wikipedia challenges Russian order to remove Ukraine war information

-- 2022-06-13 18:03:48

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, has filed an appeal against a Moscow court decision demanding that it remove information related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing that people...

Macron faces tough fight for absolute majority in French parliament

Macron faces tough fight for absolute majority in French parliament

-- 2022-06-13 16:18:05

French President Emmanuel Macron faces a tough fight to win an absolute majority in parliament that would allow him to govern with a free hand after a strong showing by a new left-wing alliance in Sun...

UN rights chief indicates she may not seek second term

UN rights chief indicates she may not seek second term

-- 2022-06-13 16:12:12

The United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, indicated on Monday that she would not seek a second term, the surprise announcement coming in a wide-ranging speech to the Geneva-based Human...

Britain urges EU to change post-Brexit trade rules with Northern Ireland

Britain urges EU to change post-Brexit trade rules with Northern Ireland

-- 2022-06-13 14:56:26

British foreign minister Liz Truss told the European Union's Maros Sefcovic on Monday the bloc must be willing to change post-Brexit rules governing trade with Northern Ireland, repeating that London...

Russia says it destroys depot containing Western weapons in Ukraine

Russia says it destroys depot containing Western weapons in Ukraine

-- 2022-06-12 20:53:21

Russian forces fired cruise missiles to destroy a large depot containing US and European weapons in western Ukraine's Ternopil region as street fighting raged in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk....

Vkusno & tochka: McDonald's restaurants reopen in Russia under new name

Vkusno & tochka: McDonald's restaurants reopen in Russia under new name

-- 2022-06-12 15:26:37

McDonald's restaurants flung open their doors in Moscow once again on Sunday under new Russian ownership and a new name: Vkusno & tochka, which translates as "Tasty and that's it". The new dawn f...

French go to polls to give Macron working majority or not

French go to polls to give Macron working majority or not

-- 2022-06-12 12:35:41

French voters go to the polls on Sunday in the first of two rounds that will decide whether President Emmanuel Macron gets a working majority in parliament or ends up without the support needed to dri...

Spanish fan-sellers doing good business as temperature hits 20-year high

Spanish fan-sellers doing good business as temperature hits 20-year high

-- 2022-06-11 23:18:02

Fan-sellers were doing good business in the southern city of Seville on Saturday as Spain sizzled in the hottest pre-summer heatwave for at least 20 years. Carriage drivers dampened down horses who t...

Residents of two Ukrainian cities getting Russian passports

Residents of two Ukrainian cities getting Russian passports

-- 2022-06-11 23:10:53

The Russian occupation authorities in southern Ukraine say they have started handing out Russian passports to locals in two cities - Kherson and Melitopol. Ukraine condemns the creation of Russian ci...

Five people killed in Italy helicopter crash 

Five people killed in Italy helicopter crash 

-- 2022-06-11 18:32:19

Five people were killed after a helicopter crash in Italy, a regional governor said on Saturday, and two passengers were still missing two days after the aircraft vanished from radar screens, reports...

Zelensky says stopping Russian invasion crucial for whole world

Zelensky says stopping Russian invasion crucial for whole world

-- 2022-06-11 18:12:51

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking remotely at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, said the outcome of the war in his country affected not just Ukraine, but the future of internationa...

300,000 tonnes of grain in Ukraine’s destroyed warehouses by 'Russian shelling'

300,000 tonnes of grain in Ukraine’s destroyed warehouses by 'Russian shelling'

-- 2022-06-11 18:08:39

Up to 300,000 tonnes of grain may have been stored in warehouses that Kyiv says were destroyed by Russian shelling last weekend, deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskyi said on Saturday. Speaking...

Russia gets higher energy revenue now than before Ukraine war: US official

Russia gets higher energy revenue now than before Ukraine war: US official

-- 2022-06-10 17:33:55

Russia may be getting more revenue from its fossil fuels now than shortly before its invasion of Ukraine, as global price increases offset the impact of Western efforts to restrict its sales, US energ...

Hailing Peter the Great, Putin draws parallel with mission to 'return' Russian lands

Hailing Peter the Great, Putin draws parallel with mission to 'return' Russian lands

-- 2022-06-10 12:17:13

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute on Thursday to Tsar Peter the Great on the 350th anniversary of his birth, drawing a parallel between what he portrayed as their twin historic quests to w...

Chelsea need a 'mini-rebuild'

Chelsea need a 'mini-rebuild'

Mansurul Kafi 2022-06-09 18:32:07

Although Chelsea clinched two trophies (Club World Cup and European Super Cup) and were able to reach the finals of Carabao and FA cup, their overall performance, especially in the premier league left...

Russian FM says Ukraine can resume grain shipments by de-mining its ports

Russian FM says Ukraine can resume grain shipments by de-mining its ports

-- 2022-06-08 18:27:50

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday the onus was on Ukraine to solve the problem of resuming grain shipments by de-mining its ports. Lavrov said no action was required on the Russian...

Messi and Ronaldo are not done yet

Messi and Ronaldo are not done yet

Mahtab Jamil 2022-06-08 13:26:20

In Argentina’s last game against Estonia, Lionel Messi scored all 5 goals for his side, making a new record as the first-ever player to score 5 goals both for club and country.  Back in 20...

Ukraine grain exports capped at 2.0m tonnes per month

Ukraine grain exports capped at 2.0m tonnes per month

-- 2022-06-07 17:23:11

Ukraine will only be able to export a maximum 2.0 million tonnes of grains a month if Russia refuses to lift its blockade of the country's Black Sea ports, Taras Vysotskyi, Ukraine's first deputy mini...

World must tell Taliban it's going in wrong direction, says German foreign minister

World must tell Taliban it's going in wrong direction, says German foreign minister

-- 2022-06-07 15:29:13

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for the international community to send Afghanistan's Taliban leadership the message that it is heading in the wrong direction. "Our influence on what...

Being Jurgen Klopp isn't easy

Being Jurgen Klopp isn't easy

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2022-06-07 13:45:55

Jurgen Klopp is clearly among the finest managers of his generation, if not of all time. He has been doing extraordinary things as a coach. It is true for both Liverpool and Dortmund. Yet he has not e...

Fierce street fighting in Ukraine's Sievierodonetsk

Fierce street fighting in Ukraine's Sievierodonetsk

-- 2022-06-07 10:31:07

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian troops were engaged in fierce street fighting with Russian soldiers in the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, a pivotal battle in the Kremlin's attempt to...

US wins authority to seize Russian oligarch's planes

US wins authority to seize Russian oligarch's planes

-- 2022-06-07 10:26:26

A US court on Monday issued warrants for the seizure of two luxury planes owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich under US measures imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, court records show...

UK's Boris Johnson wins confidence vote but suffers big rebellion

UK's Boris Johnson wins confidence vote but suffers big rebellion

-- 2022-06-07 10:23:58

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote on Monday but a rebellion by 148 of his 359 Conservative Party lawmakers dealt a serious blow to his authority, Reuters reports. A majo...

US media in Moscow may lose accreditation, warns Russia

US media in Moscow may lose accreditation, warns Russia

-- 2022-06-06 23:17:03

Russia warned US news organisations on Monday they risked being stripped of their accreditation unless the treatment of Russian journalists in the United States improves, according to three sources wi...

Ukrainian, Russian troops fight to win control of industrial city

Ukrainian, Russian troops fight to win control of industrial city

-- 2022-06-06 21:45:48

Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street-by-street to win control of the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin's eastern Ukraine offencive. Which side ha...

Three countries block Russian FM’s plane from travelling to Serbia

Three countries block Russian FM’s plane from travelling to Serbia

-- 2022-06-06 20:13:58

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Serbia was cancelled after countries around Serbia closed their airspace to Lavrov’s aircraft. Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro had clo...

Vinicius Junior’s breakout season

Vinicius Junior’s breakout season

Mahtab Jamil 2022-06-06 17:48:04

When Vinicius Jr joined Real Madrid from Flamengo back in 2019, many compared him to Neymar coming from Santos. But in a star-studded team like Real Madrid, he found life to be difficult in the beginn...