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It might feel like the last thing anyone wants right now - but here is why, actually, you do want to watch the World Cup's third-place play-off.

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An animal welfare charity has apologised after facing a backlash for asking Hong Kong police to help remove videos of a dog and its pups being killed in mainland China, with the group accused of undermining efforts to raise public awareness of the case. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) issued the apology on Wednesday night after social media users argued that taking down the videos would suppress evidence. The footage circulating online appeared to show at least four...

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday vowed to replant Fontainebleau forest after devastating wildfires blazed through at least 10% of the 20,000 hectare demain and forced hundreds of residents to flee. The historic forest, just south of Paris, draws hikers, climbers and nature lovers from all over the world every year.

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Hussein Saleh describes an Israeli air attack in Tyre that killed his family, including his wife and his only child.

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In Venezuela, the focus has shifted from rescue to rebuilding three weeks after devastating earthquakes.

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Michael Carrick’s first signing is a surprise, but the Brazil midfielder will help the team deal with Casemiro’s exit By Opta Analyst Andrey Santos moving from Chelsea to Manchester United was not on our summer transfer window bingo card, but the Brazilian has become Michael Carrick’s first signing . United desperately needed reinforcements in midfield, especially after Casemiro’s departure and Manuel Ugarte’s long-term injury , so deals for Santos and Youri Tielemans will be welcomed by fans. Tielemans looks like particularly good business – he captains Belgium, has made 244 appearances in the Premier League and was available for £35m – but Santos is a more curious choice. He was often a backup player for Chelsea last season as they finished seven places and 19 points behind United; he is not the finished article, and played for one of United’s rivals. Since Alex Ferguson retired 13 years ago, United had only signed four players from their “big six” rivals: Juan Mata, Nemanja Matic, Mason Mount (all Chelsea) and Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal). Continue reading...

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McLaren’s changes of power unit exceeds regulations World champion is fifth in the F1 standings Lando Norris will have to take a 10-place grid penalty at this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. McLaren announced on Thursday that the car of the reigning world champion will be fitted with a fourth power electronics unit of the season, one more than allowed under Formula One regulations. Norris’s first two units suffered “terminal” issues in China in March, where he did not start the race, then in free practice in Monaco last month. Continue reading...

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England's defeat to Argentina in the World Cup semi-final attracts an audience of 24 million on the BBC.

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An explosion on power lines that feed a key water-pumping hub risks cutting supply to parts of South Africa’s commercial hub of Johannesburg and key platinum- and gold-mining towns to the city’s west, the continent’s biggest bulk-water supplier said.

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S&P 500 Index futures are down 0.2% as of 7:47 a.m. in New York. The US intensified strikes against Iran, hitting an oil tanker near the country’s main export terminal for the first time since the restart of the blockade on the Islamic Republic’s ports.

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The Turkish foreign minister emphasized that "the war impacts every sector," but Turkey advocates for a focused, separate approach to addressing security of navigation and energy supplies

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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

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UAE condemns Iranian attacks in Gulf states The Foreign Ministry of the United Arab Emirates issued a statment condemning Iranian attacks in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan. "The United Arab Emirates has condemned in the strongest terms the renewed hostile attacks by Iran targeting the Kingdom of Bahrain, the State of Kuwait, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan with drones and missiles," the statement said. The statement reiterated UAE's "full solidarity" with the targeted Gulf states and "support for all measures aimed at safeguarding their security."

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Iran asks Houthis to close Bab al-Mandeb Strait if US attacks power network Iran requested the Houthis in Yemen to close the Red Sea gateway Bab al-Mandeb Strait if the US attacks power network, Reuters reported.

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Russia is thereby responding to the Kiev regime’s terrorist attacks on Russian regions, Leonid Ivlev said

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Toronto’s skies have turned a hazy yellow as smoke blown in from wildfires blankets Canada’s largest city and sends pollution levels soaring. On Wednesday, Toronto had the worst air quality of any major city in the world, according to Swiss firm IQAir, edging out New Delhi and Kinshasa.

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Overnight Israeli settler attacks set farmlands ablaze in Masafer Yatta and burned vehicles near Tulkarem.

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England's poor defensive tactics, Lionel Messi's enduring brilliance, and Argentina self-belief behind 2-1 comeback win.

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Nearly 40% of 2026 races at showpiece meeting affected Track layout and bugging devices for stewards on menu The British Horseracing Authority said on Thursday that it aims to introduce a series of measures ahead of next year’s Cheltenham festival to tackle a significant rise in the number of false starts at National Hunt’s showpiece meeting in recent seasons. The percentage of festival races that had a false start has climbed steadily over the last five years, from 18% in 2022 to nearly 40% at the 2026 meeting four months ago. The rate of false starts in jump racing as a whole is around 4% over the same period. Continue reading...

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Kuwaiti Army intercepts Iranian drones Kuwaiti Army announced that its air defences are intercepting Iranian drones, in an official statement shared on X. تتصدى حالياً الدفاعات الجوية الكويتية لهجمات طائرات مسيّرة معادية، إثر العدوان الإيراني الاثم. تنوه رئاسة الأركان العامة للجيش بأن أصوات الانفجارات، إن سُمعت، فهي نتيجة اعتراض منظومات الدفاع الجوي للهجمات المعادية. ويرجى من الجميع التقيد بتعليمات الأمن والسلامة الصادرة عن… pic.twitter.com/tzsIg8JzVi — KUWAIT ARMY - الجيش الكويتي (@KuwaitArmyGHQ) July 16, 2026 "The Army General Staff notes that sounds of explosions -if heard- are due to the interceptions of the hostile attacks by the air defence systems," the statement said.

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Ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s vow to return to Bangladesh despite facing a death sentence has raised the prospect of a dramatic comeback for her and the Awami League. Her potential return could revive the rivalry between the banned party and the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), while curbing further gains for Islamist political forces, according to analysts. Hasina, who has been living in India since her government was toppled by a student-led protest movement nearly two...

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Bond investors are demanding the most compensation since October 2022 to fund Middle Eastern governments as fighting flares again between the US and Iran.

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Russian forces carried out yet another missile strike on Odesa on the afternoon of 16 July, killing one person and injuring another.

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Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian demanded that the NED abandon its bias and arrogance, cease political manipulation, and pay more attention to domestic US problems

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(Island) On the Bradford-born producer’s self-assured second album, drum’n’bass rhythms power up angsty odes with shades of Arctic Monkeys, Kate Nash and myriad genres Like another of the year’s biggest pop records, Olivia Rodrigo’s You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love , the second full-length from the self-proclaimed “emotional junglist” Nia Archives is an album of two halves. The first documents its protagonist falling in love at breakneck speed; the second, the whiplash of sudden heartbreak. Unlike Rodrigo, Archives didn’t grow up starring on Disney Channel, a predestined route to success, but in Bradford, cutting her teeth on early 00s pirate radio, dancehall and landfill indie. More than most major artists, Archives has carved out her own path. After leaving home at just 16 to move into a youth hostel in Manchester, she started teaching herself to make beats; eventually, she uprooted to Hackney and studied music production, and used her student loan to fund the promotion of her self-released debut single. Since then, she’s made history as the first electronic/dance act to win a Mobo in decades (after publicly campaigning for the inclusion of dance music at the awards in 2022). With her 2024 debut album Silence Is Loud , she became the first junglist to be nominated for three Brit awards, and the first to be nominated for the Mercury prize since 1997 – before she was born. Continue reading...

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Calls for revenge over the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are growing louder in Iran. Through increasingly harsh rhetoric, the leadership is seeking to mobilize supporters at home while warning opponents abroad.

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UK school with hundreds of Muslim students evacuated after bomb threat Submitted by MEE staff on Thu, 07/16/2026 - 11:31 Police sweep Hamd House School in Birmingham after threat received via email Birmingham, central England, on 14 September 2020 (AFP/Oli Scarff) Off A British school with hundreds of Muslim students was evacuated after it was subjected to a bomb threat on Tuesday, local media reported. Birmingham Live reported Hamd House School, in Birmingham, was swept by police on the final day of the academic year due to the threat. The school has 450 pupils aged between 11 and 16. It is a private school run with a Muslim ethos. The bomb threat was sent in an email to the school on Tuesday morning, with schools regulator Ofsted copied into the correspondence. “School was full and pupils were celebrating the last day before summer, we were giving out awards and having a day of celebration and fun on this special day, and this was hugely disrupting,” Israr Khan, the school’s proprietor, was quoted as saying by Birmingham Live. Khan said police with sniffer dogs searched the grounds of the school and later gave it the all clear. He added that the school appeared to have been deliberately targeted, and that there had been other recent incidents against staff and the school. “At this stage the matter remains an open police investigation. An unusual and bizarre quirk to this situation is that the threat was also sent to Ofsted. The police have logged this incident as harassment,” said Khan. British Muslims are not invaders of the UK. This is our home too Read More » "We will continue to cooperate fully with the authorities and follow any advice they provide." Middle East Eye has reached out to West Midlands Police and Hamd House School for comment. The school is rated as “outstanding” by the regulator Ofsted, which describes it as a “highly inclusive” school where each child is “safe, happy, visible and valued”. Mend, an NGO which monitors and combats Islamophobia in the UK, said there had been “near silence” on the incident. It wrote on X: “Ask yourself what the reaction would be if 450 children at any other school were threatened this way. “The quiet tells you something about whose safety is treated as a story and whose is treated as background noise.” The NGO added: “It should be investigated as a hate crime targeting Muslim children, especially as there had been other recent incidents against staff and the school.” Islamophobia News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

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According to Ali Mojtaba Rouzbehani, the main goal of Israel's strategy is to avoid the grave consequences of its own aggressive policies

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Updates from the second ODI at Sophia Gardens Read The Spin | Follow us on TikTok | Mail Tim Afternoon everyone, or is it still the morning after the night before? There’s only one way to cope with sporting heartbreak and that is to get back on the horse. You may wonder whether a bilateral ODI, quite likely to be forgotten by next week, can heal the wounds of a World Cup semi-final in which England’s German manager threw away a lead and became more English than the English. But maybe it can provide a distraction, and at least we know that today the England coach won’t be indefensibly defensive. This is a game that has to be won, or the three-match series will be gone in three days flat. Harry Brook and Brendon McCullum, so successful in T20s (bar the odd World Cup semi-final), haven’t come close to mastering the 50-over game. On Tuesday at Edgbaston they made a big mistake, picking three spinners on a surface that was crying out for four seamers. Brook confirmed it by bowling his three seamers out and barely using Liam Dawson, who might have thought it was going to be his day after making his first international fifty. Continue reading...

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Iranian official condemns US "barbaric attack" near a children's cancer treatment center Iranian Foreign Ministry's Spokesperson Esmail Baqaei condemned the US attack last night near a children cancer treatment center in Ahvaz in southwestern Iran, describing it as "barbaric". In a post on X, Baqaei stated that the attack led to the evacuation of 211 children undergoing cancer treatment. Shahid Baqaei Hospital, a children's cancer treatment centre in Ahvaz, was evacuated last night after the US attacked a nearby location. This barbaric attack, reminiscent of Israel’s atrocities against healthcare facilities, caused severe suffering and anxiety upon the… pic.twitter.com/xv3W7SY2X9 — Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) July 16, 2026 "This constitutes a cowardly war crime against the most innocent of human beings - children who are bravely fighting for their lives," Baqaei said.