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By Tomiris Bilyal Published on 16/09/2025 – 13:57 GMT+2 The World Boxing Championships ended in Liverpool on 14 September, making history as men’s and women’s events were held together for the first time under the new World Boxing federation. Kazakhstan’s team delivered an outstanding result: seven gold medals, one silver and two bronzes, finishing first in the overall medal table. Among the men, Sanzhar Tashkenbay (50kg), Makhmud Sabyrkhan (55kg), Torekhan Sabyrkhan (57kg) and Aibek Oralbay (super heavyweight, over 90kg) all secured gold medals. Among the women, Alua Balkibekova (51kg), Aida Abikeeva (65kg) and Natalya Bogdanova (70kg) all took gold. Silver went…
“I hope and expect them to step up to the plate soon to help us end this bloodbath,” he said. “If not, consequences should and will follow.” Prior to the Kremlin’s all-out assault on Ukraine in February 2022, the bloc as a whole imported 45 percent of its natural gas and 27 percent of its crude oil from Russia. Last year, that number dropped to 19 percent for gas and 3 percent for oil, after the European Commission banned imports by sea. In 2024, countries in the EU forked out €21.9 billion on Russian fossil fuels, accounting for about 10 percent of Russia’s total global export…
Six out of the top 10 most innovative countries in the world are European, but China has knocked Germany from the top 10 to enter the ranking for the first time, according to a United Nations report published on Tuesday. Switzerland took the top spot, a position it has held since 2011. Sweden and the United States ranked second and third, respectively, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index (GII) survey of 139 economies, which ranked countries based on 78 indicators. South Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Finland, the Netherlands and Denmark followed in this order. China came…
Published on 16/09/2025 – 11:54 GMT+2 British luxury carmaker Aston Martin may be synonymous with high-end sports cars and James Bond’s automobile of choice, but they’ve now entered into a partnership which few could have predicted. The brand is getting in on the baby action. Specifically, they have teamed up with baby brand “egg” to create designer baby strollers. We knew that the Amazon-led James Bond franchise was looking for a younger actor to play the next 007, but this is taking it a bit far… The new line, set to be released in the UK and other select international…
“Prominent figures in the U.S. and U.K. deliberately talk down our country, and in particular our capital city,” Khan told the Guardian newspaper Monday evening, stressing that the latest statistics proved them wrong. Since the start of 2025, the Home Office has received citizenship applications from 4,125 U.S. citizens, a 40 percent rise on 2024. “For many Americans I speak with, it’s because of our values,” the London mayor added ahead of Trump’s historic second state visit, which begins Tuesday. “As well as being the U.K.’s financial, legal and governmental center, in London we offer an ecosystem that is unparalleled around…
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“The Commission also finds that Israel has failed to prevent and punish the commission of genocide, through failure to investigate genocidal acts and to prosecute alleged perpetrators,” Pillay added. The 72-page report finds that Israeli authorities and security forces committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. They include killing; serious bodily or mental harm; deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the Palestinians in whole or in part; and imposing measures intended to prevent births. The report is based on…
Published on 16/09/2025 – 10:54 GMT+2 The only British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland went on trial Monday in Belfast in a case that has come to symbolise the three decades of violence known as the Troubles. The ex-paratrooper — known as Soldier F under a court anonymity order — is accused of murdering James Wray and William McKinney and attempting to murder five others on 30 January 1972, in Londonderry/Derry. Members of a British army regiment opened fire on unarmed Catholic civil rights demonstrators in the city, killing 13 people and…
Israel’s push into Gaza City marks an escalation in its campaign against Palestinian militant group Hamas, which has intensified steadily in recent weeks. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously described seizing the city as critical to defeating Hamas, whose militants killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages during the Oct. 7, 2023 assault on Israel. Authorities say 48 hostages remain in Gaza, 20 of whom are believed to be alive. Last Tuesday, Israel expanded its operations with an airstrike targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar. On the same day, Netanyahu ordered a complete evacuation of Gaza City, warning that “this is…
Are some Labour skeletons about to come crashing out of the closet? Keir Starmer needs state visit week to go perfectly but it’s already had a rocky start with the resignation of one of his most trusted aides. Paul Ovenden quit after ‘inappropriate’ messages he sent about Diane Abbott in 2017 resurfaced. Sam and Anne ponder if there are more messages which are about to cause trouble for other senior Labour staffers. Also — the first ‘one in, one out’ migrant flights were cancelled after legal challenges. And the week hasn’t started brightly for the Tories either —as they lose…