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But Moscow has treated sports as a crucial instrument of state prestige and soft power for decades, making Russia’s full return to the international competition a major political priority, said Ukraine’s former Greco-Roman wrestling champion Fevzi Mamutov, who left Crimea after its annexation in 2014. Vladimir Putin visits a multifunctional sports complex of the Anatoly Rakhlin Olympic Reserve Sports School in St. Petersburg on April 27, 2026. | Gavriil Grigorov/AFP via Getty Images “Since the USSR’s sporting success,” he told POLITICO, “medals, flags and anthems have been heavily integrated into Russian state propaganda.” However, attending the Olympic Games requires Russia…
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Lake Como in the northwestern Lombardy region and Lake Garda further east, spanning the Veneto, Lombardy, and Trentino-Alto Adige regions, are arguably Italy’s most famous bodies of water. The two have attracted holidaymakers since Roman times, with organised tourism becoming a key business around both shorelines by the 19th century. Both remain firm traveller favourites. In 2024, Lake Como saw 4.3 million tourist overnight stays, while Lake Garda recorded 14.7 million on its Veneto shore alone. So if you’re looking to visit one of these iconic lakes, which is right for you? Lake Como A hotspot of high-end hotels, playground…
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US President Donald Trump announced that the Board of Peace has reached what he hailed as a “historic deal” on Thursday to disarm Hamas and all other armed groups and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza, but questions remained over conditions and timeline. The deal, described by Trump in a post on Truth Social as a “monumental step”, comes nine months after a US-brokered ceasefire was signed to end Israel’s two year offensive on the enclave, signed in October last year in Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh. “This agreement is a critical step towards Gaza finally being governed by a…
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In “United Passions” — which really should have been called “Balls” — Blatter is played by Tim Roth, a fine actor who admitted he took the role to pay for his kids to go to college. If the movie was, heaven help us, ever updated to include Infantino’s tenure, surely the role would go to either Stanley Tucci or the ghost of late Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. Infantino has, you will doubtless be aware, decided to sell football off to the highest bidder, with FIFA publishing a proposal that would privatize the World Cup’s commercial operations. A venture capital firm headed by Josh…
Spain’s policy of legalizing migrants has proven hugely contentious, both domestically and at a European level. Meloni and Sánchez clashed over the issue during a meeting of European leaders last month. Spain, which like several other European countries is fighting deadly wildfires, now also finds itself under diplomatic attack on multiple fronts. Manfred Weber, President of the European Parliament’s largest political grouping, the center-right European People’s Party, has also called for tougher action on migration over the Ceuta crisis, writing on X: “This proves one thing: the Migration Pact and return regulation must be enforced today, not tomorrow.” European Migration Commissioner…
Published on 30/07/2026 – 16:05 GMT+2•Updated 22:14 Firefighters are continuing to battle a large wildfire close to three major nuclear power sites in the UK county of Suffolk. The blaze broke out on Wednesday on Dunwich Heath on the UK’s east coast before it spread quickly southwest. It is currently covering around 150 hectares, but fire crews are making “good progress” against the flames, Suffolk County Council said in an update on Thursday evening. A spokesperson for energy company EDF told Euronews that the fire “is not currently affecting operations at Sizewell B power station” but that the company was…
Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant may be forced to shut down after water levels in the Danube fell to a record low. The plant, which has an output of 2,000 MW, supplies nearly half of the country’s electricity. Speaking at a news conference in Budapest alongside his Bavarian counterpart, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said the low water levels meant Paks may face a gradual, scheduled shutdown. “It seems, at this point, that the complete shutdown of the Paks power plant could take place today, or perhaps tomorrow,” Magyar said. He added that the Dunamenti Power Plant, another energy provider, had…