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Is Vinicius less appreciated?

Is Vinicius less appreciated?

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-10-06 17:09:18

Real Madrid have a knack for picking up Brazilian talents, which has been evident over the years. So when Vinicius came to Santiago Bernabeu from Flamengo in 2018, expectations of him were quite high....

Russian rockets slam into Ukrainian city near nuclear plant

Russian rockets slam into Ukrainian city near nuclear plant

-- 2022-10-06 15:39:00

Seven Russian rockets slammed into residential buildings in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia before dawn Thursday, killing one person and trapping at least five in the city close to Europe'...

Ukraine recovers more territory in region

Ukraine recovers more territory in region

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-06 10:06:07

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces have retaken more settlements in Kherson, one of the partially Russian-occupied southern regions that Moscow claims to have annexed. With Russian fo...

Big question at new European club's first summit: what is it for?

Big question at new European club's first summit: what is it for?

-- 2022-10-06 09:55:58

Leaders of 44 European countries gather on Thursday for the inaugural summit of the European Political Community (EPC), a grand show of solidarity for a continent mired in multiple crises, but...

At least 15 migrants dead in shipwreck off Greek island Lesbos

At least 15 migrants dead in shipwreck off Greek island Lesbos

-- 2022-10-06 09:49:50

At least 15 people died when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Lesbos in the central Aegean Sea early on Thursday, in the second maritime disaster involving migrants since Wednesday, the c...

‘US decision to send more military aid to Ukraine to increase risk of direct clash’

‘US decision to send more military aid to Ukraine to increase risk of direct clash’

-- 2022-10-05 17:41:50

The US's decision to send more military aid to Ukraine "increases the danger of a direct military clash" between Russia and the West, Moscow has warned. Russia's ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov...

Danish prime minister calls Nov 1 parliament election

Danish prime minister calls Nov 1 parliament election

-- 2022-10-05 17:31:34

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday called a general election to be held on Nov 1 as recent opinion polls suggest the outcome of the vote is too close to call, reports Reuters. "W...

Swedish MEP cuts hair during speech in solidarity with Iranian women

Swedish MEP cuts hair during speech in solidarity with Iranian women

-- 2022-10-05 17:22:12

A Swedish member of the European Parliament lopped off her hair during a speech in the EU assembly in solidarity with anti-government demonstrations in Iran ignited by the death in morality police cus...

Three get Nobel Prize for development of click, bio-orthogonal chemistry

Three get Nobel Prize for development of click, bio-orthogonal chemistry

-- 2022-10-05 16:18:41

Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday "for the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry". The prize was...

Putin completes formal annexation of more than 15pc areas of Ukraine

Putin completes formal annexation of more than 15pc areas of Ukraine

-- 2022-10-05 15:31:44

Russian President Vladimir Putin completed the formal annexation of more than 15 per cent areas of Ukraine on Wednesday just as Russian forces battled to halt a Ukrainian counter-offensive across swat...

Turkey arrests five people over alleged stock market fraud

Turkey arrests five people over alleged stock market fraud

REUTERS 2022-10-05 12:57:40

A Turkish court ruled to formally arrest five of eight people detained at the weekend for alleged fraud in transactions of banking shares on the Istanbul stock market, state-owned Anadolu news agency...

UK warns Russia over use of nuclear weapons

UK warns Russia over use of nuclear weapons

-- 2022-10-04 21:18:26

Britain's foreign minister James Cleverly on Tuesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin's sequence of strategic errors must stop and the use of nuclear weapons would lead to consequences, reports R...

Russian court fines TikTok for not deleting LGBT content

Russian court fines TikTok for not deleting LGBT content

-- 2022-10-04 19:22:46

A Russian court on Tuesday fined TikTok for failing to delete LGBT material, the country's latest crackdown on Big Tech companies. The Tagansky District Court in Moscow issued the 3.0 million ruble (...

Three scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum mechanics

Three scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum mechanics

-- 2022-10-04 16:19:07

Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for ‘experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneer...

Mobile phone critic Pope Francis meets Apple chief Tim Cook

Mobile phone critic Pope Francis meets Apple chief Tim Cook

-- 2022-10-04 15:29:02

Pope Francis, who has often said people should limit their use of cellphones and give preference to personal communication, granted a private audience on Monday to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook. Coo...

Ukraine estimates $35b in environment damage from Russia invasion

Ukraine estimates $35b in environment damage from Russia invasion

-- 2022-10-04 15:24:33

Environmental damage in Ukraine caused by Russia's invasion was estimated at around 36 billion euros ($35.3 billion), with millions of hectares of natural reserves under threat, Ukraine's environment...

Ukraine forces break through Russian defences in south, advance in east

Ukraine forces break through Russian defences in south, advance in east

REUTERS 2022-10-04 10:00:18

Ukrainian forces have broken through Russia's defences in the south of the country while expanding their rapid offensive in the east, seizing back more territory in areas annexed by Moscow and threate...

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng U-turns on plans to scrap 45p tax rate

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng U-turns on plans to scrap 45p tax rate

-- 2022-10-03 18:33:02

The UK government has U-turned on plans to scrap the 45p rate of income tax for higher earners, reports BBC. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC the proposals, announced just 10 days ago, had beco...

Fleeing Russians follow path of 1917 refugees to Istanbul

Fleeing Russians follow path of 1917 refugees to Istanbul

-- 2022-10-03 17:53:50

Vladimir Putin's military draft "changed everything" for the tens of thousands of Russians who have fled their country since the Russian leader's mobilisation was announced last month, according to re...

Haaland is edging past Mbappe with clinical football

Haaland is edging past Mbappe with clinical football

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-10-03 17:47:31

Erling Haaland has grabbed the attention of the entire football world yet again after his stunning performance against Manchester United last night. The Norwegian bagged a hat-trick, which has become...

Russia may start providing trade finance to importers of its grain: Farm minister

Russia may start providing trade finance to importers of its grain: Farm minister

REUTERS 2022-10-03 14:10:55

Russia may start providing trade finance to importers of its grain as sanctions imposed on Moscow since it sent troops to Ukraine affect this financial instrument, Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushe...

King Charles will not attend climate change summit in Egypt

King Charles will not attend climate change summit in Egypt

-- 2022-10-02 20:31:13

Britain's King Charles will not attend a world leaders' climate change summit in Egypt next month, a royal source said on Sunday, as the new monarch steps back from his previous high-profile campaigni...

Ukraine claims full control of key logistics hub

Ukraine claims full control of key logistics hub

-- 2022-10-02 18:19:11

Ukraine said on Sunday it was in full control of the eastern logistics hub of Lyman, Kyiv's most significant battlefield gain in weeks, which a senior official said could provide a staging post for fu...

Ukraine celebrates recapturing key town, Putin ally raises nuclear jitters

Ukraine celebrates recapturing key town, Putin ally raises nuclear jitters

-- 2022-10-02 16:12:27

Ukrainian troops said they had retaken the key bastion of Lyman in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin to call for the possible u...

Russia withdraws troops after Ukraine encircles key city

Russia withdraws troops after Ukraine encircles key city

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-02 10:47:34

After being encircled by Ukrainian forces, Russia pulled troops out Saturday from an eastern Ukrainian city that it had been using as a front-line hub. It was the latest victory for the Ukrainian coun...

Britain has 'too many' low-skilled migrants, interior minister says

Britain has 'too many' low-skilled migrants, interior minister says

-- 2022-10-02 10:28:48

Britain has too many low-skilled migrant workers and very high numbers of international students, who often brought dependents with them, the country's new interior minister Suella Braverman said in a...

Russia says its troops quit eastern Ukrainian city

Russia says its troops quit eastern Ukrainian city

-- 2022-10-01 20:18:20

Russia's defence ministry says it has withdrawn Russian troops from the strategic town of Lyman in eastern Ukraine. "Because of the threat of encirclement the allied troops have been withdrawn from K...

Sweden resumes arms exports to Türkiye 

Sweden resumes arms exports to Türkiye 

-- 2022-10-01 18:44:24

Swedish companies have been granted export permits for the sale of military equipment to Türkiye, the country's Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP) announced on Friday.  The granting o...

Russia accused of ‘kidnapping’ head of Ukraine nuclear plant

Russia accused of ‘kidnapping’ head of Ukraine nuclear plant

-- 2022-10-01 17:21:50

Ukraine's nuclear power provider said Saturday that Russian forces blindfolded and detained the head of Europe's largest nuclear plant, hours after Moscow illegally annexed a swath of Ukrainian territ...

World Bank to give Ukraine $530m in additional aid

World Bank to give Ukraine $530m in additional aid

-- 2022-10-01 15:38:25

The World Bank has said it will provide an additional $530 million in support to Ukraine, bringing the total aid by the bank to $13 billion, as Russia's invasion of the country continues. The aid is...