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Hearts player released goes on trial at David Beckham's football club in England's EFL
Man Utd legends in charge as midfielder looks for a new team Jorge Grant has followed his Hearts exit with a trial at English League Two side Salford City as he looks to secure a new club for this season. Salford are owned by a consortium led by...

Abu Dhabi Meeting: Azerbaijan dictates a new architecture of peace in the South Caucasus
The meeting in the UAE between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan came as a surprise to many. The parties have not met so thoroughly for a long time. Brief exchanges of views on the move, on the...

Abroad and Brooding: The Wine’s Cheap, the Coffee’s Strong, the Food’s a Poem—But the Grass Still Dies Eventually
After the year I’ve had—13 weeks of inpatient therapy, moving houses like witness protection, a college graduation, and oh yeah, a ballistic missile war that forced us to cancel my daughter’s Bat Mitzvah in Israel at the last minute—you’d think...

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Spas Tashev: Every "Macedonian identity" also includes Bulgarians
The draft report on the progress of North Macedonia on its path to European integration has been a hot Balkan topic in recent weeks, after rapporteur Thomas Weitz included in the document concepts such as "Macedonian identity" and "Macedonian...

Captain Saves Tourists and Dies / Israeli Media Cover the Case in Shkodra
The tragic case of Arben Anamali, the captain of a tourist boat from Shkodra, has drawn the attention of Israeli media, following his death during a rescue operation involving two Israeli tourists who had fallen into the water due to strong...

UNESCO adds two more Azerbaijani monuments to Tentative World Heritage List
Located in the Ordubad district of Azerbaijan, Gamigaya lies in the watershed of the Zangezur range at an altitude of 3,725 meters. It is a historically significant site, renowned for its extensive collection of rock carvings dating back to...

Starmer bets jaw-jaw can win migration war
It is the week before Christmas and a cabinet minister is boarding the Eurostar to Paris. Usually such a trip would be briefed to within the last inch of its life. But Yvette Cooper is travelling alone, unaccompanied by advisers and unadvertised...

Opinion: Would you let AI plan your holiday itinerary?
In his latest column, Jonathan McCrea is striking a lighter tone and telling us how AI has become his ideal travel companion. I’m heading away for a couple of weeks with the family. We’re going through the packing list now. Underwear, Calpol, flip...

Britain’s high streets are plagued by foreign gangs selling fake cigarettes and drugs
Britain’s high streets are in the grip of foreign gangs who are selling fake cigarettes and drugs, and employing illegal migrants, according to a new report. Worse, the Government is failing to stop the imported crime wave from blighting our...

WC Qualifiers: Argentina, England, Egypt secure win
Images from the FIFA World Cup qualifiers matches. IMAGE: Angel Di Maria of Argentina celebrates after scoring the first goal of his team during a match between Uruguay and Argentina. Photograph: Ernesto Ryan/Getty Images Argentina closed in on a...
Deportation capitalism
Trump’s mass-deportation policy is scandalizing a part of the global public sphere – paradoxically, the progressive part. The “Battle of Los Angeles” is focusing the debate around its supposed exceptionality vis-à-vis the (equally supposed)...

Angela Gerekou | Greece at the crossroads of sustainability and innovation
Tourism is changing, and with it the demands, professional skills, hospitality models, and destinations. In this context, the President of the Greek National Tourism Organization, Angela Gerekou, comments on the latest data from the World Bank...

Russia mocks Police Scotland policy on transgender ‘centaurs’
President Putin’s regime has mocked Scotland for its “transgender centaurs” after police said suspects could ask for separate searches of their top and bottom halves. Kremlin officials and supporters have long portrayed the SNP government, and...

California Focus: Trump on ‘remigration’: Heed the rhetoric
Even now, six months into President Trump’s second term, there’s a tendency to disregard President Trump’s sometimes fiery rhetoric as mere big talk. Americans ought to know better by now. Iranians certainly do, after Trump sent bunker bombs into...

OMA completes JOMOO Headquarters with multifaceted volume in Xiamen
The JOMOO Headquarters in Xiamen, the first office complex for the biggest sanitaryware firm in China, was completed by OMA. The new headquarters, which is currently operational and represents a significant turning point in JOMOO's development...

Criminals who flouted deportation orders were working at £1m Bradford cannabis grow
The pair, who had previously been deported from this country after serving custodial sentences, were arrested by police when they carried out a search of the Woolston Warehouse building on Grattan Road in April. Prosecutor Jordan Millican told a...
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UN's Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese slams Trump, calls US sanctions 'sign of guilt'
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, condemned the Trump administration for imposing sanctions against her. She went on to describe the move as a ‘sign of guilt’. read more While reacting to the sanctions...

Palestine in Pictures: June 2025
The Electronic Intifada 4 July 2025 People carry the body of a man who was killed while trying to get a bag of flour after aid trucks entered through the Zikim area in northern Gaza City, 17 June. The slain man was later identified as 20-year-old...

'Only the Iranian people can rise up, it has to come from within'
Since the wave of Israeli strikes on Iran, Dr. Thamar Eilam Gindin has become a prominent voice in Israeli media, analyzing the fallout and implications. Known to many on TikTok as a “rockstar of war commentary,” she’s been in constant demand,...

Hearts' transfer deadline plan - and one player fighting for his place
Derek McInnes explains signings and team shape as the Premier Sports Cup approaches It is unlikely that Hearts’ summer recruitment drive is finished as they prepare to finalise their seventh and eighth new signings. Sabah Kerjota and Pierre Landry...